Nikolai Vladimirovich Levichev Николай Владимирович Левичев |
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Leader of the Fair Russia Party | |
Assumed office April 16, 2011 |
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Preceded by | Sergey Mironov |
Personal details | |
Born |
Pushkin, Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
May 28, 1953
Political party | A Just Russia |
Spouse(s) | Valentina Levicheva |
Alma mater | Andrei Zhdanov Leningrad State University |
Religion | Russian Orthodox |
Website | www.levichev.info |
Nikolai Vladimirovich Levichev (Russian: Николай Владимирович Левичев, born May 28, 1953) is a Russian politician. He is the leader of the center-left Fair Russia party and of his party group in the State Duma.
He was elected party leader on April 16, 2011 at the 5th party congress in Moscow.
He was born on May 28, 1953 in Pushkin, Leningrad, Soviet Union. His father was a professor of radio engineering in the military school, the author of several textbooks for students. His mother, a mathematician by training, worked as a graphic artist at the publishing house Science. His grandfather was a scholar, graduated from Department of Biology University of St. Petersburg, an honorary citizen of St. Petersburg. He graduated from eighth grade in 410 high school Pushkin, where he studied in the same class with Sergei Mironov, with whom he lived in a doorway. He won in math competitions. 9-10th grade he was in physical and mathematical school № 239 of Leningrad (one of the top three special schools in the city), where he graduated in 1970. In 1976 he graduated from the Physics Department of Leningrad State University named after AA Zhdanov. He studied at the same course with Vladimir Churov (since 2007 - Chairman of the CEC ). Then he graduated from graduate school (without defending a thesis).
After graduating from Leningrad State University, he worked as a researcher of the State Optical Institute, Vavilov, and then as the director of summer camp. He was elected to Komsomol committee, then moved to the professional work of the Young Communist League where he was the instructor of the Leningrad City Committee of the Komsomol, the head of the department of culture of the Leningrad regional committee of Komsomol, the instructor, zavsektorom to work with creative youth culture department of the Central Committee of Komsomol.