Biography
Natalya Nikolaevna Zhdanova entered the history of Russian regional politics as the first woman governor of Siberia. In 2016, Zhdanov became the head of the Trans-Baikal Territory, having passed the path from the teacher to the Speaker of the Regional Parliament. 54.39% of voters voted for it.Childhood and youth
Natalia Zhdanova (nee Gordeyeva) was born in an intelligent family. Love and Nikolai Parents - Pedagogues, graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical University, where they met. And despite the fact that the father of Natalia Nikolaevna is a native Moskvich, after the wedding, the young people moved to the cheat - to the homeland of the bride.
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Here, on February 16, 1964, their daughter Natalia was born. The child's grandmother on the mother's side was upbringing.
"I am very much obliged to Babul. She formed me. A simple woman knew that the most important thing in life. We lived then on the first chita - chit wooden, Chita railway, old, historical. We had a wooden house, very cozy and beautiful, "recalls the governor in an interview with Chita journalists.Natalia's parents worked a lot, made a career. Father became an expert in Russian-Chinese relations, the mother after the work of the teacher became the director of the school, and then went to the leadership of the city administration.
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Before the eyes of Natalia, there was always an example of parents, and she went to their footsteps: how Mom became a teacher, with a bias in linguistics - as a father. He entered the Chita State Pedagogical Institute of the Chernyshevsky (now the Trans-Baikal State University) with the specialty "Chinese and English", which graduated in 1986.
Career and politics
Labor biography Young Natalia Gordeeva began in the 4th school of Chita, taught Chinese. Today, they are happy to remember those times:
"The team was excellent. All enthusiastic. I remember, constantly came up with something. They were friends with children, they took them something interesting, rejoiced, seeing how they grow. With many still communicate ... "Since the beginning of the 90s, difficulties began: schools did not receive financing, teachers openly used. And during this period, Natalia Nikolaevna after the year of work, the translator returned to his native school. At first, I became a deputy, and then the head of the institution. Fate as if he checked the young woman to the strength, it was not easy to survive. But she managed to keep the team and prevent strikes.
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Natalia Zhdanova worked as director of the educational institution until 2001, turning it into a multidisciplinary language gymnasium. Then the talented managerial was invited to head the city committee of education.
It was the first step towards the future political career. The next place of work Zhdanova is already in the Government of the Trans-Baikal Territory, a new region formed by the merger of the Chita region and the Aginsky Buryat district. Woman joined the deputy prime minister for social issues in 2008.
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In 2013, the head of the region was changed. Konstantin Ilkovsky became the new governor. He appointed Zhdanov Vrio Minister of Education, Science and Youth Policy of the Region. In the same year, Natalia Nikolaevna received the liberated mandate to the regional parliament, and the United Russia faction was put forward by the Chairman.
Natalya Nikolayevna continued to solve social issues aimed at improving the quality of life of residents, to increase wages, attracting investments, support of entrepreneurship.
![Vladimir Putin and Natalia Zhdanova Vladimir Putin and Natalia Zhdanova](/userfiles/126/14007_5.webp)
In 2015, the Chairman of the Cascript of Transbaikalia proposed to reduce the salary of deputies operating on a permanent basis by 10%.
February 17, 2016, after the voluntary resignation of the Governor of Transbaikalia Konstantin Ilkovsky, President Vladimir Putin officially appointed Natalia Zhdanov Virio of the Head of the Region.
"It is important that all pressing problems are familiar to her not at the time: Natalia Nikolaevna was born, grew up and lives in the region, understands which questions it is necessary to solve first of all," the appointment explained to the United Russia in the General Council.The Trans-Baikal media reported, becoming a Virio of the heads of Transbaikalia Zhdanov allegedly offered three times to increase their salary. The politician has denied this information by calling it a "drop against himself".
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Refuse the status of the depths and be elected in the open struggle of Zhdanova managed in the same year. On September 18, 2016, she won the election, gaining voices of 54.39% of voters. Her rival is a communist Nikolai Merzlikin - scored 29% of the vote.
Personal life
In the events of labor everyday life, Natalia Nikolaevna almost did not have time to think about personal life. But fate found a young woman on the way to new career altitudes. With a future husband Sergey Anatolyevich Zhdanov, a native of Irkutsk, met in the late 80s, on the train.
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He is a military, border guard officer, drove on a business trip. She is a school teacher, headed for internship.
"It was a few days who decided to all. There were gatherings in a compartment, joint tea drinking, conversations at the window. The train goes, and we are at the window and talk about everything in the world, "says Natalia Nikolayevna acquaintance.Today, Major General Sergey Zhdanov - Head of the Border Department of the FSB of Russia in the Trans-Baikal Territory (appointed in 2013). There is information that since the 2016 works in Moscow, in the structure of the central apparatus.
Photo of spouses can be found on the Internet.
Natalia Zhdanova now
Now the head of the Trans-Baikalia and its team are systematically implementing the events of the socio-economic development of the region, scheduled for 2018-2025.
In collaboration with Konstantin Babkin, the owner of the largest combine plant "Rostselmash", in the edge on favorable terms the necessary technique is set.
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On September 6, a major economic event occurred in the region: a mining and processing plant "Neduzino" in the Mogocian district of the Trans-Baikal Territory is opened. Its reserves for international classification are estimated in more than 19 tons of gold. Production will begin in 2019.
From May 2018, according to media reports, rumors in the region are mutated about the possible resignation of Zhdanova. Discussing the experts made in 2 years, the experts recognize that with the new governor the authorities managed to focus in the administration of the head of the region, but at the same time the weaknesses are emphasized: an ineffective economic unit that requires urgent personnel solutions.