Russian president Vladimir Putin has appointed Andrei Kazmin, CEO of Russian savings bank Sberbank,as head of the Russian Post with the task of modernising the state-owned postal company, Russian
media have reported.Kazmin, who successfully led Sberbank for 12 years, will replace Igor Syrtsov who has headedthe Russian postal organisation over the last decade. Syrstov, a well-known figure in theinternational postal community, faced the challenge of reorganising the Russian postal systemfollowing wide-ranging reforms during the early 1990s.
The appointment was made at the request of the new Russian prime minister Viktor Zubkov.Putin told the prime minister that he had no objection to Kazmin taking over the position. ThePresident was cited as saying that Russian Post is “a huge enterprise that has over 400,000employees and 40,000 post offices nationwide, which is two times larger than the Sberbank’s chain.I don’t object to Kazmin’s appointment.”
Born in Moscow, the 49-year old Kazmin studied economics at the Financial University ofMoscow and worked as a consultant to the Russian finance minister. In 1996 he took on the positionof Sberbank CEO.
