Sergey Aleksandrovich Fursenko (; born 1954) is a Russian businessman. He is a brother of Andrei Fursenko.

Career

Since the early 1990s, Fursenko has owned a

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in Solovyovka,

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of the

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, on the eastern shore of Lake Komsomolskoye on the

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near

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, ...

. His neighbours there are

Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Ru ...

, Vladimir Yakunin, his brother Andrei Fursenko, Yuriy Kovalchuk, Viktor Myachin, Vladimir Smirnov and Nikolay Shamalov. On 10 November 1996, together they instituted the co-operative society Ozero (the Lake) which united their properties. Since July 2003, Fursenko has been the director general of the JSC Lentransgaz, a subsidiary of

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. Since 2005, he has been the director general (later president) of the football club Zenit,

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. From February 2010 until June 2012, he was the president of the

Russian Football Union The Russian Football Union (, ''Rossiyskiy Futbolnyy Soyuz'' or RFS) is the official governing body of association football in the Russian Federation. With headquarters in Moscow, it organizes Russian amateur and professional football, includi ...

Sanctions

In April 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on him and 23 other Russian nationals. He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the

Russo-Ukrainian War The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia Russian occupation of Crimea, occupied and Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then ...

Gallery

File:Sergey Fursenko 2017.jpg, Sergey Fursenko in 2017 File:Roberto Mancini and Sergey Fursenko.jpg, Sergey Fursenko and Roberto Mancini File:Petrzela&Fursenko.JPG, Sergey Fursenko and Vlastimil Petržela in 2006

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Biography
(in Russian) Businesspeople from Saint Petersburg 1954 births Living people Russian people of Ukrainian descent Russian football chairmen and investors FC Zenit Saint Petersburg Russian individuals subject to U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions Russian individuals subject to United Kingdom sanctions Presidents of the Russian Football Union Russian energy industry businesspeople {{Russia-business-bio-stub