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Maxim Ksenzov Maxim Ksenzov Maxim Ksenzov (, born May 4, 1973, Zaporozhye, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian statesman, Actual State Councillor of Russian Federation, 3rd class, and President of the Moscow Handball Federation. Ksenzov was born on May 4, 1973 in the city of Zaporozhye of the Ukrainian SSR. He graduated from the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy in 1995 as a radio engineer-researcher. From 1995 to 1997 he worked as a junior researcher at the Central Scientific Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense. In 1997, he started working in the Tyumen region administration, where he consecutively held posts of Chairman