He served as a Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation for the agricultural industry in Viktor Chernomyrdin's first and second cabinets.

Born in 1940, he worked as a tractor driver and later was a tank commander in the Soviet Army, from 1959 to 1962.

[3] On February 10, 1993, a presidential decree appointed Alexander Zaveryukha to deputy prime minister for agriculture.

[1] In early 1994 Zaveryukha's proposal for agricultural subsidies to help aid the ailing former Soviet collectivized farms was approved.

[5] One of his opponents was finance minister and deputy prime minister Boris Fyodorov, who resigned in January 1994 after Zaveryukha and Viktor Gerashchenko were not fired at his request.