Viktor Zubkov

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Viktor Alexeyevich Zubkov (Russian: Виктор Алексеевич Зубков; b. September 15, 1941, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Russian government official.

He graduated from the Economic Department of the Leningrad Agriculture Institute in 1965.

In 1966 he was drafted to the Soviet Army for a 18-month term. In 1967-1985 he worked on leading positions in kolkhozes of Leningrad Oblast. In 1985-1991 he occupied several leading positions in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Leningrad Oblast, in 1989-1991 being a First Deputy Chairman of the Leningrad Oblast Executive Committee of the Party.

In January 1992 – November 1993 he was a deputy Chairman of the External Relations Committee of the Saint Petersburg Mayor Office led by Vladimir Putin.

From November 3, 1993, to November 30, 1998, Zubkov was the Chief of the Saint Petersburg Department of the State Tax Inspection and simultaneously a Deputy Chairman of the State Tax Inspection for Saint Petersburg.

In December 1998 during the term of Yevgeny Primakov's Cabinet the State Tax Inspection was reorganized into the Tax Ministry of Russia and Zubkov's deputy head position was abolished, but he was immediately reappointed Chief of the Saint Petersburg Directorate of the Tax Ministry. On July 23, 1999, Zubkov was appointed Deputy Tax Minister of Russia for the Northwestern region. In a few days he was also appointed Chief of the Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast Directorate of the Tax Ministry.

On August 12, 1999, he was registered as a contender in the Leningrad Oblast governor election, assisted by Boris Gryzlov as his election campaign manager, but lost the election to Valery Serdyukov on September 19, 1999, with 8.64 percent of the vote (the 4th place out of 16).

On November 5, 2001 he left his positions in the Tax Ministry and was appointed First Deputy Finance Minister of Russia and Chairman of the Financial Monitoring Committee of the ministry, aimed to fight money laundering. In March 16, 2004, after the dismissal of Mikhail Kasyanov's Cabinet, the committee was renamed to Federal Financial Monitoring Service of the Finance Ministry, but Zubkov retained his position in Mikhail Fradkov's First Cabinet and Mikhail Fradkov's Second Cabinet.

He has a daughter married to Anatoly Serdyukov.