Honorific Suffix: | MP |
Office: | Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) |
Term Start: | 12 October 2021 |
Term Start1: | 21 December 2011 |
Term End1: | 5 October 2016 |
Office2: | Member of the State Duma for Mordovia |
Term Start2: | 5 October 2016 |
Term End2: | 12 October 2021 |
Constituency2: | Mordovia-at-large (No. 23) |
Predecessor2: | constituency re-established |
Successor2: | Yulia Ogloblina |
Office3: | Minister of Transport |
Term Start3: | 25 December 1991 |
Term End3: | 10 January 1996 |
Successor3: | Nikolay Tsakh |
Birth Date: | 4 April 1940 |
Birth Place: | Sovkhoz Red Dawn, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR, USSR |
Party: | United Russia |
Education: | Gorky Agricultural Institute |
Vitaly Borisovich Efimov (Russian: Виталий Борисович Ефимов; born 4 April 1940) is a Russian political figure and a deputy of the 6th, 7th, and 8th State Dumas.[1] From 1967 to 1991, Efimov was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1976 to 1983, he worked as the Chief Engineer of the Volga-Vyatka Territorial Transport Administration of the Ministry of Road Transport of the RSFSR. In 1983-1986, he headed the Gorky Territorial Association of Transport "Gorkiyavtotrans" of the Ministry of Transport of the USSR. From 1986 to 1990, he worked as Deputy Minister of Transport of the RSFSR. On 8 September 1990 he was appointed the Minister of Transport. He left the post in 1996 to become trade representative of the Russian Federation in Hungary. He left the post as he reached retirement age. In 2002, he headed the Committee on Transport of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation. In 2011, he was elected deputy of the 6th State Duma from the Mordovia constituency. In 2014, he joined the All-Russia People's Front. In 2016 and 2021, he was re-elected for the 7th, and 8th State Dumas.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. [5]