Biography
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gazprom Viktor Zubkov is one of the most "proven" associates of Vladimir Putin. They are familiar from the beginning of the 90s. It was him in 2007 that the president proposed to become the prime minister. And before that, politics had several years on tax guidelines and the leadership of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service. A career began with a simple worker's position on the North Mine.Childhood and youth
Viktor Alekseevich Zubkov was born on September 15, 1941 in the working village of Arbat Sverdlovsk region. Here the family was evacuated at the beginning of the war. Immediately after the war, the natives returned to the north, to the city of Monchegorsk.
The ancestors of the future premiere are serfs from Central Russia, which were sold to the Ural to the founder of the local mining industry Demidov. After the cancellation of serfdom, they have accumulated money, bought the earth and took up agriculture. With the arrival of the Soviet power, the family hesitated by that time the family was declining and sent to the Murmansk region.
The biography of the policy is complex and interesting at the same time. Father worked as a carriage at the Mine of the North Room, Mom - a cleaner, but soon quit and raised children. In addition to older Victor, there were two more brothers and sisters. The family lived in a barrack built by the captive Germans.
After school, to enroll in the university, it was necessary to work on production for two years. Victor went to the repair and mechanical plant with a mechanic, starting a career with the lowest position and, respectively, a small salary. Having worked there for a year, moved to the Nittis-Kumuzhye mine, "Sezonikel," who was considered an elite city-forming enterprise Monchegorsk.
A year later, Zubkov entered the Faculty of Economics of the Leningrad Agricultural Institute. During his studies, I worked a lot, and not always in the specialty. For example, there is a post of fire in the boiler room in Pushkin in his track record. At the end of the Institute of the Young Specialist, called in the army.
Career and politics
Two years of service did not pass in vain. Already then, Viktor Alekseevich showed the chambers of the head. The young activist quickly noticed and entrusted the preparation of young soldiers. Under his leadership in the group was from 30 to 40 people.
After demobilization, the question arose with the work. The position that got involved in the distribution was busy. In the Army, Victor served with the nephew director of the state farm "Krasnaya Slavchan" of the Gatchinsky district, who invited him to his position by the Pokrovsky branch. So in 1967, Zubkov got into submission about 250 people. Two years worked in this position, then the year by deputy director.
At the same time, Viktor Alekseevich joined the CPSU. The young managers quickly moved along the political staircase - from the ordinary member to the head of the St. Petersburg association of the Unity party. And at the same time grew up as a businessman.
Noticing the hardworking and ambitious leader, Zubkov was sent to raise the lagging state farm in the Leningrad region. The picture that the young director saw was ambiguous. On the one hand: a large area with pine forests, rivers and lakes, tens of kilometers of richest Russian nature - there is where to raise. And on the other hand, dirt, devastation, hungry cows, wooden buildings, under-stop with sticks and boards.
First of all, Zubkov picked up the team: brought competent brigadier, agronoma, economist. Work went. The state farm has grown in the front. And in 1981 he was transferred to a new place - in a lagging agriculture. This time it was easier to start - behind the shoulders were a tremendous experience.
The potential of a young leader was noticed, and from 1985 to 1991 he held various senior positions. Zubkov was able to work as chairman of the Priozersky City Executive Committee, the first secretary of the Priozersky City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the head of the agricultural and food industry and the agricultural department of the regional committee of the CPSU, the First Deputy Chairman of the Leningrad Regional Executive Committee.
In the 90s, power began to change. Zubkov was quitred from his position and asked for help from the Chairman of the Committee on External Relations of St. Petersburg City Hall Vladimir Putin. He suggested him the place of his ins.
Having worked on a new position for three years, Viktor Alekseevich moved from the usual agricultural sphere to the new one - financial. Since that time, he worked as Deputy Head of the State Tax Service of the Russian Federation - Head of the State Tax Inspectorate in the city of St. Petersburg.
In the midst of perestroika, in 1999, decided to go to politics and nominated his candidacy for the post of governor of the Leningrad region. But I lost, taking the fourth place with a result of 8.6% of the vote.
In the period from 1999 to 2007, he worked as Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for taxes and fees - head of the Office of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for taxes and fees in St. Petersburg, First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, Acting Chairman of the Committee of the Russian Federation for Financial Monitoring, Head of the Federal Service for Financial monitoring.
After the dissolution of the Cabinet of Ministers in 2007, the Prime Minister was appointed. In position he stayed less than a year. After that, until 2012, he served as the first deputy chairman of the government.
In 2008, Zubkov becomes Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO Gazprom, and in 2012, the Chairman of the Board and the General Director of Gazprom Gasomotor Fuel General Director.
Personal life
With the future wife, Zoya Viktor Zubkov met even at the Institute. Being on the 5th course, together with alignments, he spent a meeting of freshmen and noticed a beautiful girl. They began to meet. At the Institute, young people were considered the most beautiful pair. Viktor and Zoe rarely managed to stay together. At first, the student went to the Lening district of the Leningrad region to work on a diploma, and after defending for two years he went to the army.
Wedding played after the service. Zoya turned out to be his wife-cathedral. When the husband raised the union of state farms, she worked here as Deputy Chief Accountant. In 2007, he led the Petersburg Center for Health and Beauty "Salon Nefertiti. The personal life of the future statesman has always been in sight. According to eyewitness memories, the spouses were spent all their free time together, with pleasure they skiing in winter. The wife carefully watched the health of the future premiere.
Soon after the wedding, Julia's daughter was born. The girl went to the usual rural school, without standing out among classmates. In the summer I went with everyone on field work. After school, the girl entered one of the most prestigious universities of the Northern Capital. During his studies, the son of Zubkov's colleague was married, Nikolai Pokhlebenin, and gave birth to Daughter Anastasia.
The future Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov became the second husband of Julia. They met at the university, where the girl received the second higher education. Soon they were born daughter Natalia. According to unconfirmed data, in 2012, Julia was submitted to a divorce, but there was no information about the fact that the family was completely broken.
Native Brother Zubkov, Alexander, and Sister Tamara still live in Monchegorsk. Yevgeny Gordeev's nephew is the Director General of the Internet Agency.
Victor Zubkov now
Now the former prime minister is the chairman of the Board of the Charitable Foundation to restore the Resurrection New-Jerusalem Stavropigial Male Monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church, the President's Special Representative on cooperation with the Forum of Gas Exporting Countries.
Pages in social networks "Instagram", "Twitter", in VKontakte or in Facebook does not lead to the teeth, but thanks to the media about his person knows a lot.
In February 2018, Victor Zubkov sold all owned shares of Gazprom. According to the site "Vedomosti", income from the operation amounted to about 26 million rubles. This is not the first such case, in 2013, the Chairman of the Board of Directors has already reduced its share in the company to zero, the publication reports.