Sergey Donskoy: Biography

Sergei Donskoy - a famous national statesman. At the moment he is the federal minister of natural resources and ecology. He is a real state counselor 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 plant of heavy engineering. My mother was a regular worker, and my father was a designer, whose job was to design equipment for the manufacture of long products and pipes.

Sergei Donskoy had an older sister, Anna. At school he studied well. Even in my childhood I 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. After the sister. True, to another faculty. If Anna studied applied mathematics, then Sergey Donskoi chose the specialty "Automation and telemechanics".

True, he did not immediately finish his studies. From the third year he was taken into the army. He served his term in the penal correction system, after which he returned to college.

Career of Don

The university of our article ends in 1992. The first place of his work is the design office "Gazpriboravtomatika." He oversees the automation of the gas industry. However, in the state organization the salary turns out to be so low that in a year he decides to quit.

Donskoy starts working in a brokerage firm, run by the husband of his elder sister Alexander Lurie.

Soon this business has grown considerably, after it was possible to unite with the initiators of the investment group SINT - Vladimir Ashurkov and Anatoly Khodorkovsky.

Sergei Donskoy, whose biography began to grow into the first connections in business, began as an ordinary broker. Very quickly, he was promoted to the CEO of one of the companies that are part of the holding. His main occupation was the massive purchase of vouchers from the population and their investment in fuel and energy companies. Also, business, to which was involved Donskoy, had interests in industrial engineering enterprises.

After the implementation of its most profitable transaction - the sale of an 11% stake in a petrochemical enterprise in Angarsk - the partners turned down the project. Everyone started his own business. Donskoy first works in the investment company ATON with Yevgeny Yuriev, and already in 1997 passes to "Prema-invest". On the further career of the hero of our article, the crisis of 1998 is affected. It is cut.

Political career

In 1999, Donskoy began to work in the Ministry of Fuel Energy. He moves quickly from an adviser to a department head in the department, which oversees the preparation and implementation of production sharing agreements.

In 2000, he worked in the finance department of Lukoil. His responsibilities include the evaluation of investment projects for the development of underwater hydrocarbon accumulations. After that - until 2005 - he heads the company "Zarubezhneft".

Ministerial portfolio

Before becoming a minister, Donskoy managed the state corporation Rosgeologiya. It included about 40 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 this high post , leaving the Russian government for the position of the head of Rosneft.

At the new post, Donskoy immediately made several loud statements. He set before his department the task by 2030 to develop and produce 30 million tons of hydrocarbons on the Arctic shelf.

Also among the priorities of his ministry is the creation of an effective system that will allow accurate weather forecasts. According to Donskoy Sergey Efimovich, the accuracy of forecasts can reach 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.

Personal life

The head of the Ministry of Nature is married. His wife, Tatyana, works at the school as a music teacher. The couple brings up three sons.

In recent years, the family's income amounted to about 5.5 million rubles, of which the wife earned about 3%. Everything else - the merit of her husband.

In the property of the Donskoy there is real estate. In particular, there are two apartments. It is known that the weekend minister prefers to spend at work, resting only on Sundays. He spends his leisure time talking with his family and playing sports.

Donskoi's favorite entertainment is fishing. As he himself admits, she allows him to sit quietly and alone, fully rest and think things out. He often tells about his fishing records Donskoy. True, they are very modest. The biggest fish he managed to catch, weighed no more than seven kilograms.