Martin Shakkum (see photos below) is a Russian political and statesman, member of the State Duma of the sixth convocation from the United Russia party, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Construction and Land Relations, member of the Duma Commission on the construction of structures and buildings, which are intended to accommodate the Parliamentary Center, as well as a member of the Supreme Council of United Russia. In April 1996, he created the Socialist People's Party and headed it.
Biography
Martin Shakkum, a biography whose nationality is of interest to many today, was born in 1951, on September 21, in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region. His father is Latvian, and his mother is Russian. After receiving secondary education in Krasnogorsk, he graduated from the Higher Military Engineering School in the city of Kaliningrad, and then from the Civil Engineering Institute. For three years he worked in the laboratory of the Moscow Institute of Space Research.
In the period from 1978 to 1991, he worked at Glavmosoblstroy as a commissioning engineer, chief engineer, deputy chief, head of the special works department.
From 1991 until his election to the State Duma, Shakkum Martin was the CEO, Vice President, President of the Reform Foundation, which he created together with political scientist Andranik Migranyan, academic economists Leonid Abalkin and Stanislav Shatalin, and also other prominent public figures and scientists.
Presidential Campaign
In 1996, Martin Shakkum, whose biography is the subject of our article, participated in the presidential election, where he took eighth place. As the election campaign progressed, he published 2 decrees, which he was going to adopt if he won the elections. They concerned the protection of citizens from corruption and arbitrariness of power and restoring order in the economic sphere. In many ways, the content of these decrees anticipated the ideas that later formed the basis of Putin's vertical of power.
Also, Shakkum Martin defended natural monopolies, primarily Gazprom, and warned against attempts to split them in the interests of foreign capital.
Work in the State Duma
Shakkum was elected to the State Duma in 1999, 2003, 2007. Was the head of the subcommittee on Central Bank Affairs.
In December 1999, he was elected to the State Duma of the third convocation in the Istra single-member electoral district (Moscow region). He was supported by the electoral bloc "Fatherland - All Russia". In his electoral constituency, Shakkum Martinahead of three current deputies, of which two were chairmen of committees.
In the State Duma, he became a member of the "Regions of Russia" group. He worked as deputy chairman of the Committee on Financial Markets and Credit Organizations until April 2002, then was chairman of the subcommittee on the activities of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, and headed the Bank Bankruptcy Commission. Participated in the adoption of a number of legislative acts aimed at protecting the rights of depositors, ensuring the transparency of the work of commercial credit organizations and the Central Bank.
He took over as chairman of the Committee on Construction, Industry and High Technologies in April 2002, and in December 2003 he was elected to the State Duma of the fourth convocation and continued to work as chairman of the Committee.
In March 2003, he was approved as a member of the Board of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Housing and Communal Services and Construction.
Personal qualities
Oleg Morozov, a prominent figure in the United Russia party and head of the Department of Domestic Policy in the Presidential Administration, said he had been in constant contact with Shakkum since he was included in their group.
Morozov immediately understood why Martin won the election with a record result for the Moscow region and outperformed the venerable deputies of the previous convocation in his constituency. According to Morozov, Shakkum is firm in his beliefs and promises, always finishes what he has started, and gets along well with people. He is a serious politician and a first-class economist, and his deepcompetence.
Work in United Russia
Martin Shakkum was a member of the Presidium of the General Council of the party in 2004-2005, and since 2006 he has become a member of the Supreme Council. In a number of publications and speeches in 2000 and 2004. actively supported Vladimir Putin in the presidential election campaign.
At a meeting of the faction's activists with Putin in July 2006, Shakkum publicly invited him to join the United Russia party and lead it. He told the Russian president that he wanted to see him as a national leader, which caused thunderous applause in the hall. The Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper called Shakkum's performance a "real hit".
Subsequently, Martin repeatedly spoke on behalf of the faction during government reports in the State Duma, government hours and other events.
Currently, Martin Shakkum is the curator of one of the party projects "Ural Industrial - Ural Polar". Its goal is to create a hub of industrial and transport infrastructure to facilitate the development of the natural resources of the Ural region.
In December 2007, Shakkum was elected a deputy of the State Duma of the fifth convocation on the lists of United Russia. He became the head of the Committee on Land Relations and Construction.
In 2010, in the rating of deputies-lobbyists according to the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, he took third place.
In 2011, in December, Shakkum Martin was again elected on the lists of United Russia as a State Duma deputy of the sixth convocation. He was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Construction andland relations.
Awards
The statesman has various government awards. So, he was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the State Duma and the medal "In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow." He has the Order of Friendship, which he was awarded in 2003 for many years of conscientious work and active work in the field of lawmaking. In addition, he was awarded the orders "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the third and fourth degrees in 2012 and 2006, respectively. The order of the fourth degree was awarded for conscientious long-term work and active participation in lawmaking, and the order of the third degree - for active lawmaking and a significant contribution to the development of parliamentarism in Russia.
Publications
Martin Shakkum has written a large number of articles and given interviews in leading Russian and foreign publications, including Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Vedomosti, Literaturnaya Gazeta, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Moskovsky Komsomolets, Rossiyskaya newspaper”, “Company”, “Moscow News”, “Socialist Russia” and others.
A significant number of interviews and articles by Martin Shakkum were published in the publications run by Yevgeny Yu. Dodolev - My Newspaper and Novy Vzglyad.
Income and property
According to official data for 2011, Martin Shakkum's income amounted to 5 million 160 thousand rubles. The annual income of Shakkum's wife is 2 million 380 thousand rubles. The family of the deputy owns a residential building, a land plot, two BMW cars andMercedes.
Martin Shakkum: personal life
The statesman prefers not to talk about his personal life. However, it is known that he is married, his wife's name is Alla Nikitina. Martin Shakkum has three children: sons George and Alexander and daughter Svetlana. The deputy and his family live in the Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow region, in the village of Glukhovo.
