Luzhkov Yuri

Luzhkov Yuri

Luzhkov Yuri Mikhailovich.

Born in Moscow on September 21, 1936 into a working-class family. The second child in the family (Luzhkov has two more brothers). After school he entered the Moscow Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry named after I.M. Gubkin in 1958. At the same time, he worked in the house administration. While studying at the institute, I went to raise virgin soil in Kazakhstan in a student detachment (1954). After graduation and until 1963 he worked at the Research Institute of Plastics. He started as a junior researcher, then worked as a group leader, and his last position at the research institute was deputy head of the technological process automation laboratory. He worked in the State Committee for Chemistry as the head of the control automation department since 1964, and since 1971 as the head of the automated control system department.
In 1968 he joined the CPSU. Member of the party until its ban in 1991.
In 1974, Luzhkov became director of the Experimental Design Bureau for Automation under the Ministry of Chemical Industry.
In 1975 he was elected people's deputy of the Babushkinsky District Council of Moscow. And in 1977 he became a deputy of the Moscow City Council.
In 1980, Luzhkov was appointed general director of NPO Neftekhimavtomatika.
Since 1986 - Head of the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Chemical Industry.
In 1987 he became a deputy of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR.
Since 1987, first deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee, and since 1990, chairman.
In 1989, his first wife, Marina, died of liver cancer.
In June 1992, he stood in the Moscow mayoral elections as a candidate for the post of vice-mayor. After the election of Gabriel Popov as mayor, Luzhkov becomes prime minister of the Moscow government. And after Popov’s resignation in June 1992, Boris Yeltsin, by his decree, appointed Yuri Luzhkov mayor of Moscow, while retaining the post of prime minister of the Moscow government.
On October 10, 1993, after the destruction of the mayor's office during the pro-communist rebellion, he demanded that Lenin's body be removed from Red Square.
In November of the same year, he was awarded the Order of the Holy Equal-Throne Prince Vladimir, first degree, for his assistance in the restoration of the Cathedral of the Icon of the Kazan Mother of God.
And a year later he himself awarded a group of military personnel, police officers and FSK employees with watches and laptop computers for participating in a harvesting campaign in the Moscow region. On the same day, the Ministry of Defense promoted Luzhkov to two ranks at once (being a senior reserve lieutenant, he became a lieutenant colonel). In July 1995, for his services in restoring the destroyed center of Tbilisi, Luzhkov was awarded the title “Honorary Citizen of Georgia.” In October of the same year, Yuri Luzhkov became a prince, the title was granted to him by Arkady Bugaev, the head of the International Monarchical House.
In November, the Russian President awarded Luzhkov the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd degree.
In January 1996, Luzhkov became an honorary citizen of Budennovsk for fulfilling Yeltsin’s instructions to restore the hospital destroyed by militants.
During the 1996 presidential elections, he was a member of Yeltsin's election headquarters.
On June 16, 1996, Luzhkov was re-elected mayor of Moscow; the overwhelming majority of city residents voted for him.
In September, Luzhkov was awarded the title of honorary professor at the Academy of Labor and Social Relations.
On November 19, 1998, at the first meeting of the organizing committee of Otechestvo, he was elected chairman.
And exactly a month later the founding congress of the movement took place, and Luzhkov became its leader.
On August 4, 1999, at a joint meeting of the presidiums of the political councils of Fatherland and All Russia, a decision was made to merge these organizations.
On August 28, the unified electoral list of the OVR was published, where Luzhkov was listed as number two, after the first - Primakov.
On December 19, 1999, in the elections of the mayor and vice-mayor of Moscow, which were won by Luzhkov Shantsev. In the 2000 presidential elections, neither Luzhkov nor Primakov stood as candidates.

In August 1991 and October 1993, Luzhkov supported Russian President Boris Yeltsin, but at the end of the 90s, relations between the Russian President and the mayor of Moscow deteriorated.

Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov was awarded the Orders of Lenin and the Red Banner of Labor for the development of virgin lands, laureate of the USSR State Prize (1986), and has the titles: “Honorary Chemist of the USSR” and “Honored Chemist of the RSFSR”.
Author of six books and brochures.
Wife √ Elena Baturina. Yuri Mikhailovich has two sons from his first marriage and two daughters from his second.
Luzhkov is a workaholic, works 16 hours a day. In his free time he is engaged in beekeeping, loves fishing, winter swimming, and plays football. Captain of the Moscow government team. Since a heart attack in 1973, he has not consumed alcohol.

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