Zakharov, Yury Aleksandrovich. Rector of Kemerovo State University

Kemerovo State University

The Kemerovo State University was established in 1973 as a successor to Kemerovo Pedagogical Institute. It is a leading educational and scientific center of Kemerovo Oblast with five branches throughout the region in Belovo, Anzhero-Sudzhensk, Novokuznetsk, Prokopyevsk, and in Ulan Bator...

 from 1976 to 2005. Born in 1938 in Anzhero-Sudzhensk

Anzhero-Sudzhensk

Anzhero-Sudzhensk is a town in the Kuznetsk Basin in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. The town, which was formed out of the amalgamation of the Anzherka and Sudzhenka settlements, is located to the north of the oblast's administrative center of Kemerovo and to the east of the Tom River. It is on the route...

, in 1960 graduated from Tomsk State University

Tomsk State University

Tomsk State University , formerly Imperial Tomsk University, is the first university in Siberia—it was founded in 1878 in Tomsk, Russia. TSU opened in 1888 with only one department, the medical school...

. Ph.D. in Chemistry, Professor.

Professor Zakharov is an author of numerous papers on solid state chemistry

Mr Zakharov has been a member of Unified Russia Party since 2000.

In 2005, he had to quit the post of Rector, when he was indicted on bribery charges. But He was later acquitted.