Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Viktor Koksharov goes on vacation

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel started his two-week vacation on August 18, 2008. While the Governor is on vacation, things are to be run by Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Viktor Koksharov. The spokesperson for the Governor reports Eduard Rossel is not going to leave Sverdlovsk Region while on vacation. In fact, the Governor has already taken a two-week leave in July 2008.

Ural Airlines’ experts came up with a report on the results of the air carrier’s activity in the first eight months of the year. The company’s press officer reports their passenger turnover rose by 21% compared to January-August 2007 and reached 1.02 million people. The carrier flew 197,600 passengers in August 2008 alone, which was 14% better than a year earlier and set the year’s record so far. The increase was the greatest among international travelers. The passenger turnover at international flights grew by 59% against January-August 2007, that at domestic flights dropped by 1%, and that

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel signed a decree on his own vacation that is expected to last from August 20, 2007 to September 7, 2007. Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Viktor Koksharov is going to be acting Governor while Mr. Rossel is away.

Former First Deputy Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government and Minister for Industry and Science Anatoly Gredin has recently been appointed Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government. The new Head is fifty-three years old. He graduated from Ural Electromechanical Institute of Railway Engineers in 1978 with a degree in Transport Routes Engineering & Railway Maintenance. Anatoly Gredin started working at Sverdlovsk Region Railways in 1978 as Ugleuralskaya station duty officer and was then promoted to switching dispatcher, chief engineer, head of Chusovskaya station, department director of

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel appointed Minister for International and Foreign Economic Relations of Sverdlovsk Region Viktor Koksharov Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government; Mr. Koksharov will therefore have to leave his current ministerial office. This appointment was unanimously supported by Sverdlovsk Region Duma deputies on June 19, 2007.