Nikiforov Nikolay Anatolyevich

Biography

Born June 24, 1982 in Kazan.

1997-2004: Entrepreneurship at school and university

Nikolai Nikiforov showed interest in information technology from school. In 1997, "the first thing we began to do was offer schoolchildren Internet access," he told the Secret of the Firm magazine in 2005: "We ourselves laid a local network at school, bought traffic in bulk from providers and began to sell it to schoolchildren. They were engaged in this from the ninth to the eleventh grade. "

In 1999, Nikiforov and his partner "decided to invest" in the Internet business and opened the e-kazan.ru portal ("Kazan Portal").

We found investors and began to promote the site, filling it with infotainment content (news, telephone directory, city poster, exchange rates, etc.), - wrote "The Firm's Secret." - To increase the portal's traffic, they held prize draws, negotiating with city companies to provide prizes in exchange for advertising on the site.

Two years after the opening, Kazan Portal began to make a profit, and in 2005 its audience reached 40 thousand people, Nikiforov said, calling his project the leader in traffic on the Tatarstan Internet market.

Nikiforov's partner in the Kazan portal was Timur Yakubov. Together with him, Nikolai Nikiforov at the same time worked as a programmer at the Research Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics named after Chebotarev at Kazan State University, where he simultaneously studied at the Faculty of Economics^[1].

In 2004, Nikolai Nikiforov graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Kazan State University (1999-2004). He speaks English.

2004-2005: Work in business in Tatarstan

In 2004, while continuing to work on the Kazan Portal, Nikolai Nikiforov became deputy general director of Modern Internet Technologies, which was created in 2002 at the initiative of the Tatarstan government. The company owns the business information portal Tatcenter.ru and is the developer of the current versions of the websites of the republican ministries and the government itself (all of them are made according to the same template and in the same style).

In 2005, during a visit to Kazan, President Vladimir Putin got acquainted with the electronic trading system of Tatarstan, which, as reported, was also created by "Modern Internet Technologies."

Since its foundation in 2002 and until now (May 2012), Dmitry Yurtaev has been the general director of Modern Internet Technologies. His father - Alexander Yurtaev - from 1998 to 2011. served as head of the information and analytical department of the Cabinet of Ministers of Tatarstan, and in January 2011 became the head of a similar department in the presidential administration of the republic.

When in August 2005, the Tatarstan government decided to start creating an electronic government and formed a special working group for this, Alexander Yurtaev took the post of chief designer of the system. In the same month, 23-year-old Nikolai Nikiforov was appointed IT adviser to the Prime Minister of the Republic Rustam Minnikhanov.

2005-2012: State Service in Tatarstan

Nikiforov's further career was inextricably linked with the authorities. In 2006, he became director of the Center for Information Technologies of Tatarstan (a non-profit organization established by the Cabinet of Ministers of the republic for the development of government information systems and electronic public services). This enterprise was created in order "to provide a certain basic volume of the most important services in it under the control of the state," Nikiforov said earlier. He called the main such services the telecommunications system and data center maintenance.

In February 2009, Nikolai Nikiforov was included in the first hundred personnel reserves of the president. Russia Dmitry Medvedev The list, according to Medvedev, is "a single publicly available database of the best specialists at three levels: municipal, regional and federal." As Nikiforov himself said in an interview with the Kazan press, getting into the first hundred personnel reserves allowed him to "seriously advance in terms of professional moments in To Moscow... This turned out to be an important status point, which made it much easier to solve important problems. Different doors began to open more easily. "

Since April 22, 2010 - Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Informatization and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan. The youngest member of the government in the republic.

Nikiforov's team while working in Tatarstan

The successes of the informatization of Tatarstan are known throughout the country, and they are mainly associated with the figure of Nikolai Nikiforov. At the same time, the performers of key IT projects are less visible. At the same time, if you take a closer look at the contractors, you can see that Nikiforov's support was precisely the people with whom he began the first steps in business.

The developer of the websites of the ministries and the government of Tatarstan - the company "Modern Internet Technologies," which is headed by Dmitry Yurtaev - was mentioned above. The same person is related to another IT contractor of the Tatarstan government. According to the Contour-Focus service, he owns 38% of the stake in the Kazan company Document Management Systems, the developer of the Praktika EDMS. On the basis of this system, a single interdepartmental EDMS of Tatarstan operates. And recently, the EDMS "Practice" has been introduced in the Moscow government.

Timur Yakubov, ex-partner of Nikolai Nikiforov on the Kazan portal and former colleague-programmer at the Chebotarev Research Institute, runs the Document Management Systems company. He is also the owner of a 38% stake in the company. Another 25% of Document Management Systems belongs to the Kazan IT Park, created by the Ministry of Informatization and Communications together with the Ministry of Land and Property Relations of the Republic.

In addition, Timur Yakubov is the head and 100th owner of GLONASS + 112, which develops software for the Tatarstan government's program of the same name to deploy GLONASS. Since 2010, Tatarstan has been one of the pilot regions for the introduction of the Russian navigation system into the activities of public services. At the moment, 3.2 thousand cars of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergencies and the Ministry of Health are equipped with appropriate equipment.

Another Tatarstan contractor for the implementation of GLONASS is Avtodoria. The system she created, using cameras combined into a network, recognizes the license plates of cars and determines their speed, identifying violators on long sections of the road. In April 2012, President of the Republic Rustam Minnikhanov spoke about the Avtodoria system to Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov and suggested considering its use in other Russian regions.

The owners of Avtodoria are Center-Service (60%) and Startobaza (40%). The co-owner of the latter until January 2012 was Timur Yakubov. Since April 13, Svetlana Nikiforova, the wife of Nikolai Nikiforov, who currently holds the post of managing partner of the company, has appeared among its founders, according to Contour Focus. Before marriage, Svetlana headed the Kazan IT park, worked as development director of the Kazan system integrator Tatavant and deputy general director of the Electroshchit company, which produces electrical equipment.

Timur Akhmerov, whose name, according to a CNews source, may also "appear somewhere near" Nikolai Nikiforov, is a shareholder and head of the Tatarstan company Bars Group. On the solutions of "Bars Group" there is a republican system of budget accounting and reporting, a system for assessing the effectiveness of municipal management, a system "Electronic Kindergarten," etc.

The last of the likely members of the Nikolai Nikiforov team named by the CNews source are Vitaly Slizen and Ravil Ziganshin, respectively, the general director and chairman of the board of directors of the Inoventica group of companies (provides cloud services).

Slizen was previously one of the top managers, MTT headed the department in the Ministry of Information and Communications (during the time when he was a minister Leonid Reiman), and led the operator "." Synterra Ziganshin - Honored Builder of Tatarstan, General Director of the PSO construction company, Kazan deputy of the State Council of Tatarstan. According to the Inoventiki website, one of its shareholders is the above-mentioned Startobaza company.

Member of the Government Commission on the Introduction of Information Technologies in the Activities of State Bodies and Local Self-Government Bodies

N. Nikiforov on electronic services of Tatarstan

When he was Minister of Tatarstan, Nikiforov, according to the official declaration in 2011, received about 300 thousand rubles a month (3.6 million rubles a year), in 2010 his salary was just over 200 thousand rubles, and in 2009, before joining the Tatarstan government, 25 thousand rubles (0.3 million per year)^[2].

Participation in workgroups

• Government Commission on the Introduction of Information Technologies into the Activities of State Bodies and Local Self-Government Bodies (Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of February 6, 2010 No. 60);
• Working group to coordinate the implementation of the integrated project "Electronic Government of the Republic of Tatarstan" (Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan No. 1242-r dated 12.08.2005);
• Republican Commission for the Development of Broadcasting and the Transition to Digital Technologies (Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan of 6.09.2006 No. 451);
• Working Group on Optimization of Cartographic and Information and Analytical Activities in the Republic of Tatarstan (Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan dated 18.09.2006 No. 1402-r);
• Interdepartmental Commission on Information Security of the Security Council of the Republic of Tatarstan (Decree of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan dated 18.05.2006 No. UP-179);
• Working group within the framework of the pilot project "Geo-information system of land and property cadastre on the example of Nizhnekamsk municipal district" (Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan No. 115-r dated 05.02.2007);
• Collegium and Scientific and Technical Council of the Ministry of Informatization and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan (Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan No. 390 of 04.08.2005);
• Thematic subgroup No. 8 of the Government Commission for Administrative Reform (Annex to the Commission Protocol of 24 August 2007 No. 67, section XII, para. 17);
• Republican Council for Informatization (Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan dated 26.02.2008 No. 302-r);
• Working Group on the preparation of proposals for the creation of a supercomputer center in the Republic of Tatarstan (Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan No. 363-r dated 22.03.2008);
• Board of the Office of Civil Registration of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan (Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan of 27.03.2008 No. 192);
• Working group on the development of a program to improve the quality of state and municipal services (Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan No. 805-r dated 29.05.2008);
• Working group in order to streamline interdepartmental interaction, develop proposals for combining state cadastral registration systems and registration of rights to real estate and transactions with it (Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan of 1240-r dated 25.07.2008);
• Subgroup on the preparation of proposals regarding the integration of automated information systems of the working group on the preparation of proposals on the transfer of the functions of Rosregistration, Roskartography and Rosnedvizhimost to one federal executive body (Order of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation of 17.09.2008 No. 280);
• Working group to solve the problems defined in the signed protocol of intent regarding the creation of a center for the development of software solutions IBM (Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan No. 1612-r dated 22.09.2008);
• Working group to coordinate the implementation of a pilot project to ensure the call of emergency services through a single number 112 in case of an accident on the Volga M-7 highway (Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan No. 1970-r dated 12.11.2008);
• Working Group on Strategic Computer Technologies and Software of the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation for the Modernization and Technological Development of the Russian Economy;
• Commission for the development and implementation of a comprehensive state program for the development of the education system in the Republic of Tatarstan for 2010-2015 (Order of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan No. 119 of 20.05.2009);
• Working Group on Information Technologies and Communications of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports, Higher Achievement, Preparation and Holding of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi, World Summer Universiade 2013 in Kazan;
• Working group on the creation of a regional branch of the federal state unitary enterprise "Presidential Library named after B.N. Yeltsin" in the Republic of Tatarstan (Order of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan dated 1.02.2010 No. 48).

2012

Appointment as Minister of Communications of the Russian Federation

On May 21, 2012, Nikolai Nikiforov was appointed Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation.

Attempt to increase its salary from 240 thousand rubles to 2.5 million rubles per month

In October 2012, it became known that the Minister of the Ministry of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov proposed to optimize the staff of the controlled department. As of October 2012, it has 329 full-time officials and 124 consultants who are also paid for their services. At the same time, according to the management, "the current level of employees of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications does not correspond to the level of tasks that we face." Nikiforov wants to almost halve the number of employees in the first quarter of 2013 - to 205 people.

Secondly, the minister wanted to increase the annual wage fund. At this time, it amounted to 298.6 million rubles. Nikiforov proposed adding 309.6 million rubles to it. Thus, the total piggy bank could increase to 608 million rubles.

At the same time, the total "net" salary received in the hands of those who remained after the reduction of employees should have amounted to 468 million rubles. However, Nikiforov proposed to make the distribution of this amount extremely uneven: almost a fifth of this money should be received by only five people ― the minister himself and his four deputies. They will account for 84 million rubles of "net" salary. The earnings of Nikiforov himself in this situation will grow from the current 240 thousand rubles a month to 2.5 million rubles a month (30 million rubles a year). Two deputies will receive 1.3 million rubles instead of 190 thousand rubles a month, two more ― 950 thousand rubles instead of 172 thousand rubles^[3].

For comparison: the official income of Vladimir Putin in 2011 amounted to 3.6 million rubles, the head of the Ministry of Sports Vitaly Mutko - 17 million rubles, the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov - 11.4 million rubles.

The official salary of his predecessor, and now adviser to the President of Russia and opponent Nikiforov Igor Shchegolev as head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications in 2011 amounted to 240 thousand rubles a month (2.9 million rubles a year). Shchegolev, along with Rashid Nurgaliev, was the lowest paid of the ministers. Since 2009, Shchegolev, who rented an apartment, became the owner of housing in the capital only by 2010.

Annual income of RUB 3.72 mln

Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov earned 3.72 million rubles in 2012, follows from the information on the income of members of the government, published on the White House website. His wife, the owner of the Startobaza management company Svetlana Nikiforova, earned 1.18 million rubles for the year.

The minister and his wife jointly own an apartment with an area of ​ ​ 139 square meters. m. Also, the minister, together with his wife and one of his sons (Nikiforov has two sons and a daughter) at the end of 2012, rented a building with an area of ​ ​ 247 square meters. m.

Svetlana Nikiforova also owns another apartment with an area of ​ ​ 44 square meters. m., a share of 3/8 in an apartment with an area of ​ ​ 60 square meters. m., Audi a Q5 car (its cost in the basic configuration is 1.73 million rubles) and a parking space of 15 square meters. m.

One of the sons of Nikolai Nikiforov also has an apartment of 160 square meters in free use, and his daughter has an apartment of 85 square meters^[4].

2013: Annual income of RUB 3.57 mln

Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov earned 3.57 million rubles in 2013, which is slightly less than in 2012 (3.72 million rubles). The average monthly income of the minister in 2013 was about 300 thousand ^[5]

The income of the spouse of the minister - Svetlana Nikiforova - amounted to 6 million rubles. This is five times more earnings for the year before last (1.18 million rubles). Svetlana Nikiforova heads the Startobaza management company (invests in IT startups). In terms of the month, its income in 2013 amounted to 500 thousand rubles.

Nikiforova also got a second car in a year - the Tesla Model S electric car - in addition to the Audi Q5 she already had. The spouses in joint ownership have an apartment with an area of ​ ​ 140.8 square meters. m. and - in joint use - a building with an area of ​ ​ 246.7 square meters. m. Also, Svetlana Nikifora in full ownership has an apartment with an area of ​ ​ 44.3 square meters. m., parking space with an area of ​ ​ 14.9 square meters. m. and - in shared ownership (3/8) - an apartment with an area of ​ ​ 59.8 square meters. m. (all this property was declared a year ago).

One of the two sons of Nikolai Nikiforov has an apartment with an area of ​ ​ 160 square meters. m., The other son, together with the minister, uses the aforementioned building. And the minister's daughter has an apartment with an area of ​ ​ 97.5 square meters. m.

November 2013, performance on the Vesti24 channel

2014

Formation of the team "Kazan Iteshnikov"

In June 2014, CNews included Nikolai Nikiforov among the members of the Kazan Iteshniki team.

Blog Registration

In August 2014, Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov registered Roskomnadzor as a popular blogger, a representative of the department told Vedomosti. Vadim Ampelonsky According to him, there are now three entries in the blogger registry. The first was registered community "Typical" in the Yekaterinburg social network "Vkontakte." And under the second and third number, Nikiforov's blogs are recorded - his accounts in and. Twitter On Instagram Twitter, Nikiforov has 92,900 followers, on Instagram - 9900#^[6]

Registration became necessary after the entry into force of the so-called law on bloggers. This law obliges them to register with Roskomnadzor, as well as comply with almost the same laws as journalists - publish only reliable information, comply with legislation on extremism, election campaigning, etc. The blogger is obliged to submit an application to Roskomnadzor not in any case, but only if the department asks him about it. We are talking about blogs whose traffic exceeds 3,000 users per day. True, in fact, only socio-political blogs fall under the law: Roskomnadzor exempted bloggers who write about culture, art, technology, etc. from the obligation to comply with this law by a special by-law act.

New map of "Kazan Iteshnikov"

In December 2014, CNews published the second version of the Kazan Iteshnikov map - Nikolai Nikiforov's associates in the development of state informatization in Russia.

2016: HAC refused to deprive Nikolai Nikiforov of his degree

The Higher Attestation Commission (Higher Attestation Commission) decided to maintain the degree of the head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, whose dissertation was complained about by "Dissernet." Earlier, the dissertation council recommended not to deprive him of the degree of^[7].

With a request to deprive Nikiforov of his degree, the Dissernet experts turned to the Higher Attestation Commission after in 2014 they checked the minister's thesis for plagiarism and found in it "large-scale incorrect borrowings" from other scientific works, not drawn up in the form of quotes and without references to the authors of the research.

In particular, our experts in the work of the Minister on the topic "Innovative model of information flow management in the field of provision of state electronic services on the example of the Republic of Tatarstan" coincidence with the dissertation of Alexander Sosnovsky "Innovative model of information flow management in healthcare" and the book by Alexander Yurtaev "Creation and application of innovative technologies in public administration." At the same time, the opponent in the defense of Nikiforov was the scientific director of Sosnovsky's dissertation Galina Suldina, and Yurtaev himself was the scientific director of the minister's dissertation.

2017

N. Nikiforov - owner of 14 Innopolis domains

Communications Minister Nikolai Nikiforov owns 30 domains, including sites with the name of the first IT city in Russia, Innopolis. Nikiforov himself in May 2017 explained to RBC magazine that in this way he protects addresses from^[8] the Ministry of Telecom and Mass ^[9]

As RBC magazine found out, in April 2015, ten sites with the name innopolis were registered to the nn@tatar.ru 's mail on various domains: innopolis.capital, innopolis.fitness, innopolis.golf, innopolis.pub and even innopolis.villas (WhoIs service data). These portals are not currently working. The owner of the site in all cases is designated as Nikolay Nikiforov. The nn@tatar.ru also, for example, recorded the portal nnikiforov.moscow, which leads to the page of the Minister "VKontakte." One of the sites - innopolis.su - was first recorded on Nikiforov's mail on the domain of Tatar.ru state authorities, and then transferred to his personal e-mail on Yandex.

Total income with his wife - 68.8 million rubles

The income of Nikolai Nikiforov and his wife Svetlana Nikiforova at the end of 2017 amounted to 68.8 million rubles, of which most - 63 million rubles. - fell on the income of the spouse. At this time, she owns the company "Startobaza," investing in various IT projects.

2018

Speaking at TAdviser IT Government Day

The head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov spoke at the opening of the TAdviser IT Government Day 2018 conference. He noted that the digital economy has become a real trend due to unique political support at the highest level. Characterizing the situation as a whole, the minister noted signs of a technological revolution, in which the number of Internet users in the country over the past few years has increased from 46% to 75% and continues to grow, including in the most remote regions. This factor accelerates the processes of digital transformation, Nikiforov emphasized.

Nikolai Nikiforov, Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation

The main difference between the new era of the digital economy and the previous period of informatization, Nikolai Nikiforov believes, is a change in approaches to IT. The digital economy, the speaker explained, is about how data is created, collected and processed, and how a set of new technologies is used for this. At the same time, not all of them even exist as technologically completed solutions, namely, big data analysis, artificial intelligence, augmented reality. And we are talking not only about the use of new technologies in public administration, but also in all sectors of the national economy. Among other things, Nikiforov noted, it is necessary to adjust regulatory legal acts in order to remove the barriers remaining in them and really begin the process of digital transformation in all industries. Read more about the speech of Nikolai Nikiforov and other experts at the IT Government Day conference - here.

Dismissal from the Ministry of Communications

In May 2018, Nikolai Nikiforov was replaced as Minister of Communications by Konstantin Noskov, who previously headed the Analytical Center under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Founder and CEO of Diginavis and Innopolis Development

As TAdviser discovered, on June 5, 2018, two companies were registered in Innopolis - Diginavis LLC and Innopolis Development LLC, the head and sole owner of which is the ex-Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov.

Ex-Minister of Communications Nikiforov created companies in Innopolis to develop technological projects

Nikiforov at the CIPR conference in June explained to TAdviser that both of these companies will be engaged in "technological projects in a wide range of areas." For example, artificial intelligence, robotics, blockchain, biotechnology and even space technologies, the ex-minister listed.

These companies are registered in Innopolis to create jobs here, pay decent wages, pay taxes and develop our country, "he said in a conversation with TAdviser.

How many people will work in these companies, Nikolai Nikiforov has not yet been able to clarify. "As much as it will take to succeed," he said.

Co-owner of Innopolis Architekt

In August 2018, Innopolis Development, 100% owned by Nikolai Nikiforov, became the owner of 50% of Innopolis Architekt. Read more here.

2019

Participation in HR business - Resource LLC

In January 2019, a new company was registered in Innopolis - Resource LLC. Its founders were Tatyana Yurkina, who owns 75% of the authorized capital, and the Innopolis Development company, whose sole owner is the former Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov. Through Innopolis Development, he owns 25% of Resource LLC. Read more here.

Co-owner of Zen.Car service

In April 2019, the Diginavis company owned by Nikolai Nikiforov co-founded Zenkar, which runs the Zen.Car online service. According to the Contour-Focus database, she now owns 50% of the authorized capital of Zenkar. Read more here.

Creation of a drone traffic control center together with Rostec

In July 2019, Rostec and Nikolai Nikiforov established the joint venture Center for the Organization of Movement of Unmanned Vehicles (DPC BTS), registered in Innopolis. Read more here.

2020

Investing in Zion and Z-City real estate construction companies

In early December 2020, it became known about the investments of the former Minister of Communications of the Russian Federation Nikolai Nikiforov in Zion and Z-City, which are engaged in the construction of real estate and infrastructure in Innopolis. Read more here.

Appointment to the position of head of the construction company "Z-City"

On December 17, 2020, it became known about the appointment of the former Minister of Communications of the Russian Federation Nikolai Nikiforov as the head of the construction company Z-City, in which he had previously invested. Read more here.

2021:70 billion rubles for the development of Innopolis. How ex-Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov is looking for money without counting on the state

In Innopolis, mega-construction is planned: on 700 thousand square meters in 2021-2024, it is planned to create about 10.2 thousand new apartments, 110 houses, a hotel. In addition to the residential zone, technology parks should appear there, including a high-tech park, an outlet village and other leisure and entertainment facilities. The necessary investments in the project are estimated at 70 billion rubles. One of the ideologists-founders of Innopolis and beneficiaries of the new development, ex-Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, in an interview with the Kazan portal "Business Online" spoke about where it is planned to take investments^[10]Read more here.

2023: Nikolai Nikiforov got rid of his share in the international cloud gaming service

As TAdviser found out in July 2023, Diginavis, owned by ex-Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov, sold its stake in the Irish-based cloud gaming service Loudplay Global. Read more here.

2024: Creation of an energy extraction company

On February 16, 2024, Innopolis Those, 97% of which belongs to the former Minister of Communications of Russia Nikolai Nikiforov, established a new enterprise called Innopolis Those Factory. It is planned to use it for mining bitcoins. Read more here.

Awards

• He was awarded the medal "For strengthening the state system" information protection(Order FSTEC Russia No. 164-l/s of December 10, 2009)
• He was awarded the medal "For the Commonwealth in the Name of Salvation" (Order of the Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Management No. 12-K of January 19, 2010)
• He was awarded the medal "In memory of the 1000th anniversary of Kazan" (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 30, 2005)
• He entered the list of "People of 2015 in the Russian IT industry," compiled by TAdviser. It includes top managers and officials, according to the editorial office, who had the most significant impact on the development of the Russian IT sphere, or distinguished themselves by the successful implementation of the most ambitious IT projects.

Family

Married to Svetlana Nikiforova (pictured). Brings up a daughter and two sons.

In 2017, Svetlana Nikiforova's investment company Startobaza made a profit of about 1 billion rubles. Read more here.

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