Sergei Ivanovich Vasiliev (in Russian: Сергей Иванович Васильев; born in 1961 in

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, ...

, Russia) is a member company of the

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to the

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and owner of

Soyuz Corporation Soyuz is a transliteration of the Cyrillic text Союз (Russian and Ukrainian, 'Union'). It can refer to any union, such as a trade union (''profsoyuz'') or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Сою́з Сове́тских Социали� ...

Early life and education

Sergei Vasiliev was educated at the

Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping () is a federal institution of higher professional education (ФБОУ ВПО ) which trains professionals for civil and merchant fleet. History The history of the universities ...

in St. Petersburg, Russia, which trains specialists to serve on the civil and commercial fleet.

Career

Business

Sergei Ivanovich Vasiliev began his career in December 1987 at " Мorskaya Chayka" (Seagull) Corporation. Between 1987 and 2000, he created and headed a number of companies, the majority of which dealt with the import and trade of food commodities. In 2002, Vasiliev established the Soyuz Corporation, which bears the stamp of the Official Purveyor to the

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and is a leading producer of special-purpose fats for the Russian food industry.

Political

In 2009, Sergei Vasiliev was appointed the President of the Guild.

Awards

Sergei Vasiliev has received numerous awards from Russian officials and religious figures. He has been awarded the

Highest Public Award High may refer to: Science and technology * Height * High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area * High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory * High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift to ...

of the Russian Federation for the wealth and propensity of Russia in the sphere of food production. Additionally, he has received the prestigious order badge from the

Russian Orthodox Church The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; ;), also officially known as the Moscow Patriarchate (), is an autocephaly, autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox Christian church. It has 194 dioceses inside Russia. The Primate (bishop), p ...

References

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