Is Sobyanin the mayor married? Sergei Sobyanin: biography, personal life, family, wife, children - photo. The early years and education of Sergei Sobyanin

Sobyanin Sergey Semyonovich, 06/21/1958 year of birth, a native of the village. Nyaksimvol of the Berezovsky district of the Khanty-Mansiysk national district of the Tyumen region. Mayor of Moscow. Party "United Russia". 2005-2010 - served as head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.

Biography

Sobyanin Sergey Semyonovich, 06/21/1958 year of birth, a native of the village. Nyaksimvol of the Berezovsky district of the Khanty-Mansiysk national district of the Tyumen region. Sobyanin was the third child and long-awaited son in the family of Semyon Fedorovich and Antonina Aleksandrovna Sobyanin. Of course, the parents doted on Seryozha. He grew up as a modest, obedient boy, never being rude to his elders, at school, although he was not an excellent student, he studied very diligently. The father, despite the fact that he was the chairman of the village council, and was soon appointed to the post of director of the butter factory in Berezovo, did not indulge his son, accustoming Serezha to work. The future Moscow mayor from an early age chopped wood in the cold, helping his parents with the housework. Since childhood, he went hunting with his grandfather Fedor, a hunter-fisherman, in the taiga.

This is how Sergey's character developed: on the one hand, he did not shun hard work, was stubborn in achieving the goal, and on the other hand, he was laconic, being "in public" was not very easy for him. But still, he understood that the "unsociable beeches" did not get further than Berezov. Therefore, Seryozha tried to remake his character, to be more active along the pioneer, and then the Komsomol line, all the more so his father urged him to do this, saying that otherwise he would remain here. Of course, Semyon Fedorovich was cunning, he would hardly have allowed only son turn sour in the wilderness, but Sergei listened to his father's advice, graduating from school with the rank of secretary of the Komsomol committee.

Sobyanin has the rank of Full State Councilor of the Russian Federation, 1st class. He is a member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party. He was awarded the Order of Honor and the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree. He also has the Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow II degree (award of the Moscow Patriarchate).

Relatives. Father: Sobyanin Semyon Fedorovich, born on September 3, 1925, former chairman of the Nyaksimvolsky village council of the Berezovsky district of the Khanty-Mansiysk national district and director of the Berezovsky butter factory. He worked in the administration of Tyumen until the end of the 1990s. First steps towards career ladder Sobyanin did largely thanks to his father's connections.

Mother: Sobyanina Antonina Alexandrovna

Wife (former): Sobyanina Irina Iosifovna, born on 11/19/1961. Previously, she was a teacher of floristry at the Tyumen Center child development them. I. I. Podaruev, at the same time being the beneficiary of the largest contractor in the field of road construction. She had the nickname "Ira-border" for the fact that her structure regularly won competitions in Tyumen for work to replace the road surface and curbs. Currently, the spouses live separately, without actually filing a divorce. According to some reports, Sobyanina permanently resides outside the Russian Federation. 02/21/2014. An official divorce from S. Sobyanin was announced.

Daughter: Ershova Anna Sergeevna, born on 10/02/1986, restaurant interior designer. Permanently resides in St. Petersburg. Maintains occasional contact with his father.

Daughter: Olga Sergeevna Sobyanina, born on 06/03/1997. According to some reports, she currently lives with her mother outside the Russian Federation and is a student of one of the prestigious private schools.

State. Sergei Sobyanin earned 7 million 214 thousand rubles in 2014. The mayor owns a garage with an area of ​​27 square meters, and in use is an apartment with an area of ​​308 square meters, owned by a minor child. The mayor does not own a vehicle. In 2013, Sergei Sobyanin earned 6.3 million rubles, and in 2012 - 5.3 million rubles.

Hobbies. Sobyanin is fond of hunting, fishing, literature and classical music, plays tennis.

Education

• In 1967, he moved with his family to the regional center of Berezovo, where his father headed the oil plant.

• In 1975 he graduated from Berezovskaya high school. After school he moved to Kostroma, where his sister Lyudmila lived. In Kostroma, he entered the mechanical faculty of the Kostroma Technological Institute, graduating with honors in 1980 with a degree in engineering technology, metal-cutting machines and tools.

• In 1989 he received a second education - legal (All-Union Legal correspondence institute, Ulyanovsk branch).

Labor activity

Graduated from the mechanical faculty of the Kostroma Technological Institute and the Ulyanovsk branch of the All-Union Correspondence Institute of Law. He has a PhD in Law.

After graduation, he worked as an engineer at the Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant, at the same time heading the Komsomol organization of the shop.

• In 1982, he switched to a liberated Komsomol job. So, from 1982 to 1984 he was the head of the organizational department of the Leninsky district committee of the Komsomol of the city of Chelyabinsk.

• In 1984, Sobyanin was sent to the village of Kogalym, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, where he served as head of the housing and communal services department of the Kogalym city executive committee and secretary of this city executive committee.

• From 1988 to 1990, he was deputy head of the organizational department of the Khanty-Mansiysk district committee of the CPSU, from 1990 to 1991 he headed the tax inspectorate of the city of Kogalym, and in December 1991 he was appointed head of the administration of the city of Kogalym.

• In 1993, Sobyanin became the first deputy head of the administration of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.

• In 1994 he became chairman of the Duma of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, and in 1996 became an ex officio member of the Federation Council Federal Assembly Russian Federation (since 1998, he served as chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and Judicial Legal Issues).

• In 2000 he was appointed First Deputy authorized representative President of the Russian Federation in the Ural federal district.

• From 2001 to 2005, Sobyanin served as governor of the Tyumen region. In November 2005, he was appointed to the post of head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, and in May 2008 - head of the apparatus of the Government of the Russian Federation with the rank of Deputy Prime Minister.

• In October 2010, Sobyanin became the mayor of Moscow. In June 2013, he resigned from this post, but was appointed by the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin as interim mayor of Moscow until the elections scheduled for September 2013.

• On September 8, 2013, in the early elections, Sobyanin S.S. re-elected to the post of mayor of Moscow.

Relations and partners

Abramovich Roman Arkadievich, 10/24/1966 year of birth, entrepreneur. With the help of controlled structures, in particular Sibneft, he financed the election of Sobyanin as governor of the Tyumen region. Currently, they continue to maintain relations, however, not as close as during the election campaign for the post of Tyumen governor.

Bogdanov Vladimir Leonidovich, 05/28/1951 year of birth, CEO OAO Surgutneftegaz. We met through Filipenko. During his tenure as chairman of the Duma of the KhMAO and governor of the Tyumen region, Sobyanin acted as a lobbyist for the interests of Bogdanov and his business. Continue to maintain relationships.

Gavrin Alexander Sergeevich, 07/22/1953, former Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation and former member Federation Council from the Tyumen region. Cousin of Irina Sobyanina. Previously, we maintained close contacts, including those of a business nature. Now their relationship is actually reduced to nothing.

Neelov Yuri Vasilievich, 05/24/1952, member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, former governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. He maintained and maintains fairly close relations with Sobyanin. We jointly participated in the development of the process of unification of the Tyumen region and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, which is part of it, but is an independent entity.

Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich, 07.10.1952 year of birth, President of the Russian Federation. Sobyanin actively supported Putin in the presidential elections in 2000, and also financed a number of projects for the new President. In turn, Putin thanked him by personally "blessing" him to be elected governor of the Tyumen region. Putin appointed Sobyanin to the post of head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation as a “hardware counterbalance” to Sechin. During his work in the Administration and the Government apparatus, Sobyanin demonstrated exceptional loyalty to Putin, for which, in the end, he was “rewarded” with the post of mayor of Moscow.

Rakova Anastasia Vladimirovna, 02/08/1976 year of birth, head of the office of the mayor of Moscow. Actually civil wife Sobyanin. I have known Sobyanin since 2001, when she worked to ensure the election of the governor of Tyumen. She moved after Sobyanin to Moscow. She was the only employee whom he took first to the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, and then to the Moscow City Hall. Has a very big influence on Sobyanin and enjoys his virtually unlimited trust.

Sechin Igor Ivanovich, 09/07/1960, President of OAO NK Rosneft. Relations with Sobyanin are almost openly hostile. They finally deteriorated during Sechin's tenure as Deputy Prime Minister, who oversaw the fuel and energy complex, when his activities directly "touched" Sobyanin's business interests. While Putin is trying to iron out differences between them, the Sechin-Sobyanin feud could take a new turn during the 2013 Moscow mayoral election campaign. It is possible that Sechin may initiate the stuffing of a number of materials compromising Sobyanin.

Timchenko Gennady Nikolaevich, 11/09/1952 year of birth, entrepreneur. They have known each other since the 1990s, when Sobyanin supplied oil to the Timchenko-controlled refinery in the city of Kirishi Leningrad region. According to some reports, it was Timchenko who introduced Sobyanin to Putin.

Filipenko Alexander Vasilievich, 05/31/1950, auditor of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, former governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. At the request of Father Sobyanin, whom he treated with great respect, he oversaw the career of his son, first through the CPSU. Then he was Sobyanin Jr.'s mentor in politics and business. At the same time, Filipenko planned to eventually transfer the "reins of government" of the district to Sobyanin.

Khan German Borisovich Born on 10/24/1961, entrepreneur, shareholder of Alfa Group. They cooperated closely when Khan became the executive director of OAO TNK-BP. Together we helped resolve conflict situations between TNK and BP. They continue to maintain contacts to this day.

Chemezov Oleg Leonidovich, 09/22/1964, entrepreneur. He was Sobyanin's most trusted person during the election campaign for the post of governor of the Tyumen region. From 2003 to 2005 he was the first deputy governor of the Tyumen region. Then Sobyanin appointed him as his actual representative to TNK-BP.

Yakushev Vladimir Vladimirovich, born June 14, 1968, Governor of the Tyumen Region. Previously, he headed OJSC Khanty-Mansiysk Bank. He was appointed to his position largely due to the lobbying capabilities of Sobyanin. Continues to observe the economic interests of Sobyanin in his region.

To information

Having headed the capital in October 2010, Sobyanin first of all set about personnel reshuffles, getting rid of almost all the former, "Luzhkov" personnel. The most notorious were the resignations of the vice-mayor Vladimir Resin and chief architect Alexandra Kuzmina. Metropolitan prefects were deprived of the status of city ministers. However, no one but Anastasia Rakova, with whom he had a special relationship, Sergei Semenovich did not bring from the apparatus of the Government of the Russian Federation, just as he did not bring anyone (again, with the exception of Rakova) to the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation from Tyumen and from the Administration to the Government.

In Moscow, Sobyanin tried to act as he used to act in Tyumen, but he did not take into account that these two cities are not comparable in scale. So, in Tyumen, to solve the road problem, it was enough to pave the roads. In Moscow, traffic jams were a much more serious problem than the quality of roads. Sobyanin never managed to cope with them. Neither the introduction of dedicated lanes for public transport, nor intercepting parking helped. In turn, the constant repairs of the roadway, and especially the laying of paving slabs by unskilled Central Asian workers, aroused suspicions of a banal "cutting of funds", which Sergei Semenovich condones at best.

Sobyanin's image was also negatively affected by his war with trade kiosks and small shops. Overly zealous performers demolished hundreds of kiosks installed in accordance with all the requirements of the law, which caused justified anger not only among small businesses, who suffered primarily during this campaign, but also among many Muscovites who were accustomed to shops "within walking distance" near metro stations.

Thus, Sobyanin, for almost three years as mayor of Moscow, failed to solve long-standing problems. This, as well as the continued rise in real estate prices, cuts in Luzhkov's allowances, the growth of uncontrolled migration from Central Asia with a simultaneous deterioration in the quality of street cleaning, does not allow him to become the same popular mayor that he remained Yuri Luzhkov until the last day of his tenure.

By nature, Sergei Semenovich Sobyanin is far from soft. Otherwise, he simply could not become what he became. He is smart, sophisticated both in politics and in business, ambitious. At the same time, he adheres to the principle: “Do not ask for service, do not refuse service.” All his appointments were not initiated by him, at least that's how it looked from the outside. But still, Sergei Semenovich is more of an apparatchik than a politician. That is why he would never have become the mayor of Moscow during a truly competitive election, especially if another business executive who knows how to communicate more actively with the electorate would have acted as his rival.

Sobyanin's family life is not easy. He married upon arrival in Kogalym on Irina Rubinchik, a representative of an influential Jewish clan in the region. Sergei Semenovich thought in this way to improve his career prospects. Of course, he succeeded, but friendly family Sobyanin has never been. Sergey Semenovich and Irina Iosifovna were too diverse people. Sobyanin helped his wife’s business with administrative resources, financed, at her request, the reconstruction of the only synagogue in Tyumen, “resolved the affairs” of her relatives, but all the same, the family ship continued to leak, even despite the birth of her youngest daughter. In the end, the Sobyanins dispersed and each lived his own life.

Currently, the role of the wife for Sergei Semenovich is played by Anastasia Rakova. He spotted her back in 2001, when she was an assistant to the first deputy chairman of the KhMAO government Oleg Chemezov. Since then, Sobyanin and Rakova have been inseparable, he constantly drags her along with him. It is possible that in the end they will still formalize their relationship.

Sergei Semenovich Sobyanin is one of the few people in the upper echelons of power who does not belong to the "Petersburg". Despite this, he enjoys the confidence of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. He gave an excellent reputation as a "curator" of a major oil region, head of the Presidential Administration, head of the Government apparatus. Sobyanin continues to demonstrate his loyalty as mayor of Moscow. But still, we must remember that Sergei Semenovich has been in Putin's team only since January 2000, that is, after Yeltsin's fateful "I'm tired, I'm leaving." Previously, he had shown loyalty to other people. And it is possible that if the pendulum of history swings in the other direction, Sobyanin will also be loyal and in demand by completely different forces.

Compromising evidence

1. Aerodromdorstroy business - a company not related to Sergei Sobyanin

The statesman, politician and current mayor - Sobyanin Sergey Semenovich has an extremely rich and eventful biography. He was able to achieve a lot without having a special start, and rich famous parents.

The future mayor was born in June 1958 in the Khanty-Mansiysk district in the small village of Nyaksimvol in the Berezovsky district. There is a version that Sergei has Mansi roots, but he himself does not recognize this, and considers himself Russian by nationality.

It is known that the grandfather on the father's side was a long-liver and Old Believer. He lived quietly and measuredly for more than 100 years.

On the mother's side, my grandfather lived a historically rich life. He was born in the Urals. Took part in Russo-Japanese War and the war of 1914. During the revolution, he was on the side of the Reds, and received the rank of platoon commander for his service.

After returning to his native village, he began to live prosperously, but he had respect from his fellow villagers. Soon he was dispossessed, and with his whole family he was sentenced to exile in Nyaksimvol.

Sergei Sobyanin was born in the family of an accountant (mother) and the chairman of the village council. It is noteworthy that the father, Semyon Fedorovich, being the chairman and a respected person, did not even have a completed secondary education. Later, after moving to the regional center, he heads the local butter factory.

Mom - Antonina Nikolaevna worked almost all her life side by side with her husband. She began her career as an accountant in the village council, and then at the butter factory she became an economist in the district center of Berezovo. In addition to the son, the family had 2 more daughters - Lyuda and Natasha.

Academic years

The future Moscow mayor receives his secondary education at an ordinary Berezovskaya school. After graduating from it, for further education, he decides to leave the district center. In those years, his sister Lyudmila started a family in Kostroma, and Sergei goes to her.

His choice is the Kostroma Technological Institute. Without much difficulty, he is enrolled in the faculty of "Technology of metal-cutting tools and machine tools." In 1980 he received a "red" diploma.

Having technical specialty, soon there is a desire to receive a humanitarian higher education in jurisprudence. He becomes a student again, but this time at the All-Union Law Correspondence Institute of the Ulyanovsk branch. In 1989 he became a certified lawyer.

After 10 years, he writes a dissertation on the topic “The legal status of autonomous regions within the Russian Federation”. Successfully defends it, and becomes a candidate of science in jurisprudence.

Working activity

Together with the first diploma of higher education, Sobyanin receives a distribution from the institute to the industrial city of Chelyabinsk at the Pipe Rolling Plant.

In a very short time - a little over a year - he gets the position of foreman, and then the head of the shop. In 1982, he began to engage in Komsomol work and became the head of the factory organization of the Komsomol.

However, there is a version that after graduating from the Kostroma Institute, Sergei worked for some time as an engineer at a woodworking plant, and only then moved to Chelyabinsk.

Having received the necessary experience and skills, Sergey, after 2 years, returns to the city of Kogalym, to the north.

In the management of communal services of the Kogalym village council, he receives the position of chairman.

In 1991, he occupied the post of Mayor of Kogalym. Since that time, the career begins to develop rapidly:

1993 - becomes the first deputy head of the KhMAO administration
1994 - becomes the chairman in the district parliament, and at the same time is elected a member of the Duma of the Khanty-Mansiysk district
1996 - member of the Federation Council, elected for the 2nd term as a deputy of the Duma. Carries out his work together with V. Bogdanov.
1998 - Chairman of the Committee on Judicial and Legal Affairs and Constitutional Legislation
In 2000 - appointed in the Urals Federal District as the Plenipotentiary First Deputy Representative of the President of the Russian Federation

A year later (2001) he takes the post of governor of the Tyumen region.

2004 will be marked by his entry into the council of the United Russia party. In the same year, he became co-chairman of the scientific and editorial board of the Great Tyumen Encyclopedia.

In 2005 come into force new order to nominate candidates for appointment to the post of governor. Sergei Semenovich does not wait for the end of his term and the resignation of his post, and sends a letter to the President of the Russian Federation with a request to confirm or refute the fact of trust in him.

The head of the country, at a meeting of the Tyumen Regional Duma, introduces his candidature for consideration. Approval occurs in February 2005.

Career in Moscow

In November 2005, instead of Dmitry Medvedev, who received a promotion, he was appointed to the post of head of the Administration under the President of Russia.

02/18/2006 is a member of the Commission for the resolution of military-technical issues arising in cooperation with foreign states. In 2007, he heads the campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Dmitry Medvedev.

After winning the election and appointing Dmitry Medvedev to the post of President of the Russian Federation, Sergei Sobyanin receives the rank of Deputy Prime Minister, and goes to serve in the Government under the leadership of V.V. Putin.

During his work in the Government of the Russian Federation, he headed the program “ Information society”, carried out the transition of all services to electronic form. Supervised the 2010 process of the All-Russian population census.

In 2010 he joined the commission for economic integration and development of the country.

In the same year, Yury Luzhkov, the mayor of Moscow, was removed from office due to the loss of confidence by the President of the Russian Federation. Sergei Sobyanin is one of four candidates being considered for the post of mayor of the country's main city.

On October 21, 2010, by secret ballot, Sobyanin's candidacy is approved for this post for a period of the next 5 years. On the same day, a decree is issued stating that he is dismissed from the previous post, in which he replaced the Prime Minister.

In 2013, early elections of the mayor of Moscow took place, which resulted in the re-appointment of Sobyanin to the post.

Family life and interests

For more than 20 years, a marriage has been registered with Irina Rubinchik (maiden name). From marriage there are 2 daughters - Anna and Olga.

Acquaintance with future wife- Irina happened in the city of Kogalym. Irina's hometown is Tyumen. She is the cousin of A. Gavrin, the former Minister of Energy of Russia. After graduating in Tyumen with a degree in civil engineering, as a result of distribution he comes to the city of Kogalym.

Six months after they met, Sergey and Irina celebrated their wedding. Irina was engaged in teaching at a children's development center, and also worked as an educator in preschool institutions.

In 2014, a divorce took place, the reasons for which are not known. The mayor of Moscow respects ex-wife, and asks not to interfere in personal life.

Now Irina Sobyanina lives in Moscow.

By nationality, Sobyanin is a Vogul (or Mansi). A native of the village of Kogalym, which in translation means a dead place. Which way did Sobyanin go to the post of mayor of Moscow?

1. Nationality
Mansi - the indigenous population of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra. The total number of 11432 people. (According to the 2002 census). The closest relatives of the Khanty. They speak the Mansi language, about 60% use colloquial Russian.

Believers are formally Orthodox, but traditional shamanism, the cult of patron spirits, ancestors, and the bear (bear holidays) are preserved.

The name of Sobyanin as a famous Mansi got on the pages of several sites dedicated to the history of the Mansi people. However, Sobyanin himself in his biography called himself Russian.

2. Parents
Sobyanin Sr. - was the chairman of the village council, then worked as the director of the oil plant. Avid hunter. My mother worked as an accountant all her life.

3. Education
In 1980 he graduated from the mechanical faculty of the Kostroma Technological Institute, in 1989 - the All-Union Correspondence Law Institute.

4. Labor activity
In 1975, at a pipe-rolling plant in Chelyabinsk, he went from a locksmith to a foreman. In 1982-1984 - head. department of the Leninsky district committee of the Komsomol (Chelyabinsk). Since 1984 - deputy. chairman of the Kogalym village council, head of the housing and communal services department, secretary of the Kogalym city executive committee. In 1988-1990 - Deputy Head of the Organizational Department of the District Committee of the CPSU KhMAO. In 1990, he headed the tax inspectorate of Kogalym.

5. Rise to power
In December 1991, he was elected mayor of Kogalym. From November 1993 - First Deputy Head of Administration of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. On March 6, 1994, he was elected to the KhMAO Duma and became chairman of the district parliament. In January 1996 he became a member of the Federation Council. On October 27, 1996, he was re-elected as a deputy and chairman of the KhMAO Duma. In July 1998, he headed the committee of the Federation Council on constitutional legislation and judicial and legal issues. On July 12, 2000, he was appointed First Deputy Presidential Envoy to the Urals Federal District. On January 14, 2001, he was elected governor of the Tyumen region.

After the election results were announced, some media reported that 30,000 "illegal" voters, recruited at the expense of workers temporarily staying in the region, who cast their votes for Sobyanin, appeared in the elections. State Duma deputy Alexander Saliy also expressed doubts about the election results, saying that he did not understand where the 12,000 "additional voters" in the North came from.

6. Governor of Tyumen
Introduction of a new structure of local self-government, transition to per capita regulatory funding of schools, reduction in the number medical institutions- all this was carried out by Sobyanin in Tyumen long before the same reforms began in the rest of Russia. By the way, as well as the monetization of benefits, which took place in Tyumen even before the adoption of the relevant law in 2005.

The opposition cursed Sobyanin on all corners, but few people heard this: the governor had total control over the media in the region. When the rebellious pensioners blocked the traffic in Tyumen, not a word was written in the local press about it.

Sobyanin owns the phrase: "I do not think that a journalist can be free by definition, and our press cannot be free."

After Natalya Yemelyanova, a popular TV presenter in Tyumen, ridiculed the governor's idea of ​​buying a special breed of cows from France, Drozdinsky, the owner of the local television company TRTR, was asked to fire her. Drozdinsky refused - and after a while he lost both the television company and the rights to publish the regional edition of MK in Tyumen, as well as the rights to broadcast Russian Radio and Europe Plus.

7. Friendship with Putin
Sergei Sobyanin was a partner of Putin and his colleague Gennady Timchenko in the St. Petersburg oil business back in the 1990s. In early 2000, Sobyanin joined the initiative group to nominate Putin for the presidency, and in 2001 he proposed extending the presidential term to seven years. He was one of the first governors to join United Russia, the first to support the abolition of the election of heads of regions after Beslan.
Openly and directly defends the interests of the prime minister - in any situation.

There is a lot in common between him and Putin. His personal life is completely closed, even at official events his wife was almost invisible, there are practically no photos of his two daughters in the media. No one knows how much money he really has.

8. Reviews about Sobyanin
« A strong character. Very rational and pragmatic. Extremely focused. Ruthless even." "Absolutely technocratic leader, tough, demanding manager, clearly a statesman, not a liberal." The former Tyumen governor Roketsky, who lost the election to Sobyanin, spoke briefly about Sobyanin: "He always achieves his goals."

Sobyanin's political opponents in Tyumen called him a "robot" and a "man-computer." However, not everyone thinks so: one famous politician in conversation with The New The Times noted, speaking of Sobyanin, that under the guise of external equanimity, "remarkable passions and incredible ambitions doze in him."

9. Family
Sobyanin's wife Irina Iosifovna (nee Rubinchik) is a cousin of the former mayor of Kogalym Alexander Gavrin, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation in 2000-2001. Owns the Tyumen road company "Ira curb". Two daughters - Anna and Olga.

10. Is Sobyanin the mayor of Moscow?

Sobyanin Sergey Semyonovich - this name is already inscribed in large letters in the history of not only Moscow, but also the Russian Federation as a whole. Its role in the transformation of the capital is difficult to overestimate. This state and public figure the politician became the initiator of one of the largest urban development projects in the history of the Russian Federation, and all this against the backdrop of the global crisis.

It will take another decade to appreciate the program of "renovation of dilapidated housing in Moscow", started by Mayor Sobyanin, but the positive dynamics of this project is already noticeable today. She was appreciated by more than 70% of Muscovites, confirming this with their votes in support of Sobyanin in the mayoral elections in the capital in September 2018.

Height, weight, age. How old is Sergei Sobyanin

Sergei Sobyanin is an exceptionally public figure. All his decisions and instructions are in full view of millions of Russians; managing the capital is not such an easy task. It requires the presence of a large number of comrades and like-minded people, and therefore Sobyanin himself, by the will of fate, must be open to everyone. After all, the people are interested in any questions about the head of the capital. In particular, the network is often interested in what is the height, weight, age, how old is Sergei Sobyanin, what is his nationality. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin celebrated his 50th birthday this year. At his venerable age, he weighs 73 kg, with a height of 175 cm. The media have repeatedly addressed the issue of Sobyanin's nationality, but they still did not find an exact answer. According to some sources, his roots go back to the Ural Cossacks, according to others, he belongs to the descendants of a few northern people"Mansi". Sobyanin himself usually answers this question that he is Russian, which, in principle, does not contradict both theories put forward.

Biography and personal life of Sergei Sobyanin

The future mayor of Moscow was born on June 21, 1958 in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (KhMO). Graduated from the Kostroma Technological Institute, majoring in metallurgy and mechanical engineering. Later, he became interested in theories of statehood and the legal aspects of their existence and became a correspondence student at the All-Union Correspondence Law Institute.

In the early 80s, he worked in his specialty at the Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant. Starting with simple worker, he became a foreman, and then reached the position of site foreman, which once again speaks of his determination

The biography and personal life of Sergei Sobyanin are inextricably linked with the city of Kogalym. From there, he began his journey into big politics, where he met his wife Irina. And he went there in 1984 on the orders of the party in order to take the position of deputy chairman of the village council, later he headed the Kogalym housing and communal services department. In 1986 he married civil engineer Irina Rubinchik. In the autumn of 1986, he became the father of his daughter Anna. In 1990, he headed the tax office of the city, and a year later he became the mayor of Kogalym.

In 1991, Sobyanin entered the federal level, became the first deputy head of the district.

In 1999 he defended the title of candidate of legal sciences. The direction of his Ph.D. research work was territorial arrangement RF and the rights of autonomous regions. Further development of this issue should not only lead Sobyanin to the title of Doctor of Law, but could significantly affect the territorial structure of the country, but the defense of this work in 2007, for unknown reasons, did not take place. According to the official version, an unacceptable amount of borrowings from other analysts involved in the development of this issue was found in the work.

The beginning of the 2000s was marked by the rise of Sobyanin's career. In 2001 he was elected governor of the Tyumen region. In this post, Sobyanin became famous for large-scale reforms of housing and communal services, medicine and education. For the first time on the territory of the Russian Federation, in a test mode in the Tyumen region, teachers began to receive salaries based on the number of students, as a result of which small schools were liquidated, but the material and technical equipment in the remaining schools improved significantly. In 2005, he became the second governor in the Russian Federation elected under the new rules, at the suggestion of the President of the Russian Federation, his candidacy was approved by the local Duma.

The disadvantages of Sobyanin's rule in Tyumen were called the lack of freedom of speech, the suppression of any opposition, and the excessive powers of the center.

Since 2005, he has been closely cooperating with the top authorities of the Russian Federation, holding various positions, including such as: head of the administration of the head of the Russian Federation, the apparatus of the government of the Russian Federation, vice prime minister. In 2007, he was a confidant and head of the campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Dmitry Medvedev

In the fall of 2010, according to the results of a vote by the Moscow City Duma, at the request of the President of the Russian Federation, he was approved for the post of mayor of the capital, according to the new rules. After 3 years, due to the ambiguous attitude towards his appointment to the post of mayor on the part of the townspeople and opposition forces, Sobyanin resigned. According to the current legislation, he was appointed acting president. mayor of the capital until the next elections. The fall of 2013 put everything in its place, Sobyanin was elected to the post of head of the city in accordance with the previously existing electoral procedure.

As mayor of Moscow, Sobyanin worked on many issues relevant to the capital, which at the time of his assumption of office had already become sore for hundreds of thousands of people, but came to grips with the city's transport interchange, the problems of illegal immigrants, the environmental situation in the city, as well as the problems of dilapidated housing. The housing renovation program in the capital has caused a lot of discussion and disagreement in government circles and among ordinary Muscovites. Sergei Sobyanin spoke rather restrainedly about the five-story building renovation program, stating that this is a necessary process, while the decision to demolish each concrete house should be taken into account the views of all its residents. Today it is too early to sum up the results of this project, but the fact that it has become the largest urban development project in the history of Moscow is already obvious.
In 2018, the term of Sobyanin's cadence ended. At the election, he was again elected mayor of Moscow for a third term, which indicates a high level of confidence in him on the part of the inhabitants of the capital.

Family and children of Sergei Sobyanin

The family and children of Sergei Sobyanin are the main values ​​​​in his life. Despite the divorce from his wife, he believes that the institution of marriage is one of the most important in building statehood. Sobyanin's parents were simple workers striving for something more, his father, Semyon Sobyanin, without even having a secondary education, was able to head the village council, his mother supported her husband in everything, mastered the profession of secretary and economist.

In 1986, Sobyanin married Irina Rubinchik. The marriage produced two daughters. In 2014, the Sobyanins announced a divorce, while no clear reason was announced. Evil tongues talk about the betrayal of Sergei Semenovich, but the official version is limited only to different views on the life of the former spouses.

Daughter of Sergei Sobyanin - Anna Sobyanina

The daughter of Sergei Sobyanin - Anna Sobyanina was born on October 2, 1986. She graduated from one of the prestigious schools in the capital. Her passion for drawing led her to the Art and Industry Academy of St. Petersburg, where she acquired the profession of “interior designer”. Today, Anna lives in St. Petersburg, works by profession, develops designs for apartments, is the author of design projects for many well-known St. Petersburg entertainment facilities, is fond of painting , married Alexander Ershov, happily married.

Daughter of Sergei Sobyanin - Olga Sobyanina

The daughter of Sergei Sobyanin, Olga Sobyanina, is the youngest daughter of the mayor of the capital. Today the girl is 21 years old. Her date of birth is June 3, 1997. She also grew up as an active child, was fond of drawing, studied at one of the Moscow gymnasiums and for a long time could not decide on her future. A scandal about incomprehensible sources of income, the acquisition of real estate, etc. is associated with her name. The incident was quickly settled with the assistance of her father, while what Sobyanin's youngest daughter, Olga, what she does for a living, remains unknown.

The ex-wife of Sergei Sobyanin - Irina Sobyanina

The ex-wife of Sergei Sobyanin, Irina Sobyanina, is in no way involved in the activities of her husband. In 1986, by distribution, she ended up in Kogalym, where she met her future husband. An engineer by profession, she, in fact, did not work a single day in her specialty, was engaged in teaching, floristry. According to the official version, it was the wife’s detachment from Sobyanin’s affairs, the unwillingness to support his undertakings, that became the reason for the divorce of the spouses in 2014. At the same time, after the divorce, they did not become enemies, they maintain friendly relations, pay attention to children, despite the fact that both daughters are already adults and live their own independent lives.

Instagram and Wikipedia Sergei Sobyanin

Instagram and Wikipedia of Sergei Sobyanin are confirmed at the official level. On the Wikipedia page of a politician, it is fashionable to find comprehensive information about his life path, and on his Instagram profile, Sergey Semenovich regularly shares up-to-date photos of his achievements as mayor of Moscow. In addition, Sergei Sobyanin is registered on VKontakte and Twitter, where he tries to express his opinion on the current problems of the capital and respond as quickly as possible to the appeals and comments of Moscow residents, thereby keeping abreast of events, and being aware of popular opinion about life in the capital. Thus, Sergei Sobyanin can be safely called a progressive politician who keeps up with the times and uses all the methods of communication available today with his voters.

Sergei Semyonovich Sobyanin- Russian political and statesman, the current mayor of Moscow, one of the leaders of the United Russia party. The methods of managing the capital by the Sobyanin team are a good example, which received the stable name "Nights of Long Buckets" (more on this phenomenon:).
Previously Sobyanin served as head of the city of Kogalym (1991-1993), chairman of the Duma (parliament) of the Khanty-Mansiysk district (1996-2000) and was ex officio a member of the Federation Council. After 2000, he served as governor of the Tyumen region (2001-2005), head of the Presidential Administration of Vladimir Putin (2005-2008), head of the government apparatus with the rank of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation (2008-2010).

In the 2008 presidential election, he headed the campaign headquarters of Dmitry Medvedev. At the suggestion of United Russia, in October 2010, Medvedev chose Sobyanin for approval by the mayor of Moscow in the Moscow City Duma. On June 5, 2013, he resigned as mayor, explaining that Moscow needed an elected mayor who would be more effective than the appointed one.

Sergei Semyonovich Sobyanin
Mayor of Moscow since October 21, 2010 (acting from June 5 to September 12, 2013)
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation May 12, 2008 - October 21, 2010
Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation November 14, 2005 - May 12, 2008
Governor of the Tyumen region January 26, 2001 - November 14, 2005
Head of the administration of Kogalym December 1991 - 1993
Birth: 21 June 1958
Nyaksimvol village, Berezovsky district, Khanty-Mansiysk national district, Tyumen region, RSFSR, USSR
Party: 1) CPSU (1986-1991) 2) United Russia (since 2001)
Education: 1) Kostroma Technological Institute (1980)
2) All-Union Law Correspondence Institute (1989)
Academic degree: candidate of legal sciences (1999)
Profession: engineer, lawyer
Occupation: Mayor of Moscow

Sergei Sobyanin was born on June 21, 1958, in the village of Nyaksimvol, Berezovsky District, Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug, youngest child in family. Gemini. According to official data, the ancestors of Sergei Semenovich in the direct male line were Ural Cossacks, and the great-grandfather moved to the Mansi village of Nyaksimvol along this line. According to other sources, Sobyanin is noted as a famous representative of the Mansi in encyclopedias dedicated to the history and culture of this people. It was sometimes stated that he also had Komi-Zyryan ancestors. In his autobiography, sent to the election commission during the election of the Tyumen governor in 2001, Sergei Sobyanin called himself Russian and denied the version of his Mansi origin.

Sobyanin's paternal grandfather, Fyodor Sobyanin, was an Old Believer and lived for more than 100 years. Father - Semyon Fedorovich was born in Nyaksimvol, had an incomplete secondary education. From the beginning of the 1950s, he was the chairman of the Nyaksimvol village council of the Berezovsky district of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. In 1967, the Sobyanin family moved to the regional center of Beryozovo, where his father became the director of the oil plant. Since the late 1990s, he has been living in the city of Tyumen.

Maternal grandfather - Alexander Ulanov was born in the village of Kichigino, Chelyabinsk region. He participated in the Russo-Japanese and World War I (World War I) wars, where he became a full Knight of St. George. After the revolution, he worked for some time with Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny, was a platoon commander. Later he returned to his native village, where he built himself a two-story stone house. In the mid-1930s, the Ulanov family was dispossessed and sent into exile in the village of Nyaksimvol. Mother Antonina Alexandrovna worked most of her life with her husband. She was an accountant of the Nyaksimvol village council of the Berezovsky district of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, and since 1967 - an economist at the butter factory in Berezovo. She gave birth to three children - eldest daughters Natalya and Lyudmila and younger son Sergei.

The early years and education of Sergei Sobyanin
In 1967, Sergei moved with his family to the regional center of Berezovo, where his father headed the oil plant. In 1975 he graduated from Beryozovskaya secondary school. After school he moved to Kostroma, where his sister Lyudmila lived. In Kostroma, he entered the mechanical faculty of the Kostroma Technological Institute, graduating with honors in 1980 with a degree in engineering technology, metal-cutting machines and tools.

In 1989, Sobyanin received a second higher education - law, at the Ulyanovsk branch of the All-Union Correspondence Law Institute.
In 1999 he received a Ph.D. in Law, the topic of his dissertation was "Legal Status of Autonomous Okrugs as Subjects of the Russian Federation."

The working life of Sergei Sobyanin

According to one source, in 1975 Sergei moved to Kostroma, where his sister lived. He studied at the Kostroma Technological Institute and graduated in 1980. By distribution, he worked for several years as an engineer at the Kostroma woodworking machine plant, and later moved to Chelyabinsk, where he got a job as an engineer at the Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant, and later became the head of the shop.

According to other sources, in 1975, after graduating from school, S. Sobyanin moved to Chelyabinsk. He worked at the Chelyabinsk pipe-rolling plant as an assistant fitter and fitter, at the same time he studied at the correspondence department of the Kostroma Technological Institute. In 1980, after graduating from the institute, he headed a team of turners, became a foreman, head of the factory Komsomol organization.

In 1982-1984 he worked as the head of the department Komsomol organizations Leninsky district committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League of Chelyabinsk.

In 1984, Sergei Sobyanin was sent by the city committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League of Chelyabinsk to the village of Kogalym, Khanty-Mansiysk District, Tyumen Region, where until 1988 he worked as deputy chairman of the Kogalym village council, head of the housing and communal services department (since 1985), secretary of the Kogalym city executive committee (since 1986) .

From 1988 to 1990 - Deputy Head of the Organizational Department of the Khanty-Mansiysk District Committee of the CPSU ( Communist Party Soviet Union).

From 1990 to 1991 - Head of the Tax Inspectorate in Kogalym.

In December 1991, Sobyanin, by order of the head of the administration of the Khanty-Mansiysk district, A.V. Filipenko, was appointed head of the administration of the city of Kogalym. He worked in this position until 1993. He was engaged in solving the social problems of the city, housing and communal services, established relations with the city-forming enterprise Kogalymneftegaz (since 1994 - LLC Lukoil-Western Siberia).

In November 1993, Sergei Sobyanin became the head of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. A. V. Filipenko appointed Sobyanin his first deputy. He oversaw economic issues - the budget, subsidies and subventions to municipalities, relations with oil companies. He worked in this position until 1994.

On March 6, 1994, in the first round of elections, he was elected a deputy of the District Duma of the first convocation of the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug, and on April 6 of the same year he was elected its chairman.

In January 1996, in his position, S.S. Sobyanin became a member of the Federation Council, chairman of the committee on constitutional legislation and judicial and legal issues.

On October 27, 1996, he was re-elected as a deputy and chairman of the KhMAO Duma. Worked together with VL Bogdanov.

On July 12, 2000, he was appointed First Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Urals Federal District.

Since 2004, he has been a member of the supreme council of the United Russia party.

In 2005, Sergei Sobyanin, in connection with a change in the procedure for appointing governors, without waiting for the expiration of his powers, sent a request to the President of Russia, raising the question of confidence. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin submitted his candidacy for consideration by the Tyumen Regional Duma. On February 17, 2005, the candidacy was approved by the Duma.

Sobyanin's career in Moscow
In November 2005, Sergei Semyonovich was appointed head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation

Since February 2006 - Member of the Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation with Foreign States.

From January 22 to March 7, 2008 - the head of the headquarters of the candidate for the post of President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev.
In 2009, he was elected chairman of the board of directors of Channel One.
Since January 11, 2010 - Member of the Government Commission for Economic Development and Integration.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin
On October 9, 2010, Sobyanin entered the list of four candidates for the post of mayor of Moscow, proposed to Russian President Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev by the United Russia party.

On October 15, 2010, in accordance with the current legislation, the candidacy of Sergei Sobyanin was submitted by the president of the country to the Moscow City Duma to empower him with the powers of the mayor of Moscow. On October 21, the Moscow City Duma officially approved Sobyanin as mayor of Moscow. On the same day, the President of Russia dismissed him from the post of Deputy Prime Minister - Head of the Government Staff.

On November 7, 2010, the President of Russia included S.S. Sobyanin in the Security Council of the Russian Federation as a member of the Council, excluding him from the permanent members of the Council. Sobyanin became the first mayor of Moscow to join the Security Council.

Sobyanin's personal qualities

Director of the Tyumen Institute of Regional Strategy Alexander Bezdelov described Sobyanin in 2006: "He is an absolutely technocratic leader, for whom the main thing is to achieve the goals set for him. A tough, demanding manager. Definitely a statesman, not a liberal."

Former State Duma deputy from the Tyumen region, Vadim Bondar, spoke of Sergei Semenovich as a "human computer" capable of doing several things at the same time.

The family of Sergei Sobyanin (this does not include his chief of staff, Ms. Rakova, who is rumored to have a child with him).

Lyudmila Semyonovna Sobyanina - elder sister. In the early 1970s, she moved to Kostroma, where she got married.
Natalya Semyonovna Sobyanina is the middle sister. In the late 1980s she lived in Kogalym, worked in the construction department.

Wife: Irina Iosifovna Sobyanina (nee name Rubinchik), cousin former minister Fuel and Energy of Russia Alexander Gavrin.
Born in Tyumen. He has a higher education with a degree in civil engineering. After graduating from the university, she was distributed in the city of Kogalym, where she met Sergei and on February 23, 1986 married him. In 2004-2005 she taught the art of collage and floristry at the Tyumen Center for Child Development named after P. I. Podaruev. Owns a road construction company. Lives in Moscow.

Wife's cousin: Gavrin Alexander Sergeevich - chairman of the trade union committee of AOOT "LUKoil-Kogalymneftegaz" (1989-1993), head of the administration of Kogalym (1993-1996), mayor of Kogalym (1996-2000), Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation (2000-2001) ), representative in the Federation Council of Russia from the administration of the Tyumen region (2001-2005).

Anna (born October 2, 1986) is a daughter. She studied at gymnasium No. 1 and the children's art school of Khanty-Mansiysk. Since 2003, she has been a full-time student at the Faculty of Monumental Art of the St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry named after A. L. Stieglitz. Lives in St. Petersburg.

Olga (born 1997) - daughter. Studying at a Moscow school.

Awards of Sergei Semyonovich Sobyanin

Order of Honor (November 3, 2003) - for his great contribution to strengthening Russian statehood and many years of conscientious work.

Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", II degree (March 3, 1999) - for high achievements in work and services in strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples.

Officer of the Order of Agricultural Merit (France, 2003).

Order of the Holy Right-Believing Prince Daniel of Moscow II degree (ROC).

Honorary Medal of the Ministry of Education of Russia.

Laureate of the "Person of the Year of Russia-2003" award in the "Politician of the Year" nomination.

"Best Manager of the Year" according to the Association of Managers of Russia.

Here is what they write about him in the press:

Mansi or not Mansi?

A few facts from the life of the “appointee”

national question

The site of the former governor of the Tyumen region says that he is "a native northerner, and in the third generation." And the founder of the Sobyanin family is a Ural Cossack, who “by the will of fate ended up in the Beryozov district” - in the village of Nyaksimvol, Berezovsky district of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. The village is Mansi. Therefore, during the gubernatorial elections in the Tyumen region in January 2001, information appeared that Sobyanin was a Mansi. The name of Sobyanin as a famous Mansi even got on the pages of several sites dedicated to the history of the Mansi people. However, in the biography sent to the election commission, the applicant himself called himself Russian.

Pine skis

According to Sergei Sobyanin, thanks to his father, he fell in love with hunting and skiing. “I got up on skis, it feels like before I learned to walk,” Sobyanin admitted. Until now, in the personal collection of the ex-governor, home-made pine skis donated by his father. Sobyanin Sr. is not only a hunter, but also the chairman of the village council of his native village of Nyaksimvol. My mother worked as an accountant all her life.

Friendship with Abramovich

The ex-governor was great relationship with Roman Abramovich. Not without his support, Sobyanin was elected head of the legislative assembly of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Sibneft (together with Surgutneftegaz) supported Sobyanin in the 2001 gubernatorial elections in Tyumen.

"Diplomacy" in Tyumen

Sobyanin in the gubernatorial elections was also supported by the heads of two autonomous districts that are part of the region - Filipenko and Neelov. They hoped that Sobyanin would not insist on the merger of the districts with the region. However, as soon as the Kremlin discovered the interest in “enlarging” the region, Sobyanin instantly forgot about the interests of his patrons. In 2003, he joined the commission of Dmitry Kozak and developed amendments that made the districts financially dependent on Tyumen.

Accused of Satanism

In 2001, Leonid Roketsky accused his main rival Sobyanin of having bribed a judge who was considering a case of abuse by Sobyanin's headquarters. Sobyanin himself also suffered from black PR people - he was accused of intending to bring Chinese guest workers into the region and even ... of Satanism.

What about the press?

At the governor's post, Sergei Semenovich distinguished himself with the phrase: "I do not think that a journalist can be free by definition, and our press cannot be free."

Best Manager

In 2003, Sobyanin was recognized as the best manager of the year by the Association of Managers of Russia. The governor spent a lot of energy negotiating the transfer of the head offices of the leading oil companies operating in the region to Tyumen. So, for example, the office of TNK-BP is registered in Tyumen, which brought 14 billion rubles to the regional budget, according to local economists.

"Disservice"

Sergei Sobyanin became the first governor to join United Russia.

[Vremya-MN, 01/12/2001: "The Ural elite is friends with the Chechen separatists. As follows from the report prepared by the analytical department of the GRU of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces and made public by State Duma deputy Viktor Ilyukhin in a speech on the AST television channel, Chechen field commander Shirvani Basayev ( younger brother notorious terrorist Shamil Basayev) had previously been in contact with representatives of the political and business elite of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO), where more than half of Russian oil is produced. In particular, in August 1998, in one of the rest houses near Moscow, he met with Sergei Sobyanin when he was chairman of the Duma of the KhMAO (now Sobyanin is the first deputy representative of the President of Russia in the Urals Federal District). Sh. Basayev, who at that time was the head of the Southern oil company, asked S. Sobyanin to promote a more intensive penetration of Chechen business into oil industry KhMAO. Viktor Ilyukhin also drew attention to the recently developed by the Union of Chechen Oil Workers and presented to Sobyanin a plan for employment of a significant number of Chechen refugees in the Tyumen region. This plan appears to Ilyukhin as a development of the previously reached agreements between Sobyanin and Basayev. Post factum "- sidebar K.Ru]

[Gazeta.Ru, 11/15/2005: "A misguided Siberian. [...] Sobyanin's relationship with Surkov may turn out to be very difficult. Four years ago, Surkov did everything to prevent Sobyanin from being elected governor: Surkov's old friends from Alfa Group and the Tyumenskaya "oil companies were interested in the victory of Leonid Roketsky. However, Surkov was not lucky then. Sobyanin was the creature of Plenipotentiary Pyotr Latyshev, behind whom loomed the figure of Sergei Ivanov, who was exceptionally close to the president. In fact, during the election campaign, there was a separate war between the northern regions of the Tyumen region, supporting Sobyanin , and the south of the region, where they wanted to see Roketsky as the head of the subject. After a landslide victory in the elections, Sobyanin immediately neutralized his opponents. Firstly, he headed the board of directors of the disgraced TNK, and secondly, he strengthened his position so much that when in February this year, Sobnyain raised the question of his reappointment, none of the serious competitors tried to prevent this. [...] An additional reason for the appointment of the head of the Tyumen region was Putin's personal sympathy for Sobyanin. The governor has repeatedly shown himself to be a true supporter of Putin's course. In early 2000, he joined the initiative group to nominate Putin for the presidency, and a year after his election, he was one of the first to speak in favor of extending the presidential rule to seven years.

Six versions of Putin's surprise

“Hu from Mr. Putin?” - the stunned politicians asked each other 6 years ago. Today everyone is asking a different question. Why Sobyanin? Why is a Tyumen alien appointed to the post of head of the Kremlin administration, which often surpasses the premier's chair in importance?

Sergei Sobyanin, of course, cannot be called a novice in the corridors of power in the capital. During the era of Yeltsin's second term, the speaker of the local Duma from Khanty-Mansiysk was one of the most prominent Russian senators. In 2001, Putin personally blessed him to be elected governor of the Tyumen Territory. After his active participation in the Kozak Commission on local government Sobyanin began to be considered one of Putin's favorite governors. There was talk in Moscow from time to time about his appointment either as Minister of Justice, or as Prosecutor General, or as Putin's plenipotentiary in one of the districts.
But, despite all this, the arrival of Sobyanin in the Kremlin can be considered an exceptional event. For mysterious reasons, a person who is not part of the president's inner circle has been appointed to a key post in Putin's apparatus.

Version one. Neutral

At the end of the 5th year of VVP's reign, all the main members of his St. Petersburg entourage quarreled to death with each other. Between the new First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and the head of the presidential secretariat, Igor Sechin, there is a relationship of mutual hatred. Sechin and FSB director Nikolai Patrushev treat each other no less “warmly”. And, finally, almost all the Kremlin residents of St. Petersburg, without exception, took up arms against the North Caucasian plenipotentiary Dmitry Kozak. Against this background, the appointment of a person from one of the competing clans as the head of the administration would lead to a radical breakdown of the system of checks and balances.
The arrival of Sobyanin allows this to be avoided. The former Tyumen voivode is considered to be an emphatically neutral person. So far, he has managed to maintain equally even relations with Medvedev, Sechin, and Vladislav Surkov.

Version two. Not superman

Alexander Voloshin for some time was really the second person in the country. Valentin Yumashev was the supreme swindler and arbiter of all quarrels within the oligarchic elite. But there are also opposite changes. By the end of their stays in the chair of the head of the presidential administration, Yuri Petrov and Sergei Filatov could no longer influence anything. And Nikolai Yegorov was a minor figure during his entire term in the Kremlin. In a word, the chair of the head of the administration itself does not guarantee anything.
It is possible that Sergei Sobyanin was originally destined for the role of a “weak” head of the administration. Like, now it is important for Putin that all the most significant decisions are made in the Government House. Therefore, a person not from St. Petersburg was appointed to the Kremlin, without his own team and the chances of quickly creating it.

Version three. temporary worker

Everything, the question of succession to the throne in Russia is closed. Either Medvedev or Ivanov will become president, some political experts decided after the reshuffle. But it is hard to believe in such an outcome. By becoming candidates for heirs, the two new vice-premiers have made a huge number of enemies. Now everyone will gradually start to trip them up. And two with an extra year until next presidential elections- this is quite a sufficient period for the destruction of any politician. In addition, Putin is known for his dislike of revealing political trump cards ahead of time. Therefore, it is possible that the entire current political construction is temporary. And that after a certain number of months and years, both Medvedev and Sobyanin will give up their seats to completely different people.

Version four. Ejection up

In bureaucratic circles, a simple trick has long been known: if you want to make some important chair vacant, ensure that its owner is promoted. Many people are sure, for example, that the deep meaning of the transformation of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Stepashin into prime ministers in 1999 was precisely in the vacating the minister's chair for Rushailo, the favorite of the Yeltsin family. The post of head of the Tyumen region is one of the most important in Russia. Countless oil reserves are concentrated in this region. It is possible that, with all his sympathy for Sobyanin, VVP wanted to see another person in this chair.
Whether this version is justified or not, it will become clear pretty soon. Everything will become clear as soon as the name of Putin's candidate for the new Tyumen governors is announced.

Version five. combiner

One of the Kremlin's favorite political projects is the unification of regions. But in the Tyumen region, this ambitious GDP plan ran into a serious obstacle. All the main oil resources of Tyumen are concentrated on the territory of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. And the district political elite, headed by Governor Filippenko, flatly refused to unite. To overcome the resistance of the Khanty-Mansiysk group, its protege Sobyanin was made governor of Tyumen in 2001. But this was not enough for the Khanty-Mansiysk people. New post Sobyanin guarantees that it is he who will control the unification of Tyumen at the highest level and will be able to satisfy the interests of all his old friends.

Version six. Nationalizer

Gazprom's buyout of Sibneft shares from Abramovich angered many liberal observers. Like, how is it so, at one time Abramovich bought Sibneft for pennies, and now the state pays the real cost for it. But in the deliverance of the old court oligarchs from their property, there is also positive side. This can be taken as a sign that in 2008 a real change of power will take place in Russia. But in this case, Abramovich is far from the only oligarch who needs to get rid of his property ahead of the changing of the guard in the Kremlin. It makes sense to do the same, for example, also to the head of Surgutneftegaz Bogdanov and some other people. Good relations between Sobyanin and Bogdanov are well known. Therefore, it is possible that a new round of “oil nationalization” will be one of the main task the new chief of the Kremlin apparatus.