Marat Khusnullin

Marat Shakirzyanovich Khusnullin[a] (born 9 August 1966) is a Russian Tatar politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Russia for Construction and Regional Development since 2020.

His mother Roza (or Rosa) Garafutdinovna Khusnullina (Russian: Роза Гарафутдиновна Хуснуллина; born 1944) is a British citizen, through whom he often has as a nominal agent for the ownership of his wealth.

During his leadership of the Ministry of the republic was brought a large amount of federal investments, primarily under the development program of housing construction in Tatarstan.

The program was focused on the development of territories agglomerations of large cities of the republic - Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhnekamsk, Elabuga, Almetyevsk - in a single town-planning decisions, allowing a minimal cost to ensure their utility, a result of the spatial development of the Republic of Tatarstan road transport and social Infrastructure.

Marat Khusnullin in Kazan began the construction of sports facilities that were involved in the 2013 Summer Universiade.

constructed 35 kilometers of lines, 18 new stations (Borisovo, Shipilovskaya, Zyablikovo, Novokosino, Pyatnitskoye Shosse, Alma-Atinskaya, Lermontovsky Prospekt, Zhulebino, Delovoy Tsentr, Park Pobedy, Lesoparkovaya, Bittsevsky Park, Spartak, Troparyovo, Kotelniki, Tekhnopark, Rumyantsevo and Salaryevo), 4 electrodepot.

the plan was revised delivery of objects: all work will be completed in 2016; due to the bandwidth of access roads, it was decided to abandon the 20 thousand parking spaces in the "Moscow City" - because in the long term this could adversely affect the transport situation and lead to the collapse of the region.

Instead, it was decided to reconstruct part of the streets in the area of MIBC, in particular to build new transport interchanges (the construction of seven additional multi-lane road junctions around 2.5 km length was completed in autumn 2012).

The territory is divided into nine functional parts, which will be built in residential neighborhoods, business center, parks, sports cluster, the production of cars.

Children's amusement park "Island of Dreams" is being built in 2016 on the territory of Nagatino Poima in Nagatinsky Zaton District.

Much of this territory will be developed as a public park, including a pedestrian zone along the bank of the Moscow River.

Thus, urban resettlement of citizens from dilapidated housing program was implemented by 95 percent, and new apartments have received more than 150 thousand families.

On 21 January 2020, Khusnullin was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia for construction and regional development in Mishustin’s cabinet.

[7][8] On 21 October 2020, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that president Putin would discuss the problem of water supply to Crimea with Khusnullin later in the day.

The same day, Oleksii Reznikov, the Ukrainian minister of reintegration of temporarily occupied territories, stated that Ukraine would resume the supply of water to Crimea through the North Crimean Canal after the peninsula is "deoccupied" and that until then, it is the responsibility of Russia to supply water.

In May 2011, his daughter Alina Khusnullina or Alina Kireeva (Russian: Алина Киреева; born 1991 or 1992) became the owner of the BVI-based firm Brenigton Enterprises Limited which owned the Cyprus-based firm Belasa Ltd. and through her father's relationships in the Moscow Stroycomplex (building complex) (Russian: Стройкомплекс Москвы) especially from Kazan, she owns nearly 6,000 hectares (15,000 acres) of farm ground, controls a 29.9% stake in the Chistopol hotel (Russian: «Чистополь») in Tatarstan which is in addition to her grandmother Roza Khusnillina's 27.127% stake, and is a supervisory board member of a hotel company the Business Medical Center (Russian: «Деловой медицинский центр»).

Marat Khusnullin and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin in City staff meeting on the construction of the business center "Moscow City", 29 May 2015
Marat Khusnullin and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin conduct a helicopter inspection of the construction of the Moscow–Kazan highway, 10 July 2020