A woman holding an important public office always attracts increased public interest, and if she is still beautiful, rich and happy in her personal life, this is especially so. Among these ladies from the highest echelon of Russian power is Zumrud Rustamova, whose biography is devoted to this article.
Origin and early years
By nationality, Zumrud Khandadashevna Rustamova is a Lezgian. Her family hails from the Dagestan city of Derbent. Little is known about Zumrud's childhood and parents. According to information from official sources and in her own words, Zumrud began working immediately after school and combined work and studies at the evening department of the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics, which she graduated in 1992.
Starting a career in public service
The first place of work of the 17-year-old Rustamova was the Sokolniki district statistics department of the city of Moscow. In this institution, the girl held the position of operator and economist. In 1988-1991, as a senior student of the university, Zumrud began working as a senior economist at the planning committee of the Executive Committee of the Soviet District Council of the capital. And after receiving the diploma, she headed an individual enterprise founded by her father. It was named after her - "Zumrud" - and became for Rustamova a kind of professional simulator for practicing the skills that later allowed her to quickly climb the Olympus of the Russian government.
Work in government
As Rustamova tells about herself, at the end of the university she entered graduate school and at the same time began to look for a new job, as she strove for independence and did not want to limit herself to activities in her father's private company. And here a young specialist catches the eye of an announcement about a competition for filling vacancies at the State Property Committee. And she filed documents, although she did not believe in success. To her surprise, Zumrud Rustamova passed the competitive selection, and she was awarded the qualification of a specialist of the first category.
Two years later, she made a sharp career breakthrough, reaching the level of head of the department of normative and methodological support of the Ministry of State Property of the Russian Federation. In this position, Rustamova took part in the creation of a regulatory framework relating to the issues of privatization and state property management, land reform and regulation of valuation activities.
In 1999-2000, Zumrud Rustamova (photo above) was appointed deputy chairman of the Russian Federal Property Fund. According to available information, her candidacy was nominated by the then head of the RFBR I. Shuvalov.
In 2000-2004, Zumrud Rustamova served as Deputy Minister of Property Relations of the Russian Federation.
During this period, she received the prestigious title of Second State Class of State Advisor to the Russian Federation.
Business activity
In 2004, Zumrud Rustamova decided to leave the service in state structures. The fact is that her young family, in which the baby was already growing up, lived for three years with the girl’s parents. The couple dreamed of their own housing, and for this the income of two, albeit high-ranking, employees is clearly not enough. Then Arkady and Zumrud decide that one of them needs to go into business. Since Dvorkovich had great prospects in the Government, and for Zumrud a career in government agencies did not promise anything new, she gladly accepts the offer of SUEK President Vladimir Rashevsky to take the post of his deputy. She worked in this position from 2004 to 2006 and began to receive ten times more than during the period of work in the Ministry of Property Relations.
The next place of work was the Development Bank, in which, at the suggestion of a friend of the family, Yuri Isaev, she became a member of the board. Along with this, Zumrud was the representative of state interests on the boards of directors of such well-known companies as Rosgosstrakh, ALROSA, All-Russian Exhibition Center and Rosagroleasing.
Since 2006, Rustamova headed the representative office of the Nafta Moscow investment holding company, owned by Suleiman Kerimov, in the Republic of Cyprus, and was also the deputy general director of Polymetal OJSC. In addition, in the spring of 2006, the shareholders of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works OJSC elected it independent director of the board of directors of their company.
Career in the last decade
In 2008, Zumrud Handadashevna became a member of the Board of Directors of Sheremetyevo International Airport OJSC, in 2009 - the Khanty-Mansiysk Bank and Polyus Gold, and in 2011 - the PIK group of companies. In 2014, Rustamova left her job for a short period, as she went on leave to care for her third son.
Personal life
Zumrud Rustamova married by "eastern" standards rather late - at 30 years old (in 2001). She met her future husband Arkady Dvorkovich the year before, during a telephone conversation on a business issue. After that, the young people had a couple of official meetings, and 3 months before the wedding, they traveled together on a business trip in the German city of Tubing. Apparently, Zumrud immediately realized that Arkady is exactly the person she needs. She favorably accepted his proposal, especially since at that time a man who was younger than her by a year, already held the post of Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation (headed by German Gref) and was considered one of the most promising young officials in our country. I must say that the girl was not mistaken, and today Dvorkovich holds the post of deputy prime minister in the Russian government. Zumrud did not lag behind him either. As you can see, after marriage, Rustamova’s career, both in politics and in business, went uphill.
Judging by the publications in the press, the family life of Dvorkovich and Rustamova is developing very successfully. Over the past 16 years of marriage, they have already managed to become parents three times. The couple has three sons - Pavel, Vladimir and Denis, who at the moment is not yet three years old.
