Svetlana Galileeva, former Commercial Director of Chelyabinsk subsidiary of VympelCom JSC, succeeded Konstantin Legu as the company’s new director.

In 1989, Ms Galileeva graduated from the Instrument-Making Industry Department of Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute with a degree in System Analytics and Engineering. She went on to work as a computer programmer in a research institute and in a number of private enterprises. After she graduated from the Department of Linguistics of Chelyabinsk State University with a degree in ESL and Translation in 1996, Ms Galileeva was employed by Yuzhno-Uralskiy Sotoviy Telephone (South Ural Cellular Phone) JSC in the capacity of a marketing specialist and was later promoted to Marketing Director. In 2003, she found a position with VympelCom JSC as the Commercial Director of Chelyabinsk subsidiary. Ms Galileeva was succeeded by former Sales Network Manager Sergey Urmancheev.