Igor Levitin was born on February 21, 1952. Place of birth: Tsebrikovo village, Odessa region, Ukraine.
The question of its origin is controversial. Some media sources have information that he has Jewish roots. However, Igor Levitin, whose nationality is listed as “Russian” in official sources, never commented on this.
In military service
In his school years, Igor Evgenievich devoted a lot of time to playing sports, and in particular, table tennis. He achieved significant success in this field, more than once becoming the winner of city and regional championships. His trainer was the famous Felix Ossetian.
Having reached the age of majority, he went to take up military service in the army, after which he decided to become a military man. Unlearned at the Leningrad Higher Command School of the Railway Troops and Military Communications M.V. Frunze. Having received a diploma of education, for three years (1973-1976) he served in the railway troops in the territory of the Odessa Military District (Moldavian Railway).
From 1976 to 1980 he served in the locations of the Southern Group of Forces in Budapest. Upon returning to his homeland, Levitin received another education in the specialty "Railway Engineer." Igor Levitin received a diploma from the Military Academy of Logistics and Transport in 1983. After that, for two years he was a military commandant on the territory of the railway section of Urgal and at the station of the same name on the BAM. He was an active participant in the docking of the Golden Link.
Then Levitin moved closer to the capital. He began to serve on the Moscow Railway, where he held the post of military commander of the site as part of the activities of the military communications bodies. After some time, he is deputy. chief in the organs of military communications.
Business activities
When 1994 came, Levitin Igor Evgenievich leaves the ranks of the Armed Forces of the country. His place of work during the year was the Odessa Freight Forwarding Open Joint-Stock Company Phoenix Trans Service.
Since 1996, he worked in the apparatus of the Irkutsk State Duma. There is information that at about the same time he became the owner of several companies, including the notorious Dormashinvest closed joint-stock company.
Unexpected appointment
Levitin joined the Russian government in 2004. In February this year, the government, chaired by Mikhail Kasyanov, was dissolved , and Mikhail Fradkov was appointed the new prime minister. The government he formed began its work on March 9. Igor Levitin became the head of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Russian Federation. The reasons for this rapid increase are not known for certain. However, the fact remains. In this post, he regulated the issues of transport engineering, was engaged in air and rail transportation and controlled the work of seaports. In addition, he was the holder of shares in several companies.
This government did not work long. Re-elected for a second term during the presidential election, V.V. Putin dismissed him. Igor Levitin in the newly formed government, chaired by the same Fradkov, headed the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.
When Viktor Zubkov was appointed Prime Minister in 2007, Igor Evgenievich was left in his previously occupied position. The same thing happened in May 2008, when Vladimir Putin, who became chairman of the government, formed the new composition of the ministries.
In October 2008, Levitin was elected to the post of chairman of the board of directors of Aeroflot, and after a while he also headed the board of directors of Sheremetyevo International Airport.
Businessman or politician?
He was one of the members of the Public Council under the government commission engaged in reform in the field of railway transport.
Dormashinvest still belonged to Levitin. The joint-stock company was constantly supplied with numerous state contracts from those structures which Igor Evgenievich was in charge of. That is, he successfully affiliated the activities of his company with several dozens of legal entities. persons who worked in the transport sector, and their interests were related to the Ministry of Transport subordinate to him.
When the explosion occurred at Domodedovo in early 2011, Igor Levitin apparently did not feel his responsibility for what had happened. On the contrary, he made a proposal to remove the head of Rostransnadzor Gennady Kurzenkov from his post.
"Minister of Disasters"
The Tu-134 air crashes almost one after another near Petrozavodsk (06/22/2011) and Yak-42 near Yaroslavl (09/07/2011) required the Minister of Transport to give at least intelligible explanations about the state of the domestic fleet. However, his explanations were so vague and unconvincing that he did not make a conclusion about the existence of problems in the labor industry. But he was still left at his former post. After that, people often began to call him "Minister of Disasters."
He did not find a place in the new government formed by Dmitry Medvedev (05.21.2012). The former reception of Levitin Igor Evgenievich was now occupied by the new Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov.
Present
May 22, 2012 Levitin is appointed Advisor to the President. After a little more than a year, or rather, from September 2, 2013, Igor Levitin is the Assistant to the President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. The day after this appointment, he also holds the post of Secretary of the State Council of the Russian Federation.
On September 25, 2013, he became Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports.
May 2014 was marked for Igor Evgenievich by the appointment of the vice president of the All-Russian Union of Public Associations, the Olympic Committee of Russia.
He is one of the members of the working group under the President, engaged in the restoration of various architectural objects included in the cultural heritage of religious purposes.
As presidential aide, Igor Levitin, whose biography proves his enterprise and success, is also involved in the regulation of housing and communal services.
On December 25, 2013, the President signed a decree appointing I. Ye. Levitin to the post of chairman of the commission for the development of general aviation. The purpose of creating this structure is to organize activities to coordinate the work of executive bodies (at all levels of the federation) responsible for the formation of a unified state policy in the field of GA, for the development of strategies and programs for the further development of GA.
A family
The wife of Igor Levitin is called Natalya Igorevna, she is a housewife. The couple has a daughter, Julia. She is an assistant professor of sociology and political science at Moscow State Humanitarian University. M.A.Sholokhov. For several years, Julia was engaged in entrepreneurial activity, was the founder of such well-known transport companies in certain circles as Milikon Service and Steeltekhinvest.
Igor Levitin, whose biography demonstrates his successes in various fields of activity, today is one of the most significant figures on the domestic political Olympus.