Alexey Farafonov has been elected Director General and Management Committee Chairman of Spetsgazavtotrans. The relevant decision was taken by the company’s Board of Directors.

Alexey Farafonov was born in 1976 in the town of Izhevsk, Republic of Udmurtia.

In 1998 he graduated from the Izhevsk State Technical University getting specialty in Industrial and Civil Construction.

A. Farafonov has been worked for Spetsgazavtotrans since 1999. In 2002 Mr. Farafonov was appointed First Deputy Director and in 2004 – Director of the Construction Directorate for Contractual Activities. Since 2005 he took the post of Deputy Director General for Production Activities at Spetsgazavtotrans.

Vladimir Tumaev has been relieved of the post of Director General and Management Committee Chairman due to his retirement.

Background:

Open Joint-Stock Company Spetsgazavtotrans, Gazprom’s subsidiary, is a multidisciplinary company performing a full range of construction and installation activities on gas and oil field pre-development as well as construction, capital overhaul and revamp of linear part of oil and gas trunklines. Spetsgazavtotrans renders transportation services to oil and gas companies and repairs foreign road-building equipment.