MAI graduate appointed Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry of the Russian Federation

Moscow Aviation Institute graduate, Oleg Bocharov, was appointed Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry of the Russian Federation. The regulation on his appointment was signed on February 22, 2017 by the Russian Prime-Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

His appointment was being speculated on ever since December 2016, for instance, Russia’s daily Kommersant paper suggested that he would curate aviation industry in the Ministry. O.Bocharov previously headed the Moscow Department of Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship. The Mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin, noted in his Twitter that in that position “he had done a lot for the development of entrepreneurship and technological clusters”. He also wished his former colleague success in his new job.

Oleg Bocharov graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute in 1996, majoring in ‘Aircraft engines and power plants’. He then worked in the same department of MAI since 1986. In 2001, he graduated from Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, majoring in Law. Since 1996, he worked as Deputy Director of the Moscow Rescue Service, and was elected in Moscow City Duma four times (in 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2009).