Viktor Chernomyrdin is one of the most famous Russian political figures of the past. His name is known to everyone who caught perestroika. Moreover, many Russians remember him as a very gifted politician, able to create an unsurpassed aphorism with one simple phrase.
So let's look back and remember who Viktor Chernomyrdin was for us. What was his life path? And what contribution did he make to the development of modern Russia?
Viktor Chernomyrdin: biography of early years
The future politician was born in the small village of Cherny Otrog, which is located in the Orenburg region. It happened on April 9, 1938 in a family of ordinary workers. In addition to him, Stepan Makarevich and Marfa Petrovna had four more children.
Viktor Chernomyrdin received his first speci alty at the Orsk Technical School. Immediately after graduation, in 1957, he got a job at the Orsk oil refinery. Here he was listed as a simple mechanic servicing machine compressors and pumps.
In 1966 he graduated from the Kuibyshev Polytechnic Institute. Diploma in Technological Engineeringallowed Viktor Chernomyrdin to get the position of deputy head in the city committee of the CPSU.
The future politician received his second higher education in 1972, having graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Polytechnic Institute. This time, Chernomyrdin mastered the speci alty of an engineer-economist.
From 1973 to 1978, Viktor Chernomyrdin headed the Orenburg gas production plant.
Political career
In 1984, Viktor Chernomyrdin became a deputy of the country's Supreme Council. A year later he was elected Minister of the Gas Industry of the Soviet Union. In 1992, he assumed the position of Deputy Prime Minister. And soon he is promoted to the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Federation.
In December 1995, his party "Our Home - Russia" wins the elections. But Viktor Chernomyrdin himself renounced his parliamentary powers and remained in the position of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
In the period from 2001 to 2009, he was in the position of a specially authorized ambassador to Ukraine. In June 2009, Dmitry Medvedev appointed Viktor Chernomyrdin as Advisor to the President of Russia.
However, on November 3, 2010, the great politician dies in the ward of the capital's hospital. Diagnosis - myocardial infarction.
The greatest feat
In June 1995, terrorists seized the central hospital in Budyonnovsk, in the Stavropol Territory. More than 2,000 innocent people were taken hostage. Viktor Chernomyrdin took on the role of chief negotiator.
Thanks to his diplomatic skills, it turned outrelease most of the captured people. And although the militants were eventually able to escape, the number of victims was kept to a minimum. This feat of Viktor Chernomyrdin will forever remain in the hearts of the people he saved.
