Eduard Yurievich Khudaynatov (born September 11, 1960,

Shymkent Shymkent (, ; ) is a city in southern Kazakhstan, located near the border with Uzbekistan. It holds the status of a city of republican significance, one of only three cities in Kazakhstan with this distinction, alongside Almaty and Astana. As of ...

, Kazak SSR) is an entrepreneur and the owner of JSC Independent Oil and Gas Company.

Early life and education

Khudaynatov was born on September 11, 1960, in Shymkent. In 1996, he graduated from the International Academy of Entrepreneurship.

Career

Khudaynatov served his mandatory military service in naval border guard units from 1978 until 1981. He was demobilized with the rank of chief petty officer. In 1981, he moved to Nefteyugansk, where he worked for Yuganskneftegaz as a drilling rig installer. In 1985, Khudaynatov moved to

Surgut Surgut ( rus, Сургу́т, p=sʊrˈgut; Khanty: Сәрханӆ, ''Sərhanł, Сө̆ркут, sörkut'') is a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the Ob River near its junction with the Irtysh River. It is one of the fe ...

. He worked for a department of the Ministry of Oil and Gas Construction, rising from cargo handler to foreman in the Surgut management office. In 1989, he founded and headed the meat and dairy products company Bacon in Nefteyugansk. From 1993 to 1996, Khudaynatov was the head of Evikhon, which developed oil and gas fields in

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra, also known as Khanty-Mansia (Khantia-Mansia), is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Tyumen Oblast). It has a population of 1,532,243 as of the 2010 Census. Its administrative center is lo ...

, Evikhon-2, supplying scarce imported goods to northern territories, and the trading enterprise Yuganskpromfinko. He became the head of the Nefteyugansk branch of the Reforms-New Course movement and First Deputy Head of the Nefteyugansk District administration in 1996. From 1996 to 2000, Khudaynatov was head of the Poikovsky village administration. He led the restoration work in the settlement. The road network was reconstructed, residential properties were renovated, utilities were installed, a church was built, and a children’s yacht club was opened. He served as Deputy of the Tyumen Regional Duma from 1997 to 2001. From 2000 to 2003, Khudaynatov worked as Federal inspector of the Office of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the Northwestern Federal District for the

Nenets Autonomous Okrug The Nenets Autonomous Okrug (; ) also known as Nenetsia ( ) is a federal subject of Russia and an autonomous okrug of Arkhangelsk Oblast. Its administrative center is the town of Naryan-Mar. It has an area of and a population of 42,090 ...

. He then became Director of Severneftegazprom, a subsidiary of PJSC Gazprom. He contributed to the launch of the Yuzhno-Russkoye Field with production of 25 billion m³ per year. He worked in this role from 2003 to 2008 From 2008 to 2013, Khudaynatov worked as Vice President, President, and Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of OJSC NK

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. Under the leadership of Eduard Khudaynatov, the Vankor group of fields was put into commercial operation in 2009. In 2013, he founded and headed Independent Oil and Gas Company. He developed a strategy whereby the company sought and acquired promising assets engaged in geological exploration and mining. By 2016, the company owned 53 subsoil use licenses in 8 regions of the Russian Federation and in

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Recognition

Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" The Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" () is a Russian medal. It was established on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree No.442. Its award criteria were modified on 6 January 1999 by Presidential Decree 19 and again on 7 September 201 ...

, 2nd class (2000) * Laureate of the All-Russian Financiers’ Award "Reputation” in 2011 in the "For contributions to improving the financial transparency of a Russian publicly listed company" category *

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" The Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" () is a state decoration of the Russian Federation. It was instituted on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree 442. Until the re-establishment of the Order of St. Andrew in 1998, it was the highest order of ...

, 4th class (2012) *

, 3rd class (2019) * Order of Honour * Title "Honorary Oil Worker" * State Councilor 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 ...

, 2nd and 3rd classes

References

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