Name: Igor Sahshin

Position: Electrician

Age: 36

Nationality: Ukrainian

 
 

Igor has been an electrician for 18 years, the last six of these have been spent in the UK. He trained for three years as an electrician and has also studied TV Electronics.  

He says that he loves electronics. He gets such pleasure from it because he knows his subject inside out so that he can do anything that is asked of him. He says he has done many jobs like the one at Albert Bridge. Although the electronics are quite complicated here this kind of work is his bread and butter.

Igor worked as an Industrial electrician for seven years before he came to the UK. In this time he was responsible for one third of all emergency repairs in the city of Kherson in the Ukraine.

Igor’s spare time is taken up by his family, he is married and has two children.