Alexey Pesoshin introduced the new Minister of Health
Today, Alexey Pesoshin, Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, introduced the Minister to the team of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan. Almir Rashidovich Abashev was appointed as him.
Since April 2019, he has held the position of First Deputy Head of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan.
In August 2025, he was appointed Acting Minister of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan.
October 8, 2025 By decree of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, R.N.Minnikhanov was appointed Minister of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Almir Rashidovich Abashev was born on December 6, 1975 in Kazan.
He graduated from Kazan State Medical University with a degree in medicine, and then completed his clinical residency at the Department of Neurology, Vertebroneurology and Manual Medicine at the Kazan State Medical Academy.
He was the head of the neurology department at the Republican Vertebroneurological Center.
He was Deputy Director General of the Republican Clinical Neurological Center.
For a year and a half he held the position of chief physician of the Republican Children's Tuberculosis Sanatorium "Observatory".
From 2003 to 2016, he was the chief physician of the Republican Clinical Hospital No. 2. Then he headed the medical and sanitary department of Kazan Federal University for three years.
Honored Doctor of the Republic of Tatarstan. Candidate of Medical Sciences.