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Leonid Vadimovich Drachevsky Presidential Representative to the Siberian Federal District
Represents the President in the Siberian Federal District and ensures the head of state’s ability to exercise his constitutional powers therein. Is a federal civil servant and a member of the Presidential Administration. |  |

Biography

Born on April 5, 1942, in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR.

Education: Mendeleyev Chemistry and Technology Institute, Moscow, 1966; State Central Institute of Physical Education, 1982; Moscow Higher Party School, 1986; Advanced Training Courses for Top Diplomatic Staff under the auspices of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1993.

Started working in 1965. Served as coach, senior coach and then head coach of the Soviet national rowing team of the Sports Committee of the USSR; headed several sports associations; headed the Sports Committee’s Central Directorate for Physical Education and Sports Training.

1986-1990: Deputy chairman of the State Committee for Physical Education and Sports of the RSFSR.

1990-1992: First deputy chairman of the State Sports Committee of the USSR.

1992: Began a diplomatic career. Served as consul at the Russian Consulate General in Barcelona, Spain; directorate head at the CIS Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; director of the ministry’s CIS Department and director of the First Department for CIS Countries; member of the ministry’s collegium.

1996-1998: Russian Ambassador to Poland.

1998-1999: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

1999-2000: Minister for CIS Affairs.

Since 2000: Presidential Representative to the Siberian Federal District.

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