Sergey Donskoy is a famous domestic statesman. Currently holds the post of Federal Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology. He is a valid state adviser of the second class.
Minister's biography
Sergei Donskoy was born in 1968 in the suburbs. He was born in a city like Elektrostal. His parents held low positions at the heavy engineering plant. Mother was an ordinary worker, and father was a designer, whose duties included the design of equipment for the production of long products and pipes.
Sergei Donskoy had an older sister, Anna. He studied well at school. As a child, he began to actively engage in sports, in particular all-around.
In 1985, he graduated from high school and entered the University of Oil and Gas. Following the sister. True, to another faculty. If Anna studied applied mathematics, then Sergey Donskoy chose the specialty "Automation and Telemechanics".
True, they did not give him a chance to finish their studies. From the third year he was taken into the army. He served the due time in the penal system, after which he returned to college.
Donskoy's career
University hero of our article ends in 1992. The first place of his work is the design bureau "Gazpriboravtomatika". He oversees gas industry automation issues. However, in a state organization, the salary is so low that in a year he decides to quit.
Donskoy begins to work in a brokerage firm, led by the husband of his older sister, Alexander Lurie.
Soon, this business expanded significantly after it managed to unite with the initiators of the CINT investment group - Vladimir Ashurkov and Anatoly Khodorkovsky.
Sergey Donskoy, whose biography began to grow into the first connections in the business, began as an ordinary broker. Very quickly he was promoted to the general director of one of the companies included in the holding. His main occupation was the massive purchase of vouchers from the population and their investment in fuel and energy companies. Also, the business to which Donskoy was involved had interests in industrial engineering enterprises.
After the implementation of their most profitable transaction - the sale of an 11% stake in a petrochemical enterprise in Angarsk - the partners curtailed the project. Each started his own business. Donskoy first works in the investment company ATON with Yevgeny Yuriev, and already in 1997 transferred to Prema-Invest. The crisis of 1998 affects the future career of the hero of our article. It is being cut.
Political career
In 1999, Donskoy began working at the Ministry of Fuel Energy. He quickly moves from an adviser to the head of a department in a department that oversees the preparation and implementation of production sharing agreements.
In 2000, he works in the financial department of Lukoil. His responsibilities include evaluating investment projects for the development of underwater hydrocarbon accumulations. After that - until 2005 - he runs the Zarubezhneft company.
Ministerial portfolio
Before becoming a minister, Donskoy led the state corporation Rosgeology. It includes about 40 of the largest state-owned enterprises in this industry. In May 2012, he was appointed Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology. In this post, he replaced Yuri Trutnev. It is known that Igor Sechin recommended him to this high post, leaving the Russian government for the post of head of Rosneft.
At the new post, Donskoy immediately made several high-profile statements. He set his ministry the task of developing and producing 30 million tons of hydrocarbons on the Arctic shelf by 2030.
Also among the priorities of his ministry is the creation of an effective system that will allow to give accurate weather forecasts. According to the Minister of Donskoy Sergei Efimovich, the accuracy of forecasts can reach the mark of 95%. All this is done in order to significantly reduce the damage to the budget for the elimination of the consequences of sudden negative natural phenomena. First of all, floods, mudflows and snowfalls.
