Sergey Baburin | |
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Member of the State Duma | |
In office 7 December 2003 – 24 December 2007 |
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In office 12 December 1993 – 18 January 2000 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Sergey Nikolayevich Baburin 31 January 1959 Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Semey, Kazakhstan) |
Political party | Russian All-People's Union |
Other political affiliations |
People's Union (Russia) (until 2008) Rodina (formerly) |
Alma mater | Omsk State University |
Sergey Nikolayevich Baburin (Russian: Серге́й Николаевич Бабурин, born 31 January 1959) is a Russian nationalist politician, member of the State Duma of the first, second and fourth convocations where he served in the Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitral and Procedural Law, leader of the Russian All-People's Union and an ex-leader of the Rodina political party. He also served as a rector of the from 2002 to 2012.
In 2018, Baburin was a presidential candidate from the Russian All-People's Union.
Baburin was born in Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, where his parents were studying at the time. His father, Nikolai Naumovich Baburin, was a teacher who came from a long line of Sibiryaks (natives of Siberia), and arrived to Semipalatinsk from Tara, Omsk Oblast where Sergey later spent his childhood. His paternal grandfather, Naum Mikheevich Baburin, was a woodworker who built houses; during the Russian Civil War he expressed support to the White Army and was nearly shot by Bolsheviks after they came to power. His paternal grandmother, Irina Sergeevna Baburina (née Koroleva), was a housewife.
Sergey's mother, Valentina Nikolaevna Baburina (née Kulbedina), was a surgeon. Her father, Nikolai Petrovich Kulbedin (Kulbeda), came from a Belorussian family and arrived to Semipalatinsk from a Motol village of the Ivanava District, Brest Region in search of a work. According to Baburin, some sources indicate that Nikolai belonged to a family of priests; he took an active part in the civil war fighting Basmachi, made a political career, was arrested during the Great Purge, but set free and died on his way home. His wife, Anna Maksimovna Kulbedina (née Volkova), came from exiled Cossacks, and spent all her life working as a children's nurse in a hospital.