(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-09-13 01:13

MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday nominated financial intelligence chief Viktor Zubkov as candidate for prime minister, hours after he dissolved the government at the request of Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov.

The following is a profile of the little-known chief of the anti-money laundering force issued by the Itar-Tass news agency:

Zubkov was born on September 15, 1941 in the village of Arbat, the Sverdlovsk Region. He has been married has a daughter.

1958 - started his first job in the city of Monchegorsk as a fitter at a local mechanical and repairs plant and later moved to a job at a mine of the Severonikel combine.

1965 - graduated from the economics department of the Leningrad State University with a Candidate of Sciences Degree (Economics).

1967 to 1970 - deputy chief of a state-run farm in the Gatchina district of the Leningrad Region.

1970-1982 - director of a pedigree cattle breeding farm in the Leningrad Region.

1982-1985 - general director of the state-run farming association Pervomaiskoye in the Leningrad Region.

1985-1986 - chief of the executive authority in the city of Priozersk.

1986-1987 - first secretary of the Communist Party Committee in the city of Priozersk.

1987-1989 - deputy chief of the agriculture and food industry department at the Leningrad Region Communist Party Committee.

1989-1991 - first deputy chief of the Leningrad Region Executive Authority.

1991-1993 - first deputy chief of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office external relations office.

1993-1998 - deputy chief of the tax service of the Russian Federation, chief of the St. Petersburg Tax Inspectorate.

1998-1999 - chief of the St. Petersburg department of the Russian Tax Ministry.

1999-2001 - deputy chief of the Russian Tax Minister.

2001 - first deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation.

2001-2004 - chief of a committee at the Russian anti-money laundering service Rosfinmonitoring.

Since March 16, 2004 he has been chief of the anti-money laundering service Rosfinmonitoring.