Senator Dmitry Igorevich Azarov is well known to the residents of Samara. He has proven himself well in various positions in the city leadership, as well as in the Samara regional government.
Biography
The birthplace of the future politician is the city of Kuibyshev. Date - 1970-09-08
His father, also a native and resident of Kuibyshev, has various leadership positions behind him (Planning Institute, Vodokanal, Kuibyshevmelivodkhoz).
Mother's homeland - Magadan. For a long period she worked in Kuibyshevoblbyttechnika as a controller in the technical control department, then she was appointed to the trade union committee as chairman.
Dmitry Azarov, whose biography is closely connected with Samara, graduated from Kuibyshev secondary school No. 132 in 1987. From the age of eighteen, as a student, he already worked as an asph alt paver. Later, he received two higher educations, first graduating from the Polytechnic Institute in 1992, then studying with honors at the Buzuluk College of Finance and Economics under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation in 1996.
Production activity
In 1992, Dmitry Azarov began working as a software engineer, continuingstudy economics. He has been in leadership positions since the age of twenty-five. First, he was appointed to the post of Deputy Director for Economic Affairs at the Samara Plant, which manufactures auxiliary boiler equipment and pipelines.
Two years later, Azarov was transferred to a similar position at Sintezkauchuk. With his help, the company's staff of eight thousand workers managed to avoid bankruptcy proceedings.
This fact remains the only one in the Samara region to save a chemical production of this scale.
Next Azarov is the first deputy general director of Volgopromkhim. In this higher organization, six regional enterprises were united, with a total staff of 20,000 people.
2001-2006: Azarov is the CEO of the Middle Volga Gas Company. He managed to make it the leader of the Russian gas transportation industry, for which he received the Order of Glory to Russia.
In 2003, Dmitry Azarov defended his PhD in economics.
Working in administration
In 2006, V. Tarkhov was elected head of the city in Samara, who invited Azarov to his team and appointed him his first deputy. The functional duties of Dmitry Igorevich included control over the activities of the financial department, solving economic issues, problems of urban management, environmental safety, industry, entrepreneurship and communications.
Assembled professional team of Azarov twiceincreased city budget revenues.
Two years later, he voluntarily resigned from his post, as he disagreed with his immediate superior.
In 2008, Dmitry Igorevich Azarov came to work in the Samara regional government as the Minister for Nature Management, Forestry and Environmental Protection.
A year later he was included in the presidential personnel reserve in the top hundred.
Elective offices
In 2010, Dmitry Azarov, whose photo often appeared on the pages of the regional press, from United Russia took part in the election campaign for the post of Samara mayor.
10.10.2010 he won in the first round, receiving almost 67 percent of the electoral vote.
Five days later, the ceremony of his accession to the post of head of the administration of the Samara urban district took place.
In March 2011, he was elected President of the Association, which includes the cities of the Volga region.
Since September 2011, Dmitry Igorevich Azarov, whose personal life began to attract more and more attention, also received the post of vice president in the Union of Russian Cities.
In addition to working in the above structures, Azarov launched an active work as the mayor of Samara.
Dmitry Azarov, Federation Council
10.10.2014 Azarov had to step down as head of the Samara city district in connection with the delegation of hisrepresentative from the region to the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia, where he was elected to the Committee of the Federal Structure, Regional Policy, Local Self-Government and Northern Affairs as chairman.
In September 2014, Vyacheslav Timchenko resigned from the post of chairman of the All-Russian Council for Local Self-Government. Earlier, this deputy of the State Duma became a member of the Federation Council at the suggestion of the Kirov governor Nikita Belykh.
The All-Russian Council of Local Self-Government was headed by Dmitry Azarov.
Assuming the post vacated after Timchenko's resignation, he said that he was counting on the full support of members of the State Duma, the Federation Council, and the presidential administration. He hopes to do a lot with their help. His main task is to keep the pace in the work.
First of all, Azarov told the congress delegates that he plans to form regional branches on the territory of Crimea.
According to Azarov, people who are potentially active, but do not have sufficient practical knowledge, often get into local governments. These are the workers who should be helped.
It is planned to create nine centers for training specialists in the field of local self-government in various regions of the Russian Federation.
Azarov noted that in the speeches of the congress delegates, the idea of creating a resource center in each region together with the office of the plenipotentiary presidential representative was proposed.
This should be discussedlisten to the opinion of colleagues - said Azarov. University professors, together with the heads of local self-government structures, can train personnel in such a resource center.
Marital status
Dmitry Igorevich Azarov, whose family has always provided assistance and assistance in his political and administrative activities, has been happily married for over 20 years.
Future wife, Ellina, Azarov first saw when he was in elementary school. They entered into a marriage when they were third-year students at the Polytechnic Institute.
Currently they are raising two daughters - Polina and Alena.
D. Azarov enjoys playing basketball in his spare time. Reads a lot of fiction.
About Azarov's income
The website of the Samara city administration constantly publishes information about the incomes of officials. According to these data, 4.3 million rubles during 2012 earned the mayor of the city Dmitry Igorevich Azarov. His wife received an income of 1.6 million rubles this year.
In addition to Azarov's two Toyota Land Cruisers, he owns real estate in the form of a land plot, a residential building, two apartments and a storage room.
His wife also owns, in addition to the land and non-residential premises, two apartments.
In 2014, as a senator, Dmitry Azarov (Federation Council) received an income of 7,207,000 rubles. He has as real estate a plot of land of 500 square meters, intended forhousing construction.
Income of Azarov's wife in 2014 - 2,131,000 rubles
Dmitry Igorevich Azarov: interesting facts
Dmitry Azarov has a rather famous ancestor. His great-grandfather was at one time in the city of Smolensk a handicraft city head. A lot of good things were done in this post, in connection with which a monument was erected to him in one of the city squares.
Apparently, Azarov adopted some interesting traditions from his famous ancestor.
For example, every year on Forgiveness Sunday, he goes to the main square of Samara to ask for forgiveness from city residents.
22.02.2015 he said in such a speech that he sincerely apologizes to fellow countrymen and thanks them for their response.
Any leader, according to him, is not able to work without miscalculations and mistakes, as a result of which ordinary citizens may voluntarily or involuntarily take offense at him. Every leader, regardless of rank, has ordinary human qualities.
The bulk of people understand this very well, and all leaders, regardless of their positions, should remember this.
Azarov apologized to those whom, for some reason, he was unable to help, to whom he inadvertently inflicted injury with a carelessly spoken word or deed.
"From my own experience," said the senator, "I know how important it is to recognize the unfair treatment of ordinary people."
Criticism of the Governor
In the same speech, hecriticized the current governor, who spoke negatively about educational institutions located in the Samara region.
The governor proposed to unite three Samara higher educational institutions. At the same time, he made statements that "only garbage is collected at the Polytechnic University", that "this university is not worthy of the title of a full-fledged university", which undeservedly offended the students and teachers of this more than a century old university.
As a result of such thoughtless phrases, the situation in the region has escalated. Opponents of the governor, catching on to these statements, lashed out at him.
Azarov called on both sides to slow down the overly emotional intensity of passions and ask for forgiveness on such a day.
