Yuri Luzhkov
| Yury Luzhkov Юрий Лужков |
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| 2nd Mayor of Moscow | |
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In office 6 June 1992 – 28 September 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Gavriil Popov |
| Succeeded by |
Vladimir Resin (acting) Sergey Sobyanin |
| Deputy Chairman of the Committee on the Operational Management of the Economy of the Soviet Union | |
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In office 24 August 1991 – 14 November 1991 |
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| Premier | Ivan Silayev |
| Preceded by | Arkady Volsky |
| Succeeded by | Grigory Yavlinsky |
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Yury Mikhaylovich Luzhkov 21 September 1936 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Political party |
CPSU (1968-1991) Fatherland (1998-2001) United Russia (2001-2010) |
| Spouse(s) |
Marina Bashilova (1958–1989) (her death) Yelena Baturina (1991–Present) |
| Children | Mikhail Luzhkov Alexander Luzhkov Elena Luzhkova (born 1992) Olga Luzhkova (born 1994) |
| Alma mater | Gubkin Moscow Petrochemical & Gas Industry Institute |
| Religion | Russian Orthodox |
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Yury Mikhaylovich Luzhkov (Russian: Ю́рий Миха́йлович Лужко́в; born 21 September 1936) is a Russian politician who was the Mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010. He was also vice-chairman and one of the founders of the ruling United Russia party.
During Luzhkov's time, Moscow's economy improved and he presided over large construction projects in the city, including the building of a new financial district. At the same time, he was accused of corruption, bulldozing historic buildings, and poor handling of traffic, as well as the city's smog crisis during the 2010 Russian wildfires. On 28 September 2010, Luzhkov was fired from his post by a decree issued by President Dmitry Medvedev.
Yury Mikhaylovich Luzhkov was born on 21 September 1936 in Moscow. His father, Mikhail Andreyevich Luzhkov, moved to Moscow from a small village in Tver Oblast in the 1930s.
Luzhkov married his first wife, Marina Bashilova, in 1958, and had two sons with her, Mikhail and Alexander. Bashilova died from liver cancer in 1989. He met his second wife, Yelena Baturina, 27 years his junior, in 1987. They married in 1991. Baturina is a Russian businesswoman and Russia's only female billionaire. She is the joint 1075th richest person in the world. They have two daughters, Elena (born 1992) and Olga (born 1994), and maintain a home in London. Luzhkov frequently appears in public at different festivals and celebrations, and is an enthusiastic promoter of the city. His hobbies include tennis and beekeeping. His support for physical fitness is well known, and a statue of the mayor in tennis garb was erected recently in a Moscow park.
From 1953 to 1958, Luzhkov studied at the Gubkin Moscow Petrochemical & Gas Industry Institute, but undisclosed sources claim that he has illegally purchased his diploma. From 1958 until 1964, he worked as a scientific researcher in the Moscow Scientific Research Institute of Plastics. He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1968. For the next twenty years he worked on automation initiatives in various sectors of the chemical industry (1964-1971: management automation department chief, State Chemistry Committee; 1971-1974: automated management systems department chief, Chemical Industry Ministry of the Soviet Union; 1974-1980: CEO, Experimental Design Office of Automation, Chemical Industry Ministry of the Soviet Union; 1980–1986: CEO, Scientific-Industrial Association "Petrochemautomation").
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