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Andrei Aleksandrovich Fursenko ( rus, Андрей Александрович Фурсенко, , ɐnˈdrʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈfursʲɪnkə, links=y; born 17 July 1949) is a Russian politician, scientist and businessman. He has the federal state civilian service rank of
1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation 70px, Shoulder's rank 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation () is the highest federal state civilian service rank of Russia. The rank of the 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation was first introduced ...
. He was the Minister of Education and Science of the
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from 2004 to 2012. He is considered to be a member of the Saint Petersburg
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.


Family and education

His father
Aleksandr Fursenko Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are A ...
(1927–2008) was a renowned historian, a member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such ...
. His brother Sergey Fursenko (b. 1954) is a technician, businessman, TV producer and the president of the football club
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(
St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601, ...
). Andrei Fursenko entered the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of the
Leningrad State University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBGU; ) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the Great, the university from the be ...
in 1966 and graduated from there in 1971. In the university he became a member of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),. Abbreviated in Russian as КПСС, ''KPSS''. at some points known as the Russian Communist Party (RCP), All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet ...
, which he left in August 1991 as it had been banned.


Career

From 1971 to 1991 he worked in Leningrad at the
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute The Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (for short, Ioffe Institute, ) is one of Russia's largest research centers specialized in physics and technology. The institute was established in 1918 in Petrograd (now St. ...
as a junior researcher, senior researcher, the chief of the Computer Department (1985–1989), deputy director for science (1987–1991). He defended his
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dissertation in physics in 1978 and his
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dissertation in physics in 1990. In 1990-1991 together with Yuriy Kovalchuk (another deputy director) and
Vladimir Yakunin Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin (; born 30 June 1948) is a Russian businessman and close confidant of Vladimir Putin. He was president of Russian Railways from June 2005 to August 2015. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class ...
(head of the foreign relations department of the institute) he tried to create a commercial enterprise within the institute that would be engaged in the application of scientific achievements. These plans, however, were opposed by Zhores Alfyorov, director, so that Fursenko, Kovalchuk and Yakunin left their positions in the institute. Outside the institute in St. Petersburg they founded several companies specializing in science application. In 1991-1992 Fursenko was a vice-president of the R&D company Advanced Technology Center Ltd headed by Yuriy Kovalchuk. Since 1992 - November 2001 he was the Director General of the St. Petersburg Regional Foundation for Scientific and Technological Development attached to the electronic factory OJSC Svetlana. RFSED was founded by the
Russia bank The Rossiya Bank (Bank Rossiya (), in Russian: Акционерный коммерческий банк Россия, АКБ Россия) is a Russian joint stock bank founded on June 27, 1990. The company's headquarters are in Saint Petersburg ...
, JSC "Fund for Regional Development, OJSC Svetlana,
City Property Committee of St. Petersburg A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...
and three more enterprises. In 1993 Andrei Fursenko got acquainted with
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who worked in the Office of the Mayor of St. Petersburg as the head of the Committee for External Relations and had registered some of his companies. Since the early 90s, Andrei Fursenko owns a
dacha A dacha (Belarusian, Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and rus, дача, p=ˈdatɕə, a=ru-dacha.ogg) is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of former Soviet Union, post-Soviet countries, including Russia. A cottage (, ...
in Solovyovka,
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of the
Leningrad region Leningrad Oblast (, ; ; ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). The oblast has an area of and a population of 2,000,997 (2021 Russian census, 2021 Census); up from 1,716,868 recorded in the 2010 Russian census ...
, which is located on the eastern shore of the Komsomol'skoye lake on the
Karelian Isthmus The Karelian Isthmus (; ; ) is the approximately stretch of land situated between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia, to the north of the River Neva. Its northwestern boundary is a line from the Bay of Vyborg to the we ...
near St. Petersburg. His neighbours there are
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,
Vladimir Yakunin Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin (; born 30 June 1948) is a Russian businessman and close confidant of Vladimir Putin. He was president of Russian Railways from June 2005 to August 2015. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class ...
, his brother Sergey Fursenko, Yuriy Kovalchuk,
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, Vladimir Smirnov and Nikolay Shamalov. On 10 November 1996, together they instituted the co-operative society
Ozero Ozero (, ''lake'') (full name: дачный потребительский кооператив «Озеро», Dacha consumer cooperative "Ozero") is a dacha cooperative in northwest Russia associated with Vladimir Putin's inner circle. Hist ...
(the Lake) which united their properties. In May 1994 - September 1995 he was CEO of Russian-German Joint venture Investment Consulting Company St. Petersburg (ICC). In 1995 Andrei Fursenko became a member of the pro-government Our Home Is Russia party. In September 2000 - 2001 he was a
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consul in St. Petersburg, A.H. Since October 2000 he is the Chairman of the Academic Council of the Foundation "Centre for Strategic Research North-West" (CEO Yuriy Kovalchuk).


Government

From November 2001 until November 2003 Fursenko was Deputy Minister of Industry, Science and Technologies of the
Russian Federation Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...
. From November 2003 until March 2004 he was Minister of Industry, Science and Technologies of the Russian Federation. From 9 March 2004 until 21 May 2012 Fursenko was Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federatiom. Andrei Fursenko refused to prevent compulsory teaching of religious subjects at school and objected to teaching advanced mathematics at school. Andrei Fursenko is married and has a son named Alexander. He is fluent in English.


Sanctions

Because of the
annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine, and then annexed it. This took place in the relative power vacuum immediately following the Revolution of Dignity. It marked the beginning of the Russ ...
, the
Office of Foreign Assets Control The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is a financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the United States Department of the Treasury, United States Treasury Department. It administers and enforces economic and trade economic sanctions, ...
(OFAC) published on March 20, 2014, that Fursenko and 19 other men have been added to the Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN) which froze his assets in the United States, prevented him from traveling to the United States, and prohibited United States citizens and entities from conducting business with Fursenko. He was sanctioned by the British government in 2022 in relation to the
Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
.


Honours

*Order "For Services to the Fatherland» IV degree (10 August 2009) - ''for his great contribution in the development of education and science of the Russian Federation and many years of fruitful activity.'' *Certificate of Merit from the Government of the Russian Federation (17 July 2004) - ''for his great personal contribution to the development of fundamental and applied science, the formation of the national innovation system and many years of fruitful work.''


See also

*
Ozero Ozero (, ''lake'') (full name: дачный потребительский кооператив «Озеро», Dacha consumer cooperative "Ozero") is a dacha cooperative in northwest Russia associated with Vladimir Putin's inner circle. Hist ...
* Sergey Fursenko


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Biography







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Vladimir Pribylovsky Vladimir Valerianovich Pribylovsky (, 6 March 195613 January 2016) was a Soviet and Russian political scientist, historian, journalist, human rights activist, and author of internet database Anticompromat.org on biographies of Russian politicia ...
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Yuriy Felshtinsky Yuri Georgievich Felshtinsky (, born 7 September 1956 in Moscow) is a Russian American historian. Felshtinsky has authored a number of books on Russian history, including ''The Bolsheviks and the Left SRs'' (Paris, 1985), ''Towards a History of ...
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