[2] In 1959, he was an assistant captain of the emergency response unit of the motor fishing station near the city of Ochakov.
[2] From 1977 to 1983, he was the director of the association "Atlantika"[1][2] From 1983 to 1985, he was the student of the Academy of National Economy under the Council of Ministers of the USSR in Moscow.
[2] In April 1990, he was the head of a temporary creative team for the creation of a tuna seining flotilla of the Yuzhryba BPO.
[3] Having taken up his duties, Shestakov immediately decided to pursue a course towards complete independence of the executive committee: "the executive committee should not be only a representative body of the city council, it becomes in the new conditions a working, business, economic, commercial body, which is called upon to specifically manage the entire city economy as a whole".
This situation is no good.”[3] However, Shestakov was not going to refuse responsibility, reiterated, “I am not a supporter of blaming everything on the past leadership.
The demand is from us, not from the past.” In the same interview, he identified the priorities of the city executive committee: "Now the main thing is to develop active commercial activity, solve many problems associated with foreign investment, with the organization of business tourism that is beneficial for the city and provides foreign currency.
"[3] However, the active commercial activities of the chairman of the city executive committee aroused the suspicions of the conservative majority of Sevastopol residents as of 1990, as Shestakov managed to become the president of the Crimea concern, as well as the vice-president of the business center created under the city council.