"Viktor Zubkov thirty years at glance in various fields.Born on 15 September 1941 in the village of Arbat,in the southern Urals region of Sverdlovsk, Mr Zubkov studied agriculture in 1960s Leningrad, as St Petersburg was then known. After that, he ran collective farms in the Leningrad region, and, later,began working his way up through the regional Communist Party.

In the post-Soviet 1990s he became St Petersburg's deputy chief tax inspector, after his work with Mr Putin on the external relations committee. He was defeated in a bid to be elected governor of Leningrad Region in 1999, but then joined the federal government in Moscow as deputy tax minister.

He was born on 15 September 1941 in Arbat village.
Sverdlovsk region 1965: Graduates from Leningrad
Agricultural Institute in economics 1967-1985:
Works on collective farms in Leningrad regions 1985-1991:
Works in regional administration 1991-1993:
Works with Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg city
administration 1993-2000:
Works for federal tax service and tax ministry From 2001:
Head of financial monitoring service.
Putin names next Prime Minister Victor Zubkov.