Rashid Nurgaliyev

Rashid Nurgaliyev Рашид Нургалиев
Minister of Internal Affairs
In office 24 December 2003 – 21 May 2012 Acting: 24 December 2003 – 9 March 2004
Prime Minister	Mikhail Kasyanov Viktor Khristenko (Acting) Mikhail Fradkov Viktor Zubkov Vladimir Putin Viktor Zubkov (Acting) Dmitry Medvedev
Preceded by	Boris Gryzlov
Succeeded by	Vladimir Kolokoltsev
Personal details
Born	(1956-08-10) 10 August 1956 (age 55) Zhetikara, Soviet Union (now Kazakhstan)
Political party	United Russia
Alma mater	Kuusinen State University
Signature
Military service
Awards	Order of Honour

Rashid Gumarovich Nurgaliyev (Russian: Рашид Гумарович Нургалиев) is a Russian general and politician of the Tatars descent. From 2003 until 2012, he served as the minister of the Internal Affairs of Russia.

Life and career

He was born in Zhetikara, Kazakh SSR, on October 8, 1956. He graduated from Kuusinen State University in Petrozavodsk in 1979. He later received a doctoral degree in economics. His thesis was on the “economic aspects of the formation of business undertakings in modern Russia".

From 1981-1995 he worked in the KGB Directorate of Karelia and its successor, Security Ministry of Karelia, in 1992-1994 led by Nikolai Patrushev.

In 1995 he moved to Moscow and was appointed Chief Inspector of the Inspectorial Directorate of FSK (FSB) and Head of a section of FSB Internal Security Department led by Nikolai Patrushev.

He was head of the inspectorial office of the FSB.

In 2002 he became first deputy minister of the interior of Russia. In 2003 he became minister of the MVD. Currently holds the rank of Army General. Dr Nurgaliyev is an Orthodox Christian.^[1] He is married, and has two sons, Maxim, and Rashid.

Nurgaliyev is married and has two children.

Honours and awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd and 4th classes
• Order of Honour
• Order of Saint Blessed Prince Dimitry Donskoy great, 1st class (2005, Russian Orthodox Church)
• Order of Akhmad Kadyrov (2006, Chechen Republic)
• Honorary Citizen of the Republic of Karelia
• Yuri Andropov Award
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan"
• Medal for Distinction in Military Service, 2nd class
• Medal of Merit in the conduct of national census
• Jubilee Medal "100 Years of the Trans-Siberian Railway"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"
• Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
• Medal for Strengthening Military Cooperation(Defence)
• Medal "200 Years of the Ministry of Defence"
• Medal "For Military Merit" (MIA)
• Medal "For Impeccable Service", 1st class

References

External links

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• (Russian) Biography
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