Igor Levitin: biography and photo. Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation

Igor Levitin was born on February 21, 1952. Place of birth: Settlement of Cebrikovo, Odessa Region, Ukraine.

The question of its origin is controversial. Some sources of information have information that he has Jewish roots. However, Igor Levitin, whose nationality in official sources is listed as "Russian", never commented on this issue.

In military service

In his school years, Igor E. devoted a lot of time to sports, and in particular to table tennis. Achieved in this field considerable success, more than once becoming a prize-winner of city and regional championships. His coach was the famous Felix Osetinsky.

Having reached the age of majority, he went to serve in the army, after which he decided to become a military man. He graduated from the Leningrad Higher Command School of Railway Troops and Military Communications. MV Frunze. After receiving a diploma of education, he served for three years (1973-1976) in the railway troops on the territory of the Odessa Military District (Moldavian Railway).

From 1976 to 1980, he served in the locations of the Southern Group of Forces in Budapest. Upon his return to the homeland Levitin receives another education in the specialty of "Railway Engineer". Igor Levitin received the diploma of the Military Academy of Logistics and Transport in 1983. After that, for two years, he was a military commandant in the territory of the Urgal railway station and at the station with the same name at the BAM. He was an active participant in the docking of the "Golden Link".

Then Levitin moved closer to the capital. He began to serve on the Moscow Railway, where, as part of the activities of the military communications, he was the military commandant of the site. After some time he took the post of deputy. Chief in the military communications.

Entrepreneurial activity

When the year 1994 came, Levitin Igor Evgenievich left the ranks of the Armed Forces of the country. The place of his work during the year was Odessa Freight Forwarding Open Joint Stock Company.

Since 1996, he worked in the apparatus of the Irkutsk State Duma. There is information that around the same time he becomes the owner of several companies, including the well-known closed joint-stock company "Dormashinvest".

Unexpected appointment

Levitin joined the Russian government in 2004. In February this year, dissolved the government, in which Mikhail Kasyanov presided, and Mikhail Fradkov is appointed the new prime minister. The government he formed began work on March 9. Igor Levitin stood at the head of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Russian Federation. The reasons for such a rapid increase are not known for certain. However, the fact remains. In this position, he regulated the issues of transport engineering, engaged in air and rail transportation and controlled the operation of seaports. In addition, he was the holder of a number of companies.

This government did not last long. Repeated for a second term in the presidential election, V. Putin sent him to resign. Igor Levitin in the newly formed government under the chairmanship of the same Fradkov was headed by the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.

When Viktor Zubkov was appointed prime minister in 2007, Igor Evgenievich was left in his previous position. The same thing happened in May 2008, when the newly elected Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, formed a new line-up of ministries.

In October 2008, Levitin was elected to the post of chairman of the board of directors of Aeroflot, and after a while he also headed the board of directors of Sheremetyevo International Airport.

A businessman or a politician?

He was one of the members of the Public Council under the government commission engaged in reforming the railway transport sector.

"Dormashinvest" still belonged to Levitin. The joint-stock company was constantly supplied with numerous state contracts from those structures that were headed by Igor Evgenievich. That is, he successfully affiliated the activities of his company with several dozens of jurors. Persons who worked in the transport sector, and their interests were related to the Ministry of Transport subordinate to it.

When in early 2011 in the "Domodedovo" explosion, Levitin Igor Evgenevich his responsibility for what happened, apparently, did not feel. On the contrary, he made a proposal to remove from the post of the head of Rostransnadzor Gennady Kurzenkov.

"Minister of Disasters"

Almost one after another, the Tu-134 crash near Petrozavodsk (22.06.2011) and Yak-42 near Yaroslavl (07.09.2011) demanded from the Minister of Transport at least intelligible explanations about the state of the domestic fleet. However, his explanations were so blurred and inconclusive that it was impossible to conclude that there were problems in the labor industry. But he was still in the same position. After that, the people often began to call him "Minister of Disasters".

In the new government formed by Dmitry Medvedev (21.05.2012) he did not find a place. The former reception of Levitin Igor Evgenievich was now occupied by the new Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov.

Nowadays

May 22, 2012 Levitin is appointed advisor to the President. After a little more than a year, to be exact, from September 2, 2013, Igor Levitin is an assistant to President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. The day after this appointment, he also holds the post of secretary of the State Council of the Russian Federation.

On September 25, 2013 he became deputy chairman of the Presidential Council for the Development of Physical Education and Sports.

May 2014 was marked for Igor Evgenievich appointment to the post of vice-president of the All-Russian Union of Public Associations "Olympic Committee of Russia".

He is one of the members of the working group under the President, engaged in the restoration of various architectural sites that are part of the cultural heritage of religious purpose.

Being the assistant to the president, Igor Levitin, whose biography proves his enterprising and successful, also participates in the regulation of housing and communal services.

On December 25, 2013, the President signed a decree appointing Igor Levitin to the post of chairman of the commission for the development of general aviation. The purpose of creating this structure is to organize activities to coordinate the work of executive bodies (at all levels of the federation) responsible for the formation of a unified state policy on AON issues, for the development of strategies and programs for the further development of AON.

A family

Igor Levitin's wife's name is Natalia Igorevna, she's a housewife. The couple have a daughter Julia. She is an assistant professor of sociology and political science at the Moscow State University for the Humanities. M. A. Sholokhov. For several years, Yulia was engaged in entrepreneurial activity, she was the founder of such well-known transport companies as Milicon Service and Staltechinvest.

Igor Levitin, whose biography shows his progress in various fields of activity, is today one of the most important figures on the domestic political Olympus.