page_title: Dmitry Svishchev
section_title: Business career
hierarchical_section_title: Dmitry Svishchev / Biography / Business career
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Кандидат в мастера спорта по горным лыжам, один из основателей первого в стране профессионального горнолыжного клуба «Новая Лига», вице-президент Федерации горнолыжного спорта и сноуборда России бизнесмен, депутатом Госдумы Дмитрий Свищев. English: Dmitry Svishchev, candidate in Master of Sports in Alpine skiing, one of the founders of the country's first professional ski club "New League", vice president of ski and snowboard Russian Federation, businessman, a State Duma deputy.
context_page_description: Dmitry Aleksandrovich Svishchev is a Russian politician, a deputy of the 7th State Duma of the Russian Federation. He rose to prominence as a businessman and sports administrator.
  Svishchev continues his involvement in national and international sports through his membership in the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture, Sport and Youth Affair, and as president of the Russian Curling Federation.
context_section_description: After discharge from the Soviet Armed Forces, Svishchev founded a modeling agency in 1994. This was followed by business interests in a hardware supplier and in Europodium, which specializes in mobile stage structures for entertainment events. He then became deputy general manager of Krylatskoye Sports Complex, a major complex with features including an archery field and a velodrome.
  In 1999, he founded the first professional ski club in Russia. He remained president of the club until 2007.
caption: Dmitry Svishchev, alpine skier, on 15 August 2008
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