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Vitaliy Mutko

Vitaly Mutko
Виталий Мутко
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Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
Assumed office
19 October 2016
President Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
Minister of Sport
In office
21 May 2012 – 19 October 2016
President Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
Deputy Pavel Kolobkov
Preceded by position established
Succeeded by Pavel Kolobkov
Minister of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy
In office
12 May 2008 – 21 May 2012
President Dmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
Dmitry Medvedev
Deputy Pavel Kolobkov
Preceded by position established
Succeeded by position abolished
Senator from St. Petersburg
In office
29 October 2003 – 12 May 2008
Preceded by Mikhail G. Mikhailovsky
Succeeded by Sergey Tarasov (politician) ()
Personal details
Born Vitaly Leontiyevich Mutko
(1958-12-08) 8 December 1958 (age 59)
Kurinskaya, Apsheronsky District, Krasnodar Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party United Russia
Alma mater Saint Petersburg State University
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Vitaly Leontiyevich Mutko (Russian: Виталий Леонтьевич Мутко; born 8 December 1958) is a Russian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from October 2016. He was the Minister of Sport from 2008 to 2016.

Mutko was previously president of the Russian side FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, and is also the President of the Russian Football Union.

Mutko was born on 8 December 1958 in the stanitsa of Kurinskaya of Apsheronsky District in Krasnodar Krai in the Soviet Union. He started working as a technician on shipping vessels in 1977. In 1983, he was selected to work for the executive committee of Kirov district of Leningrad. He attended the Water Transport Institute () in Leningrad, graduating from the River Vocational College in 1987. In 1990, he was appointed as a member of the district council and the head of the district administration a year later. He also graduated from the Law Department of Saint Petersburg State University in 1999.

In 1992, he became the deputy mayor of Saint Petersburg as well as the chairman of the City Committee on Social Issues. He served in both the positions until 1996. Along with Vladimir Putin in 1994, who at the time headed the city mayor's committee for external relations, he helped organize the 1994 Goodwill Games which was the first major sporting event in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.


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