One of the most famous politicians of the 1990s was Viktor Ilyushin. This man was the first assistant to Boris Yeltsin and, of course, had a serious influence on him. In many photos, Viktor Vasilyevich Ilyushin is captured with the presidential family.
Youth years
Ilyushin Viktor Vasilievich was born on June 4, 1947 in the city of Nizhny Tagil near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). His father was a metallurgist. The future first assistant to Yeltsin began his career in 1965 at the Nizhny Tagil Iron and Steel Works (NTMK) as a simple mechanic. Gradually studied at the evening department of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, mastering the speci alty "Electric Drive and Automation of Industrial Installations". Having received a higher education and the profession of an electrical engineer in 1971, he left his job as a locksmith and began to master party positions.
Career start
The first step on the administrative career ladder was the post of Secretary of the NTMK Komsomol Committee.
A year later, Ilyushin was promoted and received the post of second secretary of the Nizhny Tagil City Committee of the Komsomol. In this position, VictorVasilyevich worked until 1973, after which he became the first secretary.
Two years later, in August 1975, he took the position of Second Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the Komsomol. In June 1977 he became the first secretary of the regional committee.
Three years later, in the spring of 1980, he moved to the position of deputy head of the organizational department of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR. In this post, Viktor Vasilievich met the future President of Russia, and at that time the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin. He took him as his assistant.
The subsequent biography of Viktor Vasilyevich Ilyushin was closely connected with his illustrious countryman Yeltsin.
Political activities
In 1985, he was transferred to Moscow, where he became an instructor in the Department of Organizing Party Work of the Central Committee of the CPSU. During the same period, he mastered the speci alty "Social Science" at the Academy of Social Sciences (now the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration), completed his studies in 1986.
In the same year, he again began to work under the leadership of Boris Yeltsin, who during this period became the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR. Ilyushin became an assistant to Boris Nikolaevich. A year later, the future president left this post, and Viktor Vasilievich returned to the Department of Organizing Party Work of the Central Committee of the CPSU to his former instructor position.
In March 1988, he was sent on a business trip abroad toRepublic of Afghanistan. In this southern country, Ilyushin Viktor Vasilievich served as an adviser in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. He returned back to Moscow in October of the same year.
In 1990, he again returned to the team of Boris Yeltsin, who had already headed the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federative Socialist Soviet Republic, and took the place of the head of the secretariat. He took a direct part in the election campaign of Boris Nikolayevich and campaigning for him.
After the failure of the GKChP in August 1991, he left the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He stated that he had stopped paying membership fees long before.
In the summer of 1991 he became secretary of the President of Russia Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin, and in May 1992, when the secretariat was finally abolished, Viktor Vasilyevich Ilyushin became Yeltsin's first assistant. Yeltsin's first aide, according to reports, resolved questions about the meetings of the head of state with any of the ministers, clarifying the work schedule of his boss.
In the fall of 1993, he was one of the authors of the infamous "Decree No. 1400" on the dissolution of the Supreme Council, which resulted in the tragic events in Moscow in early October 1993.
After Yeltsin became president for the second time in July 1996, Ilyushin left his team. On August 14 of the same year, he joined the Government of the Russian Federation and became Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin for Social Policy, replacing Yury Yarov.
A month later, he took the post of deputy chairmanOrganizing Committee for the preparation of St. Petersburg for participation in the competition of cities - potential candidates for the right to host the 2004 Olympics (which were eventually held in Athens).
In October of the same year, he headed the Commission for UNESCO, and in November he became the head of the government commission to combat the use and illicit distribution of drugs.
On March 17, 1997, he was removed from the post of Deputy Chairman of the Head of Government, his post was headed by a young politician Boris Efimovich Nemtsov. From the same period, Ilyushin's actual exit from big politics begins.
Working at Gazprom
He goes to work at RAO Gazprom and is elected a member of the board. At the end of 1997, he headed the Board of Directors of the newly formed media holding OAO Gazprom-Media, but already on June 9, 1998, he left this position, transferring it to Sergey Zverev. Ilyushin himself in 1998 headed the Department for Work with the Regions of OAO Gazprom and was a member of the board of this organization.
In May 2011, he headed the Department for Work with Government Authorities of the Russian Federation, but in December of the same year he was relieved of this position and resigned from the board due to the expiration of his mandate.
Elected as a deputy to the Nizhny Tagil City Council, Sverdlovsk Regional Council, Leninsky District Council of Sverdlovsk.
Family
Married, has a son and a daughter. Ilyushin rarely divulges any information about the family, and therefore almost nothing is known about her.
