His father, Zaki Salimovich Khamitov, was born in 1930 in Baltachevsky District of the Bashkir ASSR, and died in 1993.

Zaki was a professor and doctor of technical sciences, and was praised with the title of Honored engineer of Bashkortostan.

1977-1978 – master assistant at Ufa Engine-building enterprise; 1978-1986 – engineer, junior research associate, senior research associate at Ufa aviation institute; 1986-1988 – deputy head of the laboratory for the land use of aviation engines; Since 1988 – chief of the scientific-production department in the Eastern division of the All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute for major pipelines construction; 1990-1993 – member of parliament of the Bashkir Autonomous Republic’s Supreme Council, chairman of the Supreme Council’s commission for ecology and rational use of natural resources; 1993-1994 – Director of the Institute of applied ecology and nature management of the Republic of Bashkortostan; 1994-1996 – Minister of wild-life conservation, nature management, prevention and liquidation of the emergency situations’ after-effects of Bashkortostan Republic; 1996-1999 – Minister for emergency situations and ecological security of Bashkortostan, member of the Security Council of the Republic of Bashkortostan; 1999-2000 – head of the department for prevention and liquidation of emergency situations under the Emergencies Ministry of Russian Federation (Moscow); 2000-2002 – chief federal inspector of Bashkortostan under the Plenipotentiary of the President of Russian Federation in Volga federal district; 2002 – acting deputy Plenipotentiary of the President of Russian Federation in Volga federal district.

The State Committee on Tariffs set unreasonable prices for heat and hot water and energy to the population, which were higher than in Moscow and other economically developed regions of the country.

Order of Honour (13 October 2014) - for achievements in labor, social activities and long-term of dedicated work.

[3] Honorable Diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation (21 August 2014) - for merits to the state in the field of environmental protection and long-term dedicated work.