Svyazinvest

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OJSC Svyazinvest

Type	Joint stock
Founded	November 1994
Headquarters	103375 Tverskaya St. 7, Moscow
Key people	Chairman of the Board of Directors: Leonid Reiman, CEO: Alexander Kiselyov
Industry	Holding company
Products	Telecommunications, Internet services, Cable television
Revenue	~
Employees	~
Slogan	N/A
Website	http://eng.svyazinvest.ru/

OJSC Svyazinvest is Russia's largest telecommunications holding company founded according to the decree No 1297 of Russia's government on November 25, 1994, as a 100% state-owned company and registered on September 18, 1995.

In the late 90s some of its shares were privatized.

[edit] Operations

Svyazinvest holds a majority stake in the following 7 big interregional service providers:

as well as holding a majority stake in the following:

OJSC Central Telegraph
OJSC Dagsvyazinform
OJSC Rostelecom
OJSC Giprosvyaz

The company has minority interests in the Moscow City Telephone Network and OJSC Kostroma GTS as well as holding small amounts of shares of several other companies.

The company is the founder of OJSC Mobile Telecommunications.

[edit] Management

Director General: Alexander Lipatov (August 1995 - March 1996), Nail Ismailov (March 1996 - April 1999), Oleg Belov (April 1999 - October 1999), Valery Yashin (October 21, 1999 - ???), Alexander Kiselyov (as of June 29, 2006)

Chairman of the Board of directors: Nikolay Pozhitkov (until April 1999), Boris Ponomarenko (April 1999 - July 1999), Russia's Minister of Science and Technology Vladimir Bulgak (July 15, 1999 - June 2000), Russia's Minister of Communication and Informatization Leonid Reiman (since June 26, 2000)

As of June 29, 2006, its Board of Directors consists of Leonid Reiman (Chairman, Minister for Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation), Boris Antonyuk (Deputy Minister for Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation), Kirill Androsov (Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation), Vadim Stepanov (Secretary of State, Deputy Director of the Russian Federal Protection Service), Lyudmila Pridanova (Deputy head of Rosimushchestvo), Karen Markaryan (Assistant deputy head of the RF Government Executive Office), Vasiliy Popick (Assistant of the RF President's Expert department), Anatoly Akimenko (Representative of Mustcom Ltd.), Sergei Karpukhovich (Representative of Mustcom Ltd.).

Management Board (as of June 29, 2006): Alexander Kiselyov (Chairman, Director General), Stanislav Panchenko (Deputy Director General), Konstantin Belyaev (Deputy Director General), Evgeny Chechelnitsky (Deputy Director General), Vladimir Zhelonkin (Deputy Director General)