Valery Mikhailovich Okulov (russian: Вале́рий Миха́йлович О́кулов; April 22, 1952, Kirov) is a Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, the former general director of

Aeroflot PJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines (russian: ПАО "Аэрофло́т — Росси́йские авиали́нии", ), commonly known as Aeroflot ( or ; russian: Аэрофлот, , ), is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Russia. The ...

. The actual state of the Russian Federation 2 Class Advisor (22 September 2011).

Biography

In 1975 he graduated from the navigator's Faculty of Saint Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation engineer-navigator. Until 1985, he worked in the Sverdlovsk joint squadron of the Ural Civil Aviation Authority as a navigator of the An-24,

An-12 The Antonov An-12 (Russian: Антонов Ан-12; NATO reporting name: Cub) is a four-engined turboprop transport aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. It is the military version of the Antonov An-10 and has many variants. For more than thr ...

, and Tu-154 aircraft. In 1985, he was transferred to work at the Central Office of International Air Traffic (

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). He flew as a navigator on Tu-154,

Il-86 The Ilyushin Il-86 (russian: Илью́шин Ил-86; NATO reporting name: Camber) is a short- to medium-range wide-body jet airliner that served as the USSR's first wide-bodied aircraft. Designed and tested by the Ilyushin design bureau in th ...

, An-124 airplanes, and worked as a lead navigator and mentor at the

aviation personnel training center.

Family

Wife Elena – the daughter of

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

and

Naina Yeltsina Anastasia "Naina" Iosifovna Yeltsina (russian: link=no, Анастасия "Наина" Иосифовна Ельцина, , ; born 14 March 1932) is the widow of the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin. Early life and education Naina Yel ...

. Son Dmitry from marriage with Svetlana Okulova. Daughter Maria, son Ivan from marriage with Elena Okulova. Elena Okulova's daughter Catherine. He has three grandchildren: Alexander Okulov (born in 1999, the son of Ekaterina Okulova). Mikhail and Fedor Zhilenkov (born in 2006, children of Maria Okulova-Zhilenkova and Mikhail Zhilenkov).

Awards

* Order of Honour (2012)Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 18 апреля 2012 года № 460 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»
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References

External links

Валерий Михайлович Окулов. Коммерсантъ

Семейный клан Ельциных
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