Russian oligarchs

TOKAREV Nikolay Petrovich (b. 1950 in Karaganda) graduated from the Karaganda Polytechnic Institute with a degree in electrification and automation of mining in 1973. For several years, he worked at mining enterprises in Kazakhstan, where his task was to monitor anti-Soviet sentiments among workers and to prevent the disclosure of classified information.

TKACHEV Alexander Nikolayevich (b. 1960) graduated from the Krasnodar Polytechnic Institute with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1983.

TIMCHENKO-FRANK Ksenia Gennadyevna (b. 1985 in Leningrad) is the youngest daughter of the oligarch Gennady Timchenko, a close associate of Vladimir Putin. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2009.

TIMCHENKO, Gennady Nikolayevich (b.1952) is a Russian-Finnish billionaire, a close friend of Vladimir Putin. Born in Soviet Armenia and raised in East Germany and Ukraine, in 1976, he graduated from the Leningrad Mechanical Institute. He started his career as an engineer at the Izhorsky plant near Leningrad, which specialized in building power generators. From 1982 to 1988, he worked as a senior engineer for the Ministry of Foreign Trade.

TIKHONOVA  Ekatirina (Katerina)  Vladimirovna (b. 1986 in Dresden, GDR). She studied at the St. Petersburg State University. She also studied at Moscow State University, at its Institute of Asian and African countries.

SMIRNOV Vladimir Alexeyevich (born in 1957 in Pskov) graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation with a degree in electrical engineering in 1980. From 1980 to 1989, he worked as an engineer and a junior researcher at the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation. In 1988, he was honored with the State Prize for Young Scientists for exceptional contributions to science and technology.