Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has appointed Sergei Mikhailovich Anoprienko, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation – Head of the Federal Forestry Agency, the Russian government’s website reported. Earlier, Sergei Anoprienko served as deputy head of the Federal Property Management Agency.

Sergei Anoprienko was born on November 24, 1970 in the city of Novy Oskol, Belgorod Region of Russia. In 1992 he graduated from the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School. In 2011 he graduated from the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. In 2016 he graduate school of the Institute of Management, Economics and Innovation.

Until 2012, he worked in the Russian Emergencies Ministry. In 2012, he entered the civil service at the Federal Agency for State Property Management. Since 2016, he served as head of the Property Management Department of federal authorities and defense and security organizations of the Federal Agency for State Property Management. In 2017, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management.