Their responsibilities shifted in 1984 to become the Chief Engineer of the entire plant, a role he held until 1987.

[1] Soskovets was amongst those accompanying Boris Yeltsin during the 1994 diplomatic incident at Shannon Airport.

He also welcomed Queen Elizabeth II at Moscow's Vnukovo International Airport during her historic state visit to Russia in 1994.

Soskovets was regarded as the "official protector" of the Trans-World Group which controlled Russian aluminium industry.

[4] His brother-in-law Igor Mezhakov was a Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service