On October 13, 2005, Rosneft’s President, Sergei Bogdanchikov, completed his working visit to the Arkhangelsk Oblast.

During his visit, he inspected the production facilities of Rosneft’s subsidiary sales division, Rosneft-Arkhangelsknefteprodukt, and held a meeting on the enterprise’s performance over the first nine months of 2005 and the business outlook up to 2010.

Sergei Bogdanchikov introduced the Arkhangelsknefteprodukt workforce to their new general director, Yuri Anisimov, appointed in place of Vladimir Ivanchikov who was tragically killed in a car accident on September 24 this year.

Yuri Anisimov was born in 1971. In 1999, he graduated from the Russian Distance-Learning Institute of Finance and Economics, majoring in Finance and Credit. From 2001 onwards, he held the position of First Deputy Director of Rosneft-Arkhangelsknefteprodukt.