Igor Levitin Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation. Former Minister of Transport promoted to

Igor Evgenievich Levitin(born February 21, 1952, settlement Tsebrikovo, Odessa region) - Russian statesman. Aide to the President of the Russian Federation since September 2013. Acting State Councilor of the Russian Federation, 1st class (2013).

In the past - Minister of Transport of Russia (March 9, 2004 - May 21, 2012). During his leadership of the ministry, significant infrastructure projects were implemented in Russia, a number of long-term construction projects were completed, some of which were inherited from the USSR.

During the period of Levitin's activity in the Russian government, there were a number of resonant aviation accidents, as a result of which Levitin received the nickname "Minister of Disasters" in the press.

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Table Tennis Federation (2006-2008 - President of the Federation). Member of the Presidential Council of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).

Candidate of Political Science, Associate Professor of the Moscow State Open Pedagogical University.

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Biography

For 10 years he played table tennis at a sports school in Odessa under the guidance of coach Felix Osetinsky.

Military career

In 1970, at the age of 18, he was drafted into the army. Received a military education. In 1973 he graduated from the Leningrad Higher Command School of Railway Troops and Military Communications named after M.V. Frunze. The term for training commanders at the school was then 4 years. He began his service as an assistant military commandant in the Odessa Military District on the Transnistrian Railway, and from 1976 he was in the Southern Group of Soviet Forces in Budapest (Hungary), where he served until 1980.

He was actively involved in scientific work in the field of cargo routing.

In the Russian government (2004-2012)

On March 9, 2004, he was appointed Minister of Transport and Communications in the Cabinet of Mikhail Fradkov. In May of the same year, the Ministry of Transport and Communications was divided into the Ministry of Transport itself (Igor Levitin) and the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications (Leonid Reiman).

Three sub-structures were formed within the ministry: the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Communications and the Federal Communications Agency were transferred from Levitin's department, and the Federal Agency for Information Technologies was re-established.

Vladimir Putin described Levitin as a good railroad and transport worker and set the primary task in this post - to radically reform the staff of the joint department, reducing it from 2,300 to 600 staff.

He was a member of the Public Council under the government commission for the reform of railway transport.

CJSC Dormashinvest, owned by Levitin, is affiliated with dozens of legal entities throughout Russia working in the field of transport and connected with economic interests with the Ministry of Transport. CJSC "Dormashservice" regularly received government contracts from structures subordinate to Levitin as a minister. The main receipts through contracts were carried out by the Ministry of Transport for deliveries within the framework of orders of subordinate organizations of the Ministry from subsidiaries of ZAO Dormashinvest.

Member of the Board of Directors of the United Aircraft Corporation (JSC UAC).

On December 30 of the same year, he headed the Commission for checking the operation of the aviation complex in a critical situation (then many flights were canceled due to heavy snowfalls and subsequent icing of aircraft).

Personally supervised the reconstruction of Moskovsky Prospekt in Yaroslavl. This road construction has become the largest in the city.

After the explosion at Moscow's Domodedovo airport in January 2011, Levitin did not feel any responsibility for himself, but suggested firing the head of Rostransnadzor, Gennady Kurzenkov.

After the Tu-134 plane crashes near Petrozavodsk on June 22 and Yak-42 near Yaroslavl on September 7, in which the Lokomotiv hockey team died, Levitin gave the President and the Russian parliament extremely incomprehensible explanations about the state of the Russian aircraft fleet, but this time The "disaster minister" was not dismissed.

Activities as Minister of Transport

When I. Levitin took office, Vladimir Putin commented on this appointment: “Levitin, of course, gives the impression of such a solid man, strong and qualified.<…>He is a good transport worker, a good railroad worker, a professional one. "

After taking office, in pursuance of the instructions of the country's leadership on the reduction of officials, I. Levitin reduced the central apparatus of the department by more than 20%. About two thousand people were laid off in the territorial bodies, and the apparatus of the ministry itself became four times smaller.

In November 2004, Igor Levitin signed an agreement with his Ukrainian counterpart Georgy Kirpa on the operation of the Kerch ferry. The railway ferry service between the ports of Crimea and the Caucasus ceased after the collapse of the USSR. The signing of the agreement was aimed at its renewal, which actually took place. The document was accompanied by the rules for the carriage of goods and a regulation on the council for the joint operation of the ferry.

On August 1, 2005, high-speed traffic was opened between Moscow and Kiev. I. Levitin noted the continuity in the policy of the transport authorities of Ukraine - the decision to open high-speed communication between the capitals of Russia and Ukraine was made under the previous Ukrainian leadership.

To implement the project, 153 km of track were repaired, at 50 stations of the high-speed route of the Moscow Railway, 132 turnouts on a reinforced concrete base were replaced. I. Levitin presented awards to the Minister of Transport and Communications of Ukraine Yevgeny Chervonenko and President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin for their personal contribution to the creation of high-speed traffic between the capitals of Ukraine and Russia, as well as to the development of railway transport in Ukraine and Russia. They were awarded medals “For Merit in the Development of the Transport Complex of Russia”.

In August 2005, Levitin presented a private branded train-hotel "Grand Express" between Moscow and St. Petersburg. He recalled that at the second stage of the reform, the Federal Passenger Company will be separated from JSC Russian Railways, 100% of whose shares will be owned by the state. “Thus, private operators will also carry out passenger transportation together with the Federal Passenger Company,” he said.

On October 3, 2005 in Brussels I. Igor Levitin and the EU Commissioner for Transport Jacques Barrot signed a joint document defining the general principles, goals and structure of the Russia-EU dialogue in the field of transport and infrastructure.

At the end of 2005, I. Levitin, together with the then head of the Ministry of Economic Development German Gref and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, appealed to the president to lift the ban on determining high-precision coordinates. It was introduced in the interests of the Ministry of Defense and provided for an accuracy on the ground no higher than 30 meters (versus 10 m for GPS). This appeal ensured the launch of the GLONASS system from a legal point of view.

The media during this period drew attention to I. Levitin's realistic assessment of the possibilities of railway transport. In particular, in December 2005, he categorically rejected the proposal of the head of the Oktyabrskaya Railway, Viktor Stepov, to build a railway line to the Primorsk oil port in the Leningrad Region. "There is only a pipe," Levitin said at the time.

At a press conference by I. Levitin on the results of the work of the Ministry of Transport of Russia in 2005, he announced an increase in cargo turnover by 3% compared to the previous year - it reached 2,197 billion tonne-kilometers, and the greatest increase in cargo turnover - about 7.7% - was achieved in road transport. The reasons for the growth in freight traffic were mainly the revival of the real sector of the economy, an increase in production in the main cargo-forming industries.

The State Duma adopted the law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation on the Creation of the Russian International Register of Ships", the development of which took six years. The Law "On Transport Safety" was adopted by the State Duma in the first reading in November 2005.

In December 2005, I. Levitin and Vnesheconombank Chairman Vladimir Dmitriev signed a framework agreement, according to which the bank received the status of a strategic partner of the Ministry of Transport. In this role, VEB was able to control the participation of other banks and financial institutions in major projects for the development of Russia's transport infrastructure.

In September 2006, Igor Levitin and the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure, Tourism and Maritime Affairs of the French Republic Domenique Perben signed a memorandum of intent between the two structures to exchange information on the current legislative and regulatory and technical base of Russia and France in the field of construction and maintenance of toll roads, and also on the methods of attracting funds from private investors in the framework of public-private partnerships in the construction and reconstruction of highways, including the project to create a high-speed highway Moscow - St. Petersburg.

In the field of railways, the parties agreed to consider proposals for the development of high-speed railways, including the creation of a high-speed highway Moscow - St. Petersburg and a high-speed highway St. Petersburg - Helsinki.

In August 2006, a new fast train Moscow - Minsk was presented under the name "Slavyanskiy Express". Its travel time was 7 hours 30 minutes - 2.5 hours less than before. In 2011, the train began to operate on an extended route Moscow - Brest.

In Kemerovo, a bridge was opened across the Tom River on the federal highway M-53 "Baikal", which made it possible to increase cargo traffic through the Kemerovo region to the regions of Siberia, the Far East and the European part of Russia, as well as the "Yubileiny" bridge across the Volga in Yaroslavl.

In 2006, with the participation of Levitin at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, a Russian-German memorandum of cooperation in the field of high-speed transportation was signed. On the Russian side, the document was signed by the Ministry of Transport and Russian Railways, and on the German side - by Deutsche Bahn and Siemens. The document implies the exchange of information in the field of high-speed railway communication, including in the field of creating and modernizing the infrastructure of such a communication, creating rolling stock, and technical equipment of high-speed highways.

As a result of more than 10,000 inspections of airlines and civil aviation organizations, the activities of 20 airlines were suspended, the operation of 12 aircraft, 43 airfields and landing sites was banned, more than 900 inspection orders were issued. 280 thousand violations were revealed in the field of motor transport, following the results of inspections, the department returned 140 million rubles to the state budget.

The department has certified 229 employees of shipping companies responsible for the safety of navigation and the prevention of environmental pollution.

At the beginning of 2007, Levitin, as chairman of the intergovernmental commission, negotiated cooperation with the Latvian side. As a result, in the spring of the same year, Russia and Latvia signed a border agreement, the fate of which remained uncertain for a long time. Latvia claimed the territory of the Pytalovsky district of the Pskov region, however, as a result, the area remained a part of Russia.

In 2007, Levitin announced a number of systemic problems in the organization of control and supervision of transport, identified as a result of a joint inspection of the Ministry of Transport and the Prosecutor General's Office, and his intention to correct them.

In December 2007, Levitin and Lithuanian Foreign Minister Petras Vaituhunas signed an agreement on navigation in the Curonian Lagoon and inland waterways of the Kaliningrad region. In accordance with the document, the permitting procedure for navigation in Russian waters for foreign ships was canceled. Russian ships received equal rights in these waters with Lithuanian watercrafts.

At the end of 2007, the Ministry of Transport signed an agreement with the German branch of Lloyd Corporation to carry out surveys of ships registered in the Russian International Register of Ships. Making a report, Levitin informed the members of the Maritime Collegium that the agreement was signed in order to implement the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Code in relation to the Russian International Register of Ships on behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation. Thus, the Russian ships were under the control of one of the oldest and most representative insurance companies.

In December 2007, Levitin and his Israeli counterpart Shaul Mofaz managed to prevent an escalation of the conflict between the two countries, caused by disagreements over the issue of granting the Israeli airline KAL a license to operate regular cargo flights from Israel to Moscow. The reason was the deviation of the charter of the Israeli airline from the course over the territory of Russia, which raised the question of a complete cessation of air traffic. However, the departments managed to reach an agreement on streamlining transportation and introducing from December a single route for several companies, including El-Al and Transaero.

In 2008, the Strategy for the Development of Railway Transport in the Russian Federation until 2030, developed with the participation of the Ministry of Transport, was adopted. In accordance with it, by this time it is expected to increase cargo turnover in comparison with 2007 from 1.46 to 1.58 times, passenger turnover - from 1.16 to 1.33 times. This time interval in the Strategy is divided into two parts: until 2015 and until 2030. To implement the plans for the first period, the Ministry of Transport also developed the Federal Target Program “Development of the Russian Transport System (2010-2015)”. The main goal of the first stage is the modernization of the railway network, the second - its dynamic expansion. In total, according to the minimum version of the Strategy, it is planned to build 16 thousand km of railway lines by 2030.

In 2008, a large-scale project was completed on the Yaroslavskoe highway in the Moscow region - the construction of the Mytishchi junction, which made it possible to make traffic on the Kholmogory highway traffic-free. Before that, there were many hours of traffic jams here. In five years, three overpasses were built: the entrance and exit routes for Korolev and the route for entry and exit from Mytishchi. In addition, several overground pedestrian crossings have been built along the route from the Moscow Ring Road to Korolev. Opening the traffic on the junction together with the Governor of the Moscow Region Boris Gromov, Levitin promised that in five years the Yaroslavskoye Highway will become one of the most modern highways in the Moscow Region.

In 2008, the 2nd start-up complex of the M-27 Dzhubga-Sochi highway was commissioned, the construction of which began in 1988, after which funding was curtailed. At the same time, a 2.5 km long tunnel was built on the Adler - Krasnaya Polyana highway. As a result of the commissioning of this section, the construction of the entire road was completed and an opportunity opened up for the nomination of Sochi as a candidate city for the right to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

In December 2008, at a meeting of the government commission, Levitin proposed to support not only Russian Railways, but also private companies that occupy about 60% of the transportation market. According to him, private operators need to refinance past loans and obtain additional credit funds for the purchase of new cars. The largest operators, with a fleet of more than 10 thousand cars, have applied to the Ministry of Transport for state support in the amount of about 30 billion rubles. The same amount is intended for airlines, and only for those that in 11 months of 2008 carried at least 1 million people and at least 50% of whose flights were regular.

At the same time, against the background of rising unemployment in Russia, the Ministry of Transport began to develop a program for the employment of unemployed Russians for temporary work on the repair and construction of roads. The media noted that the department in this matter took advantage of the experience of the United States during the Great Depression. Levitin also said that the ministry intends to ask the State Duma and the government "to amend the legislation so that subsidies from our source and from the region to the region can be quickly transferred." The department has prepared a standard that determines the number of people required to carry out work on a particular section of the road.

On October 13, 2009 in Beijing, as part of a meeting between the heads of government of Russia and China, Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin, I. Levitin and Chinese Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the organization and development of high-speed and high-speed rail links in Russia.

Another memorandum of cooperation between the departments was signed in the same month by Levitin and his Chinese counterpart Li Shenglin. In accordance with the document, the parties intend to implement joint projects in the field of road facilities, as well as to promote the development of highways included in international transport corridors.

In the field of maritime transport, Russia and China announced their intention to cooperate in the development of inland waterway transport and navigation along border rivers, as well as issues of safety of navigation and prevention of environmental pollution.

In 2009, Levitin said that since 2004 (when he took office), the volume of air traffic has increased by 10-15% annually, and in just five years it has grown by one and a half times. Under his control, the approach to the implementation of the Federal Target Program for the Development of the Transport System in terms of the modernization of airfields was changed: earlier funds were distributed to many airports, which led to an increase in the duration of work. Following the example of highways, a transition was made to the standard construction period with the concentration of funds at one of the facilities.

In the same year, air transportation of passengers under 23 and over 60 began from the Far East to the European part of the country and back at special rates with appropriate reimbursement to air transport organizations for lost income from the federal budget.

In order to preserve and develop local and regional air transportation in the Far North, state-owned aviation enterprises were created on the basis of socially significant airports. The measure affected those regions where local air transportation is social in nature and is not the subject of commercially viable business. In particular, only in Yakutia, 23 airports have become state-owned.

In 2010, the first stage of the Northern bypass of Novosibirsk was commissioned, which is part of the federal highway M-51 "Omsk - Novosibirsk" and was designed back in the 1990s.

In December 2010, the Ministers of Transport of Belarus and Russia Ivan Shcherbo and Levitin signed an agreement on automobile control on the external border of the Union State. Levitin said that the parties intend to monitor the vehicle control system online. In addition, at the same time, the parties prepared a draft plan for the formation of a unified transport system for 2011-2012. “We do not stop, transport cannot be stopped. The integration of our systems continues, ”said I. Levitin in connection with these decisions.

Two sea bridge projects - across the Kola Bay and across the Eastern Bosphorus - were completed in 2005 and 2012, respectively. The bridge across the Kola Bay on the Kola - Pechenga highway in the Murmansk region has become a focal point in providing road transport communication between the regions of the Murmansk region and the regional center and the Scandinavian countries (Norway, Finland).

The bridge across the Eastern Bosphorus to the Russky Island connected it with the central part of Vladivostok. This is one of the largest cable-stayed bridges in the world, the central span of which, 1104 m long, is a record in the world practice of bridge construction.

Another cable-stayed bridge - across the Neva - has become the largest bridge structure on the Ring Road of St. Petersburg. It was opened in 2004 and connected the northern sections of the ring with the federal road "Russia" leading to Moscow and the center of Russia. The first stage of the bridge was commissioned in a record three years. The construction of the ring road was completed in 2010 - 2 years ahead of schedule.

In 2010, for the first time since the collapse of the USSR, it was possible to stop the reduction in the number of civilian airfields.

At the same time, achievements in the field of operation of sea transport were noted: the volume of cargo transshipment in the seaports of Russia amounted to 526 million tons, compared with the maximum volume of 420 million tons reached by the USSR. In addition, for the first time in Russian history, the large-capacity Arctic ice-class tanker SFK Baltika sailed on a commercial voyage along the Northern Sea Route, delivering 117,000 tons of gas condensate to China. This confirmed the viability and cost-effectiveness of the regular delivery of energy resources from the Barents and Kara Seas to the markets of the Asia-Pacific region along the Northern Sea Route.

In 2007, with the participation of Levitin, the law on seaports, which was basic for the industry, was adopted, which resolved the previously existing contradictions in lease relations. During the crisis, sea transport in Russia increased its cargo turnover. In particular, the volume of transshipment in seaports increased by 5%. In 2009, 25 billion rubles of federal funds and 100 billion rubles of private funds were invested in the development of seaports.

In 2010, with the participation of Levitin, an Agreement of Intent was signed for the implementation of a comprehensive investment project "Ural Industrial - Ural Polar" with the development of the Northern latitudinal route (Obskaya - Salekhard - Nadym - Pangody - Novy Urengoy - Korotchaevo) "between the Federal Agency for Railway Transport, the government of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russian Railways, Gazprom, Ural Industrial - Ural Polar corporation. The construction of the Northern latitudinal railway will ensure the output of the freight traffic generated by the Salekhard - Nadym railway line to the existing public railway network of the Northern Railway.

In early 2011, Levitin headed the Coordination Council for the development of the transport system of Moscow and the Moscow region. After leaving the post of minister and becoming an adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, Levitin remained on the council.

In May of the same year, Levitin opened a multifunctional complex of Yanino Logistic Park LLC near St. Petersburg. Its peculiarity is that the goods do not stand waiting for processing, but immediately go to the warehouse, where they are accumulated. They can be delivered in containers or in covered wagons.

In 2012, an agreement in principle was reached with the Republic of Abkhazia to change tariffs for the transportation of goods by rail. In accordance with the protocol signed by Levitin and the Minister of Economy of Abkhazia David Iradyan, a single tariff has been established for the entire route, in contrast to the differentiated one that was in effect earlier. The cost of transportation has decreased by 22-25 rubles per ton, or by 40-70%, depending on the type of cargo and the direction of transportation.

In 2011, Levitin said that Ukraine and Russia plan to complete survey work on the project of a bridge over the Kerch Strait within 1.5 years. Vnesheconombank of the Russian Federation, which was entrusted with financing the work, began searching for potential investors ready to join the project along with state ones.

In 2012, by order of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Viktor Zubkov, a council for the development of the timber industry complex was created under the government of the Russian Federation. It includes, in particular, Minister of Regional Development Dmitry Kozak, Minister of Transport Levitin, Minister of Natural Resources Yuri Trutnev, Minister of Industry and Energy Viktor Khristenko, Head of the Federal Customs Service Andrey Belyaninov.

Government activity (2012 - present)

From March to June 2012 - Acting Head of the Maritime Collegium of the Russian Federation. After him, the post passed to Dmitry Rogozin.

From May 22, 2012 to September 2, 2013 - Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, from September 2, 2013 - his assistant.

When it became known about the appointment of Igor Levitin as assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, the press secretary of the latter, Dmitry Peskov, said that the issues for which Yuri Trutnev were previously responsible would be transferred to Levitin's jurisdiction. In particular, they talked about regional policy in the Far East and issues related to the State Council.

In August 2012, he became a member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports.

In the same month he took part in the large-scale International Air Transport Forum “MATF” in Ulyanovsk. The number of guests exceeded 2000, and more than 100,000 residents and guests of the region attended the festival and airshow. One of the main results of the business program was the signing of a memorandum between the Ulyanovsk aviation cluster and the European Partnership of Aviation Clusters (EACP).

At the same time, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved an agreement with the Russian Federation on measures to ensure the safety of navigation in the Sea of ​​Azov and the Kerch Strait, signed by Levitin from the Russian side in March. For a long time, the issues of shipping in these waters and the delimitation of the maritime border remained one of the most difficult in relations between Moscow and Kiev - negotiations on them have been conducted since 1996.

By order of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation dated September 3, 2012, Levitin was appointed Secretary of the State Council of the Russian Federation.

In February 2013, Levitin instructed to delineate the powers of the agencies of the Ministry of Transport that regulate aviation activities. Commenting on this decision, the then Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Valery Okulov said that the Federal Air Transport Agency is certifying activities for the repair and maintenance of aircraft, and Rostransnadzor licenses this activity. The powers of the latter organization were found to be excessive.

On September 25, 2013, he became Deputy Chairman of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports.

On October 17, 2013, Levitin entered the Economic Council under the President of the Russian Federation. By the decision of the Olympic Assembly in May 2014, he was elected Vice President of the All-Russian Union of Public Associations "Russian Olympic Committee".

In January 2014, together with the deputy head of the presidential administration, Anton Vaino, he joined the supervisory board of the Rostec state corporation. By the same decree, the president terminated the powers of members of the supervisory board Alexandra Levitskaya and Lyudmila Tyazhelnikova.

He is a member of the working group under the President of the Russian Federation on the restoration of objects of cultural heritage for religious purposes, other religious buildings and structures.

In September 2014, Levitin held a meeting in the port of Vostochny on the development of the port infrastructure of the Primorsky region. For 8 months of this year, the total cargo turnover of 6 ports of the Primorsky Territory amounted to 68.5 million tons, which significantly exceeds the indicators of the same period last year. The growth in cargo turnover was mainly due to the increase in the volume of oil and coal transshipment. Levitin noted that the latest trends involve the export of the transshipment of dusty cargo outside the cities. He also criticized the traffic pattern of heavy vehicles going to the port. "All roads and junctions built for the APEC summit are cluttered with heavy transport, traffic is very difficult in the city, this is wrong."

Levitin instructed the Federal Agency for Sea and River Transport to take control of the delivery of containers to the port of Vladivostok, unloading city roads. It was instructed, in particular, to solve the issues of the night movement of container ships, the delivery of containers to the port by rail.

In February 2014, Levitin visited Samara on an inspection trip, where he got acquainted with the work of the new terminal of the Kurumoch airport. He admitted that the airport compares favorably with those under construction in other regions. The construction of the terminal began when Levitin was minister of transport. Then I had to take a risk, since at first there was no potential investor and it was about financing from the regional budget. 12 billion rubles were allocated by the region, and then 8 billion rubles of third-party investments appeared. He also approved the decision to keep the old terminal, which may come in handy to distract fans of different teams.

In 2014, on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (December 3), with the participation of Igor Levitin, the Paralympic Sports Center was opened in Moscow. The six-story building on Turgenevskaya Square houses the offices of the Russian Paralympic Committee, a media center, a museum and a universal sports hall.

In early December 2014, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered to organize a committee to prepare Russian athletes for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, chaired by his deputy Arkady Dvorkovich. The committee includes Igor Levitin, Russian Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko, Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov, First Deputy Defense Minister Arkady Bakhin.

Since 2015, Levitin has been supervising the modernization project of the An-2 light-engine aircraft ("maize"), developed by V. At the first stage, the specialists developed a new wing, which almost doubled the speed characteristics of the vehicle. By 2016, it is planned to complete the creation of a completely updated modification of the aircraft.

In October 2015, Igor Levitin became an honorary citizen of the city of Sochi. Senator from the Krasnodar Territory Vitaly Ignatenko made a proposal on this. According to him, I. Levitin made a huge contribution to the creation of the new infrastructure of the city.

As aide to the president, Levitin also deals with housing and utilities issues.

Social activity

Served as a member of the Supervisory Board (2004-2006), President of the FNTR (2006-2008), Chairman of the Supervisory Board (2008-2012) and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the FNTR (2012 - present).

The media noted the active development of table tennis in Russia, which began after I. Levitin came to the federation of this sport. In particular, a serious emphasis was placed on active participation in the activities of the international and continental federations. As a result, Russia hosted the World Ping-Pong Championship in 2007 in St. Petersburg. Also, the World Tours of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF World Tour) have been held since 2006, the World Cup 2009, the European Super Cups (since 2007), the European Championship (2008 and 2015), the World Team Championship (2010, the Russian men's team took 6th a place). Levitin received a guarantee from the Russian government to host the 2020 World Team Championship in Yekaterinburg in case of winning the application to ITTF. Over the years, the Russian table tennis team championship has become one of the strongest in Europe. Such famous athletes as Vladimir Samsonov (Belarus), Dmitry Ovcharov (Germany), Yun Mizutani (Japan) perform in Russian clubs.

The FNTR Board of Trustees headed by Igor Levitin contributed to the creation of specialized table tennis centers created in the cities of Russia - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg (the Center for Olympic training of Russian national teams and the Tatyana Ferdman table tennis school in Baltym and Verkhnyaya Pyshma), Kazan, Sorochinsk, Orenburg. Also, the FNTR Board of Trustees organizes coaching and referee seminars in the regions of Russia with the invitation of foreign lecturers: Richard Prause, Ferenc Korshai, Dubrovka Skorich. Work is underway to improve the rules for holding competitions, the proposed innovations are being tested in the course of table tennis tournaments held in Russia.

On the initiative of Levitin, since 2015, Russia has celebrated World Table Tennis Day. The first event took place on April 6, 2015 in GUM, where the presidential aide played several games himself.

In September 2012, he joined the commission on the development of general aviation, created by order of Vladimir Putin. It was headed by the assistant to the President of Russia, Yuri Trutnev, and, in particular, the Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov was included in it.

In May 2014, he was elected vice-president of the All-Russian Union of Public Associations “Russian Olympic Committee”. By the order of the President of the ROC, he was appointed special representative of the Russian Olympic Committee at the first European Games in Baku, which were held from June 12 to 28, 2015. The games program includes competitions in 20 sports, 16 of which are Olympic. 11 of them will qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

In October 2014, Levitin became a member of the Supervisory Board for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Sirius educational center for gifted children in Sochi, created on the basis of the Olympic infrastructure at the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation. The center is designed for free education of 600 children aged 10–17, accompanied by more than 100 teachers and trainers.

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At the end of 2010, he entered the top three richest members of the Government of the Russian Federation, along with Yu. Trutnev and A. Khloponin: according to official data, this year Levitin earned 22 million 657 thousand rubles.

During the period of Levitin's activity as the Minister of Transport of the Russian government, a number of resonant aviation accidents with hundreds of human victims took place in the country. After three in a row in one year, plane crashes of passenger airliners in the Russian sky near Sochi (2006), near Irkutsk (2006) and Donetsk (2006), as well as in Perm (2008), near Yaroslavl (2011) (all with mass deaths of passengers and crew on board) Levitin headed the government commissions to investigate the causes and provide assistance to the victims. The frequency and recurrence of catastrophes, the controversial conclusions of the commissions of inquiry caused public criticism of Levitin, as a result of which he received the nickname "Minister of Disasters" in the press.

Awards

• Jubilee medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1978)
• III degree (15 February 2012)
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (September 20, 2009)
• Order of Honor (Armenia, October 17)
• Medal "For the development of railways" (January 9, 2008) - For his great contribution to the development of railway transport
• Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, I degree (February 22, 2012)
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, 1st degree (July 18, 2014) - Attention to the assistance provided to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra

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Notes (edit)

1. (unspecified) ... Gazeta.ru (March 1, 2014).
2. The "disaster minister" became the president's assistant. Who is Igor Levitin? (unspecified) ... Slon.ru (September 2, 2013).
3. Russian Table Tennis Federation (unspecified) .
4. Levitin joined the Presidential Council of the International Table Tennis Federation (unspecified) .
5. POLITICS: Igor Levitin. Dossier
6. Igor Levitin - Minister and President
7. Come Together, Kommersant newspaper, No. 43 (2882), 11.03.2004
8. Public Council on Railway Transport Reform (unspecified) .
9. Participants of the meeting on the development of transport engineering (unspecified) .
10. About the section of the Ministry of Transport and Communications (unspecified) .
11. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 12, 2008 No. 746
12. Sheremetyevo vs. Sheremetyevo, Elena Sevryukova, Top Secret No. 8/243 dated 08/2009
13. Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 09/10/2008 No. 1282-r (unspecified) .
14. Declaration and property of the Minister of Transport Igor Levitin
15. Levitin, Sobyanin, Shantsev and Shvetsova are candidates for the post of mayor of Moscow. "RIA News"
16. The Ministry of Transport created a commission to check the activities of the airline (unspecified) .
17. 2010 became for Yaroslavl "the year of new objects" (unspecified) .
18. Everyone is to blame, Levitin is a fine fellow. Country. Articles www.newsinfo.ru
19. (unspecified) .
20. Igor Levitin: We reduced the staff of the ministry by four times (unspecified) .
21. Russia terminated the agreement with Ukraine on the operation of the Kerch ferry (unspecified) .
22. High-Speed ​​Express Launched Between Moscow and Kiev (unspecified) .
23. Russia and the EU signed a document on dialogue in the field of transport (unspecified) .
24. Russia is in a hurry to navigate (unspecified) .
25. Igor Levitin against the construction of a railway line to Primorsk (unspecified) .
26. Freight turnover of Russian transport increased by 3% this year (unspecified) .
27. Vnesheconombank has become a strategic partner of the Ministry of Transport (unspecified) .
28. I. Levitin and D. Perben signed a memorandum of intent (unspecified) .
29. The first "Slavic Express" departs from Moscow (unspecified) .
30. A bridge across the Tom river was opened in Kemerovo (unspecified) .
31. Ministry of Transport, Russian Railways, Deutsche Bahn and Siemens signed a memorandum of cooperation (unspecified) .
32. Levitin criticized Rostransnadzor (unspecified) .
33. Russia - Latvia: steps towards meeting (unspecified) .
34. Kaliningrad and Lithuania regulated shipping (unspecified) .
35. The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation signed an agreement with the German "Lloyd" (unspecified) .
36. Planes will fly from Russia to Israel again (unspecified) .
37. Strategy for the development of railway transport in Russia until 2030: approaches and parameters (unspecified) .
38. Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation of 05.12.2001 (unspecified) .
39. Moscow region "Kholmogory" got rid of traffic lights (unspecified) .
40. A new section of the Sochi bypass was opened (unspecified) .
41. In five years, all talk about royalty will end on its own (unspecified) .
42. Russian unemployed will build roads (unspecified) .
43. China may take part in the construction of high-speed railways on the territory of the Russian Federation (unspecified) .
44. Igor Levitin and Li Shenlin agreed on interaction between departments (unspecified) .
45. The Ministry of Finance proposed to cancel preferential air transportation for the Far East (unspecified) .
46. FKP "Airports of the North" (unspecified) .

Igor Levitin, 21.02.1952 year of birth, native of the town. Tsebrikovo, Velikomikhailovsky district, Odessa region, Ukrainian SSR. He is Jewish by nationality. Aide to the President of the Russian Federation, former adviser to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, former Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation.

Biography

Igor Levitin, was born on February 21, 1952 in the village of Tsebrikovo, Odessa region (Ukraine). From 1985 to 1994, Igor Levitin worked on the Moscow railway as a military commandant of a section, and then was appointed deputy chief of military communications. On March 9, 2004, he was appointed head of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Russian Federation. May 20, 2004 became the Minister of Transport of Russia. On May 12, 2008, Levitin was re-appointed to the post of Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation in the government of Vladimir Putin. Since May 21, 2012, he served as an advisor to the President of the Russian Federation.

Relatives. Wife: Levitina Natalya Ivanovna, born on May 21, 1954, housewife. He is the beneficiary of Pan-Press Publishing House LLC, which is part of Dormashinvest.

Daughter: Zvereva Yulia Igorevna, (virgin Levitina), born on 05/25/1976, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology and Political Science of the Moscow State University for the Humanities named after M. A. Sholokhov. It is also the beneficiary of a number of companies operating in the transport sector.

Brother: Levitin Leonid Evgenievich, born on 07.06.1959, entrepreneur. There was information in the media that Levitin L.E. was the beneficiary of a number of companies, including Transtechcenter, which, in turn, was the founder of Passenger Service CJSC, which provides bed linen for passengers of Russian railways. In 2017 Levitin L.E. filed a lawsuit to protect honor, dignity and business reputation in connection with the dissemination of this information. The court partially satisfied this claim, finding the information unreliable.

Awards. Levitin I. Ye. Has state and departmental awards, including the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree, as well as the Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow (an award of the Moscow Patriarchate).

Hobbies. Table tennis, football, volleyball. Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Russian Table Tennis Federation. Member of the Presidential Council of the International Table Tennis Federation.

Education

• In 1973 he graduated from the Leningrad School of Railway Troops and Military Communications.

• In 1983 he graduated from the Military Academy of Logistics and Transport, having received the specialty "railway engineer".

Labor activity

• From 1973 to 1976 he served in the Odessa Military District on the Transnistrian Railway.

• From 1976 to 1980 he served in the Southern Group of Forces.

• From 1983 to 1985 he held the post of military commandant of the railway section and Urgal station on the BAM. Participated in the docking of the Golden Link.

• From 1985 to 1994, he worked at the Moscow Railway as a military commandant of a section, head of the military transport department, and then - Deputy head of military communications.

From 1996 to 2004 he worked at ZAO Severstaltrans.

• Since 1998 - Deputy General Director of Severstaltrans. Supervised the topic of transport engineering, rail transport and the work of seaports.

• On March 9, 2004, he was appointed Minister of Transport and Communications of the Russian Federation.

• Since May 20, 2004 - Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation.

• May 12, 2008 - reappointed Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation. Since November 2008 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC Aeroflot.

• From May 22, 2012 to September 2, 2013 - Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, from September 2, 2013 - his assistant.

Member of the Board of Directors of the United Aircraft Corporation (JSC UAC).

October 9, 2010 entered the list of four candidates for the post of mayor of Moscow, proposed to the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev by the United Russia party.

President of the Russian Table Tennis Federation.

Member of the Board of Directors of JSC "Russian Railways"

He was a member of the Public Council under the government commission for the reform of railway transport.

In the press, he received the stable nickname "Minister of Disasters".

Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation since May 2012. Former Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, held this post from May 2004 to May 2012. Prior to that, since March 2004, he served as Minister of Transport and Communications of Russia. At the time of his appointment to the government, he had no civil service experience. Reserve colonel. Candidate of Political Science, Associate Professor, Lecturer at the Moscow State Open Pedagogical Institute.
Igor Evgenievich Levitin was born on February 21, 1952 in the Odessa region. From 1970 to 1973, he served in the Armed Forces in the Odessa Military District and in the Southern Group of Forces in Budapest (Hungary).
In 1973, Levitin graduated from the Leningrad School of Railway Troops and Military Communications, in 1983 - from the Military Academy of Logistics and Transport, specializing in communications engineer. In 1983 he became the military commandant of the railway section of the Baikal-Amur Mainline, then the deputy chief of military communications of the Moscow railway.
In April 1994, Levitin joined the Financial and Industrial Company of Railway Transport, in 1995 he became its vice president. According to some media reports, in 1995-1996 Levitin was the head of the transport department of Fenix-Trans CJSC. In 1996, he began to work at ZAO Severstaltrans (supervising railroad transportation and transport engineering), in 1998 he was appointed Deputy General Director of the company. As a representative of ZAO Severstaltrans, Levitin was elected to the board of directors of OAO Tuapse Sea Commercial Port.
In March 2004, Levitin was appointed head of the Ministry of Transport and Communications in the government of Mikhail Fradkov, created during the administrative reform (the previously existing Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation was abolished, and its head Leonid Reiman became Levitin's deputy). Of the entire cabinet of ministers, it was Levitin's appointment that the media called the most unexpected, emphasizing that at the time of his appointment, he had no experience in public service.
Levitin's rise, according to a number of media outlets, was associated with his work in the Public Council under the government commission on railway transport reform. In addition, the media noted that Severstaltrans, where Levitin worked, became one of the first and largest private companies created during the reform of the Ministry of Railways to compete with the Russian Railways. Other publications claimed that Aleksey Mordashov, the owner of Severstal, contributed to the appointment of Levitin. According to the third version, Levitin did not become "Mordashev's man" for Vladimir Putin, but was previously "Putin's man" for Mordashev.
In May 2004, Prime Minister Fradkov announced the re-establishment of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications, which was headed by Reiman, and Levitin became the head of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation. According to a Vedomosti source in the government apparatus, Levitin, who had no experience in managing departments and was not familiar with the industry, was unable to cope with the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
In 2006, Levitin, as the Minister of Transport of Russia, headed government commissions to investigate the causes and provide assistance to victims of plane crashes near Sochi, near Irkutsk and near Donetsk.
In September 2007, the Fradkov government resigned, and Levitin retained the post of Minister of Transport in the new cabinet, headed by Viktor Zubkov.
In March 2008, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev won the presidential elections (his candidacy was nominated in December 2007 by a number of political parties in the country, including United Russia, and supported by President Putin). On May 7, 2008, Medvedev took office as president of Russia. In accordance with the country's constitution, the government resigned on the same day, after which the new president of the country signed a decree "On the resignation of the government of the Russian Federation," instructing cabinet members, including Levitin, to continue to act until the formation of a new Russian government. At the same time, Medvedev proposed to the State Duma to approve Putin as the chairman of the Russian government. On May 8, 2008, at a meeting of the State Duma, Putin was approved as prime minister.
On May 12, 2008, Putin made appointments to the Russian government. In the new cabinet, Levitin retained the post of Minister of Transport.
In August-September 2008, Levitin appeared in reports about the creation of a new Russian aviation alliance. The impetus for its creation was the crisis in the AirUnion unification, when the arrears in payment for fuel of its member airlines led to massive flight delays. After Levitin's meeting with Prime Minister Putin in September 2008, it was announced that the AirUnion alliance would be "reanimated by including new shareholders." The formation of a new national air carrier was entrusted to the state corporation "Russian Technologies". The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation named the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Yevgeny Bachurin as the main responsible for the crisis of the AirUnion alliance, who, in turn, made a statement about the deep crisis in the industry and criticized the activities of the Ministry of Levitin. After a meeting in the Ministry of Transport, a decision was made in principle to resign Bachurin, but later a source of the newspaper Gazeta in the Ministry of Transport denied this information. In response to this, Bachurin filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office against the leadership of the Ministry of Transport, accusing him of pressure and threats to leave his post. The results of the appeal were not reported. In early October, it became known that Bachurin had resigned "in connection with a transfer to another job."
On September 14, 2008, another plane crash took place in Russia: a Boeing-737 passenger plane crashed in Perm, with 88 people on board (all of them died). The government commission, created by order of the President of the Russian Federation in connection with the disaster, was headed by Levitin. On October 30 of the same year, the minister announced that the plane crash was caused by the lack of interaction of the crew and the shortcomings of the entire system of its preparation for flights. Subsequently, the investigation confirmed that the captain of the ship was guilty of the plane crash, but the lawyers of the relatives of the deceased passengers were dissatisfied with this decision in the criminal case. In their opinion, "the entire spectrum of officials, those who allowed the ship to fly, was not investigated."
On October 28, 2008, the Board of Directors of JSC Aeroflot elected Levitin as its chairman. In this position, he replaced the former aide to President Putin, Viktor Ivanov, who ceased to serve as chairman of the airline's board of directors after moving to the post of head of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation (FSKN).
In October 2010, Levitin was included in the list of candidates for the post of mayor of Moscow, proposed to President Medvedev by the United Russia party after he dismissed Yuri Luzhkov. However, by the decision of the head of state on October 15, another candidate was proposed to the Moscow City Duma for approval - Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin.
In April 2010, the data of the declarations of the members of the Russian government were made public. Levitin, according to published information, in 2009 earned more than 21.59 million rubles. Based on this information, the Vlast magazine classified him as one of the officials whose "salaries are clearly less than half of their income" (the sources of income were not disclosed in the declaration). It was reported that in the shared ownership (1/3) of the head of the Ministry of Transport there are two land plots, a country house with outbuildings, an apartment with a total area of ​​118.4 square meters and one parking space (in common with his wife, with whom they own two Mercedes cars -Benz).
At the end of March 2011, President Medvedev demanded that senior officials leave the boards of directors of state-owned companies operating in a competitive environment. On June 29 of the same year, Levitin resigned from the Board of Directors of Aeroflot.
After the victory of Vladimir Putin in the presidential elections in March 2012, in early May of the same year, the Russian government was headed by Dmitry Medvedev. On May 21, 2012 it became known that Levitin was not included in the new cabinet of ministers: instead of him, the Ministry of Transport was headed by Director of the Department of Industry and Infrastructure of the Russian government, Maxim Sokolov. On May 22, 2012, a decree was promulgated on the appointment of Levitin as an assistant to President Putin.
Levitin is a reserve colonel. Candidate of Political Science, Associate Professor, Lecturer at the Moscow State Open Pedagogical University. In January 2008, by decree of President Putin "for his great contribution to the development of railway transport," Levitin was awarded the medal "For the development of railways," and in September 2010, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia presented Levitin with the Church Order of St. Minister in the reconstruction of the Holy Vvedensky Tolgsky Convent.
Levitin is married and has a daughter.

Russian statesman. Assistant to the President of Russia since September 2013. Secretary of the State Council of Russia since 2012. Acting State Councilor of Russia, First Class. Advisor to the President of Russia, 2012-2013. Minister of Transport of Russia (2004-2012). Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Table Tennis Federation. Member of the Presidential Council of the International Table Tennis Federation. Candidate of Political Science. Associate Professor of the Moscow State Open Pedagogical University.

Igor Levitin was born on February 21, 1952 in the village of Tsebrikovo, Ukraine. As a child, for ten years he played table tennis at a sports school in Odessa under the guidance of coach Felix Osetinsky. He achieved significant success in this sport, more than once becoming a prize-winner of city and regional championships.

Having reached the age of majority, he went to military service, after which he decided to become a military man. For this, in 1973 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Higher Command School of Railway Troops and Military Communications named after Mikhail Frunze. Having received a diploma of education until 1976, he served in the railway troops on the territory of the Odessa Military District. From 1976 to 1980 he served in the locations of the Southern Group of Forces in the Hungarian capital, Budapest.

In 1983, Levitin received another education in the specialty "Railway Engineer" at the Military Academy of Logistics and Transport. After that, for two years he was a military commandant on the territory of the Urgal railway section and at the station of the same name on the BAM. Participated in the docking of the Golden Link.

From 1985 to 1994, Levitin served in the military communications authorities on the Moscow Railway as a military commandant of a section, and then took the post of deputy chief of military communications.

At the age of forty-two, Igor Levitin retired from the Armed Forces with the rank of colonel and went to work at the Financial and Industrial Company of Railway Transport, where in 1995 he became vice president. In 1996 he joined the closed joint stock company Severstaltrans, which was created by businessman Alexei Mordashov as one of the first private companies to compete with OJSC Russian Railways. He was actively involved in scientific work in the field of cargo routing.

In 2003, Levitin met Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting at the Kolomna diesel locomotive plant, where he took part as a representative of the plant's owner: the Severstaltrans company.

In March 2004, Igor Evgenievich was appointed Minister of Transport and Communications in the Cabinet of Mikhail Fradkov. In May of the same year, the Ministry of Transport and Communications was divided into the Ministry of Transport itself and the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications.

Vladimir Putin described Levitin as a good railroad and transport worker and set the primary task in this post: to radically reform the staff of the joint department, reducing it from 2,300 to 600 staff.

In December 2007, Igor Levitin and his Israeli counterpart Shaul Mofaz managed to prevent an escalation of the conflict between the two countries, caused by disagreements over the issue of granting the Israeli airline KAL a license to operate regular cargo flights from Israel to Moscow. The reason was the deviation of the charter of the Israeli airline from the course over the territory of Russia, which raised the question of a complete cessation of air traffic. However, the departments managed to reach an agreement on streamlining transportation and introducing from December a single route for several companies, including El-Al and Transaero.

At the end of October 2008, Levitin was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of Open Joint Stock Company Aeroflot, one of the largest Russian air carriers. In this post, he replaced the former aide to President Putin, Viktor Ivanov. In parallel, he was a member of the board of directors of OJSC United Aircraft Corporation.

Under Levitin's control, the approach to the implementation of the Federal Target Program for the Development of the Transport System in terms of the modernization of airfields was changed: earlier funds were distributed to many airports, which led to an increase in the duration of work. Following the example of highways, a transition was made to the standard construction period with the concentration of funds at one of the facilities. In 2010, for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the decline in the number of civilian airfields was halted.

From March to June 2012, Igor Evgenievich served as the interim head of the Marine Collegium of the Russian Federation. In the same year he became a member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the development of physical culture and sports. Since 2012 Igor Evgenievich Levitin has been the Secretary of the State Council of Russia.

In the period from May 22, 2012 throughout the year, he was an adviser to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, and from September 2, 2013 became his assistant.

Igor Evgenievich from September 25, 2013 became Deputy Chairman of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the development of physical culture and sports.

Levitin joined the Economic Council under the President of the Russian Federation on October 17, 2013. By the decision of the Olympic Assembly in May 2014, he was elected Vice-President of the All-Russian Union of Public Associations “Russian Olympic Committee”. In October 2014, Igor Levitin became a member of the Supervisory Board for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

On the initiative of Levitin, since 2015, Russia has celebrated World Table Tennis Day. The first event took place on April 6, 2015 at the State Department Store, where the presidential aide played several games himself.

In June 2018, Igor Evgenievich Levitin was re-approved in his position as Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.