Busygin Konstantin Dmitrievich - head of Baikonur

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:42

Probably, there are few officials whose appointment requires a joint decision of the two presidents. That is how Busygin Konstantin Dmitrievich was appointed to the post of head of Baikonur, a Kazakh city leased from the Russian Federation. Prior to that, he managed to work at Izhmash and Rosgranitsa.

Early years

Busygin Konstantin Dmitrievich was born in a military family on December 11, 1965 in the Uzbek capital, the city of Tashkent, where his father served at that time. After graduating from high school in the 1980s, he served in the army, then went to work as a simple radio equipment installer in Moscow.

Since 1996, he worked for six years at the Federal Investment Bank (Moscow) as Deputy Chairman of the Board. In 1999, he graduated with a degree in international law, graduating from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. From 2002 to 2004, he held the position of General Director of Kosmas Air, which was engaged in aviationtransportation.

In public service

In 2004, Busygin Konstantin Dmitrievich moved to the civil service, having been appointed to the post of Deputy Prefect of the Western Administrative District of Moscow. In the metropolitan area, he de alt with issues of the consumer market, improving the social security of the population. He was also responsible for the work of he alth, culture and education. At the same time, Busygin began studying at the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, from which he graduated in 2008.

In the winter of 2010, he went on a promotion, becoming the head of the Solntsevo Moscow Council, shortly after Moscow Mayor Sobyanin removed the prefect of the Western District from his post. In the same year he became a candidate of economic sciences, having defended his dissertation on the topic of regional management. After some time, scientific work came under the close attention of opposition figures. After checking the dissertation with the Anti-Plagiarism program, it turned out that the uniqueness of the text is about 50%. Also, direct borrowings from Boris Yeltsin's speech delivered at the Federation Council in 1999 were found in the work. Excerpts from the speech were pasted into the social policy section.

Head of "Kalashnikov"

In 2012, Busygin Konstantin Dmitrievich was appointed to the position of General Director of the Izhmash Research and Production Association, which has now become a concern"Kalashnikov". The enterprise was in a difficult situation, the best specialists left the production, wages were not paid for a long time. Trade unions held protests demanding better working conditions and higher minimum wages. The great gunsmith Mikhail Kalashnikov himself and a group of veterans of the plant turned directly to President Putin. Trying to draw attention to the failed, in their opinion, the policy of the plant management.

The main task of Busygin Konstantin Dmitrievich was the restructuring of the enterprise. In 2013, on the basis of the decision of the main shareholder of Rostec, the association was renamed into Kalashnikov Concern JSC. A 49% stake was also transferred to private investors. The controlling stake remained with the state, while Andrey Bokarev (President and co-owner of Transmashholding ) and Alexei Krivoruchko (CEO of Aeroexpress and member of the board of directors of Transmashholding). The deal received the support of President Vladimir Putin. In 2014, Busygin was dismissed from the post of head of the concern.

Return to civil service

In 2014, according to some publications, Konstantin Dmitrievich Busygin appeared among the contenders for the post of head of Udmurtia, as well as for the position of assistant to the presidential plenipotentiary.

In 2014, he returned to public service, having been appointed head of the Federal Agency for the Development of the State BorderRussian Federation. The main task of the department was the construction of border checkpoints and other technical facilities necessary for the organization of customs and border control. In 2016, he was fired due to the abolition of Rosgranitsa. Konstantin Dmitrievich Busygin believes that he coped with the assigned tasks in this position.

Assignment to Kazakhstan

In May 2017, in accordance with the decision of the presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan, Konstantin Dmitrievich was appointed to the post of head of Baikonur. The Kazakh city is on a long-term lease (for 50 years) from Russia. The Russian city administration and law enforcement agencies operate in Baikonur. Kazakh authorities and law enforcement agencies have their own special representatives in the city. The population of the city is about 76 thousand people, of which more than 60% are citizens of Kazakhstan, about 37% are Russians.

The first steps of the new leadership of the city were the improvement and development of engineering infrastructure. For the first time in Baikonur, the population and other consumers received natural gas.