Vladimir Chirskov

Chirskov was born on 24 April 1935.^[1] He graduated from the All Union Finance and Economic Institute by correspondence obtaining a degree in economics.^[2] He started his career at the Tyumazyneftesroy trust in the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.^[2] Then he served as a managing director of the Tyumen gaz mechanizatsia trust and headed the Glavsibtruboprovodstroy in the Tyumen Oblast.^[2] He was the first deputy minister of the construction of the enterprises of oil and gas industry between 1978 and 1984.^[2] Then he appointed as the minister of this institution on 22 February 1984^[3] which he held until 1991.

Chirskov was a member of the Communist Party's central committee.^[2] He is the recipient of the USSR State Prize and the Soviet Ministers' Prize USSR.^[3]