Editing Rustam Minnikhanov (section)

==Early life and education==
Rustam Minnikhanov was born on 1 March 1957, in a [[Volga Tatars|Volga Tatar]] family in the New Arysh{{efn|{{langx|ru|Новый Арыш|Novyi Arysh}}; {{langx|tt-Cyrl|Яңа Арыш|translit=Yaña Arış}}}} village of [[Rybno-Slobodsky District]] in the [[Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic|Tatar ASSR]].

He graduated from [[Kazan]] Agricultural Institute in 1978 as mechanical engineer and from Correspondence Institute of Soviet Trade as a commodity expert in 1986. He is a doctor of economic sciences.<ref name="vesti_bio">{{Cite web
| title = Минниханов Рустам Нургалиевич
| work = Вести.Ru
| access-date = 2010-03-28
| date = 2010-01-22
| url = http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=337248
}}</ref>