Claim: Alexey Gromov was born on May 31, 1960 in Zagorsk, Soviet Union (now Russia) and is the current First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia - the executive office of the President of Russia created by a decree of Boris Yeltsin on 19 July 1991 as an institution supporting the activity of the president (then Yeltsin) and the vice-president.
Evidence: Alexey Alexeyevich Gromov (Russian: Гро́мов Алексе́й Алексе́евич; born 31 May 1960) is a Russian politician. Gromov was born in 1960 in Zagorsk, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union. In the English-speaking world, the Soviet Union was also informally called Russia and its citizens Russians, although that was technically incorrect since Russia was only one of the republics. He is First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia. Administratsiya Prezidenta Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the executive office of the President of Russia created by a decree of Boris Yeltsin on 19 July 1991 as an institution supporting the activity of the president (then Yeltsin) and the vice-president (then Aleksandr Rutskoy, in 1993 the position was abolished) of Russian SFSR (now Russian Federation), as well as deliberative bodies attached to the president, including the Security Council.