Sergey Kiriyenko (born July 26, 1962) is a Russian statesman and politician. He briefly served as Prime Minister of Russia from 23 March to 23 August 1998 during Boris Yeltsin's second presidential term. He is currently the head of Rosatom, the state nuclear energy corporation.
Origin
Kirienko Sergei Vladilenovich comes from a family of employees. His grandfather, Yakov Izraitel, was a participant in the revolution and the civil war, during which he served in the Cheka. It is known that Lenin personally awarded him with a nominal pistol for conscientious service to the Soviet government. In the 30s of the last century, Yakov Izraytel led the Soviet border guards in Armenia and Abkhazia, then he was the director of the Abkhaz branch of the state bank. His son Vladilen - the father of our hero - after graduating from Moscow State University became a researcher, doctor of philosophy, taught at a university in the city of Gorky. The surname that Sergei Kiriyenko bears belongs to his mother, Larisa Vasilievna.
Childhood
Where did Sergey Kiriyenko start his life? His biography began in Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia, where his grandfather Yakov lived and worked. Sergey's parents were housemates and went to the same school. They created a family while still students, and Serezha's father studied in Moscow, and his mother studied in Odessa, so that the first years of his life he was raised by his grandfather and grandmother on his father's and mother's side (fortunately, they all lived in the same house).
Then the family of Vladilen and Larisa Izraytel lived for some time in Gorky, where his father began to make a scientific career at the Institute of Water Transport. However, their family life did not work out, and when their son was 10 years old, they divorced. Larisa and Sergey left for Sochi, where she took her maiden name for herself and her son.
Years of study
After graduating from the Sochi high school, Sergey Vladilenovich Kirienko, whose biography again brought him to Gorky, entered the shipbuilding department of the Institute of Water Transport Engineers, where his father taught. During his studies, he lived in the family of his father and his second wife, who taught at the same university. Already at that time, Sergei Kiriyenko was actively involved in social work, was the Komsomol organizer of the faculty (for those who are young, we explain that the Komsomol organizer (or completely “Komsomol organizer”) is the secretary (in communist organizations this is how leaders are called) of the bureau of the Communist Youth League). In 1982 he became a member of the CPSU.
Soviet career period
After graduating from the institute in 1984, Sergey Vladilenovich Kirienko served his military service in the Air Defense Forces as a deputy platoon commander in Ukraine, near the city of Nikolaev. After returning from service at the Gorky Krasnoye Sormovo plant, Kiriyenko soon became the Komsomol organizer of the shop, then the enterprise, and since 1989 - the 2nd secretary of the Gorky regional committee of the Komsomol, entered the Central Committee of the Komsomol. In 1990 he was elected to the regional council.
In those years, the cooperative movement was rapidly developing in the country, various youth associations arose at enterprises under the auspices of the Komsomol, seeking to engage in economic activities, the so-called youth housing complexes were created - MZhK, whose task was to organize the construction of housing for working youth. All these issues were under the jurisdiction of Sergei Kiriyenko as secretary of the Komsomol Regional Committee.
Starting a career in the new Russia
With the advent of market relations in our life, Sergei Kiriyenko, like most of the Komsomol workers of his rank, did not lose his head and quickly found a place for himself (or perhaps he prepared it in advance). In 1991, a diversified joint-stock youth concern, AMK, was created in Gorky. What does the word "multipurpose" mean here? The fact that AMK takes on any activity - trades, builds, repairs, designs, etc., receiving orders from serious Gorky enterprises. And, of course, a young and promising manager Sergei Kiriyenko becomes its general director. Without leaving the leadership, he studies in absentia at the Academy of National Economy in Moscow,studies finance and banking.
And the labors were not in vain. In 1993, he heads the Nizhny Novgorod bank Garantiya, is a member of the board of directors of the Borsky Design Bureau in Bor, and becomes a member of the board of the Nizhny Novgorod Stock Exchange. In 1996, Kiriyenko was appointed (on the recommendation of Governor B. Nemtsov) president of the oil company Norsi-Oil.
In May 1997, B. Nemtsov, who moved to Moscow to the post of First Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation, invites him to the post of Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy, and Nemtsov himself occupies the ministerial position, combining it with the Deputy Prime Minister. But already in November of the same year, the ministerial chair was vacated, and Sergei Kiriyenko took it.
Prime Minister
The government cabinet of Sergei Kiriyenko (March 23, 1998 - August 23, 1998) was the sixth in the Russian Federation, it was preceded by the second cabinet of Viktor Chernomyrdin, and followed by Primakov's cabinet. At first, on March 23, Kiriyenko was appointed by Yeltsin and. about. prime minister, and then proposed to the State Duma for approval as many as three times: April 10 (143 votes for, 186 against, 5 abstained), April 17 (115 for, 271 against, 11 abstained), April 24 (251 for, 25 against). Thus, from the third time he was appointed prime minister. According to the Constitution of Russia, if the State Duma rejects the candidacy of the prime minister proposed by the president three times, then it must be dissolved and parliamentary elections held. Obviously, the deputies did not like this prospect very much, and on the eve of the impending crisis and Russia's default, no one except Kiriyenko,did not apply for the premier's chair.
Along with Deputy Prime Minister Nemtsov, he tried to improve the Russian economy with an IMF loan, which raised the national debt to $22.6 billion. interest rates on Russian government bonds up to 150%.
But it was unrealistic to serve such state obligations, and on August 17 Kiriyenko's cabinet declared a default, which led to the devaluation of the Russian ruble and the 1998 financial crisis in Russia. The prime minister responsible for the default resigned on August 23.
Career after the crisis
Together with Nemtsov, Chubais, Irina Khakamada and Yegor Gaidar, Kiriyenko formed the Union of Right Forces (SPS), which came fourth in the 1999 State Duma elections. For about a year after the election, Kiriyenko led the SPS faction in the Duma.
He participated in the election of the mayor of Moscow and took second place after Yury Luzhkov, who was elected for a second term. Since May 2000, Kiriyenko has been appointed presidential representative in the Volga Federal District.
On November 30, 2005, a new head of Rosatom was appointed president. Sergei Kiriyenko, who then held this position, continues to lead the Russian nuclear industry to this day.
But, like any person, he lives not only by work. What is Sergei Kiriyenko like in his personal life? His family is strong. He met his wife, Lyudmila Grigoryevna, back in the Sochi school, married her at the age of 19, while still a student. They have three children. Eldest son Vladimirbusy with banking business, two younger daughters are still studying.
