As a member of the second Russian government, he has been working for the sixth year as Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. Denis Manturov began his impressive career in the aviation industry, manufacturing and exporting helicopters. Started civil service in 2007, immediately from the post of Deputy Minister.
Early years
The biography of Denis Valentinovich Manturov began in the Russian north in Murmansk, where he was born on February 23, 1969. Father - Valentin Ivanovich Manturov - a graduate of the Nautical School and the Academy of Foreign Trade. He made a good career first as a Komsomol activist, and in later years he worked as deputy chairman of the city executive committee. Mom, Tamara Fedorovna, did housework.
From the age of seven, Denis lived in Bombay, where his father was sent on a business trip abroad, as it was then called. Valentin Ivanovich was appointed to the post of head of the Soviet cultural center. The guy went to school at the embassy. Then the family moved againManturov Sr. became the head of the country's mission to the UN and at the same time the cultural center in Colombo.
Having received a secondary education, Denis Manturov entered Moscow State University. He graduated from the educational institution in 1994, becoming a specialist in sociology. He continued his education at the postgraduate school of his native university, where he defended his Ph. D. thesis in economics. Subsequently, he graduated from the Academy of Civil Service.
Career start
In the work biography of Denis Manturov, his father-in-law Yevgeny Kisel played a key role. Who worked in India at the representative office of Aeroflot, and then took up the export of helicopter spare parts to this eastern country. The son-in-law became his deputy in the AeroRepcon company, created with the participation of the country's main carrier. Denis at the same time organized an enterprise that became a Bilan dealer.
In 1998, he was appointed to the position of Deputy General Director of an aircraft plant in Ulan-Ude, where at the age of 28 he also became the main shareholder of the enterprise. In 2000, he transferred to the position of commercial director of a helicopter plant in Moscow. The following year, Denis Manturov moved to work in the defense industry, taking the position of deputy head of the state company Gosinkor. And in 2003, he headed Oboronprom, which specialized in the production of aircraft.
In public service
In 2007, Manturov moved to the civil service, having receivedposition of Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy. The following year, he moved to a similar position in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, was included in the personnel reserve of the head of state.
Since 2012, he has been working as Minister of Industry, first in the government of Putin, and then Medvedev. Photos of Denis Manturov from various industrial exhibitions often appear in the Russian press. Among his latest achievements is the implementation of a project to develop and produce a car for the president.
Private life
Shortly after graduation, Manturov got married. He has known his wife Natalya Evgenievna Manturova (nee Kisel) since his school years. The future spouses went to school together in Bombay.
Natalia works as a doctor, specializing in cosmetology and plastic surgery. In 1999, she established her first private clinic - the Center for Plastic and Endoscopic Surgery. In subsequent years, she expanded her business by opening other aesthetic medicine enterprises. After her husband's transfer to the civil service, she became the owner of the assets that Manturov transferred to her. Including the sanatorium "Primorye" in Gelendzhik, where her patients undergo rehabilitation. The wife is actively involved in social activities, heading the ethics committee of the Russian Society of Plastic Surgeons. He teaches at the Medical University named after N. Pirogov, where he heads the department.
The couple has two children - daughter Lionel and son Eugene. Lionela Manturova graduated from high school in Italy and then studied atsociological faculty of Moscow State University. In 2013, she became a participant in a scandal when her birthday was actively discussed on social networks in one of the most expensive restaurants in Moscow. Then the journalists calculated that the celebration in Safisa cost 500 thousand dollars. But later it turned out that in fact it was the birthday of a classmate.
