Anatoliy Eduardovich Serdyukov (8 January 1962-) was Defense Minister of Russia from 15 February 2007 to 6 November 2012, succeeding Sergei Ivanov and preceding Sergey Shoygu.
Biography[]
Anatoliy Serdyukov was born in Krasnodar Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on 8 January 1962, and he worked in a furniture shop and served as director of the Furniture Market in Saint Petersburg following a spell in the Soviet Army. He worked for the Saint Petersburg Directorate of the Tax Ministry of Russia during the 2000s, serving as its director from 2001 to 2004, and he led the Tax Ministry of Russia from 2004 to 2007. In 2007, President Vladimir Putin appointed Serdyukov as Defense Minister to fight corruption and inefficiency in the Russian military, and he was made a Hero of Russia in 2012. However, he was fired that same year for ordering the army to build a road from a village to a private residence in southern Russia, and he was charged with negligence in 2013 and acquitted a year later. In October 2015, he was hired as an Industrial Director for the Rostec State corporation.