Vladimir Starostenko

Vladimir Ivanovich Starstenko (; 2 September 1948 – 31 October 2017) was a Russian politician, statesman, economist, railway operator, and engineer who had served as the Head of the Moscow Railway from 2002 to 2009. He was also the Head of the West Siberian Railways from 1997 to 1999, and again from 1999 to 2002.

Starastenko also served as the Minister of Railways in 1999.

Starting his career as an on-duty station post of electrical centralization, Starostenko successively went through all the steps of the career ladder, was the head of three major railways, and at the top of his career was the post of head of the Ministry of Railways of Russia.

From 2009 to 2014, he was a member of the board of Russian Railways, and was an adviser to the president of the company, Vladimir Yakunin.

As of January 2014, upon his retirement, he worked on the railway for 47 years.

He died in Moscow on 31 October 2017.

Biography

Vladimir Starastenko was born on 2 September 1948 in the city of Tatarsk, in Novosibirsk Oblast.

Between 1966 and 1996, he worked on the West Siberian Railway.

In 1968, he graduated from the Tomsk Railway Transport College.

He was on duty at the Tatarskaya station park, chief of staff of the Civil Defense. In 1970, he was the deputy head of the Tatarskaya station.

In 1975, he graduated from the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Engineers.

From 1975 to 1976, he worked as an auditor of the traffic department of the Omsk branch of the West Siberian Railway.

He had gained valuable experience by getting acquainted with the work of the largest sorting yards of the Western Siberian Railway - Inskaya and Altaiskaya. Starostenko's successor as head of the Moscow Railways, Vladimir Moldaver, speaking at a scientific and practical conference in 2018, described Starostenko's line as "a combination of a strict enterprise management system and the widespread use of advanced operational work technologies.".

Memorials

On 1 October 2018, a scientific and practical conference dedicated to Starostenko was held in the building of the Moscow Railway Administration, and a memorial plaque in his honor was opened in the "Gallery of Glory".