Gennady Fadeyev

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Gennady Fadeyev
Геннадий Фадеев
CEO of Russian Railways
In office 22 September 2003 – 14 June 2005
Succeeded by	Vladimir Yakunin
Minister of Railways
In office 4 January 2002 – 22 September 2003
Preceded by	Nikolai Aksyonenko
Succeeded by	Vadim Morozov
Third head of Moscow Railway
In office 3 March 1999 – 4 January 2002
Preceded by	Ivan Paristy
Succeeded by	Vladimir Starostenko
Minister of Railways
In office 20 January 1992 – August 1996
Succeeded by	Anatoly Zaytsev
Personal details
Born	Gennady Matveyevich Fadeyev (1937-04-10) 10 April 1937 (age 87) Shimanovsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR)

Gennady Matveyevich Fadeyev (Russian: Геннадий Матвеевич Фадеев), born 10 April 1937, is a Russian railway executive who has been advisor to the General Director of Russian Railways since 2015.^[1] Fadeyev was the first president of Russian Railways (from 2003 to 2005), and was Minister of Railways from 1992 to 1996 and from 2002 to 2003. He is a Full Cavalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" and an Honored Transport Worker of Russia.^[2]

Fadeyev helped preserve the Ministry of Railways during the early-1990s privatization of state property after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He oversaw the opening of train traffic on the Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM); electrification of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the main route to China, and construction of a second rail bridge across the Amur river near Khabarovsk and a rail bypass of Krasnoyarsk with a bridge across the Yenisey river. Fadeyev organized Russian production of its own electric trains at the Demikhov Machine-Building Plant; created a joint venture for the production of heavy track equipment with the Austrian company Plasser & Theurer; implemented smart-card technology throughout Russia; launched the first inter-regional express trains to Ryazan, Tula, Oryol, Yaroslavl and Vladimir and Russia's first Aeroexpress routes, to Moscow Domodedovo Airport from Moscow Paveletsky railway station and from Kievsky railway station to Vnukovo International Airport; restoration of the Yasnaya Polyana station, near the Leo Tolstoy Museum; the Ladozhsky railway station in Saint Petersburg, and the transition from narrow to broad gauge on Sakhalin.^[3][4] He is the last Russian railway executive with a rail background.