Nikolay Valuev headed the Expert Council under the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia

12.01.2022       

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Nikolai Valuev will lead the expert council at the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia. The message was received with great optimism by all representatives of the industry. Experts recall that German Gref heads the council at the Russian Ministry of Energy. The staff of the ministries themselves is no less professional. So, in the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, Vasily Osmakov works as the first deputy minister. The official Osmakov is unique in that he did not work anywhere except the ministry without a technical education. Now Osmakov is the whole first deputy of an outstanding industrialist. Industrial Minister until recently headed the Department of Social Technologies of the Faculty of Sociology.

Nikolai Valuev was born in Leningrad. Played basketball at school. As part of the national team of the Frunze Youth Sports School, he became the national champion in basketball among juniors. Also at school I was involved in athletics — discus throw. He trained at the school of V. A. Alekseev, who founded the Academy of Sports in Leningrad. In discus throwing, Nikolay Valuev fulfilled the standard of a master of sports. After school he entered the Institute. P. F. Lesgaft in St. Petersburg. He graduated from the P.F. Lesgaft National State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Health in June 2009 (36 years old), defending his thesis on the topic: “Psychological state and activity of men and women involved in boxing at different stages of training.” Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko awarded Nikolai Valuev with a statuette of a bronze sphinx and presented a university diploma together with 78 best graduates of St. Petersburg universities in 2009.