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boyhood
He was born on October 7, 1952 in Leningrad, in the V. F. Snegirev maternity hospital on Mayakovsky Street. He was baptized in the Holy Transfiguration Cathedral, Vladimir was the third son in the family. Two older brothers died before his birth: Albert (died before the Great Patriotic War) and Victor (1940-1942). Viktor died of diphtheria during the siege of Leningrad and was buried at the Piskarevskoye cemetery
In 1960-1965, Putin studied at the eight-year school No. 193. -
Service in the KGB of the USSR (1975-1991)
In 1975, Putin graduated from the Law Faculty of LSU. As a platoon leader of howitzer artillery, he was promoted to lieutenant. According to the distribution, he was sent to work in the State Security Committee. In 1975, he graduated from the courses and received a certificate of a junior officer in the system of territorial bodies of the KGB of the USSR. After 1977, he worked in counterintelligence in the investigative department of the KGB of the USSR in Leningrad and the Leningrad region. -
studied, worked
Graduated from the Law Faculty of Leningrad State University (LSU). Since 1977, he worked in the line of counterintelligence in the investigative department of the Leningrad Department of the KGB of the USSR[9]. From 1985 to 1990, he served in the residency of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service in the GDR, worked in Dresden under the guise of director of the Dresden House of Friendship of the USSR-GDR.After returning to Leningrad, he worked as an assistant to the Rector of LSU -
Work in St. Petersburg (1990-1996)
Since the beginning of the spring of 1990, the main official place of Putin's work has been Leningrad State University. At LSU, Putin became an assistant to the Rector for international Affairs. In May 1990, after Sobchak was elected chairman of the Leningrad City Council of People's Deputies, Putin became his adviser. Since June 28, 1991, after Sobchak's election to the post of mayor, he has served as chairman, and since July 15-Chairman of the Committee on External Relations . -
Work in Moscow (1996-1999)
In August 1996, after Sobchak's defeat in the gubernatorial election, Vladimir Putin thought of working as a taxi driver. The former vice-mayor of St. Petersburg, Rear Admiral Vyacheslav Shcherbakov, mentioned that Putin was invited to the new administration, but Putin considered it a betrayal and flatly refused
Soon, Putin was invited to work in Moscow as a deputy manager of the president's affairs. Here, Putin oversaw the legal management and management of Russian foreign property. -
Defense of the dissertation (1997)
In 1997, Putin defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences on the topic "Strategic planning of the reproduction of the mineral resource base of the region in the conditions of the formation of market relations" at the St. Petersburg State Mining Institute. In his dissertation, he expressed the idea of national champions. Subsequently, this idea became one of the hallmarks of Putin's policy. -
Acting President
On December 31, 1999, in connection with Yeltsin's early resignation, Putin assumed the duties of president. At 11 o'clock in the morning, in his office in the Kremlin, Yeltsin, in the presence of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, handed over the powers to Putin. At the same time, Putin received an Orthodox blessing from the Patriarch for the upcoming work of governing the country. At 12 o'clock, Russian TV channels broadcast a New Year's address in which Yeltsin announced his resignation -
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First and second presidential terms (2000-2008)
On May 7, 2000, Putin assumed the office of President of Russia. On May 17, 2000, he appointed Mikhail Kasyanov Chairman of the Management Board
On February 4, 2004, he dismissed the Kasyanov government
On March 14, 2004, Putin was elected president for a second term.
On September 12, 2007, he appointed Viktor Zubkov as head of the government.
On May 7, 2008, he handed over power to the former head of his administration, Dmitry Medvedev. -
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Third and fourth presidential terms (2012-present)
Vladimir Putin took office for the third time on May 7, 2012. On the day he took office in May 2012, Putin signed a series of policy decrees (the so-called May decrees). The day after taking office, he proposed to the State Duma the candidacy of Dmitry Medvedev for the post of prime minister, and after his confirmation in office, instructed him to form a new government.