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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the early termination of the powers of the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Valery Shantsev. His successor is named in the same document.

A native of St. Petersburg, Gleb Nikitin, now First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, became the acting governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

We present the biography of the acting governor

In 1999 he graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. 2004 – St. Petersburg State University, specialty “Jurisprudence”. 2007 – postgraduate study at the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation, candidate of economic sciences. 2008 – Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. 2016 – passed certification in the Russian Project Management Association SOVNET – Certified Director IPMA projects level A

1999–2004 occupied the positions of leading specialist, head of department, head of the department for the disposal of state property of the Committee for the Management of City Property of St. Petersburg

2004 – appointed head of the Property Department of Commercial Sector Organizations of the Federal Agency for Federal Property Management

2007 – appointed deputy head of the Federal Agency for Federal Property Management

2008 – appointed deputy head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management

2011 – appointed acting Head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management

2012 – appointed Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

2013 – appointed First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Gleb Nikitin is included in the reserve of management personnel under the patronage of the President of the Russian Federation

Speaks foreign languages

Married, has two children

This morning we wrote to Nizhny Novgorod residents Valery Shantsev. Circus, metro bridge, southern bypass of Nizhny Novgorod...

— Stalingulag (@StalinGulag) September 26, 2017

Ooh, Shantsev leaves. If I were still at university, I would be glad, because because of his departures from his country residence with flashing lights, I was always late.

— captain kotan (@Zhuuur) September 26, 2017

Shantsev has been appointed special representative of the president for interaction with the World Mushroom Congress pic.twitter.com/ZBoBOpvBKI

Name: Nikitin Gleb Sergeevich Date of birth: August 24, 1977 Place of birth: Leningrad, USSR Position: Acting Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region

Leningrader with roots in the village

Gleb Nikitin was born in Leningrad. Like many Leningraders, the history of the Nikitin family is closely intertwined with the tragic history of the city on the Neva. During the blockade, my great-grandfather worked at a factory and tried to give all his rations to the family. The grandfather survived, his brother and grandmother did not. The grandfather told young Gleb about his experience. The family still had a reverent attitude towards bread - not finishing it and shaking crumbs off the table was strictly forbidden.

What’s interesting is that Gleb Sergeevich himself felt not only like a Leningrader. He once told his interlocutors at one of the events that his family tree “is firmly rooted in the village land.” As a child, he, like many others, was sent to the village to live with his “grandparents” (his grandfather, who survived the blockade, eventually left Leningrad?).

The politician, by his own admission, remembers this time with nostalgia. But he was not attracted to professions on a rural scale. As a child, Gleb Nikitin dreamed of becoming an oceanographer or geologist. But as a teenager, he began to think about becoming a statesman.

Nikitin realized his non-trivial dream for a child of the perestroika era in the new Russia.

Study, study and study again

The current acting governor has several higher education diplomas; apparently, he knows how to study and loves it. The future politician began with finance - after graduating from school he entered the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, mastering the specialty “Finance and Credit”.

In 2004, legal education was added to economic education - Gleb Sergeevich received the relevant knowledge at St. Petersburg State University.

In 2008, Nikitin graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration, and at the same time managed to defend his dissertation for the title of Candidate of Economic Sciences at the Financial Academy under the Russian Government.

But this was not enough for Gleb Sergeevich. In February 2012 he graduated with honors MBA program(Master of Business Administration). This is an international training program for middle and senior managers for efficient work in business, state and municipal administration.

In 2016, Nikitin was certified by the Russian Project Management Association SOVNET. The certification system helps determine compliance professional knowledge, experience and skills of candidates to the established requirements for specialists in the field of project management and is based on international requirements to the competence of project management specialists. The program includes four levels. Nikitin was awarded the title of certified project director, this is level A.

Refused from Rosneftegaz

Gleb Nikitin received his first job immediately after graduating from the University of Economics and Finance, in 1999. In the Committee for the Management of City Property of St. Petersburg, he held various positions for five years. Among other things, he oversaw privatization issues and analyzed the activities of enterprises.

And in 2004, a St. Petersburg resident became a Muscovite. Gleb Sergeevich went to work at the Federal Property Management Agency as head of the property department of commercial sector organizations, and then as deputy head of the agency. He was in charge of the largest and most ambitious projects, including the privatization of state property and acquisitions and mergers of companies.

Nikitin participated in the public offering of Rosneft shares in 2006 and the privatization of VTB shares, which occurred in 2011. He was responsible for the formation of the United Shipbuilding Corporation and the United Aircraft Corporation. He was a member of the directors of the largest domestic companies - RAO UES, Aeroflot, Uralvagonzavod, and Rosneft. Everywhere he represented the interests of the state.

And back in 2012, Kommersant wrote about Gleb Nikitin as confidant head of Rosneft Igor Sechin. They got together, according to rumors, while Nikitin worked on the board of directors of the company. Sechin even allegedly offered Nikitin to work in the Rosneftegaz system, which owns a controlling stake in Rosneft. But he refused.

Ideologist of the project approach

In 2012, Nikitin was tipped to become the head of the Federal Property Management Agency. He served as interim for eight months. Among his responsibilities was overseeing the agency’s interaction with the Ministry of Industry and Trade. That’s where he eventually went – ​​deputy minister, and a year later became first deputy federal minister of industry and trade.

After leaving the department, his colleagues called him one of the largest Russian experts on corporate governance, representing the interests of the state in joint stock companies and formation personnel reserves, as well as in industrial policy. It was he who initiated the creation of the Industrial Development Fund and SPIC - a special investment contract for individual industries. With his participation, the laws “On Industrial Policy in the Russian Federation” and “On Standardization in the Russian Federation” were developed and adopted.

Finally, it was Gleb Nikitin who became the leader and ideologist of the implementation of the now trendy project approach. Under him, a department was created in the Ministry of Industry and Trade strategic development And project management, and automated systems to support the management process - INCOR and AIS PU.

In 2017, the heads of 20 regions lost their posts. In 13 of them, the “old people” were replaced by people whose age did not exceed 50 years. Political scientists immediately dubbed the new leaders young technocrats. But Nikitin stands out even against the general background.

Akela didn't miss

The new appointment of 40-year-old Gleb Nikitin did not come as a surprise. The media reported that the young “technocrat in a cube” would replace the aging Akela of Luzhkov’s team, Valery Shantsev, in the Nizhny Novgorod region even before the official announcement of his resignation. And they were not mistaken in identifying the main contender for the post.

Surrounded by the mastodon of Russian politics, they hoped that Shantsev, who turned 70 years old, would be allowed to “bring” the region to the World Cup and then be given an honorable ceremony. However, he did not reach retirement, becoming one of the stars in the “governor’s fall” in the fall of 2017.

Political scientists cited conflicts in regional elites and age as the reasons for his resignation. The latter, however, was categorically rejected by Shantsev’s “sworn friend”, the ex-head of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Sorokin (a criminal case has now been opened against him and he is under arrest). They never got along with the governor and butted heads enthusiastically, but even he was indignant - they say that the appointment aroused criticism in the region, and there is nothing to blame on age - in 2014, when Shantsev was elected new term(he received 86.93 percent of the votes), everyone knew that he was “in great shape and completely healthy”!

For some reason, in Russian politics, such arguments as age and health are often considered insufficient for leaving active work (unless, of course, you are Yeltsin). So when Shantsev retired, they immediately began to look for a “double bottom.” Meanwhile, two months after the victorious elections in 2014, Shantsev’s wife, Tatyana Vladimirovna, died. This fact alone could have a negative impact on the form of the former governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region and on his health.

Valery Shantsev wrote a letter of resignation of his own free will on September 26, 2017. On the same day, the president awarded him the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, noting his “great contribution to the socio-economic development of the region and many years of conscientious work.”

Just the other day it became known that the ex-governor joined the board of directors of the Moscow Dynamo (in 1991 Shantsev became commercial director club and continued to supervise it when he was vice-mayor of Moscow). A perfectly suitable position for a person who would not like to completely retire from active work, but can no longer (and probably does not want) to bear more serious responsibility.

Personal life

After the appointment of the acting governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin deleted all accounts on social networks - he decided that there was no longer enough time to maintain them. And in Nizhny Novgorod I went alone.

As journalists found out, the new head of the region has a wife and children, but no one has seen them. No name, no photograph, no profession, the curious grumbled, calling the first lady of the region “the invisible lady.”

At the same time, she aroused keen interest, if only because from year to year she earned more than her husband. In 2016, her income amounted to 25.6 million rubles, while Nikitin brought only 8.3 million rubles to the family piggy bank. And she also owns two apartments, a house, and a car!..

From managers to housewives?

Nikitin himself brought some clarity in a conversation with TASS. The spouse is a specialist in the field of corporate governance and holds high positions V large companies. More precisely, she occupied. Now that my husband has left Moscow, I will have to switch to a more flexible schedule.

It is unknown who exactly Nikitin’s wife (her name is Ekaterina) worked for. Just as it is unknown whether she was tired of being the “breadwinner in the family” and whether she herself wanted to take advantage of the opportunity that presented itself, take a break from work and take care of the children, the twins Peter and Arina? Or the Nikitin family became an unwitting victim of the popular “Decembrist wife instinct” in Russia, which requires the wife to follow her husband, even if we're talking about not about exile to Siberia, but about changing one responsible position to another - so maybe the spouse won’t have much time left for communication?

However, this is really a personal matter for the Nikitins.

But the residents of Nizhny Novgorod finally saw the family of the new acting deputy. Moreover, everyone is interested - the Nikitins’ visit with their children, as well as with their grandparents, to the “City of Masters” was shown on the local TV channel. So that everyone who wants to will be satisfied. The grandfather, as journalists noted approvingly, filmed his grandchildren on his phone all the time. Idyll.

Colonel Isaev in civil service

When the acting governor was asked about his favorite heroes, he named Prince Myshkin and Colonel Isaev, known to everyone under the name Stirlitz. Nikitin, frankly, bears little resemblance to the hero of Dostoevsky’s novel “The Idiot,” if not at all. But it seems that he sometimes imitates Stirlitz in his actions.

At the end of December, Nikitin promised to present a new management scheme, and then begin to rotate personnel under it, and added that he was going to work with members of the old team in the future, in one capacity or another. And, having lulled the vigilance of the “old guard,” he did exactly the opposite.

After the New Year, representatives of the regional administration received a not very pleasant surprise. As the journalists quipped, it seems that over time New Year's holidays Nikitin managed to recruit volunteers from the Ministry of Industry and Rostec who would agree to change the capital to Nizhny Novgorod. People from St. Petersburg predominate, with a few higher education and at the age of about 40 years. Sort of, one might say, Nikitin’s Glebs on a smaller scale.

Time will tell how effective the new government will be. But it is already clear that new team managers will speak the same language. The main thing is that it is understandable to others.