Valery Okulov

Valery Mikhailovich Okulov (born April 22, 1952) is a Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation,[1] the former general director of Aeroflot.[2][3] The actual state of the Russian Federation 2 Class Advisor (22 September 2011).[4]

Biography

In 1975 he graduated from the navigator's Faculty of Saint Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation engineer-navigator.

Until 1985, he worked in the Sverdlovsk joint squadron of the Ural Civil Aviation Authority as a navigator of the An-24, An-12, and Tu-154 aircraft. In 1985, he was transferred to work at the Central Office of International Air Traffic (Moscow). He flew as a navigator on Tu-154, Il-86, An-124 airplanes, and worked as a lead navigator and mentor at the Aeroflot aviation personnel training center.

Family

Wife Elena – the daughter of Boris Yeltsin and Naina Yeltsina.[5][6][7]

Son Dmitry from marriage with Svetlana Okulova. Daughter Maria, son Ivan from marriage with Elena Okulova. Elena Okulova's daughter Catherine.

He has three grandchildren: Alexander Okulov (born in 1999, the son of Ekaterina Okulova). Mikhail and Fedor Zhilenkov (born in 2006, children of Maria Okulova-Zhilenkova and Mikhail Zhilenkov).[8]

Awards

• Order of Honour (2012)[9]

External links

• Валерий Михайлович Окулов. Коммерсантъ
• Семейный клан Ельциных