Valentin Zavadnikov

Valentin Zavadnikov was born on 30 April 1963 in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. In 1985, he graduated from the Maritime State University. Afterward, he worked at the Primorsky Shipping Company of the city of Nakhodka, Primorsky Krai. From 1997 to 2001, he was a member of the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation for the preparation of agreements on the delimitation of jurisdiction and powers between federal state authorities and state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. From January 2002 to November 2011, he represented Saratov Oblast in the Federation Council.^[1]