OREANDA-NEWS. On 09 June 2009 was announced, that Pavel Zaitsev had been appointed deputy general director and commercial director of Uralsvyazinform.

Mr. Zaitsev was born in Yekaterinburg in 1977.  In 2000 he graduated from the Urals State Technical University with a major in Information Systems in Economics.  In 1996-2001 he worked in the department of strategic planning and marketing of Uralvneshtorgbank.  In September 2001 he managed service center Uraltelecom (in 2002 the Yekaterinburg branch of Uralsvyazinform).  In 2005 he headed up Uraltelecomserivce (which services the subscribers of telecom companies, including Uralsvyazinform, Rostelecom, MTT, Transtelecom, etc.).

Elena Kovalchuk was appointed general director of HR at Uralsvyazinform.

Elena Nikolaevna Kovalchuk was born in the city of Omsk.  In 1985 she graduated from the Omsk State University with a major in Law.  In 1998 she received a second higher education at the Moscow International Academy of Marketing and Management.  In 1993 she worked in the administration of the Noyabrsk in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District as head of the law department. In 1998-2003 she was head of the HR and legal department of the State Inspectorate for Trade, Quality of Goods and Protection of Consumer Rights in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District.  From 2003-2007 she worked as regional manager with the personnel of Urals Region of VimpelCom (Beeline trademark).  In 2007-2009 she was director of business development and HR operations at ArmenTel (part of VimpelCom group).