Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov

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Gennady Zyuganov in 2018
Signature of Gennady Zyuganov

Gennady Zyuganov ( Russian Геннадий Андреевич Зюганов ., Scientific transliteration Gennady Andrejevič Zjuganov * 26 June 1944 in Mymrino, Oryol Oblast ) is a Russian politician and since 14 February 1993 Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) .

career

After finishing school in 1961, he worked one year as a teacher, before settling in 1962 at the State University Oryol enrolled and studied mathematics and physics. From 1963 to 1966 he did his military service with the group of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany , left the army with the rank of reserve colonel of the chemical combat forces and graduated with honors from his resumed studies in 1969. In 1966 he joined the CPSU and had been a functionary in the Komsomol since 1967 . In 1972 Zyuganov became First Secretary of the Oryol Oblast Committee of the Komsomol, from 1974 to 1983 he was Second Secretary of the Oryol City Party Committee and Secretary of the CPSU District Committee in Oryol County. At the same time he was a member of the Oryol City Council (1973–1977) and the Oryol Oblastsoviet (1980–1983). From 1983 he worked in the department for agitation and propaganda of the Central Committee of the CPSU , in 1989 he became deputy head of the Central Committee department for ideological questions, as the department for agitation and propaganda was called from 1988.

After the dissolution of the CPSU in 1993, Zyuganov was one of the founders of the new Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPSRF) and has been chairman of its Central Committee since February 14, 1993. He has also been a member of the Duma since 1993 and ran for the KPRF in the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections . In 1996 it achieved 32.0% in the first ballot and 40.3% in the second ballot, and in 2000 29.2% in the first ballot (in this election, Vladimir Putin was elected in the first ballot). In 2008 and 2012 he ran again for the office of President, but had no chance on both occasions (18.5% in 2008 and 17.7% in 2012).

Political positions and controversies

In 1991, Zyuganov was among the signatories of the open letter entitled A Word to the People .

On the occasion of Mikhail Gorbachev's 80th birthday , Syuganov described him as a “traitor” and “destroyer” who, through serious political mistakes, was responsible for the dissolution of the Soviet Union .

On Josef Stalin's birthday , Zyuganov laid flowers on the Kremlin wall .

Zyuganov caused a stir when he declared the murder of US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens that he had been shot "like a dog".

During the Crimean crisis , Zyuganov supported the Russian annexation of Crimea . He compared his joy with the end of World War II and Yuri Gagarin's space flight .

In February 2016, he said that everything that was still working in the Russian Federation was from Soviet times; the oil and gas complex and the aerospace, military and industrial services.

Private life and origin

Gennady Zyuganov in conversation with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (June 2008)

The ethnic Russian Gennady Zyuganov comes from a family of teachers. His father Andrei Michailowitsch Zjuganow (1910-1990) was artillery commander in the Red Army during the Second World War . After the war he became a middle school teacher. His mother Marfa Petrovna (1915-2004) was a primary school teacher.

Gennady Syuganov has been married to Nadezhda Ivanovna Syuganova (née Amelitschewa) since 1967. The marriage resulted in two children: son Andrei (* 1968) and daughter Tatjana (* 1974). In addition, Zyuganov has a granddaughter and seven grandsons.

In his free time, Zyuganov is engaged in volleyball , billiards and floriculture.

Regardless of his communist attitude, Gennady Zyuganov is an avowed Russian Orthodox Christian . On September 12, 2014, Cyril I presented him with the Church Order of Honor and Dignity ( Slavy i Česti (III)).

In June 2012, Zyuganov survived a heart attack . According to media reports, he suffered the heart attack on June 4, 2012 while on vacation in Kislovodsk .

Publications

  • Genady Zyuganov: Globalization. Dead end or way out? Neue Impulse Verlag, Essen 2001. ISBN 3-910080-28-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 80th birthday: Gorbachev is depressed about Russia. In: fr-online.de . March 2, 2011, accessed December 19, 2014 .
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ https://www.rt.com/politics/tomorrow-us-outraged-russian-456/
  4. ↑ [2]
  5. ↑ Zyuganov criticized Putin regarding Lenin and the undermining of Russian statehood , Interfax, February 2, 2016
  6. ↑ http://www.zavtra.ru/cgi/veil/data/zavtra/00/328/14.html ( Memento from July 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ www.mr7.ru
  8. ↑ www.topnews.ru

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SURNAME Zyuganov, Gennady Andreevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Зюганов, Геннадий Андреевич (Russian); Zjuganov, Gennadij Andreevič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician and chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Mymrino , Oryol Oblast