Nikolai Petrovich Tokarev knows a lot about intelligence. At the beginning of his career, he worked as part of a geological exploration team. Then his interests switched to foreign intelligence: Tokarev worked for a long time on the territory of the GDR under the line of the First Main Directorate of the KGB. Subsequently, a senior intelligence officer was entrusted with the management of the country's leading oil company.
Facts from the biography of Nikolai Petrovich Tokarev
The future top-level manager was born on December 20, 1950 in Karaganda (Kazakhstan). Behind Nikolay Tokarev's shoulders is the Karaganda "Polytechnic". He graduated from the institute in 1973. Diploma specialty - automation and electrification of mining operations. After graduating from the university, he took part in the work of geological exploration parties in the mining industry.
However, Tokarev was engaged not only in the exploration of natural resources. As the journalists established, in the 80s, Nikolai Petrovich was on a long business trip in German Dresden, where he worked under the line of the foreign intelligence department of the KGB of the USSR. It is known that approximately in the same years (mid-80s) Vladimir Putin worked in the same department and in the same country. Sources of the Kommersant newspaper have information that already in those years Tokarev and the current head of the Russian state had friendly relations.
Nikolay Tokarev's career
In the mid-90s, Nikolai Tokarev was the head of the department of external relations of JSC Russian-German Leasing Company. This enterprise was a subsidiary of Sberbank of Russia. Subsequently, Tokarev was a member of the management staff of the state enterprise for managing property abroad, which was part of the structure of the Office of the President of the country.
In 1999 Nikolay Tokarev took over the leadership of the security service of the Transneft company. Then he moved to the position of vice president of the company and oversaw the block of foreign economic relations, projects outside the country, information service and analytical work. A little later, Tokarev became the head of the foreign trade enterprise Zarubezhneft. Having come to this commercial structure, Nikolai Petrovich made a number of personnel changes and conducted a detailed audit. The result of these measures was the identification of a number of fraudulent schemes that cost Zarubezhneft about $ 100 million.
Head of Transneft
In autumn 2007 Tokarev was elected president of Transneft. His candidacy, apparently, was agreed at the very top. It is characteristic that 100% of the company's shares are owned by the state. Under the leadership of Tokarev, significant projects of Transneft related to the construction of oil pipelines were completed.
In 2010, the opposition-minded public figure Alexei Navalny published a number of materials, from which it followed that during the construction of oil pipelines, Transneft was spending money unjustifiably. It was a big waste. Nikolai Tokarev denied this message, said that this information is part of an information war against his company. Tokarev called Navalny a "crook".
Nikolai Petrovich well guards not only commercial secrets, but also information about his personal life. It is known that Tokarev is married. His wife's name is Galina. The couple have a daughter who, together with her husband, owns an elite resort in Croatia and runs a large pharmaceutical company.
