In the past 10 years, the Russian power elite has been formed mainly of three groups of people. Of those who studied with Vladimir Putin in Leningrad; who served with him with various divisions of the KGB; Who worked with him at the City Hall of St. Petersburg and ended up among the founders of the Lake Cooperative. Today-about classmates of the Prime Minister. In 1975, from the walls of the Leningrad State University. Zhdanov left 120 graduates of the law faculty. The New Times managed to track the career path a little less than half of them. Of these 54 fellow students, Putin became 41% - became lawyers (lawyers, notaries), 20% - made a career in law enforcement agencies (the most famous of them - the heads of the UK at the General Prosecutor General and at the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexander Bastrykin and Alexei Anichin). 19% - became judges, 15% are engaged in business. The portrait of the gold output was the New Times 
Head of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor General Alexander Bastrykin (second on the left)
posted on the Internet his photo of the student years in which it is captured
With future Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (extreme on the left)
In previous years, The New Times wrote a lot about Vladimir Putin's friends: natives from the Lake Cooperative - No. 18 of June 11, 2007 ; colleagues in Dresden - No. 41 of November 19, 2007 ; Friends in Gazprom - No. 14 of April 19, 2010
Silovica fellow students
Alexey Anichin -Lieutenant General of Justice, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Head of the Investigative Committee at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
Tamara Bassak - prosecutor of the Cherkasy Regional Prosecutor Governor (Ukraine).
Alexander Bastrykin - Chairman of the SCP of the Russian Federation.
Yuri Vanyushin , an investigator of the Prosecutor General, together with Valery Nikolaev, led the “Gusinsky case”.
Raisa Kravenskaya is the main expert of the forensic center of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
Vitaly Mozyakov -Lieutenant General of Justice. Since 1992, he worked as a prosecutor of St. Petersburg on the supervision of compliance with laws in the execution of criminal punishments. In April 2001, he became the First Deputy Minister of the Interior and the head of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. In February 2005, he left the post of head of the committee and became an assistant to the head of the presidential administration in 2005-2008 Sergey Sobyanin.
Valentina Skarina - senior adviser to justice, prosecutor of the Pushkino district of the Pskov region.
Igor Sobolevsky -state adviser to justice of the 2nd grade. In 1999, he was appointed vice-governor of St. Petersburg. In 2000, he was appointed director of the legal department of the North-Western Bank (branch of Sberbank of Russia). Since June 2008 - Deputy Chairman of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office. May 30, 2009 was resigned. According to the official version - of their own free will, according to unofficial - for too close ties with the leaders of the Tambov organized crime group arrested in Spain.
Alexander Hunninen is a police colonel, chief federal inspector in Karelia.
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Kanshobi Azhakhov is the founder of Kima LLC, the actual owner of the Kabardino-Balkarian boom-bank. The bank was registered back in 1990, but bought a building for himself and began the development of a branch network in the republic only in 2002.
Tamara Gavrilova -in July 2004 he was appointed first deputy general director of NTV. He headed the Office of the Committee on External Relations of the City Hall of St. Petersburg, led by Putin. Since October 2003, she held the position of head of the Office for Development and Foreign Economic Relations of Gazprom-Media OJSC.
Yuri Nesmashny - General Director of the Belneftstrakh closed joint -stock company insurance company.
Ilgam Ragimov - General Director of RISKO LLC. One of the founders of Panorama LLC (Panorama shopping center in new bird cherry). Business partner of one of the owners of the Cherkizov market Zakhara Ilieva. Partially controls the Moscow shopping center and the Sadovod market, where most of the merchants moved after the Cherkizon closing.
Victor Khmarin - for a long time in the media appeared as “the brother of the wife of the president”, but this is not so. He has been working as a lawyer, since 2001 he has been in charge of legal advice No. 1 of the St. Petersburg City Bar Association, an entrepreneur. Honorary Consul of the Seychelles in St. Petersburg.
Sudgey fellow students
Olga Bakalinskaya -People's Assistant of the Krasnogvardeisky Federal District Court of St. Petersburg.
Zinaida Barantsev -deputy chairman of the Primorsky District Court (St. Petersburg).
Valentin Bulgakov - Deputy Chairman of the Arbitration Court of the Pskov Region.
Valery Gorslev is a judge of the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
Natalia Eremina is a judge of the Arbitration Court of the Tomsk Region (appointed by presidential decree No. 1581 dated 05.11.2008).
Sergey Zabolodsky is a judge of the Leningrad Regional Court.
Nina Korobeynikova - Chairman of the Court of Slantsy of the Leningrad Region.
Tatyana Siller is the justice of the St. Petersburg.
Alexander Tsvetkov - Deputy Chairman of the Court of the city of Volkhov (Leningrad Region).

Many fellow students of Vladimir Putin began his career at the St. Petersburg City Hall under the leadership of Anatoly Sobchak
Other fellow students
Nikolai Egorov is a lawyer. One of the closest friends of the Prime Minister during the years of study at the university. The co -founder of the Egorov, Puginsky, Puginsky, Afanasyev and partners, who was engaged in a number of high -profile cases in different years.
For example, he defended the Russians whom the Catari court found guilty of the murder of President Ichkeria Zelimkhan Yandarbiev. Represented the interests of the Samara governor Konstantin Titov, when a criminal case was instituted against him about abuse of official position. Sibir Energy defended the position in the process against Rosneft.
Oleg Markov - May 16, 2008 was appointed as an assistant to the president on personnel issues. He began his career together with Vladimir Putin in the Committee of External Relations of the City Hall of St. Petersburg. From 2004 to 2007-First Deputy Head of the Presidential Protocol. In 2007, Viktor Zubkov replaced the head of Rosfinmonitoring.
Leonid Polokhov is a human rights activist.
From 1975 to 1999 he worked in the military prosecutor's office of the Leningrad Military District: he went from the investigator to the head of the investigation department and the military prosecutor. It is believed that he was the first to say throughout the country about the problem of hazing in the army and gave the first interview about crime in the army and corruption of officials. In 1999, he organized and still heads the public organization “Committee of Social and Legal Protection of Military Personnel”. In November 2007, he turned an open letter to his former fellow student and friend Vladimir Putin
From the letter of human rights activist Leonid Polokhov Vladimir Putin: “You have subjugated everything and everyone today. Forbid their Kholuys from the authorities to lick themselves. Do not allow them to violate the elections laws. Give people the opportunity to exercise your suffrage. Do not let officials “throw” the necessary ballots! Today, officials are crazy. When appointing new senior officials of executive authorities and law enforcement agencies, please do not appoint more people from former Komsomol, party and Soviet workers, as well as former militants, “furniturers”, “firefighters”, as well as your former colleagues and our common acquaintances in the legal study. Believe me, there are many business and smart ones, and most importantly, honest people in Russia. ”
Anatoly Shestereyuk is the head of the sales department of the released military property of the Russian federal property. In the period from 1994 to 1999, as the head of the Association and Yurako LLC, he organized the bankruptcy and raider seizure procedure of Lenfintorg OJSC in the interests of the Tambov organized crime group. In addition, Anatoly Lengers, along with the accomplice, sold the Lenfintorga apartment in Stockholm, and divided the proceeds with a partner. In 1999, he bankrupt and captured OJSC Khimvolokno Research Institute - the only enterprise of the military -industrial complex that produced Kevlar products. In 2000, a criminal case was instituted against him in connection with the abduction of budget money allocated “chemical fiber” for the production of body armor. According to law enforcement agencies, the gear was involved in the theft of funds in the construction of a dam in St. Petersburg, as well as in the “laundering” of the money of the Tambov organized crime group through OJSC “Kremlin insurance company”. In 2005, at the expense of the RFFI, he acquired an apartment in Moscow. Then Putin’s classmate bought himself a mansion in the Arab Emirates.
Elena Hindyne - Deputy Director of the Presidential Residence - Konstantinovsky Palace.
Arkady Yurzditsky is a lawyer. He defended Tatyana Preobrazhenskaya, the co -owner of the Gallery "Russian Collection", which was accused of selling fake paintings and antique items.