Andrey Tarasenko was born in Vladivostok on 9 August 1963. He began working in 1980. In 1985, he graduated from the Higher Naval School of Submarine Navigation in Leningrad. Until 1994, he served in the Soviet Army and the Russian Armed Forces.
From September 1997 to January 2000 Tarasenko worked as a manager of the closed joint stock company Westmoreproduct. Between January 2000 and November 2003, he was the Acting General Director, then General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise National Fish Resources. In 2002, he graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of Russia [ru] with a degree in State and Municipal Administration with the qualification of a Manager. In 2003, he defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Moscow State Social University on the topic "Dialogue model of managerial decision-making by a manager."
From January 2004 to June 2005, Tarasenko was acting director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Murmansk Sea Fishing Port". Between July 2005 and June 2007, he became the Deputy Head of the Inspectorate for Controlling Federal Budget Expenditures on Fisheries and Water Resources of the Department for Controlling Federal Budget Expenditures on Natural Resources and Agroindustrial Complex of the Accounts Chamber of Russia. In 2006, he graduated from the Russian State Social University with a degree in accounting, analysis and audit with the qualification of an economist. From June to August 2007, he worked as First Deputy Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Order of the Red Banner of Labor Research Institute of Chemical Reagents and Highly Pure Chemical Substances." From December 2007 to April 2008, he was the Deputy Head of the Department of Affairs and Administrative Support of the Federal Agency for Atomic Energy. Between April 2008 and February 2010, he worked as Deputy Director of the Department for Management of Affairs and Property Complex of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom.
In 2009, he was awarded the academic title of Professor in the Department of Acmeology and Cybernetics of the Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces.[2] In 2010, Tarasenko was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Psychology. According to the results of the examination of the Dissernet network community, most of Tarasenko's doctoral dissertation "Socio-psychological patterns and mechanisms of optimal activity of a military leader" is plagiarism: the text of 280 out of 340 analyzed pages is fully or partially borrowed from the dissertation defended in 1995 L. G. Lapteva "Optimization of the administrative activities of military personnel.".[3][4]
From December 2010 to January 2012, he successively held positions, starting from chief economist to advisor to the deputy chairman of the board of JSC Russian Agricultural Bank. From March 2012 to June 2013, he consecutively held the positions of Deputy Head, Head of the Nevsko-Ladoga Basin Water Administration of the Federal Agency for Water Resources. From July to September 2013, he held the position of Deputy General Director of FSUE "Rosmorport". On 11 September 2013, he was promoted to the General Director of FSUE “Rosmorport”.
