Probably, there will be few officials whose appointment requires a joint decision of the two presidents. That’s how Konstantin Dmitrievich Busygin was appointed to the post of head of Baikonur, a Kazakhstan city leased from the Russian Federation. Prior to that, he managed to work at Izhmash and Rosgranitsa.
early years
Busygin Konstantin Dmitrievich was born in a military family on December 11, 1965 in the Uzbek capital, the city of Tashkent, where his father served at that time. After graduating from high school in the 1980s, he served in the army, then went to work as a simple radio equipment installer in Moscow.
Since 1996, for six years he worked at the Federal Investment Bank (Moscow) as deputy chairman of the board. In 1999, he graduated with a degree in international law from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. From 2002 to 2004, he served as CEO of Kosmas Air, an airline company.
In public service
In 2004, Konstantin Dmitrievich Busygin joined the civil service, having been appointed to the post of Deputy Prefect of the Western Administrative District of Moscow. In the metropolitan area he dealt with issues of the consumer market, improving social welfare of the population. He was also responsible for the work of the healthcare, culture and education sectors. At the same time, Busygin began to study at the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, which he graduated in 2008.
In the winter of 2010 he went on an increase, becoming the head of the Moscow administration Solntsevo, shortly after the mayor of Moscow, Sobyanin, removed the post of prefect of the Western District. In the same year he became a candidate of economic sciences, defending a dissertation on the topic of regional management. After some time, scientific work came under the scrutiny of opposition figures. After checking the thesis with the Anti-Plagiarism program, it turned out that the uniqueness of the text is about 50%. Also in the work, direct borrowings from the speech of Boris Yeltsin delivered at the Federation Council in 1999 were discovered. Pieces from the speech were inserted into the section on social policy.
Head of Kalashnikov
In 2012, Konstantin Dmitrievich Busygin was appointed to the position of Director General of the Izhmash Scientific Production Association, which has now become the Kalashnikov concern. The company was in a difficult situation, the best specialists left production, salaries were not paid for a long time. Unions held protests, demanding better working conditions and higher minimum wages. The great gunsmith Mikhail Kalashnikov himself and a group of plant veterans turned directly to President Putin. Trying to draw attention to the failed, in their opinion, policy of the plant’s management.
The main task of Busygin Konstantin Dmitrievich was the restructuring of the enterprise. The association was renamed into Kalashnikov Concern JSC by decision of Rostec’s main shareholder in 2013. A 49% stake was also transferred to private investors. The state retained the controlling stake, while Andrei Bokarev (president and co-owner of Transmashholding, became the other shareholders). ") and Alexey Krivoruchko (Aeroexpress general director and member of Transmashholding's board of directors). The deal received the support of President Vladimir Putin. In 2014, Busygin was dismissed as head of the concern.
Again to the civil service
In 2014, according to some publications, Konstantin Dmitrievich Busygin was among the candidates for the post of head of Udmurtia, as well as for the position of assistant to the plenipotentiary of the president.
In 2014, he returned to the civil service, having been appointed to the post of head of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border of the Russian Federation. The main task of the department was the construction of border checkpoints and other technical facilities necessary for the organization of customs and border control. In 2016, dismissed in connection with the abolition of Rosgranitsa. Konstantin Dmitrievich Busygin believes that he coped with the tasks in this position.
