Arkady Sarkisyan

Arkady Sarkisyan was born on 23 February 1959 in Sevastopol, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. He graduated from the Nakhimov Higher Naval School in Sevastopol and Khakassian State University. From 1976 to 1994, he served in the Russian Navy. In 1997, he became the first deputy head of the Government of the Republic of Khakassia. In 2000, he was appointed vice-president of the Siberian Aluminum Group LLC, which manages the shares of the Krasnoyarsk, Sayan and Bratsk aluminum smelters. In 2001, he was appointed senator from Khakassia. His powers were terminated in 2006. Sarkisyan is known to be a long-term ally of a Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. In 2018, Deripaska passed to Sarkisyan the shares of his JSK Glavstroy business.[1]