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Yury Luzhkov

Yury Luzhkov
Юрий Лужков
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2nd Mayor of Moscow
In office
6 June 1992 – 28 September 2010
Preceded by Gavriil Popov
Succeeded by Vladimir Resin (acting)
Sergey Sobyanin
Deputy Chairman of the Committee on the Operational Management of the Economy of the Soviet Union
In office
24 August 1991 – 14 November 1991
Premier Ivan Silayev
Preceded by Arkady Volsky
Succeeded by Grigory Yavlinsky
Personal details
Born Yury Mikhaylovich Luzhkov
(1936-09-21) 21 September 1936 (age 80)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality Russian
Political party CPSU (1968-1991)
Fatherland (1998-2001)
United Russia (2001-2010)
Spouse(s) Marina Bashilova (1958–1989) (her death)
Yelena Baturina (1991–Present)
Children Mikhail Luzhkov
Alexander Luzhkov
Elena Luzhkova (born 1992)
Olga Luzhkova (born 1994)
Alma mater Gubkin Moscow Petrochemical & Gas Industry Institute
Religion Russian Orthodox
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By-order friendship of nations rib.png Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise 4th and 5th Class of Ukraine.png
Order of the Cedar - Knight (Lebanon) Ribbon.png DE-BY Der Bayerische Verdienstorden BAR.png
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Yury Mikhaylovich Luzhkov (Russian: Ю́рий Миха́йлович Лужко́в; born 21 September 1936) is a Russian politician who was the Mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010. He was also vice-chairman and one of the founders of the ruling United Russia party.

During Luzhkov's time, Moscow's economy improved and he presided over large construction projects in the city, including the building of a new financial district. At the same time, he was accused of corruption, bulldozing historic buildings, and poor handling of traffic, as well as the city's smog crisis during the 2010 Russian wildfires. On 28 September 2010, Luzhkov was fired from his post by a decree issued by President Dmitry Medvedev.

Yury Mikhaylovich Luzhkov was born on 21 September 1936 in Moscow. His father, Mikhail Andreyevich Luzhkov, moved to Moscow from a small village in Tver Oblast in the 1930s.

Luzhkov married his first wife, Marina Bashilova, in 1958, and had two sons with her, Mikhail and Alexander. Bashilova died from liver cancer in 1989. He met his second wife, Yelena Baturina, 27 years his junior, in 1987. They married in 1991. Baturina is a Russian businesswoman and Russia's only female billionaire. She is the joint 1075th richest person in the world. They have two daughters, Elena (born 1992) and Olga (born 1994), and maintain a home in London. Luzhkov frequently appears in public at different festivals and celebrations, and is an enthusiastic promoter of the city. His hobbies include tennis and beekeeping. His support for physical fitness is well known, and a statue of the mayor in tennis garb was erected recently in a Moscow park.

From 1953 to 1958, Luzhkov studied at the Gubkin Moscow Petrochemical & Gas Industry Institute, but undisclosed sources claim that he has illegally purchased his diploma. From 1958 until 1964, he worked as a scientific researcher in the Moscow Scientific Research Institute of Plastics. He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1968. For the next twenty years he worked on automation initiatives in various sectors of the chemical industry (1964-1971: management automation department chief, State Chemistry Committee; 1971-1974: automated management systems department chief, Chemical Industry Ministry of the Soviet Union; 1974-1980: CEO, Experimental Design Office of Automation, Chemical Industry Ministry of the Soviet Union; 1980–1986: CEO, Scientific-Industrial Association "Petrochemautomation").


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