Estonian Railways Report July 2023 | Page 7

ALEKSANDR ZAITSEV
TITLE : HEAD OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND INNOVATION
of preliminary projects have already been completed , while the majority of building permits have been issued for the Aegviidu- Tapa-Tartu section .
At the beginning of this year , the company signed a contract with two companies – GRK Suomi OY and GRK Eesti AS – for the construction of the contact network and transmission substations for the Aegviidu- Tapa-Tartu section . According to the contract , the Tartu direction must be electrified by the end of next year . As such , Estonian Railways has planned the procurement of the Tapa- Narva section for 2024 , and , if everything goes as planned , electric trains will be able to run between Tapa and Narva from the end of 2026 .

EXECUTIVE BIO

Aleksandr Zaitsev graduated from the Tallinn University of Technology with a master ’ s degree in computers and system engineering in the year 2011 . He began his career as a distributed control systems engineer and worked in the Industrial automation area for 10 years . After that , he received an invitation from the largest security company - based in the Estonian capital - and worked as the Technical Director . Within two years he developed the technical department of the company to be included in the list of Estonian market leaders . In the year 2019 he was assigned to become a member of council in the company called Techno Life , which was part of the same group . In the year 2021 Estonian Railways founded a new department called “ The Digital Transformation and Innovation Department ”, and EVR invited him to head this department .