Note: Majority of last questions is related to what I have already written and posted on this blog. My reply preparation work is mostly about finding related posts and giving links to them in email answers. It might be one of reasons I don’t update AskYakutia.com often. So… what do I want to say? Feel free to use the search box on the left sidebar freely. That’s what I do…

The above note is not related to a question received from Singapore:

Hi,

Im from Singapore and I’m visiting Russia this summer.

I was told that Yakutsk is a city of a strict passport control and to visit this city, I am supposed to have an invitation issued by local migration authorities. Can I check if this is true and it’s necessary for me to get the invitation? I am actually intending to stay with a friend and Im flying in to Yakutsk from Ulan Ude.

As i am currently trying to prepare to get my visa, do i need to include this invitation from Yakutsk before i can apply for the Russia visa?

Thanks.

My answer is right after the link:

Indeed, local migration service does love to check foreigners for available correct Russian visa.

As I see, the mentioned visit purpose is private. You are going to stay at a private place, it means you must have a private Russian visa, where the purpose will say “гостевая” (guest/private). This visa might be issued on basis of the invitation issued by a local migration service at the request of your inviting person.

Just ask a local friend to not be too afraid and apply for a Russian guest invitation.

You can have also another option. It is a tourist visa, but in this case you would need to purchase a tour from a travel company or stay in a hotel. The visa is issued pretty fast.

Here in Yakutsk, one travel company www.planetyakutia.com can issue such invitation (in the form of travel voucher & confirmation). Ask your friend to address this mentioned company as well. In Russian it is called NTK “Yakutia”.

Actually, if you see a travel company that offers tours to Yakutia, you can get a tourist visa support from that company.

Just be adviced that your visit to Russia must correspond to its real purpose.

PROFILE: Ayaal I. Stepanov, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Areas of responsibility

Agricultural policy, the agroindustrial complex, veterinary medicine, land policy, conservancy and environment issues, water use, forestry, game-preserve, environmental impact assessment, aerography support for the agroindustrial complex

Supervises republic authorities such as:
- Ministry of Agriculture,
- Ministry of Conservancy,

Biography

Graduated from Novosibirsk Agricultural Institute with a major in agronomy in 1988. Candidate of agricultural science. The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) State Award Owner for merits in science and technology.

1988 – 1996. Worked in Yakutsk Agriculture Research Institute. Post-graduate study at Pryanishnokov’s Fertilizing & Agrology Research Institute. Completed internship in the U.S. and Japan.

1996 – 1997. Chief agronomist in Pokrovsky Agricultural Production Service belonged to Russian Academy of Agricultural Science Siberian Affiliate.

1997. Director of Pokrovsky Agricultural Production Service.

1997 – 2000. 1st Deputy Director of Yakutsk Agriculture Research Institute of Russian Academy of Agricultural Science Siberian Affiliate.

2000 – 2002. Deputy Head of the Administration of President and Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

2002 – present. Director of Yakutsk Agriculture Research Institute of Russian Academy of Agricultural Science Siberian Affiliate.

2003 – 2007. Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

Feb. 2007. Appointed Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

PROFILE: Yuri S. Koupriyanov, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Areas of responsibility

Science, education, health, medical insurance, culture.

Supervises republic authorities such as:
- Ministry of Education
- Ministry of Health
- Ministry of Science and Professional Education
- Ministry of Culture and Spirit Development
- Committee of State Archiving Service
- Department of Press and Broadcasting
- Civilian Registrar’s Office

Biography

Born on April 9, 1962 in the village of Byuteidjakh, Megino-Kangalassky ulus.
Candidate of economic science. Head of United Russia Party Regional Affiliate Election Headquaters.
Graduated from Gerzen’s Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute (1984).
1984 – 1985. Worked as the Russian language and literature teacher at high school in the village of Maya.
1985 – 1986. Secretary of All-Union Lenin Young Communist League Committee in the settlement of Balyktakh, , Megino-Kangalassky ulus.
1986 – 1992. Worked in the state farm “Yakutsk”. Started from Secretary of All-Union Lenin Young Communist League Committee and reached the position of state farm deputy chairman.
1992 – 1997. Deputy General Director of INTERROS Company.
1997 – 1998. Chief of Transportation, Communication and Financial Resources Department of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
1998 – 2000. Assistant of Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), assistant of 1st Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
2000 – 2002. Head of Federal Public Employment Service Department in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
2002 – 2005. Deputy Head of Administration of President and Governtment of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Head of Personnel Policy, State and Municipal Service Department.
2005 – 2007. 1st Deputy Head of Administration of President and Governtment of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Head of Personnel Policy, State and Municipal Service Department.
March, 2007. Appointed Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

PROFILE: Galina I. Danchikova, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Areas of responsibility
Economy, tax, budgetary policy, tariff policy, regional statistics, banking and insurance, small business (except employment issues).

Supervises republic authorities such as:
- Ministry of Finance;
- Ministry of Economy Development;
- Ministry of Small Businesses, Tourism Development and Employment (except employment issues);
- Ministry of Foreign Relations;
- State Committee of Tariff Policy – Regional Energy Committee of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia);

Biography

Born on Aug. 13, 1954. The whole career has been relating to public administration.
Graduated from Yakutsk Financial College (1972), Moscow Law Institute (1985), Russian President’s Public Administration Academy (2001). Majors – finance, law, public administration and municipal government.
1972 – 1993. Worked as a budget senior inspector in Olenek Regional Finance Department (Yakutian ASSR) and Leninsky Regional Finance Department (Irkutsk Oblast). Acquired rich financier experience in Yakutia’s Verkhoyansk region, where she was appointed Deputy Head of Verkhoyansky Regional Administration with responsibility for economy reforms. In the course of time she became an economy director at Berkakit – Tommot Railroad Construction Administration.
1993 – 1995. Deputy Minister of Finance of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Responsible for budget issues.
1995 – 2001. 1st Deputy Minister of Finance of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
2001 – 2002. Acting Minister of Finance of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
2002 – 2007. 1st Deputy Official Representative of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Moscow.
Feb. 15, 2007. Appointed Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

PROFILE: Alexander V. Vlasov, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Areas of responsibility

Social policy, labor relations, social insurance, provision of pensions, provinsional governments, youth policy, physical training and sports, administrative-territorial system, reforms, housing and communal services.

Supervises republic authorities such as:
- Ministry of Housing and Communal Services;
- Ministry of Labor and Social Development;
- Ministry of Youth Policy;
- Ministry of Small Businesses, Tourism Development and Employment (employment issues only);
- State Committee of Physical Training and Sports;
- Department of Peoples Affairs and Federative Relations;
- State Housing Inspectorate.

Supervises housing certificates issue work.

Biography

Born in Irkutsk on Jan. 27, 1957. Honored worker of national economy of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Graduated from Irkutsk National Economy Institute with a major in business administration (1978), Khabarovsk Political Sciences and Public Administration Institute (1990).
1978 – 1982. Worked as an engineer, then as a senior engineer in Allakh-Yunsky Geological Exploration Expedition.
1982 – 1988. Administrative work in Leninist Young Communist League of the Soviet Union. Arranged shock, hard-working Komsomol groups.
1991. Appointed Chairman of State Committee of Youth Affairs, then reappointed as Miniter of Youth and Tourism.
1993. Appointed First Deputy Minister of Social Protection, Labor, and Employment.
In Dec. 1993 and Dec. 1998 he was twice elected a deputy of House of Representative of the State Assembly (IL Tumen) of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and twice appointed Deputy Chairman.
Jan. 2003. Appointed Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Feb. 2007. Reappointed Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

PROFILE: Anatoly N. Skrybykin, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Areas of responsibility

Fuel-energy, material and technical resources, wholesale and retail trade, catering, road and transportation networks, IT development, liquidation of natural disasters aftermaths, emergency control, etc.

Supervises republic authorities such as:
- Republic branch of the Russian Emergency Minisitry;
- Ministry of Transportation, Communication and IT Development;
- State Committee of Trade, Material and Technical Resources;
- Executive Board of Spring Flood Aftermaths Liquidation and Recovery Work in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia);
- Road Service Department;
- Governmental Oil Inspectorate;
- Small-sized Boats Inspectorate;
- State Transportation Inspectorate;

Biography

Born in Yakutsk on January 13, 1960.
1981 – 1985. Worked in the state repair construction company “YakutskEnergoSpezRemont” as a foreman, senior foreman.
1985. Graduated from the Engineering Technic Faculty of Yakutsk State University with a major in construction engineering.
1985 – 1991. Worked in the system of housing and communal services in Yakutsk. Last position was the chief of a managing housing and communal trust.
1992. Graduated from Russia’s Academy of Management with degree in public management.
1992 – 1996. Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Yakutsk State University with responsibility for the university’s finance.
1997 – 1998. Chief of the Housing and Communal Department of Republic’s State Committee of Energy, Housing and Communal Services.
1998 – 2000. 1st Deputy Mayor of Yakutsk.
2000 – 2006. Minister of Small Business, Tourism Development, and Employment of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
2006 – 2008. Official Representative of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the Far East Federal District. Based in Khabarovsk.
May – Jun., 2008. 1st Deputy Head of the Administration of President and Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Jul. 2008. Appointed Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), replaced Arthur N. Alexeev.

PROFILE: Vasiliy B. Grabzevich, 1st Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Areas of responsibility

Coordinates activities in industry, construction industry, energy, geology, including state regulation in fuel, mining, electric-power industries, geological examinations, mineral sources reproduction. Responsible for preparing vitally important republic-owned units for winter. Interacts with federal authorities regarding responsible issues.

Supervises republic authorities such as:
- Ministry of Industry;
- Ministry of Construction and Constructional Materials Production;
- Geology and Deposits Usage State Committee;

Biography

Born on May 9, 1950. In the village of Nedoyka in Belorussia. Owns the order “Friendship.”
Graduated from Tomsk Engeneering & Constructing Institute with a major in construction (1972), Academy of National Economy of the Russian Federation with MBA (1998).
1976 – 1998. Worked in YakutAlmaz Enterprise as a chief engeneer in the beginning and engineering supervision chief in the end. In VilujGesStroi Contracting Organization as a chief engeneer. In MirnyEnergoPromStroi as construction administration deputy chief. In ALROSA’s Mirny Construction Branch as deputy manager, and chief engeneer.
1986 – 1990. Participated in electro-power complexes installation in the Republic of Cuba.
1998 – Jan. 2002. 1st Deputy Head of the Administation of the Mirnisky region of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
2002 – 2006. Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Mar. 15, 2007. Appointed 1st Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

PROFILE: Yegor A. Borisov, Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Biography

Born on August 15, 1954. In the village of Churapcha, YASSR.
1971 – 1974. Worked as a maintenance man in the Churapchinsky regional unit “SelKhozTekhnika” (deals with agricultural equipment).
1979. Graduated from the Mechanization Faculty of Novosibirsk Agricultural Institute with bachelor degree in mechanical engineering.
1979 – 1991. Worked as a shop head, manager of the Churapchchinsky regional unit “SelKhozTekhnika,” 1st Deputy Chief of Churapchchinsky Regional Administration of Agriculture, 2nd Secretary of Churapchinsky Regional Committee of the CPSU, and Chairman of Churapchinsky Regional Legislative Assembly.
1991. Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Concurrently, worked as YakutAgroTekhService Unit CEO.
1992 – 1998. Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), 1st Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
1998 – 2000. Minister of Agriculture and Purchases of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
1997 – 2000. Director of Yakutsk Agriculture Scientific Research Institute.
2000 – 2002. Director of Yakutsk Agriculture Scientific Research Institute.
Feb. 2002. Appointed 1st Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Feb. 2003. Appointed Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Feb. 2007. Reappointed Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

Regalia
- Doctor of Economic Science
- Member of the Russian Ecology Academy.

Awards & Titles
- Honored worker of national economy of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
- Honorary railroad constructor of the Russian Federation.
- Communication master of the Russian Federation.
- Honorary donor of the Russian Federation.

PROFILE: Aisen S. Nikolaev, Head of the Administration of President and Government

Areas of responsibility

Controls the activity of the Adminstration’s following structures:
- State-Legal Department;
- Personnal Policy, State and Municipal Service Department;
- Internal Policy, Analysis and Planning Department;
- Local Governments Department;
- Secretariate of the Head of Administration;
- Financial Department;
- HRM Department;
- Appeal Consideration Committee;

Apart from managing the Administration, coordinates the work of:
- President’s Management Institute;
- Department of Press and Broadcasting;

Interact with the Secretariate of the President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

Biography

Born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) on January 22, 1972.

Graduated from Moscow State University with a major in physics in 1994. Obtained the second eduction at the Academy of National Economy with degree in financial management.

1994 – 1995. General Director of SAPI-CENTER Closed Financial Association.
1995 – 1998. Deputy chairman of the commercial bank “AlmazErgienBank”, vice-president of the financial company “SAPI”.
1998 – 2004. Chairman of JSC “AlmazErgienBank”.
1997 – 2002. Deputy of the republic parliament for two terms.
2004 – 2007. Minister of Finance of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Feb. 2007. Appointed the Head of the Administration of President and Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

Currently, President of Yakutia’s Equestrian Sport Federation.

PROFILE: Evgenia I. Mikhailova, President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Biography

Born on October 9, 1949. In the village of Suntar, Yakutia ASSR.

1972. Graduated from the Physical & Mathematical Department of Yakutsk State University.
1972 – 1983. Worked as a mathematics teacher in Borogonsky School in the Bulunsky region, School #13 in Yakutsk, and Megin-Aldansky Elementary School in the Tomponsky region.
1983. Responsible for pedagogical work in Elementary School #20 in Yakutsk.
1983 – 1988. Controller, then head of Yaroslavsky Regional Education Department in Yakutsk.
1988 – 1996. Worked as deputy head, then head of Yakutsk City Education Administration, Republic’s Deputy Minister of Education.
1996 – 1997. 1st Deputy Minister of Education of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
1997 – 2002. Minister of Education of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Feb. 7, 2002. Appointed Acting Vice-Premier of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) by the Decree of President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
2003 – 2007. Vice-Premier of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
March 15, 2007. Approved for the post of Vice-President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) by republic parliament’s resolution.

Regalia
- Candidate of Psychological Science, 1996.
- Doctor of Pedagogical Science, 2000.
- Member of Petrovsky Academy of Science

Awards & Titles
- Honored worker of education, 1990.
- Honored teacher of the Russian Federation, 2000
- Honorary citizen of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), 2001.
- The Medal “Defender of Free Russia”, 1993.
- Diploma of the Ministry of Education of the USSR, 1983 г.,
- Diploma of President of the Russian Federation, 1994.

PROFILE: Vyacheslav A. Shtyrov, President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Born on May 23, 1953. In the village of Khandyga, the Tomponsky region, Yakutian ASSR*.

1975. Graduated from the Far-Eastern Polytechnic Institute with bachelor degree in civil engineering. Assigned to a job in the USSR Ministry of Energy’s GOKstroy VilyujGesStroi** Construction Administration. Since then, his biography has been relating to Yakutia.

1975 – 1986. Worked as a foreman, building plot #3 chief, deputy chief engineer, deputy production chief of GOKstroy VilyujGesStroi Construction Administration.

1986. Appointed the Deputy Manager of AyhalEnergoPromStroi of VilyujGesStroj of the USSR Ministry of Energy. Worked then as acting deputy chief engineer, production chief, the 1st Deputy Chief of VilyujGesStroj.

1986 – 1988. Worked as deputy head of construction department at the Yakutian Regional Committee of the CPSU.

1988 – 1991. Post-graduate study at the Academy of Social Sciences attached to the Central Committee of the CPSU. Defended the thesis for the degree “economic science candidate.”

1991. Appointed the Minister of Construction and Investment of the Yakutian-Sakha SSR.
Dec. 1991. Elected Vice-President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

1992 – 1996. Vice President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), and Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

1996 – 2002. President of ALROSA Closed Joint-Stock Company.

Dec. 1997 – Jan. 2002. Elected a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

Jan. 13, 2002. Elected President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

Jan. 27, 2007. Appointed President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) for a term of five years by the Decree of the Russian President.

Awards & Titles
- Honored constructer of the Russian Federation.
- Honored citizen of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
- Honored national economist of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
- Yakutia’s Order “Pole Star”, 1998.
- Order of Honor, 2000.
- Order of Merit IV Degree, 2007.

*Formerly, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) was known as Yakutian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (YASSR), afterwards as Yakutian-Sakha Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
** VilyujGesStroi stands for the enterprise that constructed the hydroelectric power station on the Vilyuj River.

Have got a few questions about Gennady F. Alexeev. This is the person who is assigned to attract investors to the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

Gennady F. Alexeev
1st Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), based in Moscow.

Areas of responsobility

Interact with federal authorities, enterprises and businesses in order to accomplish republic’s investment projects based on state and private business partnership. Provides coordinated work by republic authorities.

Coordinates the work of republic authorities on:
- realizing the Scheme of Productive Forces, Transportation, Energy Comprehensive Development in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) by 2020;
- attracting investors to infrastructure projects;
- developing and accomplishing the new version of the federal targeted program “Economical & Social Development of the Far East and Transbaikalia for 1996—2005 and by 2010;”
- preparing and realizing interindustrial investment projects with funds allocated Russia’s Investment Funds, Venture Fund and Russian Development Fund;
- licensing deposits and fields in compliance with approved plans and program documents;
- supporting diamond processing, jewelry production, stone-working industries;

Biography

Born on February 1, 1957 in the village of Zarya in the Altai Territory. Owns Sakha Republic’s order Polyarnaya Zvesda as well as Miner’s Glory of three degrees.
Graduated from Chernogorsk Mining Technical School (1976), Moscow Mining Institute with a major in mining engeneering (1981), Academy of National Economy of the Russian Federation (1999). Top-manager, candidate of engineering sciences.
1981 – 1989. Worked as a mining foreman, deputy chief, mining part chief, deputy chief engeneer. In YakutUgol’s Nerungrinsky Coal Field.
1989. Chief engeneer in PrimorskUgol Company’s coal field “Povlovsky 2”.
1989 – 1990. Shift chief, deputy chief of YakutUgol’s Nerungrinsky Coal Field Maintenance Supply Devision.
1990 – 1997. Worked in YakutUgol’s Management Personnel as deputy director (responsible for production), and operative-dispatch regulation administration chief.
1997 – 2001. Director of YakutUgol’s Nerungrinsky coal field.
2001 – 2002. YakutUgol’s 1st deputy general manager.
2002. Minister of Property of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Feb. 2003. 1st Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Feb. 15, 2007. Reappointed 1st Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) for the second term.

Translated by Yakutsk Translation Center.

For other government members, please, check out Who is who in the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

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AUTHORITY
THE REPUBLIC OF SAKHA (YAKUTIA)
RUSSIAN FEDERATION.
Officials’ Profiles

Author: Yakutsk Translation Center.
Date: July 28, 2008.

TABLE OF CONTENT

Vyacheslav A. Shtyrov
President

Evgenia I. Mikhailova
Vice-President

Aisen S. Nikolaev
Head of the Administration of President and Government

Yegor A. Borisov
Chairman of Government

Gennady F. Alexeev
1st Deputy Chairman of Government

Vasiliy B. Grabzevich
1st Deputy Chairman of Government

Anatoly N. Skrybykin
Deputy Chairman of Government

Alexander V. Vlasov
Deputy Chairman of Government

Galina I. Danchikova
Deputy Chairman of Government

Yuri S. Koupriyanov
Deputy Chairman of Government

Ayaal I. Stepanov
Deputy Chairman of Government