Anatoly Borisovich Chubais - Soviet and Russian statesman, economist and top manager. General Director of the State Corporation Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies and Chairman of the Management Board of OJSC Rusnano.
In this article, we will consider the main events in the biography of Anatoly Chubais and the most interesting facts from his personal and political life.
So, before you is a short biography of Chubais.
Biography of Anatoly Chubais
Anatoly Chubais was born on June 16, 1955 in the Belarusian city of Borisov. He grew up and was brought up in the family of a military man.
Chubais's father, Boris Matveyevich, was a retired officer. During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) he served in the tank forces. After the end of the war, Chubais Sr. taught Marxism-Leninism at a Leningrad university.
The mother of the future politician, Raisa Khamovna, was Jewish and educated as an economist. In addition to Anatoly, another boy, Igor, was born in the Chubais family, who today is a sociologist and doctor of philosophical sciences.
Childhood and youth
From an early age, Anatoly Chubais was often present during heated disputes between his father and his older brother, which concerned political and philosophical topics.
He closely watched their conversations, listening with interest to one or another point of view.
Anatoly went to the first grade in Odessa. However, due to the father's service, the family periodically had to live in different cities, so the children managed to change more than one educational institution.
In the 5th grade, he studied at a Leningrad school with an intensified military-patriotic bias, which greatly irritated the future politician.
After receiving a certificate of secondary education, Chubais successfully passed the exams at the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. He had high marks in all disciplines, as a result of which he managed to graduate with honors.
In 1978 Anatoly joined the ranks of the CPSU. After 5 years, he defended his dissertation and became a candidate of economic sciences. After that, the guy got a job at his own institute as an engineer and assistant professor.
At this time, Anatoly Chubais met with the future Minister of Finance of Russia Yegor Gaidar. This meeting seriously influenced his political biography.
Politics
In the late 1980s, Anatoly Borisovich formed the Perestroika club, which was attended by various economists. Later, many of the club members received high positions in the government of the Russian Federation.
Over time, the chairman of the Leningrad City Council Anatoly Sobchak drew attention to Chubais, who made him his deputy. After the collapse of the USSR, Chubais became the chief adviser for economic development at the Leningrad City Hall.
An interesting fact is that at about the same time, Vladimir Putin became the mayor's advisor, but already on foreign economic relations.
In 1992, another significant event took place in the biography of Anatoly Chubais. For his professional qualities, he was entrusted to take the post of Deputy Prime Minister of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin.
Once in his new position, Chubais is developing a large-scale privatization program, as a result of which hundreds of thousands of state-owned enterprises go into the hands of private owners. This program today causes heated debate and a lot of extremely negative responses in society.
In 1993, Anatoly Chubais became a State Duma deputy from the Choice of Russia party. After that, he received the post of First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and also headed the Federal Commission for the Stock Market and Securities.
In 1996, Chubais supported Boris Yeltsin's political course, providing him with significant support in the race for the presidency. For the help provided, Yeltsin will make him head of the presidential administration in the future.
After 2 years, the politician became the head of the board of RAO UES of Russia. Soon he carried out a serious reform, which resulted in the restructuring of all structures of the holding.
The result of this reform was the transfer of the overwhelming majority of shares to private investors. A number of shareholders harshly criticized Chubais, calling him the worst manager in the Russian Federation.
In 2008, the UES of Russia energy company was liquidated, and Anatoly Chubais became the general director of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies. After 3 years, this corporation was reorganized and received the status of a leading innovative company in the Russian Federation.
Personal life
Over the years of his biography, Anatoly Chubais married three times. With his first wife, Lyudmila Grigorieva, he met in his student years. The couple had a son, Alexei, and a daughter, Olga.
The second wife of the politician was Maria Vishnevskaya, who also had an economic education. The couple have been married for 21 years, but no new additions have appeared in the family.
For the third time, Chubais married Avdotya Smirnova. They got married in 2012 and still live together. Avdotya is a journalist, director and TV presenter of the "School of Scandal" program.
In his spare time, Anatoly Chubais likes to travel to different cities and countries. He is interested in skiing and water sports. He likes the work of The Beatles, Andrei Makarevich and Vladimir Vysotsky.
According to the income statement for 2014, the capital of Anatoly Borisovich amounted to 207 million rubles. The Chubais family has 2 apartments in Moscow, as well as one apartment each in St. Petersburg and Portugal.
In addition, the spouses own two cars of the BMW X5 and BMW 530 XI brands and a Yamaha SXV70VT snowmobile. On the Internet, you can see a lot of videos and photographs in which a politician drives his snowmobile across the Russian expanses.
In 2011, Anatoly Chubais headed the board of directors of Rusnano LLC. According to the authoritative publication Forbes, in this position, operations with valuable shares brought the politician more than 1 billion rubles in 2015 alone.
Anatoly Chubais today
Anatoly Chubais has Facebook and Twitter accounts, where he comments on certain events in the country and the world. In 2019, he joined the Supervisory Board of the Moscow Innovation Cluster Foundation.
As of today, Chubais is one of the most unpopular officials in Russia. According to opinion polls, over 70% of compatriots do not trust him.
Anatoly Borisovich rarely communicates with his brother Igor. In an interview, Igor Chubais admitted that while they lived a simple life, there were no problems between them. However, when Tolik became an influential official, they parted ways.
It is worth noting that Anatoly Chubais's older brother is a believer. For this and other reasons, he does not share his younger brother's views on life.
Photo by Anatoly Chubais
