Alexander Misharin - First Vice-President of Russian Railways. Biography, personal life

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Misharin Alexander Sergeevich, a hereditary railway worker, statesman, top manager, proved with his life that a person, if desired, can achieve a lot.

Dynasty

Misharin Alexander Sergeevich was born on January 21, 1959 in Sverdlovsk. His father was a railway worker, and this determined the choice of the boy's professional path. He decided to continue his father's work and after school Alexander entered the Ural Institute of Railway Transport. In 1981, he graduated from high school and received a diploma.

After college, Misharin enters the Sverdlovsk Railway. For the first three years, he worked as an electrician at the Shartashsky section of power supply, then for two years - as the head of the electrical networks district at the Sedelnikovo station, and for the next two years - as chief engineer of the Ishimsky section of power supply. Experience in positions of various levels gave Misharin an idea of the internal organization of a large transport company, his experience was subsequently in demand more than once.

Growth Path

In 1989, Alexander Misharin, whose biography slightly changes its direction, goes to work inMetropolitan Yekaterinburg. First, he works on the construction of the subway as a chief engineer. Having launched the subway in 1991, Misharin returned to the railway in the person of the deputy head of the power supply, but almost immediately moved to the office of the head of the power supply. Five years later, he became the chief engineer of the Sverdlovsk Railway. During this period, Alexander Sergeevich improves his qualifications and studies at the Faculty of Economics of the Ural State Academy of Railways, from which he graduated in 1997. At every job, he knew how to build relationships and demonstrated high professionalism, this did not go unnoticed.

Senior Manager

Huge professional experience allowed Misharin in 1998 to become Deputy Minister of Railways of the Russian Federation Nikolai Aksenenko. His area of responsibility in this position was to provide communications in the communications system. A year later, the Minister of Railways changed, this chair was taken by Vladimir Starostenko, then Aksenenko again became the Minister.

Alexander Misharin remained in his place under both ministers. In 2000, he became First Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Railways. Two years later, when Aksenenko finally left the department and Gennady Fadeev came to this place, Misharin had to go down a notch, he again became deputy minister in charge of the communications system. In May 2002, Alexander Sergeevich was appointed head of the Sverdlovsk Railway. But he was able to remain a member of the collegiateCouncil of the Ministry of Railways, for this Fadeev even issued a special decree.

In 2004, Misharin became director for the integrated development of infrastructure of the Ministry of Transport (this division appeared as a result of the reform of the Ministry of Transport) and worked as deputy minister of transport. In 2009, he was appointed director of the industry and infrastructure division of the Russian government apparatus.

Scientific career

Alexander Misharin in 1999, while working as Deputy Minister of Railways, defended his Ph. D. thesis on the effective informatization of railways. In 2005, he became a doctor of technical sciences, having defended his dissertation on the introduction of modern technologies in railway transport. Misharin has six patents for inventions that he received while working at the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.

Milestones of the governor's path

Since 2004, Misharin is an active member of the United Russia party, he participates in the elections of deputies of the Sverdlovsk Regional Duma. In 2004, he is a confidant of the candidate for the President of the Russian Federation V. V. Putin.

In 2009, Alexander Misharin, whose biography takes an unexpected turn, becomes the governor of the Sverdlovsk region. His candidacy was nominated by the United Russia party and supported by the President of the Russian Federation D. A. Medvedev.

Governor Misharin remains in the history of the Sverdlovsk region as the initiator of several major projects. His activities caused polar assessments, the main claims to his activities fromof the public were in the irrational use of the regional budget, in the ill-conceived decisions, in lobbying the interests of individuals and initiating cumbersome and expensive projects. Remaining true to his professional roots, the governor proposed a project to create a high-speed railway connecting Yekaterinburg with remote regions of the region and with Nizhny Tagil. He also supported the intensification of the construction of the metro in Yekaterinburg, under him the Botanicheskaya and Chkalovskaya stations were launched ahead of schedule.

Misharin became a supporter of the Verkhoturye project, in which considerable funds were invested, the project was supposed to create a tourist center in the city of Verkhoturye, which is a landmark for the Orthodox. Another religious project of the governor is the restoration of the Church of St. Catherine in Yekaterinburg.

Alexander Sergeevich faced great difficulties in carrying out administrative and personnel policies. His situation was greatly complicated by the wildfires of 2010, when he went on vacation at the height of the disaster. The opposition many times filed claims against Misharin regarding the misappropriation of funds, he was also accused of paying for the election campaign at the expense of the regional budget, of buying a Mercedes for 8 million budget rubles.

In 2011, Misharin got into a severe road accident, and was treated for a long time, including in Germany. After a short time he returns to the governor's office, but in May 2012 he resigns.

Russian Railways

BIn 2012, Alexander Misharin joined the Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation represented by the President of the public organization. Previously, he was a member of the Board of Directors of Russian Railways and was well acquainted with the activities of this organization. Apparently, this and his great professional experience became the reason that in December 2012 the First Vice-President of Russian Railways, Alexander Misharin, appeared.

High-speed railways remained his main area of professional interest. He is an active defender of the idea of creating a whole network of such roads in Russia, which, due to its geography, is in dire need of such transport. Vice-President of Russian Railways Alexander Misharin in 2013 became the General Director of High-Speed Lines, which today are building a high-speed railway between Moscow and Kazan.

Family and personal life

Alexander Misharin was married twice. From his first marriage he has two daughters: Anastasia and Anna. The first wife died from a serious illness in 2004. The second wife is Inna Andreeva, an entrepreneur in the IT field. Misharin Alexander Sergeevich, whose family attracts a lot of attention, is known for helping his relatives more than once in doing business. His wife attracts the attention of the press as the first among the wives of the governors of the Russian Federation in terms of declared income.