Ksenia Shoigu headed the Mendeleev Valley Foundation

Ksenia Shoigu, the daughter of Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, headed the Development Fund of the Mendeleev Valley innovative scientific and technological center. The appointment was approved by government order. Ksenia Shoigu replaced Alexander Maslennikov in the post.

The Mendeleev Valley Center was created in 2019. He coordinates the federal cluster of advanced processing of non-ferrous, rare and rare earth metals, which is planned to be opened in the Angara-Yenisei region, including the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Khakassia.

The project is supervised by the Security Council and relevant ministries; state corporations, largest industrial companies and leading universities participate in it. The main goal is to move from exporting raw materials to producing high-tech products in Russia. The plans include the construction of factories for the production of high-purity metals, lithium-ion batteries, permanent magnets, and the creation of an artificial intelligence center.

As Sergei Shoigu noted earlier, Siberia has an unprecedented raw material potential: 95% of nickel, 80% of copper, 90% of aluminum are produced here and more than half of the country’s rare earth metal reserves are located. The new cluster is designed to ensure technological sovereignty and become a new pole of economic development.

Ksenia Shoigu was born on January 10, 1991 in Moscow, graduated from the Faculty of International Economic Relations of MGIMO (U) of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a partner of the venture fund Sistema Smart Tech, associated with AFK Sistema, and the curator of the “Island of Forts” project, a tourist and recreational cluster in Kronstadt.

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Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation