Vladimir Vasilyevich Kadannikov (russian: Владимир Васильевич Каданников; 3 September 1941 – 3 June 2021) was a Russian businessman and politician who served as a

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(1996) in charge of economic policy, briefly replacing

Anatoly Chubais Anatoly Borisovich Chubais (russian: Анатолий Борисович Чубайс; born 16 June 1955) is a Russian politician and economist who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administ ...

, under President

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 ...

In government

Vladimir Kadannikov was born in Gorky,

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. By the early 1990s he was the head of

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, a Russian automobile manufacturing company. In January 1996 he was appointed to the cabinet as deputy head of government for economic affairs, replacing the architect of the privatization reforms,

. Kadannikov was viewed as an advocate of Russian industry, which suffered due to the reforms which favored foreign companies, being an ally of

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, First Deputy Prime Minister and fellow "industrialist."Boudreaux, Richard (16 August 1996)
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''. Retrieved 13 May 2018. He attempted to take measures to defend the industry, including the introduction of import tariffs, but this was blocked by the IMF. Kadannikov's appointment caused Western analysts to believe it was a shift away from the economic reforms overseen by Chubais. In August 1996 he was removed and replaced by

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, and returned to working at AvtoVAZ as its CEO. He died on 3 June 2021 in

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, Russia.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kadannikov, Vladimir 1941 births 2021 deaths 20th-century Russian politicians Businesspeople from Nizhny Novgorod Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Resigned Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Our Home – Russia politicians Deputy heads of government of the Russian Federation Heroes of Socialist Labour Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Politicians from Nizhny Novgorod