Pursuant to the decision of the Board of Directors of "Southern Telecommunications Company" PJSC and to the Order of its General Director   Ruslan Bulguchev who was former Deputy Director General  of "UTK" PJSC for regional policy in the sphere of telecommunications was appointed Deputy Director General of "UTK" PJSC – Director of the Stavropol branch.

 Ruslan Bulguchev was born in 1960 in the town of Pavlodar of the Kazakh Republic. He has been working in the telecommunications sector since 1975. He graduated from the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics with a diploma of telecommunications engineer. 

 In 1997-2005 Ruslan Bulguchev was the Chairman of the State Communications Committee of the Ingush Republic, General Director  of FGUP «Directorate of Communications of the Ingush Republic”. In November 2005 he was appointed Deputy Director General of "UTK" PJSC for regional policy in the sphere of telecommunications.

At the post Ruslan Bulguchev replaced Alexander Roitblat who had died in the automobile accident.

Deputy Director General of “Svyazinvest” OJSC Stanislav Panchenko and General Director   of "UTK" PJSC Alexander Andreev presented the new appointed director at the meeting with top executives and trade-union bosses of the branch. The management believes that the main task of the work collective remains the retaining and strengthening of UTK’s positions in the Stavropol Kray. Necessity of high interaction with regional authorities to solve social problems and to realize priority national projects was emphasized.  Existing resources conservation and deployment of new communication technologies and services will ensure the branch’s financial results growth and increase in tax proceeds to regional and local budgets.

Capacity of the telephone network of the Stavropol branch of "UTK" PJSC exceeds 670,000 lines. During the nine months of 2006 the branch transferred 344 million rubles of taxes to all kinds of budgets, 121 million rubles of them – to regional and local budgets.