Anatoly Sobchak
| Anatoly Sobchak | |
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| Mayor of Saint Petersburg | |
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In office June 1991 – 5 June 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Boris Gidaspov |
| Succeeded by | Vladimir Yakovlev |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak Анато́лий Алекса́ндрович Собча́к 10 August 1937 Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR |
| Died | 20 February 2000 (aged 62) Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia |
| Resting place |
Tikhvin Cemetery Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Nationality |
 Russia
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| Political party |
Communist Party (1960s–1991) Independent (1991–1996) Our Home – Russia (1996–2000) |
| Spouse(s) | Nonna Gandzyuk (married 1958) Lyudmila Narusova (married 1980) |
| Children | Maria, Ksenia |
| Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
| Profession | Legal scholar, educator |
Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak (Russian: Анато́лий Алекса́ндрович Собча́к; IPA: [ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ sɐpˈtɕak], 10 August 1937 – 20 February 2000) was a Russian politician, a co-author of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the first democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg, and a mentor and teacher of both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.
Anatoly Sobchak was born in Chita, Siberia, USSR, on 10 August 1937. His father, Aleksander Antonovich, was a railroad engineer, and his mother, Nadezhda Andreyevna Litvinova, was an accountant. Anatoly was one of four brothers. In 1939, the family moved to Uzbekistan, where Anatoly lived until 1953 before entering Stavropol Law College. In 1954, he transferred to Leningrad State University. In 1958, he married Nonna Gandzyuk, a student of Hertzen Teacher's College. They had a daughter called Maria Sobchak, born in 1965, who is currently a St Petersburg lawyer while her son Gleb Sobchak, born in 1983, graduated from the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University.
After graduating from Leningrad State University, he worked for three years as a lawyer in Stavropol, then returned to Leningrad State University for graduate studies (1962–1965). After obtaining his Ph.D., he taught law at the Leningrad Police School and the Leningrad Institute for Cellulose and Paper Industries' Technology (1965–1973) and between 1973 and 1990 he taught at Leningrad State University. In 1980 he married Lyudmila Narusova, at that time a history student at the Leningrad Academy of Soviet Culture and later a prominent MP. They had a daughter, Ksenia Sobchak.
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