Dmitry Kamenshchik

Dmitry Kamenshchik was born in 1968 in Yekaterinburg

Kamenshchik was born in 1968 in Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg, to a family of radio physicists. His father ran a computer center at Uralgiprotrans, and his mother held a similar role in a classified geodesy and mapping body.

He began studying at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and served in the Soviet Army from 1986 to 1988. He entered the philosophy faculty of Moscow State University in 1990 but left to pursue business. He later graduated in economic sociology there in 2000 and earned a PhD in economics in 2003.

In 1991 he became the Moscow representative of the air transport company East Line, and in 1994 he bought it from its founder Anton Bakov. East Line built facilities at Domodedovo Airport, and in 1998 Kamenshchik became the airport's chairman. In 2004 he sold East Line and his industrial assets to focus on the airport.

In February 2016 he was arrested and accused of criminal negligence over the 2011 bombing at Domodedovo, which killed 37 people. He and the airport denied wrongdoing. He was released from house arrest in July 2016, and the case was closed in September 2016 for lack of corpus delicti.