A.E. Serdyukov: biography of the former Minister of Defense

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:41

Serdyukov Anatoly Eduardovich in the light of recent scandalous events has become one of the most publicized personalities in the media. People are interested in literally everything related to the former Minister of Defense, from his childhood to today's life. At the same time, quite a lot of stories with a pronounced fantastic tinge appear in the yellow press, which further fuel interest in such an ambiguous person, which is Anatoly Eduardovich. In order to make a full-fledged portrait of this person, you need to find out about his true biography.

Early life: childhood, adolescence and adolescence

Anatoly Serdyukov's birthday is January 8, 1962. At that time, his family lived in a small village called Kholmsky, which is located in the Abinsk district of the Krasnodar Territory. Anatoly's father - EdwardSerdyukov, whose biography is not particularly known, worked as a lumberjack in the local forestry. Raisa Serdyukova, the mother of the future minister, worked most of her life on a collective farm. He was the eldest child in the family, his younger sister's name is Galina.

After graduating from 8th grade, he was forced to transfer to night school in 1977 to earn a living, as he and his sister were left alone. During this period of his life, Anatoly worked as a mechanic in a garage. But Serdyukov, whose biography did not develop in a very successful way, still managed to enter the Leningrad Institute of Soviet Trade in 1980 and even graduate with honors. After graduating from the university, he served in the army, took officer courses and retired with the rank of second lieutenant.

Who was Anatoly Serdyukov before his appointment to the ministerial post?

The biography of this man is very interesting because he could find himself in any field of activity. So from 1985 to 1991 Anatoly Eduardovich was the head of a furniture store. Under his leadership, the nondescript store No. 3 turned into a real furniture salon "Dresden", which sold the best furniture from the GDR.

Since 1991, the former store manager has become deputy director. Then, on the basis of a furniture store, the Mebel-Market joint-stock company was organized, in which Serdyukov first took the post of deputy general director, and since 1993 he became the marketing director. After another 2 years, he eventually becomes the CEO of this company.

Public Service

Defense Minister Serdyukov, whose biography is associated with the armed forces of the Russian Federation only by conscript service in the army, began his path in the state field with the Ministry of Taxes and Duties. In this structure, until 2004, he held the position of head of department, and his duties included working with large taxpayers in St. Petersburg. In 2004, it was announced that Anatoly Serdyukov would become the head of the Federal Tax Service.

His biography takes on a militaristic coloration only in the winter of 2007, when Anatoly Eduardovich was appointed Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation by order of the President. Thus, he became only the third civilian in office after Leon Trotsky and Sergei Ivanov.

If you pay attention to the family line of the wife of the Minister of Defense, then one cannot but be surprised by such a coincidence as the appointment of Viktor Zubkov in the same 2007 as Prime Minister of Russia, whose son-in-law is Serdyukov. The biography of these two people has much in common, and the patronage of Viktor Alekseevich in the early stages of Serdyukov's public service can be traced very clearly.