Mr Aksyutin’s career started at the Stavropol Gas Production Unit, Kavkaztransgaz Production Association.

He took the positions of compressor operator, gas facilities operation engineer, deputy head of a booster compressor station #2 and head of the Rozhdestvenskaya Gas Compressor Service. In May 1998 Mr Aksyutin was appointed the head of the Stavropol Gas Production Unit.