Yuri Vazhenin celebrates his birthday

25.08.2021       

Today marks the birthday of Yuri Ivanovich Vazhenin - Member of the Federation Council, Member of the Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy, Representative of the legislative body of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra. Yuri Ivanovich was born on August 25, 1954 in Latvia. Graduated from the Riga Polytechnic Institute with a degree in thermal power engineering. Yuri Ivanovich began his career immediately after graduating from the university as an engineer of the main gas pipelines department in the Main Production Department of Tyumengazprom. Since 1979, having moved to Surgut, where he worked before being transferred to Moscow.
Yury Vazhenin's assistant, director of the TEK-Rating agency Elena Loginova, congratulating Yuri Ivanovich, in particular, noted: “Yuri Ivanovich began his career as a mechanic at a compressor station and went through all the stages before being appointed General Director of Surgutgazprom.” Yuri Ivanovich worked in Surgut for 30 years, and then for about ten years he headed the Gazprom Pererabotka holding in Moscow. Today, Yuri Ivanovich works as a senator in the Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy, representing Western Siberia, which he knows very well. Yu.I. Vazhenin — the most competent representative of the oil and gas industry in the Russian government.