The former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov died

Former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov died in Munich. He was 83 years old, reported by Ren-TV and Interfax with reference to his own sources.

According to REN-TV, Luzhkov died in a hospital, where before that he had surgery on his heart. The owner of AFK System, who was friends with Luzhkov, Vladimir Yevtushenkov confirmed his death to RBC. “[I was friends with Luzhkov, loved and remember,” he said. The condolences in connection with the death of Luzhkov was expressed by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

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Luzhkov was the mayor of the capital from 1992 to 2010, after which he was dismissed by President Dmitry Medvedev "due to the loss of confidence." Despite this, in 2016, Putin awarded Luzhkov by the Order of Merit to the Fatherland.

• In the Soviet years, Luzhkov was elected chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee at the initiative of the then secretary of the Moscow Committee of the CPSU Boris Yeltsin. After that, already as president, Yeltsin appointed Luzhkov by the mayor of Moscow, a few years later, in 1996, Luzhkov elected to the mayor. He will win the mayoral elections three times: in 1996, in 1999 and 2003, more than 74% of Muscovites will vote each time for him.
• In 2007, on the proposal of Putin (without direct elections), Luzhkov was again endowed with the powers of the Moscow Mayor for a four -year term. However, Luzhkov did not work out with the new President Dmitry Medvedev: the mayor advocated the construction of the current M-11 highway, and Medvedev against (the media christened this with a conflict around the Khimkinsky forest).
• In 2010, several documentary films were released at once with the criticism of Luzhkov’s activities (the most famous - “The Case in Kepka” on NTV). After that, Medvedev signed a decree according to which Luzhkov was dismissed from the post of mayor of Moscow "in connection with the loss of confidence in the President of the Russian Federation." Luzhkov later said that Medvedev did this due to the fact that Luzhkov refused to support his nomination for the second presidential term.
• After that, Luzhkov no longer held government posts. In 2011, in the State Duma elections, he said that he did not vote for United Russia, but in the 2016 elections he was a confidant of one of the candidates for deputies from the Communist Party.

Among the largest projects of Luzhkov are the construction of the Moscow Ring Road, the third transport ring and the beginning of the construction of Moscow City, as well as the first demolition program in Moscow of five-story buildings.

The wife of Luzhkova Elena Baturina was the main owner of the construction company Inteko. After his resignation, Baturina sold a business in Russia, having gone abroad, but still remains a richest Russian according to Forbes.

Luzhkov himself, after leaving the policy, said that he was engaged in his own business in agriculture. He was a major owner of the equestrian plant in the Kaliningrad region, on the basis of which he created the agricultural holding "Rinsens".