The secret life of Zyuganov. Zyuganov Gennady Andreevich. Biography

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Biography

Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov - Soviet and Russian political figure, Chairman of the Council of the Union of Communist Parties - CPSU (since 2001), Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Russian Federation(since 1995), Chairman of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (1993-1995). Deputy State Duma Federal Assembly I-VII convocations (since 1993). Member of PACE (since 1996). He ran for the post of President of the Russian Federation four times, each time taking second place (1996, where he reached the second round, 2000, 2008 and 2012).

Born into a teacher's family in the village of Mymrino (about 100 km from Orel). According to Zyuganov himself, he was born premature - seven months old.

Father - Andrei Mikhailovich Zyuganov (1910-1990), was the commander of an artillery crew; according to Gennady Zyuganov, he lost his leg near Sevastopol. After the war, he taught most subjects at Mymrinskaya secondary school, including basics Agriculture, excluding foreign and Russian languages and literature. Mother - Marfa Petrovna, (1915-2004) - taught at primary school Mymrinskaya school.

In 1963-1966 he served in the radiation and chemical reconnaissance platoon of the Group Soviet troops in Germany (currently - Colonel of the Chemical Troops Reserve).

According to the official version, from 1969 to 1970 he taught at the Oryol Pedagogical Institute. At the same time he was engaged in trade union, Komsomol and party work.

In 1966 he joined the CPSU. Since 1967 - in the bodies of the Komsomol, worked in elected positions at the district, city and regional levels.

From 1972 to 1974 he worked as first secretary of the Oryol regional committee of the Komsomol. In 1974-1983 he was secretary of the district committee, second secretary of the Oryol city committee of the CPSU, then head of the propaganda and agitation department of the Oryol regional committee of the CPSU. At the same time, from 1973 to 1977, he was a deputy of the Oryol City Council, and from 1980 to 1983 - a deputy of the Oryol Regional Council of People's Deputies.

From 1978 to 1980 he studied at the main department of the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU, and completed his graduate studies as an external student. In 1980 he defended his dissertation for the academic degree of candidate philosophical sciences on the topic “Main directions for the development of a socialist urban lifestyle using the example of large cities in the country” (Specialty - 09.00.02 “Theory of Scientific Communism”).

In 1983-1989 he worked in the Department of Agitation and Propaganda of the CPSU Central Committee as an instructor and head of the sector. In 1989-1990 he was deputy head of the ideological department of the CPSU Central Committee. Delegate to the XXVIII Congress of the CPSU (June 1990) and, accordingly, as a representative of the RSFSR - the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of the RSFSR (June-September 1990).

1990s

After the creation of the Communist Party of the RSFSR in June 1990, at the 1st founding congress, he was elected chairman of the standing commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR on humanitarian and ideological problems, and in September 1990 - secretary of the Central Committee and member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR. At the beginning of 1991, he called for the removal of Mikhail Gorbachev from the post of Secretary General. May 7, 1991 in the newspaper “ Soviet Russia“Zyuganov’s open letter “The Architect at the Ruins” was published, addressed to the former member of the Politburo, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, senior adviser to the President of the USSR Alexander Yakovlev, which contained sharp criticism of the policies of Perestroika.

In the spring of 1991, he headed the election headquarters of N.I. Ryzhkov in the presidential elections of the RSFSR. These elections were won by the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR B. N. Yeltsin.

In July 1991, together with a number of well-known government, political and public figures, he signed the “Word to the People” appeal. The appeal spoke about measures to prevent the collapse of the USSR and about possible tragic events. In August 1991, he was nominated as a candidate in the elections of the 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR, but withdrew his candidacy in favor of V. A. Kuptsov due to lack of experience in parliamentary work. After the party was banned on November 6, 1991, Zyuganov de facto continued to work as secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR.

In December 1991, he was co-opted into the coordinating council of the Russian All-People's Union. At the same time he was elected a member of the coordinating council of the Fatherland movement. On June 12-13, 1992, he participated in the 1st Council (Congress) of the Russian National Council (RNC), becoming a member of the presidium of the cathedral.

In October 1992, he joined the organizing committee of the National Salvation Front (NSF). At the Second Extraordinary (Restoration) Congress of the Communist Party of the RSFSR (CP RSFSR) on February 13-14, 1993, he was elected a member of the Central Executive Committee of the party, and at the first organizational plenum of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - Chairman of the Central Executive Committee.

On July 25-26, 1993, he took part in the II Congress of the National Salvation Front in Moscow. From 20:00 on September 21, 1993 - after Boris Yeltsin's speech with a message about the dissolution of the Congress of People's Deputies and Parliament - he was in the House of Soviets, speaking at rallies. On October 2, he spoke on air at VGTRK, calling on the population of Moscow to refrain from participating in rallies and clashes with the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Zyuganov also convinced Rutsky not to take people outside the Supreme Council. He warned that a group of special forces was sitting in Ostankino with complete set weapons and the order to shoot to kill.

On December 12, 1993, he was elected to the State Duma of the first convocation on the federal list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Since 1994, he has permanently headed the Communist Party faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

In April-May 1994, he was one of the initiators of the creation of the “Concord in the Name of Russia” movement. On January 21-22, 1995, at the III Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, he became chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. On December 17, 1995, he was elected to the State Duma of the 2nd convocation on the federal list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

On March 4, 1996, he was registered as a candidate for President of the Russian Federation. On June 16, the 1996 presidential elections took place. Zyuganov's candidacy was supported by 32.03% of the votes of voters who took part in voting in the first round, which is only slightly less (35%) than the candidate and incumbent President Yeltsin. On July 3, 1996, during the voting in the second round, 40.31% of voters voted for Zyuganov’s candidacy, which was significantly less than that of the victorious Yeltsin. Although Zyuganov disputed the official election results in a number of places (for example, in Tatarstan), Vladimir Zhirinovsky campaigned in the following presidential elections 2000, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Lyubov Sliska later and a number of other politicians and experts expressed the opinion or argued that the true results of at least the first round or the 1996 elections as a whole were different. That they were allegedly won by Zyuganov, who, under powerful pressure, did not defend it (“leaked”), exposing Yeltsin’s “victory” to the fullest extent by legal and public means.

Zyuganov said in 2004: “We suspected monstrous falsification, but could not prove it, because we did not yet know how to control the voting results everywhere. But both then and now we turn to the courts to verify the facts of unconstitutional behavior of election commissions.”

According to the testimony of Sergei Baburin, Sergei Udaltsov and other participants, on February 20, 2012, at a meeting with representatives of the “non-systemic opposition,” President Dmitry Medvedev said the following about the 1996 elections, verbatim: “Hardly anyone has any doubts about who won the 1996 presidential elections. It was not Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.” An anonymous source in the Kremlin later denied this.

In August 1996, he was elected chairman of the coordination council of the People's Patriotic Union of Russia, which included parties and movements that supported him in the presidential elections. At the beginning of 1997, he made a call to force Yeltsin to resign from the presidency, while at the same time giving him guarantees of immunity and a dignified life. In the same statement he called on everyone political movements countries not to take actions that would weaken state power in the center and locally.

In March 1998, he advocated the impeachment of Yeltsin.

In August 1998, after a default, the government of Sergei Kiriyenko resigned and Yeltsin nominated Chernomyrdin for the post of prime minister. On August 30, information appeared in the press about the existence of an agreement between State Duma factions that would guarantee Chernomyrdin’s approval as prime minister. However, Zyuganov and the leaders of other parties later abandoned this agreement. During the voting, Chernomyrdin's candidacy was twice rejected by the State Duma. In September, Yeltsin proposed the candidacy of Primakov, which the Duma members approved.

In May 1999, the State Duma voted on the impeachment of Yeltsin. Supporters of impeachment did not get the required 300 votes on any issue. Zyuganov said that the main result of the voting in the State Duma was that the impeachment of Yeltsin was supported by the majority of Duma members.

On the eve of the Duma elections, he headed the pre-election bloc “For Victory”, formed on the basis of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
On December 19, 1999, he was elected as a deputy of the State Duma III convocation on the federal list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

2000s

In 2000, he again ran for the post of head of state. His election program contained promises to give everything Natural resources to the state, divide natural rent among all citizens of the country, return the state monopoly on vodka and tobacco, guarantee everyone the right to work and decent wages, ensure the right to free medicine, ensure the right to free education, halve the taxation of production, introduce benefits for knowledge-intensive industries, amend the constitution to transform the country into a parliamentary republic. In 2000, in the Russian presidential elections he received 29.21% of the vote and took second place after Vladimir Putin.

In January 2001, at the plenum of the Council of the SKP-CPSU, he was elected chairman of the council of the Union of Communist Parties.

In the spring of 2002, by the decision of the centrist and right-wing majority in the State Duma, a number of members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation faction, who held the posts of chairmen of parliamentary committees, were relieved of their posts. The plenums of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation on April 3 and 10, 2002 instructed the rest of their chairmen - party nominees, as well as State Duma Chairman Gennady Seleznev, to resign as a sign of solidarity with those fired. However, Seleznev, as well as the heads of Duma committees Nikolai Gubenko and Svetlana Goryacheva, refused to obey the decision of the plenum and, by decision of the new plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, were expelled from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Duma faction of the party. As Zyuganov himself explained, they were expelled “for failure to comply with the charter and the damage caused to our common cause.” The Kommersant newspaper noted that on the eve of the elections, Zyuganov showed that he was able to restore order in the party and still remains its sole leader. The Vedomosti newspaper emphasized: “The Communist Party of the Russian Federation has demonstrated to its electorate that it will not tolerate deviations from the general line of the party, “compliance with the authorities” and the fact that some prefer warm places and wide seats to membership in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.” But, despite this, the publication concluded: the Communist Party of the Russian Federation lost ground, but did not reach a split.

On September 23, 2003, Zyuganov sent a deputy request to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, in which he demanded that an administrative case be opened against Putin as official category “A” and fine him 22,500 rubles for conducting election campaigning outside campaign period party "United Russia". However, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, Alexander Veshnyakov, and the Chairman of the Federation Council, Sergei Mironov, objected that they did not see anything illegal in the President’s speech. The head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation tried to file a complaint with higher authorities, but not a single court examined the complaint on its merits.

In 2003, he was elected to the State Duma of the fourth convocation on the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

He did not participate in the 2004 presidential elections; Nikolai Kharitonov represented the Communist Party instead. According to official data, he took second place, gaining 13.69% of the votes.

In 2004, Zyuganov resigned as chairman of the coordination council of the NPSR. The post was taken by Gennady Semigin, but the Communist Party of the Russian Federation refuses to recognize his election.

Also in 2004, there was an internal party conflict. On July 3, 2004, two X Congresses of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation were held in Moscow, one elected Zyuganov as chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the other “alternative” removed the latter and elected Vladimir Tikhonov as head of the Central Committee. The Ministry of Justice recognized the “alternative congress” as illegitimate. Thus, Zyuganov retained leadership in the party.

In the same year, Zyuganov’s book “On Russians and About Russia” was published, in which he declared the need for all patriots and communists to protect Russians. The book expressed the idea that accusations of Russia in the revival of Russian chauvinism are a reflection of the growing unrest of the world behind the scenes, which realizes that the global anti-Russian intrigue is currently on the verge of breakdown.

In 2006, he expressed his opinion on the desirability of developing the project “New External and domestic politics”, recommending using the experience of Belarus, India, China, Vietnam and Europe.

In 2007, on the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, he was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fifth convocation.

He took part in the 2008 elections, taking second place after Dmitry Medvedev (according to official data, more than 13 million votes, or 17.72% of those who took part in the elections).

In November 2008, when the economic crisis broke out in Russia, Zyuganov proposed nationalizing Russia's main wealth as an anti-crisis measure.

2010s

At the beginning of the summer of 2011, in response to the creation of the All-Russian Popular Front, the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation announced the formation of the All-People's Militia named after Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky with a program to “bring the country out of the crisis.”

In 2011, he was once again elected to the State Duma of Russia.

He took part in the 2012 presidential elections, taking second place after Vladimir Putin (according to official data, 12.4 million votes, or 17.18% of those who took part in the elections). Zyuganov was the only candidate who participated in the elections who did not recognize the results.

Since July 11, 2012 - member of the State Council of the Russian Federation. In accordance with Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated July 11, 2012 No. 946 “Issues of the State Council of the Russian Federation,” the leaders of factions in the State Duma, ex officio, are members of the State Council.

In August 2012, after the conviction in the case Pussy Riot, Zyuganov, not approving of a prison term for young women, said that for those convicted, a “good spanking” was enough as punishment; at the same time, he expressed a desire to carry out the execution with his own hands: “Personally, my point of view: I would take a good belt, flog them and send them to the children and parents. This would be an administrative punishment for them. And I would tell them not to engage in such blasphemy and disgrace again.” After these words, Zyuganov acquired a reputation in the press as a person “experienced in the art of spanking.”

September 19, 2012 - US authorities were outraged by a post on Zyuganov’s microblog about the death of the ambassador in Libya (“The American ambassador to Libya was shot like the last dog. It was Chief Specialist on the Libyan “revolution”. He got back what he sowed." Later, Zyuganov denied the authenticity of this quote, however, continuing to criticize US policy in Libya, calling it aggression; He also assessed the activities of Ambassador Stevens as short-sighted. Washington is convinced that after these statements, Zyuganov will no longer be able to maintain the previous favorable relations with the American embassy in Moscow.

At the XV Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation on February 23-24, 2013, he was re-elected chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation for another term, having received an overwhelming number of votes of delegates in a secret ballot.

On June 26, 2014, on the occasion of Zyuganov’s 70th birthday, the Rossiya-1 TV channel showed documentary"Gennady Zyuganov. History in notebooks."

Information about hospitalization and heart attack

June 4, 2012 during summer holiday At the Zarya sanatorium (Kislovodsk), Zyuganov was hospitalized for examination at the city hospital. According to the initial examination, the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was diagnosed with an acute Q-shaped myocardial infarction of the left ventricle and it was decided to perform coronary angiography. The diagnosis data ended up on the Internet, and the Ministry of Health organized an investigation into the disclosure of the diagnosis, since this information is classified as a medical secret. As the head of the Ministry of Health Veronika Skvortsova notes, Zyuganov’s condition is assessed as “satisfactory.” June 5 by special flight from the airport Mineralnye Vody Zyuganov was taken to Moscow and placed in the capital's Institute of Cardiology. The official media of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation claim that the communist leader “against the background of complaints of acute pain in knee joint elevated blood pressure was recorded." Zyuganov himself also explained the hospitalization as a knee injury. On June 9, 2012, Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kashin, who visited a patient at the Moscow Cardiology Center, said that Zyuganov “feels fine, moreover, he is cheerful and cheerful.” According to Life news, on June 9, 2012, Zyuganov underwent heart surgery. However, the press service of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation denied this information. On June 10, 2012, Zyuganov returned to work and gave an interview regarding the current political situation in Russia.

On June 26, 2012, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who was on a study tour to Gorki Leninskiye, personally congratulated Zyuganov on his 68th birthday by telephone and wished him “ good health"; from the official message it follows that this was the prime minister’s only wish. On this day, the state TV channel “Russia-1” dedicated a detailed story to Zyuganov’s birthday, including an interview with the cheerful and cheerful hero of the occasion and shown on the evening broadcast of the “Vesti” program.

Works, titles, awards

Author of a series of monographs. Doctor of Philosophy, in 1995 at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov defended his dissertation on the topic “The main trends in the socio-political development of Russia and its mechanisms in 1980-1990” (Specialty: 09.00.10 - “Philosophy of Politics and Law”) . In 1996-2004 he headed the People's Patriotic Union of Russia. Since 2001, he has headed the Union of Communist Parties - the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

He is the author of socio-economic programs of the patriotic opposition.
Honorary citizen of the city of Orel.
Laureate of the Sholokhov Literary Prize (established by the Union of Writers of Russia). Since 1993 he has been published in Sovetskaya Rossiya.
Awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor and medals.
On June 23, 2014, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, in connection with his 70th anniversary, he was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
On July 19, 2016 he was awarded the Order of Friendship of the Peoples of Belarus.
In 2016, a medal was awarded to “Participant military operation in Syria."

Socio-political views

According to Zyuganov, in the CPSU “two wings, and essentially two trends,” have emerged. The first was the wing of Lenin, Stalin, Zhukov and Gagarin; the second - the wing of Trotsky, General Vlasov, Yagoda and Beria. In 1995, Zyuganov expressed the opinion that the struggle is not between classes, but

“between the ruling regimes, relying on a narrow layer of comprador or nationalist “vocracy”, striving to destroy the Eurasian civilization represented by Russia, and the subjective, voluntaristic aspirations of a narrow corporate group that has seized power in the country”

According to Zyuganov, in the context of globalization the main thing is the contradiction between cosmopolitanism and patriotism. Zyuganov names not so much Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin as his theoretical sources, but rather “conservative-protective” ideologists - Nikolai Danilevsky and Konstantin Leontiev, as well as Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee and Francis Fukuyama. According to left-wing sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky, the overwhelming majority of these ideologists openly oppose Marxism, socialism and Bolshevism.

The opinion is voiced that “Zyuganov was never a Marxist and, therefore, did not betray Marxism.” In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda on June 26, 2014, Gennady Andreevich called this opinion nonsense and called himself a convinced Marxist-Leninist and a supporter of renewed socialism.

Considers it advisable to use Leninist dialectics and Stalinist practice to achieve party goals.

According to the newspaper “Zavtra” in 1996, he spoke positively about serfdom. In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda on June 26, 2014, Zyuganov called this statement nonsense and stated that he had never spoken positively about serfdom and had a negative attitude towards it.

He proposed to cancel the Belovezhskaya Agreement and create a union state of Belarus and Russia. Supporter of the integration of states in the former USSR.

Relations with authorities

On March 17, 2009, Zyuganov criticized the authorities, saying that “recently, against the backdrop of an intensifying crisis, the authorities have switched to the tactics of dirty provocations.” Thus, earlier the pro-government majority of the State Duma adopted a protocol order in which Zyuganov was accused of organizing an unauthorized rally in Bryansk. On March 19, 2009, the Vedomosti newspaper stated that Zyuganov “began to take advantage of the Kremlin’s favor”: direct telephones to the country’s leaders were installed in his office, a member of the Communist Party faction Oleg Denisenko entered the presidential personnel reserve; The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, in turn, according to an anonymous source of the newspaper, refused to organize protests.

In connection with information about direct telephone line to the president, State Duma deputy Oleg Shein (Fair Russia faction) stated that the role of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is “an imitation of the opposition.” However, according to Sergei Obukhov, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, there was no favored treatment, and now the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is under pressure “so that the communists do not hold rallies in the regions and remain silent in the State Duma.”

Attitude to events in Ukraine and Crimea

Zyuganov strongly supported the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation and President Putin's policies on Ukraine. The leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation spoke in favor of the federalization of Ukraine, recognition of the results of popular referendums, giving state status to the Russian language, in his public speaking constantly provided moral support to the pro-Russian rebels and the Communist Party faction in the Ukrainian parliament. Against the backdrop of these events and on the occasion of his 70th anniversary on June 26, 2014, Zyuganov was received in the Kremlin by President Putin, assured of his respect, awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky and presented the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation with a bronze figurine of Chapaev. A month later, on July 24 and 25, 2014, the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine opened criminal proceedings against Gennady Zyuganov, Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Sergei Mironov on suspicion of financing on a particularly large scale by a group of persons actions directed against the sovereignty of Ukraine, changes in its political system or borders (Part 4 of Article 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). Commenting on the events, Zyuganov said that during political career They had previously tried to convict him 16 times, but he received this news with particular contempt: “Criminals decided to try me, people who illegally seized power in Ukraine, “raped” their country and ordered the execution of their compatriots.”

Attempt to remove the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation

On July 1, 2004, an alternative Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation took place, organized by opponents of Gennady Zyuganov, which elected a new composition of the Central Committee, the chairman of the central control and audit commission Tatyana Astrakhankina, the first deputy chairman of the Central Committee Sergei Potapov, the chairman of the Central Committee (leader) of the party, the Governor of the Ivanovo region was elected Vladimir Tikhonov.

The organizers of the alternative Congress were deputies: Gennady Semigin, Svetlana Goryacheva, Elena Drapeko, Viktor Zorkaltsev, Alexander Shabanov, Leonid Ivanenko, Vyacheslav Boyko and others. However, the Ministry of Justice refused to recognize the results of the congress; all the organizers of the alternative congress were expelled from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. After which, some participants of the Congress organized their own parties, the All-Union Communist Party of Belarus and Patriots of Russia.

Public opinion

According to a Levada Center study conducted in April 2004, to the question: “Do you think Gennady Zyuganov should remain at the head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - or should another politician replace him?” 27% answered that Zyuganov should stay, 54% - another politician should come, 19% - found it difficult to answer.

Personal life

According to the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” for 2007, he regularly vacations at a state dacha in the Moscow region on the territory of the holiday home of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation “Snegiri”, where since 1994 he has been renting cottage No. 29 - a small pink house with two chimneys. According to media reports, Zyuganov likes to play volleyball and billiards, and grow flowers (he has about a hundred types of them at his dacha). Lover of mountain hikes. Winner of the first category in athletics, volleyball and triathlon.

He prefers to spend his holidays in the Caucasus in Kislovodsk.

The leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation lives in Moscow on 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street in house No. 54, where Boris Yeltsin and some other leaders of the CPSU were registered until the early 1990s.

Married. Wife - Nadezhda Vasilievna Zyuganova (Amelicheva, born in 1946). Two children: son Andrei (born in 1968) and daughter Tatyana Nikiforova (born in 1974). Gennady Andreevich has seven grandchildren and a granddaughter. One of his grandchildren, Leonid Andreevich Zyuganov (07/22/1988), formerly an assistant to a deputy of the Moscow City Duma (MGD), in 2014 was nominated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation as a candidate for deputy of the Moscow City Duma of the 6th convocation in the 8th district and in the elections on September 14 he took first place, gaining 11,904 votes (33.47%).

With my future wife Gennady Andreevich met at school. We went to college together. He is in physics and mathematics, she is in history.

Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov(b. June 26, 1944, Mymrino, Khotynetsky district, Oryol region, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian political figure, chairman of the Council of the Union of Communist Parties - CPSU (since 2001), chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (since 1995), chairman of the presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (1993-1995). He ran for the post of President of the Russian Federation three times, each time taking second place (1996, where he reached the second round, 2000 and 2008).
Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov
Date of birth: June 26, 1944
Place of birth: Mymrino, Khotynetsky district, Oryol region, RSFSR, USSR
Citizenship: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR → Russia
Education: Oryol State University
Party: CPSU (since 1966), Communist Party of the RSFSR (since 1990), Communist Party of the Russian Federation (since 1993)
Main ideas: socialism, patriotism, communism, Marxism-Leninism
Occupation: Chairman of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Career of Gennady Zyuganov

Gennady Zyuganov- Doctor of philosophical science; author of a number of books, as well as publications in the press.
Gennady Zyuganov born into a teacher's family in the village of Mymrino (about 100 km from Orel). Father - Andrey Mikhailovich Zyuganov(1910-1990), was the commander of an artillery crew, after the war he taught most subjects at the Mymrinsky secondary school, including the basics of agriculture, excluding foreign and Russian languages and literature. Mother - Marfa Petrovna, (1915-2004) - taught in the primary classes of the Mymrinsky school.

After graduating with a silver medal from the Mymrinsky secondary school in the Khotynetsky district of the Oryol region in 1961, he worked there as a teacher for a year. In 1962 he entered the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Oryol Pedagogical Institute, from which he graduated with honors in 1969. In 1963-1966. served in the Soviet Army in radiation-chemical reconnaissance of a group of Soviet troops in Germany (currently - Colonel of the Chemical Troops Reserve). He taught physics and mathematics at a university. At the same time he was engaged in trade union, Komsomol and party work. In 1966 he joined the CPSU. Since 1967 - in the bodies of the Komsomol, worked in elected positions at the district, city and regional levels.

After graduating from the Oryol Pedagogical Institute Gennady Zyuganov He taught there from 1969 to 1970. From 1972 to 1974 he worked as first secretary of the Oryol regional committee of the Komsomol. In 1974-1983 Gennady Zyuganov was secretary of the district committee, second secretary of the Oryol city committee of the CPSU, then - head of the propaganda and agitation department of the Oryol regional committee of the CPSU. At the same time, in 1973-77. was a deputy of the Oryol City Council, from 1980 to 1983 - a deputy of the Oryol Regional Council of Deputies. From 1978 to 1980 he studied at the main department of the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU, completing his postgraduate studies as an external student. In 1980 Gennady Zyuganov defended candidate's thesis, the topic of the dissertation was “The main directions of development of a socialist urban lifestyle using the example of large cities in the country.”

In 1983-1989 Gennady Zyuganov worked in the Department of Agitation and Propaganda of the CPSU Central Committee as an instructor, head of the sector. In 1989-1990 Gennady Zyuganov was deputy head of the ideological department of the CPSU Central Committee. Delegate to the XXVIII Congress of the CPSU (June 1990) and, accordingly, as a representative of the RSFSR - the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of the RSFSR (June-September 1990).

The activities of Gennady Zyuganov in the dashing 90s

After the creation of the Communist Party of the RSFSR in June 1990 at the 1st founding congress Gennady Zyuganov was elected a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR, chairman of the Standing Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR on humanitarian and ideological problems, and in September 1990 - Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR. At the beginning of 1991 Gennady Zyuganov made a call for the removal of Mikhail Gorbachev from the post of Secretary General.
On May 7, 1991, an open letter “Architect at the Ruins” was published in the newspaper “Soviet Russia” Zyuganov, addressed to former member of the Politburo, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, senior adviser to the President of the USSR Alexander Yakovlev, which contained sharp criticism of the policies of Perestroika.

In July 1991 Gennady Zyuganov signed, together with a number of well-known government, political and public figures, the “Word to the People” appeal. The appeal spoke about measures to prevent the collapse of the USSR and about possible tragic events. In August 1991 Gennady Zyuganov was nominated as a candidate in the election of 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR, but withdrew his candidacy in favor of V. A. Kuptsov due to lack of experience in parliamentary work.

In December 1991 Gennady Zyuganov was co-opted into the coordinating council of the Russian All-People's Union. At the same time he was elected a member of the coordinating council of the Fatherland movement. On June 12-13, 1992, he participated in the 1st Council (Congress) of the Russian National Council (RNC), becoming a member of the presidium of the cathedral.

In October 1992 Gennady Zyuganov joined the organizing committee of the National Salvation Front (NSF). At the Second Extraordinary Congress of the Communist Party of the RSFSR (CP RSFSR) on February 13-14, 1993, he was elected a member of the Central Executive Committee of the party, and at the first organizational plenum of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - Chairman of the Central Executive Committee.

July 25-26, 1993 Gennady Zyuganov took part in the II Congress of the National Salvation Front in Moscow. From 20:00 on September 21, 1993 - after Boris Yeltsin's speech announcing the dissolution of parliament - he was in the House of Soviets, speaking at rallies. On October 3, he appeared on air at VGTRK, calling on the population of Moscow to refrain from participating in rallies and clashes with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

December 12, 1993 Gennady Zyuganov was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the first convocation on the federal list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Since 1994 Gennady Zyuganov permanently heads the Communist Party faction in the State Duma.

In April-May 1994, he was one of the initiators of the creation of the “Concord in the Name of Russia” movement. On January 21-22, 1995, at the III Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, he became chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. December 17, 1995 Gennady Zyuganov elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the second convocation on the federal list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

March 4, 1996 Gennady Zyuganov registered as a candidate for President of the Russian Federation. On June 16, 1996, the presidential elections of the Russian Federation took place. The candidacy of Gennady Zyuganov supported by 32.03% of the votes of voters who took part in the voting. On July 3, 1996, during the voting in the second round of the presidential elections in the Russian Federation, 40.31% of voters voted for Zyuganov’s candidacy.

In August 1996 Gennady Zyuganov elected chairman of the coordination council of the People's Patriotic Union of Russia, which included parties and movements that supported him in the presidential elections. At the beginning of 1997, he made a call to force Yeltsin to resign from the presidency, while at the same time giving him guarantees of immunity and a dignified life. In the same statement, he called on all political movements in the country not to take actions that would weaken state power in the center and locally.

In March 1998 Gennady Zyuganov advocated the impeachment of Yeltsin.
In August 1998, after a default, the government of Sergei Kiriyenko resigned and Yeltsin nominated Chernomyrdin for the post of prime minister. On August 30, information appeared in the press about the existence of an agreement between State Duma factions that would guarantee Chernomyrdin’s approval as prime minister. However, later Gennady Zyuganov and the leaders of other parties refused this agreement. During the voting, Chernomyrdin's candidacy was twice rejected by the State Duma. In September, Yeltsin proposed the candidacy of Primakov, which the Duma members approved.

In May 1999, the State Duma voted on the impeachment of Yeltsin. Supporters of impeachment did not get the required 300 votes on any issue. Gennady Zyuganov stated that the main result of the voting in the State Duma was that the impeachment of Yeltsin was supported by the majority of Duma members.
On the eve of the Duma elections Gennady Zyuganov headed the pre-election bloc “For Victory”, formed on the basis of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

December 19, 1999 Gennady Zyuganov elected to the State Duma of the third convocation on the federal list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
Gennady Zyuganov at a meeting with Vladimir Putin in 2000

Activities of Gennady Zyuganov 2000s

In 2000 Gennady Zyuganov again ran for the post of head of state. His election program contained promises to give all natural resources to the state, divide natural resources among all citizens of the country, return the state monopoly on vodka and tobacco, guarantee everyone the right to work and decent wages, ensure the right to free medicine, ensure the right to free education, reduce taxation of production twice, introduce benefits for high-tech industries, amend the constitution in order to transform the country into a parliamentary republic.
In 2000, during the Russian presidential elections Gennady Zyuganov received 29.21% of the vote and took second place after Vladimir Putin.
In January 2001, at the plenum of the Council of the UPC-CPSU Gennady Zyuganov elected Chairman of the Council of the Union of Communist Parties.

In 2003 Gennady Zyuganov elected to the State Duma of the fourth convocation, in 2007 - deputy to the State Duma of the fifth convocation. In the 2004 presidential elections Gennady Zyuganov did not participate, the Communist Party was represented by Nikolai Kharitonov.

Released in 2004 Zyuganov's book“About Russians and Russia,” in which he stated the need for all patriots and communists to protect Russians. The book expressed the idea that accusations of Russia in the revival of Russian chauvinism are a reflection of the growing unrest of the world behind the scenes, which realizes that the global anti-Russian intrigue is currently on the verge of breakdown.

In 2006 Gennady Zyuganov expressed an opinion on the desirability of developing a project “New Foreign and Domestic Policy”, recommending using the experience of Belarus, India, China, Vietnam and Europe.
Gennady Zyuganov took part in the 2008 elections, taking 2nd place after Dmitry Medvedev (according to official data, more than 13 million votes, or 17.72% of those who took part in the elections).
In November 2008, when the economic crisis flared up in Russia, as an anti-crisis measure Gennady Zyuganov proposed to nationalize the main wealth of Russia.

Gennady Zyuganov- author of a series of monographs. Doctor of Philosophy, the dissertation was called “Main trends in the socio-political development of Russia and its mechanisms in the 80-90s” and was defended at Moscow State University. In 1996-2004 he headed the People's Patriotic Union of Russia. Since 2001 Gennady Zyuganov heads the Union of Communist Parties - the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Gennady Zyuganov is the author of socio-economic programs of the patriotic opposition.

Gennady Zyuganov- Honorary citizen of Orel.
Laureate of the Sholokhov Literary Prize (established by the Union of Writers of Russia). Since 1993 he has been published in Sovetskaya Rossiya.

Social and political views of Gennady Zyuganov

According to Zyuganov, in the CPSU “there were two wings, and essentially two currents.” The first was the wing of Lenin, Stalin, Zhukov and Gagarin; the second - the wing of Trotsky, General Vlasov, Yagoda and Beria. In 1995 Zyuganov expressed the opinion that the struggle is not between classes, but “between the ruling regimes, relying on a narrow layer of comprador or nationalist “vocracy”, striving for the destruction of the Eurasian civilization in the person of Russia, and the subjective, voluntaristic aspirations of a narrow corporate group that has seized power in the country.”

Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov(born June 26, 1944, Mymrino, Khotynetsky district, Oryol region, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian politician, chairman of the Council of the Union of Communist Parties - CPSU (since 2001), chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (since 1995), chairman of the presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (1993-1995). Deputy of the State Duma of the I-VI convocations (since 1993). Member of PACE (since 1996). He ran for the post of President of the Russian Federation four times, each time taking second place (1996, where he reached the second round, 2000, 2008 and 2012).

Born into a teacher's family in the village of Mymrino (about 100 km from Orel). According to Zyuganov himself, he was born premature - seven months old.

Father - Andrei Mikhailovich Zyuganov (1910-1990), was the commander of an artillery crew; according to Gennady Zyuganov, he lost his leg near Sevastopol. After the war, he taught most subjects at Mymrinskaya secondary school, including the basics of agriculture, excluding foreign and Russian languages and literature. Mother - Marfa Petrovna, (1915-2004) - taught in the primary classes of the Mymrinsky school.

In 1963-1966 he served in the Soviet Army in the radiation-chemical reconnaissance of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (currently a colonel in the chemical forces reserve).

According to the official version, from 1969 to 1970 he taught at the Oryol Pedagogical Institute. At the same time he was engaged in trade union, Komsomol and party work.

In 1966 he joined the CPSU. Since 1967 - in the bodies of the Komsomol, worked in elected positions at the district, city and regional levels.

From 1972 to 1974 he worked as first secretary of the Oryol regional committee of the Komsomol. In 1974-1983 he was secretary of the district committee, second secretary of the Oryol city committee of the CPSU, then head of the propaganda and agitation department of the Oryol regional committee of the CPSU. At the same time, from 1973 to 1977, he was a deputy of the Oryol City Council, and from 1980 to 1983, a deputy of the Oryol Regional Council of Deputies.

From 1978 to 1980 he studied at the main department of the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU, and completed his graduate studies as an external student. In 1980, he defended his PhD thesis on the topic “The main directions of development of a socialist urban lifestyle using the example of large cities in the country.”

1990s

After the creation of the Communist Party of the RSFSR in June 1990, at the 1st founding congress, he was elected a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR, chairman of the standing commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR on humanitarian and ideological problems, and in September 1990 - secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR. At the beginning of 1991, he called for the removal of Mikhail Gorbachev from the post of Secretary General. On May 7, 1991, the newspaper “Soviet Russia” published an open letter from Zyuganov, “The Architect at the Ruins,” addressed to former Politburo member, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, senior adviser to the President of the USSR Alexander Yakovlev, which contained sharp criticism of the policies of Perestroika.

In October 1992, he joined the organizing committee of the National Salvation Front (NSF). At the Second Extraordinary Congress of the Communist Party of the RSFSR (CP RSFSR) on February 13-14, 1993, he was elected a member of the Central Executive Committee of the party, and at the first organizational plenum of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - Chairman of the Central Executive Committee.

On July 25-26, 1993, he took part in the II Congress of the National Salvation Front in Moscow. From 20:00 on September 21, 1993 - after Boris Yeltsin's speech with a message about the dissolution of the Congress of People's Deputies and Parliament - he was in the House of Soviets, speaking at rallies. On October 3, he appeared on air at VGTRK, calling on the population of Moscow to refrain from participating in rallies and clashes with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On March 4, 1996, he was registered as a candidate for President of the Russian Federation. On June 16, the 1996 presidential elections took place. Zyuganov's candidacy was supported by 32.03% of the votes of voters who took part in voting in the first round, which is only slightly less (35%) than the candidate and incumbent President Yeltsin. On July 3, 1996, during the voting in the second round, 40.31% of voters voted for Zyuganov’s candidacy, which was significantly less than that of the victorious Yeltsin. Although Zyuganov disputed the official election results in a number of places (for example, in Tatarstan), Vladimir Zhirinovsky during his campaign in the next presidential elections in 2000, State Duma Deputy Speaker Lyubov Sliska later, and a number of other politicians and experts expressed opinions or asserted that the true the results of at least the first round or the 1996 elections were generally different. That they were allegedly won by Zyuganov, who, under powerful pressure, did not defend it (“leaked”), exposing Yeltsin’s “victory” to the fullest extent by legal and public means.

In August 1996, he was elected chairman of the coordination council of the People's Patriotic Union of Russia, which included parties and movements that supported him in the presidential elections. At the beginning of 1997, he made a call to force Yeltsin to resign from the presidency, while at the same time giving him guarantees of immunity and a dignified life. In the same statement, he called on all political movements in the country not to take actions that would weaken state power in the center and locally.

In March 1998, he advocated the impeachment of Yeltsin.

On the eve of the Duma elections, he headed the pre-election bloc “For Victory”, formed on the basis of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

On December 19, 1999, he was elected to the State Duma of the third convocation on the federal list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

2000s

In 2000, he again ran for the post of head of state. His election program contained promises to give all natural resources to the state, divide natural resources among all citizens of the country, return the state monopoly on vodka and tobacco, guarantee everyone the right to work and decent wages, ensure the right to free medicine, ensure the right to free education, reduce taxation of production twice, introduce benefits for high-tech industries, amend the constitution in order to transform the country into a parliamentary republic. In 2000, in the Russian presidential elections he received 29.21% of the vote and took second place after Vladimir Putin.

In January 2001, at the plenum of the Council of the SKP-CPSU, he was elected chairman of the council of the Union of Communist Parties.

In the spring of 2002, by the decision of the centrist and right-wing majority in the State Duma, a number of members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation faction, who held the posts of chairmen of parliamentary committees, were relieved of their posts. The plenums of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation on April 3 and 10, 2002 instructed the rest of their chairmen - party nominees, as well as State Duma Chairman Gennady Seleznev, to resign as a sign of solidarity with those fired. However, Seleznev, as well as the heads of Duma committees Nikolai Gubenko and Svetlana Goryacheva, refused to obey the decision of the plenum and, by decision of the new plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, were expelled from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Duma faction of the party. As Zyuganov himself explained, they were expelled “for failure to comply with the charter and the damage caused to our common cause.” The Kommersant newspaper noted that on the eve of the elections, Zyuganov showed that he was able to restore order in the party and still remains its sole leader. The Vedomosti newspaper emphasized: “...the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has demonstrated to its electorate that it will not tolerate deviations from the general line of the party, “compliance with the authorities” and the fact that some prefer warm places and wide seats to membership in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation...” But despite this, the publication concluded: the Communist Party of the Russian Federation lost ground, but did not reach a split.

On September 23, 2003, Zyuganov sent a deputy request to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, in which he demanded to initiate an administrative case against Putin as an official of category "A" and to fine him in the amount of 22,500 rubles for conducting election campaigning outside the campaign period of the United Russia party " However, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, Alexander Veshnyakov, and the Chairman of the Federation Council, Sergei Mironov, objected that they did not see anything illegal in the President’s speech. The head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation tried to file a complaint with higher authorities, but not a single court examined the complaint on its merits.

In 2003, he was elected to the State Duma of the fourth convocation on the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

He did not participate in the 2004 presidential elections; Nikolai Kharitonov represented the Communist Party instead. According to official data, he took second place, gaining 13.69% of the votes.

In 2006, he expressed an opinion on the desirability of developing a “New Foreign and Domestic Policy” project, recommending using the experience of Belarus, India, China, Vietnam and Europe.

In 2007, on the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, he was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fifth convocation.

He took part in the 2008 elections, taking second place after Dmitry Medvedev (according to official data, more than 13 million votes, or 17.72% of those who took part in the elections).

In November 2008, when the economic crisis broke out in Russia, Zyuganov proposed nationalizing Russia's main wealth as an anti-crisis measure.

In 2011, he was once again elected to the State Duma of Russia.

In August 2012, after the conviction in the Pussy Riot case, Zyuganov, disapproving of prison terms for young women, said that a “good spanking” would be enough for those convicted; at the same time he expressed a desire to carry out the execution with his own hands: “My personal point of view: I would take a good belt, flog them and send them to the children and parents. This would be an administrative punishment for them. And I would tell them not to engage in such blasphemy and disgrace again" After these words, Zyuganov acquired a reputation in the press as a person “ experienced in the art of spanking».

September 19, 2012 - US authorities were outraged by a post on Zyuganov’s microblog about the death of the ambassador in Libya ( “The American ambassador to Libya was shot like the last dog. He was the main expert on the Libyan “revolution”. He got back what he sowed"). Later, Zyuganov denied the authenticity of this quote, however, continuing to criticize US policy in Libya, calling it aggression; He also assessed the activities of Ambassador Stevens as short-sighted. Washington is convinced that after these statements, Zyuganov will no longer be able to maintain the previous favorable relations with the American embassy in Moscow.

On June 26, 2014, on the occasion of Zyuganov’s 70th birthday, the Rossiya-1 TV channel showed the documentary “Gennady Zyuganov. History in notebooks."

Information about hospitalization and heart attack

On June 4, 2012, during a summer vacation at the Zarya sanatorium (Kislovodsk), Zyuganov was hospitalized for examination at the city hospital. According to the initial examination, the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was diagnosed with an acute Q-shaped myocardial infarction of the left ventricle and it was decided to perform coronary angiography. The diagnosis data ended up on the Internet, and the Ministry of Health organized an investigation into the disclosure of the diagnosis, since this information is classified as a medical secret. As the head of the Ministry of Health Veronika Skvortsova notes, Zyuganov’s condition is assessed as “satisfactory.” On June 5, Zyuganov was taken to Moscow by special flight from Mineralnye Vody airport and placed in the capital’s Institute of Cardiology. The official media of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation claim that the communist leader “had high blood pressure against the background of complaints of acute pain in the knee joint.” Zyuganov himself also explained the hospitalization as a knee injury. On June 9, 2012, Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kashin, who visited a patient at the Moscow Cardiology Center, said that Zyuganov “feels fine, moreover, he is cheerful and cheerful.” According to Life news, on June 9, 2012, Zyuganov underwent heart surgery. However, the press service of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation denied this information. On June 10, 2012, Zyuganov returned to work and gave an interview regarding the current political situation in Russia.

On June 26, 2012, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who was on a study tour to Gorki Leninskiye, personally congratulated Zyuganov on his 68th birthday by telephone and wished him “good health”; from the official message it follows that this was the prime minister’s only wish. On this day, the state television channel Russia-1 dedicated a detailed story to Zyuganov’s birthday, including an interview with the cheerful and cheerful hero of the occasion, on the evening news broadcast.

Works and titles

Author of a series of monographs. Doctor of Philosophy, the dissertation was called “Main trends in the socio-political development of Russia and its mechanisms in the 80-90s” and was defended at Moscow State University. In 1996-2004 he headed the People's Patriotic Union of Russia. Since 2001 he has headed the Union of Communist Parties - the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Honorary citizen of the city of Orel.

Laureate of the Sholokhov Literary Prize (established by the Union of Writers of Russia). Since 1993 he has been published in Sovetskaya Rossiya.

Awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor and medals.

On June 23, 2014, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, in connection with his 70th anniversary, he was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky.

Socio-political views

The opinion is voiced that “Zyuganov was never a Marxist and, therefore, did not betray Marxism.”

Considers it advisable to use Leninist dialectics and Stalinist practice to achieve party goals.

He spoke positively about serfdom.

He proposed to cancel the Belovezhskaya Agreement and create a union state of Belarus and Russia. Supporter of the integration of states in the former USSR.

Relations with authorities

In connection with information about a direct telephone line to the president, State Duma deputy Oleg Shein (Fair Russia faction) stated that the role of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is “an imitation of the opposition.” However, according to Sergei Obukhov, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, there was no favored treatment, and now the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is under pressure “so that the communists do not hold rallies in the regions and remain silent in the State Duma.”

Attitude to events in Ukraine and Crimea

Zyuganov strongly supported the annexation of Crimea to Russia and President Putin's policies on Ukraine. The leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation advocated the federalization of Ukraine, recognition of the results of popular referendums, giving state status to the Russian language, and in his public speeches he constantly provided moral support to the pro-Russian militias and the Communist Party faction in the Ukrainian parliament. Against the backdrop of these events and on the occasion of his 70th anniversary on June 26, 2014, Zyuganov was received in the Kremlin by President Putin, assured of his respect, awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky and presented the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation with a bronze figurine of Chapaev. A month later, on July 24 and 25, 2014, the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine opened criminal proceedings against Gennady Zyuganov, Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Sergei Mironov on suspicion of financing on a particularly large scale by a group of persons actions directed against the sovereignty of Ukraine, changes in its political system or borders (Part 4 of Article 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). Commenting on the events, Zyuganov said that during his political career they had previously tried to convict him 16 times, but he received this news with particular contempt: “ Criminals decided to try me, people who illegally seized power in Ukraine, “raped” their country and ordered the execution of their compatriots».

Criticism

Zyuganov throughout his political career was criticized both by liberals and by socialists and communists.

Grigory Yavlinsky:

Mikhail Delyagin:

During the 1996 election campaign, he was criticized in the newspaper “God Forbid!” Zyuganov himself said that from the pages of this newspaper “streams of lies and dirt poured down on him.”

Public opinion

Personal life

He prefers to spend his holidays in the Caucasus in Kislovodsk.

Married. Wife - Nadezhda Vasilievna Zyuganova (Amelicheva). Son Andrey (born in 1968). Daughter Tatyana Nikiforova (born in 1974). Gennady Andreevich has seven grandchildren and a granddaughter.

Son-in-law - Sergei Nikiforov, Deputy General Director of Keramocenter CJSC. In November 2012, he was detained along with Moscow government official D. Vasiliev and unemployed A. Simonenko on suspicion of receiving a bribe of $223 thousand.

Property and income

According to official data from the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation as of December 29, 2007:
jointly owned by the Zyuganovs - a Moscow apartment with an area of 167.4 m2;

Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov - quotes

Putin and Kudrin created a bastard economy

The wind is now really blowing into the sails of the left forces, but we must be able to catch it with the sails of our ship.

Russia and I must live in peace.

Yeltsin is increasingly turning into Mr. Chubais' cudgel.

What does the regime offer to young people? Vodka, drugs and Barkashova.