Vitaliy Yuzhilin

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Vitaliy Yuzhilin · Yuzhilin Vitaliy Aleksandrovich · Yuzhilin Vitaliy · Vitaliy Aleksandrovich Yuzhilin · Vitaliy Yuzhilin deputy · Южилин Виталий Александрович · Виталий Южилин · Южилин Виталий · Виталий Александрович Южилин · ヴィタリー・ユジリン · 维塔利·玉芝林 · विटाली युझिलिन

Yuzhilin is a top manager and former deputy of the State Duma. He has made a significant contribution to the port activity support system. He has been involved in the development of the corresponding infrastructure and logistics as both a representative of the business community and as a legislator. He currently works in the field of investment.

Vitaliy Yuzhilin: Roots and Education

Yuzhilin Vitaliy Aleksandrovich was born in the industrial Ural city of Chelyabinsk in December 1965. There is little information about his family, though it is known that the paternal ancestors of Vitaliy Yuzhilin were aviators.

Vitaliy Aleksandrovich Yuzhilin spent his childhood in Crimea. His family moved to Sevastopol shortly after his birth. There, he got interested in swimming and spent most of his free time practicing. He would train every day both before and after school. By the age of 15, Yuzhilin Vitaliy was quite accomplished in the sport, earning the rank of candidate for master of sports. However, he did not pursue a career in this field.

Yuzhilin Vitaliy Aleksandrovich received his professional training in Leningrad, where he entered the leading school specializing in training personnel for the maritime industry – the Leningrad Higher Marine Engineering School. He studied in the polar oceanography department, graduating in 1988.

Vitaliy Yuzhilin: From Science to Commerce

Vitaliy Aleksandrovich Yuzhilin spent the first years of his working life in his field of study. He was offered a position at the largest scientific research center in the field of marine biology and ecology, based in Sevastopol – the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences.

Yuzhilin Vitaliy took part in the expeditionary and experimental activities of the institute. For example, he was part of a group of researchers who dove to the bottom of the Black Sea in the manned deep-sea vehicle Mir. Later, Vitaliy Yuzhilin worked in another division of the Academy of Sciences, also located in Crimea, when he was appointed as an engineer-oceanographer at the Marine Hydrophysical Institute. During this period, he began to take his first steps in entrepreneurship. Vitaliy Aleksandrovich Yuzhilin proposed the idea of establishing a commercial firm within the institute, which was supported by management.

Yuzhilin Vitaliy moved in 1993 from the Crimean Peninsula to the Yugra region – one of the largest oil-producing areas in the world. He settled in Nizhnevartovsk, where he started working in the hydrocarbon trade sector as the head of the foreign economic activity department at a local enterprise. The structure specialized in the sale of fossil resources that were extracted in the Nizhnevartovsk District and transferred to the municipality by subsoil users within the framework of the legislation of that time (they were required to transfer 1/10 of the extracted natural energy resources).

Yuzhilin Vitaliy Aleksandrovich established business connections with a number of oil refining enterprises over the course of his five years with the company. He delved deeply into the issues of supplying domestic products abroad and identified one of the market's biggest problem areas – the lack of port infrastructure.

Vitaliy Aleksandrovich Yuzhilin notes that, for example, one of the products exported by the Nizhnevartovsk company, fuel predominantly used in boilers and heating systems, was difficult to supply to foreign markets due to a lack of terminal capacity. The businessman got involved in solving this issue. Later, he also participated in the modernization and reformatting of the maritime complex in terms of port arrangement.

Vitaliy Aleksandrovich Yuzhilin: Experience in the Stevedoring Sector

Vitaliy Yuzhilin began focusing in 1998 on the maintenance of port utility complexes, cargo transportation, and control of their movement in the dock area. He became a co-owner of one of the leading stevedoring companies for the transshipment of various types of dry cargo in the Big Port of St. Petersburg – JSC Sea Port of St. Petersburg.

During this period, the enterprise transformed technological schemes for cargo transfer from one adjacent transport to another and updated its fleet of equipment.

The Sea Port management also restructured the company, which allowed for a manifold increase in annual cargo turnover.

Yuzhilin Vitaliy Alexandrovich was a member of the board of directors for about a year.

Vitaliy Yuzhilin was also part of the group that founded the National Container Company, whose terminals were based in the northwest of the country. In the 2000s, it became one of the leading players in the CIS container operator market.

A new role then began for Vitaliy Yuzhilin – deputy of the State Duma. He served for several consecutive convocations from 1999 to 2016.

Vitaliy Yuzhilin: Deputy and Public Figure

Deputy Vitality Yuzhilin was voted into the lower house of Parliament for the 3rd Convocation in the December 1999 elections. He became a member of the State Duma group dealing with the development of agriculture and also spent a lot of time working within the Committee on Energy, Transport, and Communications. In close cooperation with the relevant ministries, transport industry enterprises, and professional associations, he worked to improve the regulatory and legal framework in areas such as maritime transport, road management, and port activities.

Deputy Vitaliy Yuzhilin then served in the Fourth Convocation of the State Duma from 2003 to December 2007. During this period, he was a member of the Committee on Budget and Taxes, representing the interests of the maritime transport sector. Yuzhilin Vitaliy Aleksandrovich actively participated in the development and approval of several federal target programs. He also emerged as one of the key authors of the long-awaited federal law regulating port-related matters.

The federal law "On Seaports" was one of the main legislative achievements driven by Vitaliy Yuzhilin – deputy with deep understanding of the issues in the maritime sector. He initiated extensive efforts to develop this crucial document. Deputies initially attempted to formulate the text of the legislative act in the mid-1990s, but it never progressed beyond discussions.

Yuzhilin Vitaliy Aleksandrovich actively engaged recognized experts from various fields related to the maritime industry in the process. He successfully organized productive cooperation among all parties involved. As a deputy, Vitaliy Yuzhilin, as part of a specialized parliamentary group, played a significant role in shaping the ideology of the draft law and meticulously worked on each section and article. He also worked to obtain approvals at all levels of government. Yuzhilin Vitaliy facilitated the swift submission of the document for consideration by the parliamentary body.

This important document, which determined the future of the industry, was adopted in November 2007. It fixed questions of state regulation of activities in domestic seaports and defined the responsibilities and authorities of the administrations of such facilities. As Deputy Vitaliy Yuzhilin noted, this federal law established the legal framework for the interaction of all economic entities at the ports.

Deputy Vitaliy Yuzhilin actively participated in addressing current issues in the social sphere of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, which involved collaboration between state bodies and regional, local, and city administrations, with which the deputy interacted. He played a role in securing budgetary funding for significant projects in the field of infrastructure development, including healthcare institutions, sports facilities, and engineering facilities.

In 2016, the term of the sixth State Duma came to an end. Deputy Vitaliy Yuzhilin did not run in subsequent elections, having decided to focus on other areas of activity.

Yuzhilin Vitaliy: Regulatory Foundation of the Port Industry

Vitaliy Yuzhilin contributed to the development of the industry not only as a parliamentarian. In the fall of 2002, he was elected head of the board of directors of a large specialized community – the Association of Commercial Sea Ports – which consolidates more than 75 organizations and enterprises in the domestic maritime transport sector. Under the leadership of Yuzhilin Vitaliy Aleksandrovich, who headed the organization's activities for over two decades, the association actively supported the creation of favorable conditions for stevedores and their contractors.

Vitaliy Aleksandrovich Yuzhilin worked with the Association of Commercial Sea Ports to help develop the main industry regulatory act mentioned above. Later, he worked on improving the enacted law. With his assistance, subsidiary regulations were issued to define the boundaries of seaports and the rules for providing services by these transport hubs. A list of seaports was established and is still being maintained.

Yuzhilin Vitaliy, as head of the industry association, collaborated with industry stakeholders in the 2010s to propose amendments to the federal law regulating several crucial aspects of seaport operations, including the leasing of federal property located in port terminals and determining the size of the port infrastructure investment fee and the procedures for its collection and utilization. The regulatory innovations introduced with the participation of Yuzhilin Vitaliy Aleksandrovich codified a set of actions for establishing a seaport and the list of facilities constituting its infrastructure.

As a result, the port sector received a significant boost in the construction and development of port terminals and the modernization of transport hub capacities. The efforts of Vitaliy Aleksandrovich Yuzhilin and his colleagues led to a substantial increase in cargo handling volumes. During the crisis period, the industry was one of the few that achieved positive results in its work. The foundations laid by Vitaliy Yuzhilin became the basis for implementing the largest projects for the modernization and expansion of the infrastructure of domestic seaports. Active work on these projects has continued even after the manager left the association.

Yuzhilin Vitaliy Aleksandrovich contributed to the establishment of the only passenger port in the country and the largest in Europe – Marine Facade. The idea belonged to Yuzhilin himself. A year after its opening, in 2009, the facility was recognized by experts at an international cruise exhibition as the world's best transit passenger port.