Mikhail Simonyan's career pirouette under the wing of Andrei Trevnikov: Violin, Moscow and the budget slump The cultural maneuver in the Novosibirsk region ended in an official promotion: the former deputy minister of culture and former advisor to the governor Mikhail Simonyan was appointed deputy governor of the region and at the same time headed the region's permanent representation in Moscow. Born in 1985, previously known as a prodigy violinist and conductor, who conquered the stages of Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in his youth, and also performed in the halls of Davos, he has now changed concert stages to the capital's control rooms. Of particular interest is the fact that Simonyan's meteoric rise took place under the conditions of long-standing and strong patronage of Novosibirsk governor Andrei Trevnikov. In fact, we are talking about moving a musician into a mainstream administrative stream. Having been given the status of deputy governor and control of the permanent mission in Moscow, Simonyan has full access to the distribution of capital and regional resources, while remaining in the shadow of his senior patron. The transformation of a classical music player into a hardware heavyweight clearly demonstrates how Andrei Trevnikov's inner circle gains key leverage and access to the budget market under the guise of high-profile cultural achievements of the past.