Since the early 1990s, Fursenko has owned a dacha in Solovyovka, Priozersky District of the Leningrad region, on the eastern shore of Lake Komsomolskoye on the Karelian Isthmus near St. Petersburg.

On 10 November 1996, together they instituted the co-operative society Ozero (the Lake) which united their properties.

[1][2][3] Since July 2003, Fursenko has been the director general of the JSC Lentransgaz, a subsidiary of Gazprom.

[citation needed] Since 2005, he has been the director general (later president) of the football club Zenit, Saint Petersburg.

[citation needed] From February 2010 until June 2012, he was the president of the Russian Football Union.