UrFU Alumnus Appointed Vice Governor of Sverdlovsk Region

10:28, December 14, 2018

Sergei Bidonko is to take up his duties on December 17

Evgeny Kuyvashev, Sverdlovsk region Governor, has appointed Sergei Bidonko, a Ural State Technical University (now UrFU) alumnus, Vice Governor for Domestic Policy.

New vice governor is to assume office on December 17. Soon he is supposed to hand over his deputy’s seat. After that, there will be by-election for the State Duma in the Serov single-mandate election district. Apart from that, Sergei Bidonko has joined the “United Russia”'s Supreme Council at the party congress in Moscow which was held past weekend.

Mind you, Sergei graduated the Ural State Technical University – UPU (now UrFU) with the specialty in “Economics and Management”. From 2009 to 2014 he headed the Karpinsk city administration. On December 14, 2014 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Construction and Architecture of Sverdlovsk region, and on February 18, 2015 – Minister of Construction and Infrastructure Development of Sverdlovsk region. On December 18, 2016 he was elected a deputy of the State Duma for Serov single-mandate election district.

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.