Gushchin Oleg V.

Dear readers! The guest of the journal “Municipality: Economy and Management” is the director of the Ural Institute of Management of the Presidential Academy Oleg V. Gushchin. His interlocutor is the editor-in-chief of the journal, Advanced Doctor of Law, Full Professor Igor V. Vydrin. Official information. Oleg V. Gushchin was born on November 24, 1972 in Lesnoy, Sverdlovsk region. In 1996, he graduated from the Ural Academy of Public Administration (hereinafter referred to as UAPA) with a degree in Public and Municipal Administration. He continued his studies at UAPA with a degree in Jurisprudence and received the qualification of lawyer in 1998. In 2014, Oleg V Gushchin completed his master’s degree at the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin (hereinafter referred to as UrFU) in the field of training in Social Work. From 1990 to 1998, he worked in the Komsomol and public service. In 1998, Oleg V. Gushchin was accepted into the civil service as the head of the Youth Policy Department of the Department of Youth Affairs and Relations with Public Organizations of the Sverdlovsk Region. From 1999 to 2010 - Director of the Department of Youth Affairs of the Sverdlovsk Region. During 2010-2019, Oleg V. Gushchin worked at UrFU as Vice-Rector for Social and Youth Policy, Advisor to the Rector’s Office. From 2019 to 2022 - Director of the Department of Youth Policy of the Ministry of Education and Youth Policy of the Sverdlovsk Region. Since October 2022 - Director of the Ural Institute of Management - branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Oleg V. Gushchin is a candidate of sociological sciences.

The editorial board of the journal “Municipality: Economics and Management” are pleased to introduce our guest - director of the North-West Institute of Management - branch of RANEPA, Advanced Doctor in Economic Sciences Andrey Khlutkov. His interlocutor is the director of the Ural Institute of Management of the Presidential Academy Oleg Gushchin. Official information. Andrey Khlutkov was born on February 16, 1964 in Leningrad. By formation, Andrey Dragomirovich is a civil engineer (in 1986 he graduated from the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute). Later he continued his studies at the Academy of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation with a degree in Jurisprudence. In 2006, at the St. Petersburg University for Economics and Finance, he defended his candidate’s thesis, and in 2012, his doctoral dissertation and was awarded the academic degree of Advanced Doctor in Economic Sciences. Between 1984 and 1990 Andrey Dragomirovich was at Komsomol work. From 1990 to 2016 he served in the Armed Forces. Since 2016, he has worked in various public service positions (adviser to the Governor of St. Petersburg, head of the Administration of the Central District of St. Petersburg, deputy chairman of the city Committee for External Relations). In January 2022, he was appointed to the position of director of the North-West Institute of Management of the Presidential Academy.

It is with great pleasure that the editors of the “Municipality: Economics and Management” journal introduce our guest, the RF Senator Alexander Gennadievich Vysokinsky, who told about his work in the Federation Council, administration issues, local self-government and other relevant topics of modern public and municipal practice. Alexander Gennadievich’s interlocutor is the Director of the Ural Institute of Management of the Russian Presidential Academy, Oleg Vasilyevich Gushchin. Official reference. A.G. Vysokinsky was born on September 24, 1973 in the city of Sverdlovsk. Alexander Gennadievich is a graduate of the Ural Academy of Public Administration (currently - the Ural Institute of Management RANEPA). In 1999, he got a postgraduate degree from the Academy of Public Administration in Moscow. In the same year, he defended his PhD thesis in economics on the topic “Developing a planning system and activation of investment activity in the region.” From December 2000, Alexander Gennadievich held various positions in Ekaterinburg Municipal Administration. Less than two years after, he became chairman of the Economy Committee, which he headed up to mid-2008. Then he was appointed Deputy Head of Ekaterinburg (from 2010 - Deputy Head of the Municipal Administration) for economy. He became one of the main developers, coordinators and popularizers of the Ekaterinburg Strategic Development Plan, which at the time of its adoption was the first strategic development document in the Russian Federation. In February 2016, he was appointed to the position of Deputy Governor of the Sverdlovsk region, responsible for issues related to the implementation of the “Greater Ekaterinburg” project, fulfillment of “Strategy 2030” in the municipalities of the Sverdlovsk region, as well as interaction with municipal territories. In the period from September 2018 up to December 2020 - Head of Ekaterinburg. From October 2021, A.G. Vysokinsky is a senator of the Russian Federation, member of the Federation Council Committee on Federal Structure, Regional Policy, Local Government and Affairs of the North. Alexander Gennadievich is the author of numerous scientific works and papers in the field of economics and finance.

The editors of the “Municipality: Economics and Management” journal are pleased to introduce our respected colleague, the director of the Western branch of the Presidential Academy in Kaliningrad, Mikhail Yuryevich Plyukhin, who spoke about the university: its history and modernity, plans and achievements. The director of the Ural Institute of Management - branch of RANEPA, Oleg Vasilyevich Gushchin, talks with Mikhail Yuryevich.

The editors of the "Municipality: Economics and Management" journal have the honor to introduce our distinguished guest - Vladimir Vladimirovich Yakushev, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Urals Federal District. Despite being busy, Vladimir Vladimirovich found an opportunity to answer the editors’ questions in a conversation with Oleg Vasilievich Gushchin, Director of the Ural Institute of Management - branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Official reference. V. V. Yakushev was born on June 14, 1968 in the city of Neftekamsk (currently, the Republic of Bashkortostan), although he spent a significant part of his childhood, as well as his youth, in the city of Nadym, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. In 1985 he entered the Pskov branch of the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute. Having finished the first year of studies he served in the ranks of the Soviet Army. In 1993, V.V. Yakushev graduated from the Tyumen State University with a degree in Law and for several years successfully worked in the bank sector of the economy. The further Vladimir Vladimirovich’s labor activity is connected with the public authorities. In the period from 2001 to 2005 - he was the Vice-Governor of the Tyumen Region. From November 2005 to May 2018, V. V. Yakushev three times was the governor of the Tyumen region. For two years, he worked as the Minister of Construction, Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation. From November 2020 up to now - the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Head of the Russian state in the Urals.