Gennady Fadeyev

Gennady Matveyevich Fadeyev (Russian: Геннадий Матвеевич Фадеев; born on 10 April 1937) is a Russian statesman, who is currently the Advisor to the General Director of Russian Railways since 2015.

Fadeyev was the first president of Russian Railways from 2003 to 2005, and was the Minister of Railways from 1992 to 1996, and again from 2002 to 2003.

He is a Full Cavalier of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, and an Honored Transport Worker of Russia, awarded in 2009.

The main milestones of Fadeyev's activity at the head of the Russian railway industry, were the preservation of the Ministry of Railways during the period of privatization of state property in the early 1990s, as the creation of the Council for Railway Transport of the Member States of the Commonwealth of the CIS and the Baltic States with a permanent directorate, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The opening of train traffic throughout the BAM, with completion of full electrification of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the main route to China; construction of the 2nd railway bridge across the Amur River near Khabarovsk; construction of a railway bypass of Krasnoyarsk with a bridge across the Yenisei River. Organization of production in Russia of its own electric trains at the Demikhov Machine-Building Plant; creation of a joint venture for the production of heavy track equipment with the Austrian company Plasser and Theurer; creation and implementation at Moscow railway stations, and then throughout the country, of a new technology for passing passengers through turnstiles using smart cards; launch of the first interregional express trains to Ryazan, Tula, Oryol, Yaroslavl, Vladimir, which opened in 2002, becoming of Russia's first Aeroexpress route to Domodedovo airport from Paveletsky railway station, and then from Kievsky railway station to Vnukovo airport; the return of the historical appearance of the Yasnaya Polyana station near the Leo Tolstoy Museum, the commissioning of the new international Ladoga railway station in St. Petersburg, the decision to remake and start the transition from a narrow gauge to a wide (domestic) one on Sakhalin Island.

Fadeyev is the last head of the Russian railway department, having a specialized education and a basic profession of a railway worker. He was replaced as the head of Russian Railways by an intelligence diplomat and an economist.