Georgy Boos

Georgy Boos
Георгий Боос
Boos in 2009
4th Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast
In office
12 November 2005 – 27 September 2010
Preceded byVladimir Yegorov
Succeeded byNikolay Tsukanov
Minister of Taxation
In office
28 December 1998 – 24 May 1999
Prime MinisterYevgeny Primakov
Preceded byOffice renamed
Succeeded byAlexander Pochinok
Head of State Taxation Service
In office
29 September 1998 – 28 December 1998
Prime MinisterYevgeny Primakov
Preceded byBoris Fyodorov
Succeeded byOffice renamed
Personal details
Born (1963-01-22) 22 January 1963 (age 61)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyUnited Russia
Alma materMoscow Power Engineering Institute
ProfessionBusinessman, politician

Georgy Valentinovich Boos (Russian: Георгий Валентинович Боос, born 22 January 1963) is a Russian businessman and politician who served as the governor of Kaliningrad Oblast from 2005 to 2010.

Early life and education

Boos was born in Moscow into a Crimean German family on 22 January 1963.[1] His parents were both engineers.
He graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1986 with an engineering degree.[1]

In 1995 he received a Technical Sciences Ph.D. His thesis was titled "Improving the efficiency of outdoor lighting installations of cities streets and squares".[2]

Career

Boos performed his military service in the Soviet Air Force between 1986 and 1988 based at Spassk-Dalny.

In 1988, he was hired by the All-Union Technological and Lighting Scientific Research Institute (VNISI) in Moscow, where he remained for three years, holding the positions of Engineer, Senior Engineer and Junior Researcher. During the same time period, he was also a mathematics teacher at School No. 247 in Moscow.

From 1991 to 1995, he served as director of the Moscow Scientific Production Lighting Enterprise Svetoservis, which was founded by him and his father. In 1993 the company became a joint stock company, and Boos became its CEO. Since 1994, the firm is engaged in art-architectural lighting municipal facilities of Moscow as the main contractor.[3] For his work on many enterprise professional exhibitions was medalist and winner of awards.[4][5][6][7] Svetoservis patented a number of lighting solutions, the development of which also involved GV Boos.[8] Among them was the industrially designed lamp, designed for use in doorways, which became known as "vandal-proof".[9][10]

From 1995 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2005, he was a deputy of the State Duma, in which he served as vice-speaker (from 2003 to 2005). Boos became a close ally of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov of Moscow. He was a member of Luzhkov's centrist Fatherland Party. After it merged with the Unity Party, Boos became a member of United Russia.

From 29 September until 23 December 1998, by resolution of Russian Federation Government, was appointed as the Chairman of the State Tax Service of the Russian Federation (from 23 December until 25 May 1999, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation become a Minister of the Russian Federation for Taxes and Levies). In May 1999, he was dismissed with the Primakov cabinet.

On 14 September 2005 he was proposed by President Vladimir Putin to the Kaliningrad Oblast legislature as a governor of Kaliningrad Oblast and was approved soon after this. His tenure as governor ended in September 2010.[1]

28 December 2011 G. Boos was appointed chairman of the Board of Directors of VVC (All-Russian Exhibition Centre),[11] but in June 2012 dismissed from the post.[12][13]

14 January 2012 elected to the Board of Directors of the Holding of Interregional Distribution Grid Companies[14] (JSC "Russian network"), and then was its chairman[15] until 28 June 2013.[16]

Is the owner of the holding "Boos Lighting groups".[17] BL Group Boos Lighting Group is a holding company that combines: a group of companies "Svetoservis", «GALAD» and «OPORA engenering».[18]

Boos' income in 2008 amounted to 122,370,965 rubles, of which 841,572 rubles earned on the main job, were transferred to the accounts of orphanages Kaliningrad region.[19] In 2009, revenue was 86.4 million rubles.[20]

Personal life

Boos married three times. First to Valentina Boos, secondly to Elena Vladimirovna Lerina-Boos and third to Anna Boos. He has eight children.[1]

Honours and award

  • Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class (21 January 2008) – for outstanding contribution to the socio-economic development of the region and many years of fruitful work[1][21]
  • Order of Honour (28 January 2004) – for active participation in legislative activities and many years of diligent work[1][22]
  • Medal "For Services in the Conduct of the Population Census"[1]
  • Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"[1]
  • Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"[1]
  • Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art in 1996 (29 May 1997) – for the formation of light-color Moscow environment[23]
  • Diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation (6 July 1999) – for services to the state and years of diligent work[24]
  • Medal "Federation Council. 15 years "(2008) – for many years of hard work, great contribution to the interaction of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and state bodies, organizations in the development and improvement of the federal legislation of the Russian Federation, and the strengthening of the Russian state in connection with the 15th anniversary Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation[25]
  • Commander of the Order "For Merit" (Gabon, 2000)[26]
  • Order of Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow II degree (ROC, 2006)[27]
  • Higher Law Award "Themis" (17 February 2007) in the category "Russia and Europe" – For the development of civil society in the process of integration of the Russian Federation and the European Union[28]
  • Honorary Doctor of BFU. Kant (2012)[29]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Georgy Valentinovich Boos". Russian Grids. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  2. ^ Коммерсантъ.ru. Боос Георгий Валентинович
  3. ^ Досье губернатора Бооса.
  4. ^ ООО "СВЕТОСЕРВИС" Archived 12 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine (Russian Union of Designers)
  5. ^ Interlight Moscow 2013 – results of the exhibition Archived 3 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Interlight Moscow 2012 — the first lighting up exhibition of Russia Archived 3 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Дизайн 2005 (Design Review)
  8. ^ "Lamps for gardens". Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  9. ^ Boos lamp illuminate entrances
  10. ^ Wizards bring light
  11. ^ Russian Exhibition Center for Boos and Nisanova
  12. ^ Deputy Sobyanin will do the Reconstruction of Russian Exhibition Center
  13. ^ Georgy Boos removed from the reconstruction project of the Russian Exhibition Center
  14. ^ Georgy Boos elected to the Board of Directors of IDGC
  15. ^ Georgy Boos headed Energy Holding IDGC
  16. ^ Georgy Boos resigned as chairman of the board of directors "Rosseti"
  17. ^ Georgy Boos on Lenta.ru
  18. ^ Sites of holding BL GROUP
  19. ^ Houses, cars, ATVs and 21 lighting company
  20. ^ VEDOMOSTI – A salary – to give a salary to children
  21. ^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 21 января 2008 года № 53 Archived 3 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  22. ^ Собрание законодательства Российской Федерации 2 февраля 2004, № 5, ст. 356
  23. ^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 29 мая 1997 года № 532 «О присуждении Государственных премий Российской Федерации в области литературы и искусства 1996 года» Archived 3 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  24. ^ Распоряжение Правительства Российской Федерации от 6 июля 1999 года № 1069-р «О награждении Почётной грамотой Правительства Российской Федерации Бооса Г. В.»
  25. ^ Георгий Боос награждён медалью Совета Федерации Archived 20 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  26. ^ Георгий Боос. Поездка в Габон и Камерун.
  27. ^ Святейший Патриарх Алексий совершил всенощное бдение в Крестовоздвиженском соборе Калининграда. Archived 14 September 2012 at archive.today
  28. ^ Георгий Боос был удостоен Высшей юридической премии
  29. ^ "Боос. Перезагрузка". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
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