Oleg Alekseyevich Nikolayev (; born on 10 December 1969), is a Russian statesman, politician, and economist who is currently the Head of the Chuvash Republic since 22 September 2020. He is the chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Chuvash Republic since 6 February 2020, and a member of the Central Council of the A Just Russia party since 2020.
Nikolayev is a former member of the State Duma from 2016 to 2020. He was also the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Ethnic Affairs (from 22 January to 29 January 2020). He has been placed on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List by the United States.
Biography Origin Oleg Nikolayev was born in Cherbay on 10 December 1969, into a Chuvash peasant family. His parents, Aleksey Timofeyevich and Valentina Fyodorovna, worked in the collective farm "Marksist" of the Krasnochetaysk region. Aleksey was the driver, and Valentina was an ordinary collective farmer. Oleg's younger sister is Lyudmila, and Slava is his brother. Aleksey died at the age of 30 from cardiac arrest on a flight in the fall of 1976, when Oleg began to attend the 1st grade. Valentina, who was left with three young children, died in the same year in December. Later, Oleg was brought up in the family of his mother's brother - Nikolay Grigoriev with his cousin, Nina Nikolayevna.
In the first grade, Oleg began to go to school located in the neighboring village of Yamany. During his school years, he went in for sports (he did daily morning jogging, they had weights and dumbbells in the house, which were in the house of his grandfather on his father's side), loved the Chuvash dance, read a lot, worked on the collective farm and in the collective farm yard. From the 5th grade, he began attending a school located in the neighboring village of Novye Atai. According to the Honored Teacher of the Chuvash Republic M. M. Volkova, her graduate Oleg Nikolaev "studied only with excellent marks."Волкова М. М. Олег Николаев станет достойным руководителем! // Справедливая Россия — Чувашия, 4 сентября 2015 In the certificate of completion of the eight-year period there were two "fours" (including in German).
In rural areas, he grew up to the eighth grade. From 1985 to 1989 he studied at the Cheboksary Construction Technical School of the USSR Ministry of Construction, where he received a secondary technical education with a degree in industrial and civil engineering construction technician. During the summer holidays, he worked on the construction of a farm in the village.
In April 1989, he was hired as an erector of reinforced concrete structures in the SU-15 PSO Monolitstroy in Cheboksary. From May 1989 to May 1991 he served in the ranks of the Soviet army. In the army, he rose to the rank of senior sergeant, deputy platoon commander; received the specialty of radio mechanics of the landing beacon group of the 2nd class.
After demobilization, he returned to his native village and for some time with fellow villagers was engaged in the construction of houses in neighboring Mordovia.
Professional activity From August 1991 to 1992, Nikolayev worked in Cheboksary as an assembler for the installation of steel and reinforced concrete structures in the SU-17 of the Monolitstroy Production and Construction Association. From 1992 to 1995 he worked at the Center for Security and Safety "Bodyguard LTD" LLP as a driver-bodyguard, at Tekstilmash OJSC as a security guard, at Voskhod-1 LLP (Urmarsky District) as a construction technician and since July 1995, he was Chief Accountant. He later moved to LLC PSF "Spetsvyazstroy" (Urmarsky district) as chief accountant. From 1996 to 2000, he worked as chief accountant, deputy director (since January 1997) in a construction and telecommunications company, CJSC Production and Construction Company Telefonstroy in Novocheboksarsk, in the creation of which he himself participated.Организация обеспечивала работой более ста человек
In 1998, at the Chuvash State University named after I. N. Ulyanov, he received a diploma of higher education in the specialty "economic theory" (qualification "economist"). In 1999, at the same university, he took training courses under the Federal Program for the Training of Management Personnel, and completed a one-year internship in Germany as part of the presidential program "Restructuring the activities of industrial enterprises." After a year of internship, the German government announced a competition to test the knowledge gained. The Grant Commission awarded the first prize to the project, which was implemented by Nikolayev's company, ZAO PSF Telefonstroy: in the late 90s, all television reception systems were replaced with cable television on the basis of the equipment of a German company in Novocheboksarsk; in the city for the first time a network was built, which made it possible to divide frequencies and ensure the reception of a return signal. He received additional education under the Presidential Program for the training of management personnel for organizations of the national economy of Russia,См. Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 23 июля 1997 г. № 774 as well as in the Federal Service of Russia for Insolvency and Financial Recovery under a temporary standard training program for specialists in anti-crisis management in 1999.
In 2000, on the recommendation of the State Duma deputy Anatoly Aksakov, he headed LLC Small Business Leasing Company in Cheboksary, established by CJSC PSF Telefonstroy and the Republican Fund for Small Business Support of the Chuvash Republic, and worked as a director until 2002.
State and political activity in Chuvashia In January 2002, on Aksakov's recommendation,Анатолий Аксаков до 2000 года был министром экономики Чувашии Nikolayev was admitted to the civil service in the Cabinet of Ministers of the Chuvash Republic - the government of Natalia Partasova - the head of the Department for the Development of Entrepreneurial Activity of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.Непосредственными начальниками Олега Николаева были министр экономического развития и торговли (2002—2004) Марина Ивановна Илларионова и первый заместитель министра экономического развития и торговли Гульмира Тагаевна Акимова Since January 2003, he also served as Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade. The ministry was supposed to deal with the creation of mechanisms for the development of small and medium-sized businesses, the consumer market, foreign economic relations and the development of folk crafts. Nikolayev held positions in the ministry until October 2004, after which he moved to the structure of the entrepreneur Vladimir Yermolayev - to OJSC Kontur in Cheboksary as Deputy General Director for Strategic Development.
In 2004, he returned to ZAO PSF Telefonstroy, where, until 2008, he worked as Deputy General Director,Генеральный директор ЗАО ПСФ «Телефонстрой» — Лисин Николай Анатольевич and later worked in the construction company Alza LLC as Deputy Director for Economics and Finance. Until 2007, he was a member of the People's Party of the Russian Federation, which he joined on Aksakov's recommendation.Анатолий Аксаков в 2004—2007 годах — Первый Заместитель председателя Центрального комитета Народной партии Российской Федерации, председатель Чувашского регионального отделения партии In 2007 he became a member of the political party "Fair Russia", which included the People's Party of the Russian Federation. From 2008 to 2009, he worked at the NGO Association of Regional Banks of Russia as Director of the Center for International Relations, as Vice President, and Director of the Center for International Cooperation.Современное название — Ассоциация «Россия» From 2009 to 2011, he became the Manager of the Cheboksary Operations Office of Branch No. 6 of Mosoblbank JSCB (OJSC); and from 2011 to 2013, he was in the position of director of branch No. 19 of the joint-stock bank of the same bank.
In 2011, Nikolayev ran for the members of the State Council of the Chuvash Republic of the V convocation from the "A Just Russia" party, as a result of the distribution of mandates, he was elected member of the regional parliament. He was a member of the Committee of the State Council of the Chuvash Republic on budget, finance and taxes and the committee of the State Council of the Chuvash Republic on economic policy, agro-industrial complex and ecology. He fulfilled his parliamentary powers on a non-permanent basis, without interrupting his main job. Since February 2013, he worked at Otkritie Bank OJSC as a project manager for the Optimization of Operational and Technological Processes of the Operational and Technological Block in Moscow, and in 2015, he worked as a project manager for the Operational and Technological Processes Optimization Department at PJSC Khanty-Mansiysk Bank Otkritie in Moscow.
In September 2015, Nikolayev ran for the position of the Head of the Chuvash Republic and at the same time was nominated for deputies of the Cheboksary City Assembly of Deputies. As a result of the elections, he won 14.7% of the votes in the elections of the head of the republic, became a member of the city council, but refused the mandate, remaining a member of the parliament of the republic. On 18 September 2016, he participated in the elections to the State Council of the Chuvash Republic of the VI convocation from the regional branch of the "A Just Russia" party. He was the first number in the single list of candidates of the party, he also ran in the Yadrinsky single-mandate constituency No. 9. After being elected, he refused a seat in the Chuvash parliament due to his election to the State Duma. In 2016, he had the status of an individual entrepreneur. From July to September 2016, he worked as an advisor to the general director of the Auction House of the Russia.
Member of the State Duma At the same time, on 18 September 2016, Nikolayev was elected member of the State Duma of the VII convocation from the "A Just Russia" party. He ran in the federal list of candidates (first number in the regional group number 10), as well as in the Cheboksary single-mandate constituency number 38. Following the results of the elections, he got a seat in the State Duma on the party list. In a single-mandate constituency, he took second place with a score of 11.99% after the candidate from United Russia party Leonid Cherkesov had 46.77%.
The State Duma took the position of deputy chairman of the State Duma commission on control over the reliability of information about income, property and property obligations submitted by State Duma members, mandate issues and issues of member's ethics.
On 22 January 2020, he was appointed chairman of the State Duma Committee on Nationalities. On 29 January 2020, he resigned as member of the State Duma in connection with the appointment of the acting Head of the Chuvash Republic; the vacated mandate of the State Duma member was transferred to the member of the State Council of Chuvashia, Igor Molyakov.
Head of the Chuvash Republic On 29 January 2020, by the Decree of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, Nikolayev was appointed acting Head of the Chuvash Republic, after the dismissal of Mikhail Ignatyev due to the loss of confidence. Nikolayev commented on his appointment as acting head of Chuvashia as follows: "To be honest, emotions overwhelm me. I am a simple rural guy, I never dreamed of getting into the Kremlin, shaking hands with the president of the country".