The statesman of the Russian Federation Vladimir Igorevich Kozhin appeared on the political scene of the country a long time ago. In 2000, he received the position of Presidential Affairs Manager and held it for fourteen years. Currently, the politician is a representative of the Moscow Government in the Federation Council. We will tell about his career and personal life in the article.
Biography
Vladimir Kozhin was born on 1959-28-02 in the Chelyabinsk region, in Troitsk. His parents worked as builders. In 1964, when Vova was only five years old, his father died as a result of an emergency during the construction of a local state district power station.
In his school years, the future politician was a bully, he liked to argue with teachers, fought at breaks. Then the director of the school, who lived next door to the Kozhins, took up his upbringing. He instilled in Vova an interest in sports: he taught him to play basketball and volleyball, and to ski. Gradually, the boy pulled himself up in his studies: in 1976, after graduating from school, there were almost only fives in his certificate.
In the same year, the young man went to Leningrad to enter the Electrotechnical Institute. ATIn 1982 he graduated from LETI with an engineering degree. According to Vladimir Kozhin, it was difficult for him to study at the university. The visiting student lived in a dormitory, and the atmosphere prevailing there was not conducive to sitting at textbooks. Nevertheless, the future politician was an active participant in the life of the institute: he was a member of the hostel council, participated in construction teams and was the editor of a wall newspaper.
Career start
After graduating from LETI, Vladimir Kozhin went to work in the Petrograd district committee of the Komsomol, held the positions of department head and instructor. In 1986, he moved to work at the closed NPO Azimut, until 1989 he managed to work there as an engineer and leading specialist. In 1989-1990 he was sent to Germany for an internship at the Higher Commercial School. Upon his return, Kozhin created a department of foreign economic relations at Azimuth. Then he became the director of Azimut International Ltd, a joint Russian-Polish project.
In 1993-1994. Vladimir Igorevich worked in the St. Petersburg Association of Joint Ventures as General Director. At the same time, he met V. Putin, who at that time was the chairman of the Committee for External Relations in the city hall.
Promotion
In 1994, Vladimir Kozhin headed the North-Western Center of the Export and Currency Control Service in Russia. He worked in this position for six years and during this time managed to graduate from the Academy of Civil Service.
In September 1999, Putin, who was already the country's prime minister, invitedVladimir Igorevich to the capital and invited him to take the post of head of the FSMEC of Russia. Four months later, when Yeltsin resigned, Vladimir Vladimirovich became acting head of state and made Kozhin the president's affairs manager. The politician held this position until May 2014
Consulting and coordination activities
As a manager, Vladimir Igorevich was also involved in organizational work. In August 2000, he joined the Russian Victory Committee, at the end of 2004 he became the head of the organizing committee, which led the preparations for the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
In June 18, 2007, Vladimir Kozhin was appointed chairman of the organizing committee for the creation of the library. Yeltsin. In September of the same year, he joined the Sports Development Council, where he was involved in preparations for the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. In December, he was included in the organizing committees that ensure Russia's chairmanship of the APEC forum in 2012 and the SCO in 2008-2009.
Working in sports
Vladimir Igorevich Kozhin has always been interested in the sports field, because he himself is fond of skiing, basketball and tennis. In September 2004, the statesman began working in the Olympic Winter Sports Association as Chairman of the Council.
In December 2005, Kozhin received the post of vice-president of the Russian Olympic Committee. Since 2007, he has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the Organizing Committee of the Sochi Olympics. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the sports societyDynamo.
Currently
May 12, 2014 Vladimir Igorevich became Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation in matters of military-technical cooperation. He held this post until June 13, 2018.
In September this year, Moscow Mayor S. Sobyanin, re-elected for a new term, appointed Kozhin a member of the Federation Council from Moscow. In the upper house of parliament, the former head of the Kremlin manager joined the Defense and Security Committee.
Private life
Vladimir Kozhin met his first wife at Komsomol work. His district committee was preparing one of the events, where he met Alla, a student at the medical school. Soon they got married, and in 1985 their son Igor was born. The wife of the politician worked as a dentist, and later received a diploma in psychology. Subsequently, Alla became interested in painting and began to paint pictures.
In 2013, Vladimir Igorevich appeared at the Moscow presentation of Dior, accompanied by Olesya Boslovyak, a former soloist of the Mobile Blondes group and winner of many beauty contests. After some time, they again came out together in St. Petersburg at the economic forum. After that, the statesman announced his divorce.
In July 2014, the wedding of Vladimir Kozhin and Olesya Boslovyak took place. The magnificent ceremony was attended by many eminent guests, including Maxim Galkin and Alla Pugacheva, Stas Mikhailov, Nikolai Baskov, Igor Krutoy, Valentin Yudashkin and others. Even Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attended the event.
2016-08-01 the couple had a daughter, Alena, and on 2017-17-08, her younger sister Elizabeth was born.
As for Igor, the son of Vladimir Kozhin from his first marriage, he is a successful businessman, heads several companies involved in the construction and sale of petroleum products.
