Dmitry Burkov
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Dmitry Burkov | |
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 Burkov at Chaos Constructions 2018 | |
| Born | 12 April 1960 |
| Occupation(s) | Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Assistance for Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development |
| Awards | Award of Ministerial council of the USSR for the participation in the development of the Soviet network operating system DEMOS; Honorary certificate of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation; Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" |
Dmitry Vladimirovich Burkov (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Бурков; born 12 April 1960) is one of the Internet industry pioneers in Russia, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Assistance for Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development, one of the originators of the Eurasia Network Operators' Group (ENOG).
Burkov graduated from the Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University in 1983. While a student, he worked in the Microsystems Laboratory of the Russian Academy of Sciences on modeling and development of various systems and networks. Between 1983 and 1994, he worked for the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS).[1]
In the late 1980s Burkov co-founded Demos, one of Russia’s first Internet service providers. Later he was a Board Member at Relcom, another oldest Russian ISP. He also worked in the management of the major Russian telecommunications companies: Comstar, Rostelecom and RTComm.