In the Russian political environment, quite a lot of people are worthy of attention. At the same time, there are such persons, the study of whose biography should be given special attention because of their great authority, experience and achievements. In particular, one of these figures is Boris Gryzlov, one of the "elders" of Russia's political beau monde.
Facts of life
The future high-ranking official was born on December 15, 1950 in Vladivostok. His father was a military pilot during World War II, after which he became an employee of the Ministry of Defense. Mother worked as a teacher.
At the age of four, Boris Gryzlov moves with his parents to Leningrad, as his father has been transferred to a new duty station. For eight years, young Boris studied at secondary school 327, but in the end he graduated from school 211, and with a gold medal. It is noteworthy that one of his classmates was the current director of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev.
Students
Boris Vyacheslavovich is a graduate of the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute. A. Bonch-Burevich. Received the speci alty "radio engineer". An indicator of the perseverance and seriousness of the approach to their work can be the fact that in the diploma Gryzlov out of 34 marks 20 were "five". During his studies, he also actively worked in the Komsomol committee, was the commissar of the construction team.
Young specialist
After graduating from high school, Boris Gryzlov receives a distribution to work at the Institute, engaged in research activities, them. Comintern. There he was engaged in the creation of communication systems. Since 1979, he has been working at the Elektronpribor production association, where he was able to climb the career ladder from a designer to the head of a structural unit. He specialized in the development of special schemes implemented in the defense industry. Until 1991 he was a member of the CPSU.
Active activity
During the 1990s, Boris Vyacheslavovich, while working at Elektronpribor, was simultaneously engaged in entrepreneurship. He became a co-founder of companies such as PetroZIL, Borg and others. From 1996 to 1999, Gryzlov was an employee of higher education. It was at his request that the Institute for Accelerated Training of Managers was established, as well as the Central Institute of Municipal Workers.
First steps in politics
Boris Gryzlov, whose biography is a worthy example to follow, first tried himself in politics in 1998, when he put forward his candidacy for the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. However, he was not successful. In the same year, he became the head of the headquarters of the candidate for the postGovernor Zubkov, who eventually lost the election. After some time, Gryzlov headed the Interregional Fund for Business Cooperation called "Development of Regions".
Work in the State Duma
December 1999. Boris Vyacheslavovich becomes a deputy of the third convocation, having passed through the lists of the interregional movement "Unity". A month later, he becomes the head of the Unity faction in the State Duma. Beginning in May 2000, he became the Duma's representative for relations with the G7 states.
Being a deputy, in 2001 Gryzlov defended his PhD thesis. Her topic is “Political parties and Russian transformations. Theory and political practice.”
Administration of the Ministry of the Interior
We note right away that Boris Gryzlov is so far the only head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the history of modern Russia who did not have the shoulder straps of a general.
He received his appointment as Minister on March 28, 2001. A month later, he was also included in the list of members of the country's Security Council. During his work in the department, Gryzlov became famous for fighting "werewolves in uniform".
Gryzlov, being a minister, reformed the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He created 7 departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the districts of the federation. In addition, Boris Gryzlov, whose position allowed him to make adjustments to the structures he managed, changed the work of the traffic police, forbidding to evaluate the work of the structure only on the basis of detected offenses, and introduced time limits for the arrival of squads at the scene of a traffic accident.
Re-election toState Duma
On December 24, 2003, Gryzlov once again became a people's deputy, while writing a letter of resignation from the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On the same day, he became chairman of the United Russia faction.
In 2007, already in the Duma of the fifth convocation, a native of Vladivostok became chairman of the main legislative body of the country.
Work outside Parliament
In 2011, Gryzlov was included in the list of the Security Council of the Russian Federation as a permanent member. Since December 26, 2015 - Russia's representative in the tripartite group on the settlement of the armed confrontation in Ukraine.
Family
In numerous photos of Boris Gryzlov available in the media, you can see his wife Ada Viktorovna Korner (daughter of the Hero of the Soviet Union V. D. Korner, a participant in hostilities with Japan in 1945) and his son Dmitry, who at the moment he is the host of the program "Territory of Freedom" on one of the cable TV channels.
