He served as the presidential envoy to Ural Federal District, and a member of the Security Council of Russia, from 2012 to 2018.

[2] Kholmanskikh graduated with a degree in mechanics from the Nizhny Tagil branch of the Ural State Technical University in 1994.

[2] During the 2012 Russian presidential election, Kholmanskikh expressed support for candidate Vladimir Putin on national television.

[4] Once Putin was elected as president, he appointed Kholmanskikh as the presidential envoy to Ural Federal District "without any prior government or political experience.

Heroic laborers who through hard work and grit industrialized the country and farmed the land have long been admired, whether in Russia or the Soviet Union.