Igor Ryurikovich Kholmanskikh (russian: Игорь Рюрикович Холманских; born 29 June 1969) is a former Russian government appointee and former factory worker. He served as the presidential envoy to

Ural Federal District Ural Federal District (russian: Ура́льский федера́льный о́круг, ''Uralsky federalny okrug'') is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. Its population was 12,080,523 (79.9% urban) according to the 2010 Censu ...

, and a member of the

Security Council of Russia The Security Council of the Russian Federation (SCRF or Sovbez; russian: Совет безопасности Российской Федерации (СБРФ), Sovet bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii (SBRF)) is a constitutional consultative bo ...

, from 2012 to 2018.

Early life

Igor Kholmanskikh was born in 1969. His parents worked for

Uralvagonzavod UralVagonZavod (russian: ОАО «Научно-производственная корпорация «УралВагонЗавод», , Open Joint Stock Company "Research and Production Corporation Uralvagonzavod") is a Russian machine-buildin ...

, a factory in

Nizhny Tagil Nizhny Tagil ( rus, Нижний Тагил, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj tɐˈgʲil) is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located east of the boundary between Asia and Europe. Population: History The prehistory of Nizhny Tagil dates back to the mid- ...

, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Kholmanskikh graduated with a degree in mechanics from the Nizhny Tagil branch of the

Ural State Technical University Ural State Technical University (USTU) is a public technical university in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation. It is the biggest technical institution of higher education in Russia, with close ties to local industry in the Urals. ...

in 1994.

Career

Kholmanskikh worked a foreman for Uralvagonzavod, where he became the chief assembly manager in August 2011. During the

2012 Russian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Russia on 4 March 2012. There were five officially registered candidates: four representatives of registered parties, and one nominal independent. The election was the first one held after constitutional amend ...

, Kholmanskikh expressed support for candidate

Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime min ...

on national television. Once Putin was elected as president, he appointed Kholmanskikh as the presidential envoy to

"without any prior government or political experience." He also serves on the

. In her 2017 book, '' Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom'', former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice writes that Kholmanskikh's appointment "bears a strong resemblance to the folklore of an era long past. Heroic laborers who through hard work and grit industrialized the country and farmed the land have long been admired, whether in Russia or the Soviet Union." On 26 June 2018, Kholmanskikh was replaced by

Nikolay Tsukanov Nikolay Nikolayevich Tsukanov (born 22 March 1965) is a Russian politician, psychologist, businessman, electrical welder, former governor of Kaliningrad Oblast, and, between July 2016 and December 2017, President Vladimir Putin's plenipotentiary ...

. On 9 July 2018 he became head of the board of directors of Uralvagonzavod.

References

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