Michail Surabov

Biography of Mikhail Yuryevich Surabov

Date of Birth: 03.10.1953

Mikhail Yuryevich Surabov - lawyer to the President of the Russian Federation (1998-1999 and 2007-2009). Minister of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation (2004-2007). Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Ukraine (2009-2016). Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Trade and Economic Relations with Ukraine (2010-2016).

Place of Birth. Education. Born in Leningrad. In 1975, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Management named after S. Ordzhonikidze with a degree in Economist-Cybernetics.

Career. Since 1975 - Engineer, Assistant at the Department of Economic Cybernetics at the Moscow Institute of Management named after S. Ordzhonikidze.

From 1978 to 1981 - Graduate student at the All-Union Research Institute for System Studies.

In 1982 - Lecturer at the Moscow Assembly Technical School.

Since 1982 - Engineer at the Orgtechstroy-11 Institute (Moscow).

Since 1983 - Senior Researcher, Head of the Sectoral Laboratory of the Research and Design Institute for Assembly Technology.

1988-1993 - Deputy Head of the Trust Mospromtechmontage.

1992-1998 - General Director of the Moscow Joint Stock Company Insurance Company (AO MAX).

1994-1998 - General Director of the Medical Joint Stock Company Insurance Company (AO MAX-M).

1998 - First Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation.

Since 1998 - Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin.

Since 1999 - Chairman of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.

2004-2007 - Minister of Health and Minister of Social Development of the Russian Federation.

As of May 13, 2008 - Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

In August 2009, he was appointed by President Medvedev as the Ambassador of Russia to Ukraine. Due to the fact that the President of the Russian Federation 'decided to postpone his visit to Ukraine in light of the anti-Russian course of the Ukrainian leadership,' Surabov began his diplomatic mission in January 2010 - in the middle of the election campaign in Ukraine.

On January 19, 2010, he was appointed by the decree of President Dmitry Medvedev as the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Trade and Economic Relations with Ukraine.

On July 28, 2016, he was relieved of his duties as Ambassador of Russia to Ukraine by order of President Putin.

On October 19, 2021, he was appointed General Director of the insurance company AO 'MAX'.

Family. Married. Three children.

03.10.2023.