Gennady Fadeyev

In his student years, after the 2nd year, he worked as a duty officer at the Shimanovskaya second-class station, which then passed about 30 pairs of trains a day.

After the 3rd year, Fadeyev worked as a train dispatcher at the Skovorodino station.

After the 4th year, he worked at the out-of-class station Irkutsk-Sortirovochny.

In order to have more time to do practical work at the station, Fadeyev passed all sessions at the institute ahead of schedule.

With that, already in his student years, he mastered the work of basic professions in traffic control.

The acquired skills allowed Fadeyev, two years after graduation from the institute, to become the chief engineer of the Taishet large railway junction.

Gennady Matveyevich Fadeyev (Russian: Геннадий Матвеевич Фадеев; born on 10 April 1937) is a Russian statesman, who is currently the Advisor to the General Director of Russian Railways since 2015.

Gennady Fadeyev was born on 10 April 1937, in Shimanovsk, Amur Oblast, to his father, Matvey Yakovlevich, and his mother, Yekaterina Ivanovna.

Matvey worked at the Shimanovskaya station (Amur Railway), in a locomotive depot on the outfit of steam locomotives.

Gennady is the youngest of 7 children in the family.

He studied at the departmental school of the Ministry of Railways No. 59, finished 10 classes.

Already in his school years, Gennady constantly spent time with older relatives on the railway, gradually immersed himself in the railway environment, mastered the basics and technical subtleties of the profession of a railway worker; in particular, he knew what “bush rot of sleepers” is and how it affects the safety of train traffic.

After receiving the certificate, he went to Vladivostok to enter the Higher Naval School, however, when he saw the ocean for the first time, he realized that “nautical business is not mine” and resolutely chose the profession of a railway worker.

At the entrance exams of the operational faculty of the Railway Engineering Institute in Khabarovsk, Fadeyev received 24 points out of 25 possible (the passing score at Moscow State University that year was 23).

In 1961, he graduated with honours from the Khabarovsk Institute of Railway Engineers and was sent to the East Siberian Railway.

From 1961 to 1962, after graduating from the institute, he was on duty on the tracks, as shunting dispatcher, on duty at the Taishet station, Irkutsk Oblast.

From 1962 to 1963, he was a senior assistant to the head of the Taishet station of the East Siberian Railway.

From 1963 to 1965, he was promoted to the chief engineer of the Taishet station.

In 1965 to 1969, he became the Deputy Head of the Department of Traffic and Passenger Work of the Nizhneudinsk Branch of the East Siberian Railway, Nizhneudinsk, Irkutsk Oblast.

From 1969 to 1970, he was promoted as the head of the traffic and passenger work department of the Nizhneudinsk branch of the East Siberian Railway.

From 1970 to 1974, he was the head of the Nizhneudinsk branch of the East Siberian Railway.

Under his leadership, the department won the banner of the Ministry of Railways and the Central Committee of the branch trade union for 4 years in a row.

From this position, Fadeyev was invited to party work, but he chose the railway.

Under his leadership, unscheduled, at the expense of funds raised, a new beautiful railway station was built in Nizhneudinsk.

From 1970 to 1975, he was elected as a deputy of the Nizhneudinsk City Council of Workers' Deputies from constituency No. 80.

City of Nizhneudinsk in Irkutsk Region.

From 1974 to 1975, he was the head of the Taishet branch of the East Siberian Railway, in Taishet.

From 1975 to 1977, he became the head of the Krasnoyarsk branch of the East Siberian Railway, in Krasnoyarsk.

At the same time, he was elected as a deputy of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Council of Working People's Deputies from constituency No. 197, in Krasnoyarsk.

From 1977 to 1979, he was the First Deputy Head of the East Siberian Railway, in Irkutsk.

From 1979 to 1984, he was the Head of the Krasnoyarsk Railway, in Krasnoyarsk.

Between March 1984 and August 1987, he was the head of the Oktyabrskaya Railway, in Leningrad.

In February 1985, he was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR in the Frunze constituency No. 131, in Leningrad.

The main milestones of Fadeyev's activity at the head of the Russian railway industry, were the preservation of the Ministry of Railways during the period of privatization of state property in the early 1990s, as the creation of the Council for Railway Transport of the Member States of the Commonwealth of the CIS and the Baltic States with a permanent directorate, after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The opening of train traffic throughout the BAM, with completion of full electrification of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the main route to China; construction of the 2nd railway bridge across the Amur River near Khabarovsk; construction of a railway bypass of Krasnoyarsk with a bridge across the Yenisei River.

Organization of production in Russia of its own electric trains at the Demikhov Machine-Building Plant; creation of a joint venture for the production of heavy track equipment with the Austrian company Plasser and Theurer; creation and implementation at Moscow railway stations, and then throughout the country, of a new technology for passing passengers through turnstiles using smart cards; launch of the first interregional express trains to Ryazan, Tula, Oryol, Yaroslavl, Vladimir, which opened in 2002, becoming of Russia's first Aeroexpress route to Domodedovo airport from Paveletsky railway station, and then from Kievsky railway station to Vnukovo airport; the return of the historical appearance of the Yasnaya Polyana station near the Leo Tolstoy Museum, the commissioning of the new international Ladoga railway station in St. Petersburg, the decision to remake and start the transition from a narrow gauge to a wide (domestic) one on Sakhalin Island.

Fadeyev is the last head of the Russian railway department, having a specialized education and a basic profession of a railway worker.

He was replaced as the head of Russian Railways by an intelligence diplomat and an economist.

Fadeyev was the first president of Russian Railways from 2003 to 2005, and was the Minister of Railways from 1992 to 1996, and again from 2002 to 2003.

He is a Full Cavalier of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, and an Honored Transport Worker of Russia, awarded in 2009.