Sergei Chemezov (Сергей Викторович Чемезов) was born on Aug. 20, 1952, in Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk region.

Education: Irkutsk Institute of National Economics, 1975

1975-1980: Worked in the Irkutsk Science Research Institute for Rare and Nonferrous Metals

1980-1983: Deputy head of the Luch industrial research venture

1983-1988: Luch representative in Dresden, East Germany. He told Itogi magazine in 2005 that Vladimir Putin was his neighbor in Dresden. (Putin served in the KGB in Dresden from 1985 to 1990.) (Source) "We lived in the same building and got to know each other through serving together and by being neighbors. ... When you are posted abroad you are always drawn to your compatriots." (Source)

1988-1996: Deputy managing director, Sovintersport

1996-1999: Head of foreign economic relations at the presidential property department. Vladimir Putin was his supervisor.

1999-2000: General director of state-owned arms exporter Promexport

2000-2004: First deputy general director of state-owned arms exporter Rosoboronexport. The company was created by presidential decree, merging Promexport and Rosoruzheniye. Andrei Belyaninov was named general director.

April 2004-2007: General director of Rosoboronexport (a monopoly since 2007). Appointed by Presidential Decree No. 567.

November 2007-present: General director of Russian Technologies, appointed by Vladimir Putin

2007-present: Chairman of the Russian Union of Machine-Builders

He is married and has three sons and a daughter.