Oleg Soskovets

Oleg Nikolaevich Soskovets (Russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Соскове́ц; born May 11, 1949, Taldykorgan, Kazakh SSR) is a Soviet, Kazakh and Russian politician.

Soskovets was amongst those accompanying Boris Yeltsin during the 1994 diplomatic incident at Shannon Airport.

He was originally the head of Boris Yeltsin's 1996 reelection campaign, devising its original strategy, but the strategy was ultimately abandoned and Soskovets was dismissed from his role as campaign chairman.

Soskovets was regarded as the "official protector" of the Trans-World Group which controlled Russian aluminium industry.[1]

Soskovets was dismissed from Yeltsin's administration soon after the Xerox Affair.

Soskovets is the father-in-law of Dmytro Salamatin who was Minister of Defense of Ukraine in 2012.[2]

Career
  • 1971-1973 – Roller Rolling Shop No. 2
  • 1973-1976 – Master, Head of the department of rolling of sheet-rolling shop No. 2
  • 1976-1981 – Deputy Head, Head of Rolling Shop No. 2
  • 1981-1984 – Head of Rolling Shop No. 1
  • 1984-1987 – Chief engineer of the plant
  • 1987-1988 – Director of the Plant
  • 1988-1991 – General Director of the plant
  • 1989-1991 – People's deputy of the USSR from Temirtau Kazakhstan territorial constituency
  • April 10, 1991 – November 26, 1991 – Minister of Metallurgy of the USSR
  • April 30, 1993 – June 20, 1996 – First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation[3]
  • Since 2011 – Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Engineering [4] and the president of the Russian Union of Manufacturers

References
  1. Colossus on the road to market
  2. (in Russian)/(website has automatic Google Translate option) Small biography of Dmytro Salamantin, LIGA
  3. За выдающиеся заслуги в экономическом и социально-гуманитарном развитии
  4. Список вице-президентов Российской инженерной академии
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