Timur Vadimovich Ivanov (Russian: Тимур Вадимович Иванов; born 15 August 1975) is a Russian politician who served as Deputy

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of Russia from 2016 to 2024. He previously served as the Deputy Governor of the

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from 2012 to 2016. He has the federal state civilian service rank of

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. In April 2024, Ivanov was arrested by Russian federal authorities, accused of accepting bribes "on a particularly large scale" and sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment by the Moscow City Court for

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in July 2025.

Early life and education

Timur Ivanov was born on 15 August 1975 in

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. His father, Vadim Gennadyevich, is the general director of Crystal Development LLC since 2004, while his mother is of Lezgian descent, as she is originally from the Kurakhsky district of

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. In 1997, Ivanov graduated from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of

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. M.V. Lomonosov. Ivanov holds a candidate of economic sciences degree for his dissertation "Financial and organizational models of NPP construction projects" under the direction of Aleksandr Karyakin was defended in

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in 2011.

Career

From 1997 to 1999, Ivanov worked in various commercial organizations. From 1999 to 2012, he worked at enterprises of the fuel and energy complex of Russia.

Civil service (2012–2016)

From 2012 to 2016, he served as Deputy Governor of the Moscow Oblast, under governor

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. From 2013 to 2016, he was the

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of Oboronstroy JSC, a subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Deputy Minister of Defence (2016–2024)

On 23 May 2016, Ivanov was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia, ending his tenure as Deputy Governor. He officially took office on 11 November by presidential decree, replacing Aleksey Dyumin. In the Ministry of Defense, he oversees issues related to property management and quartering of troops, housing, and medical support of the

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, and is responsible for the construction, reconstruction, and overhaul of facilities of the Russian Ministry of Defense and military mortgages. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia in 2020, he supervised the construction of 16 multifunctional medical centers of the Ministry of Defense for the treatment of patients with COVID-19. On 27 December 2021, following Yevgeny Zinichev's death, there were rumors that Ivanov would be the next official Minister of Emergency Situations. On 23 April 2023, several dozen activists gathered at a rally, organized by opposition leader

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's team. Anti-Kremlin activists urged the EU to impose sanctions on his ex-wife Svetlana. On 23 April 2024, the Russian government arrested Ivanov, charging him with accepting bribes. On 24 April, he was dismissed as deputy minister of defence by the order of

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. According to other Russian sources, he was also been charged with "high treason". He has been linked to

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and the small fleet of vessels which transport material such as missiles and tanks for the AFRF. In July 2024 Magomed Khandayev, who was subordinate to Ivanov in the ministry and had been implicated and arrested in the corruption scandal there, died suddenly and unexpectedly while in custody. On 1 July 2025, Ivanov was convicted and sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment by the Moscow City Court for

Family

Ivanov had married his second wife, Svetlana Aleksandrovna Maniovich (née Zakharova), born in Moscow on 19 September 1973. Svetlana is an entrepreneur and owns the Metropol Fashion Group. She is a former host of the program "Take it off immediately!" on STS. She is an Israeli citizen. Her children from her first marriage with Mikhail Maniovich are daughter Aleksandra (born 1998) and son Mikhail (born 2003). The Anti-Corruption Foundation turned to the Italian

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with a request to arrest the assets of Ivanov and members of his family. Svetlana Maniovich did not fall under EU sanctions, as she formally divorced, but continued to spend in Europe the money that her husband earned in the war in Ukraine. According to the investigation of the Navalny team, Ivanov and his wife Svetlana spent over a million euros on holidays, renting villas and yachts, as well as the purchase of jewelry and clothes, while Svetlana's personal accounts were paid by a company engaged by the Russian Ministry of Defence in the reconstruction of

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. The couple have two daughters, Darya (born in 2010), and Praskovya (born in 2018). In 2018, '' Forbes Russia'' estimated Ivanov and his family's net worth at 136.7 million rubles ($1.5 million). In June 2022, he divorced his spouse, Svetlana. Before the divorce, she changed her surname from Maniovich to Ivanova.

Awards

In 2022, Ivanov was awarded the title Hero of the Luhansk People's Republic.

Sanctions

In October 2022, the

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introduced sanctions against Ivanov. According to the

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, Ivanov is responsible for the

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References

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