Andrey Vorobyov, whose biography is very typical for a modern Russian statesman, is a very good example. Youth in the last years of Soviet power, business in the troubled years after the collapse of the Soviet state and, finally, a rapid career in the ruling party in the 2000s.
An early biography of Andrei Vorobyov
The future deputy was born in 1970 in the city of Krasnoyarsk. Both parents were engineers. Father - Yury Vorobyov - later Hero of the Russian Federation, a ministerial official, as well as a close associate and friend of Sergei Shoigu. After graduating from school in his hometown, Andrei enters the service in the Red Banner Motorized Rifle Division under the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. The future deputy has military operations to maintain order in Baku, Fergana, and Yerevan, which were restless at that time. In the first years of independence, Andrei Vorobyov studied at the Vladikavkaz State University, graduating in 1995. Three years later, his asset is replenished with a diploma from the Russian Academyforeign trade relations, as well as the Higher School of Economics. PhD thesis was also defended here.
Andrey Vorobyov: biography and business
Active entrepreneurial activity has been developing already in the first post-Soviet years. Andrey Vorobyov, whose biography, of course, is not limited to family and state affairs, made the first attempts to build his own business in the mid-1990s. From 1991 to 1998, he organized the Russian Sea company, which resells fish and various seafood on the domestic market. In 2002, his brother Maxim became the general director of the concern. Actually, the latter heads it today.
Political activities
In the same 2002 Andrei Vorobyov was appointed Senator of the Adyghe Republic in the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. A year later, he was included in the list of deputies of the fourth convocation of the State Duma. The deputy cadence of the politician is extended both in 2007 and in 2011.
Andrey Vorobyov is the governor. Biography
At the end of 2012, a politician is appointed acting governor in the Moscow region by presidential decree. In this position, the newly minted official replaces his father's longtime ally Sergei Shoigu, who, in turn, was transferred to the post of Minister of Defense of the State.
Media scandal
Andrey Vorobyov, whose biography, like many deputies of the RussianState Duma, well known to many compatriots, could not do without scandals in his personal life. So, two years ago, the media leaked information that the author's dissertation for a candidate's degree, which the deputy defended back in 2004, literally used the text from other, earlier publications. At the same time, there were no references to the material used in the dissertation. Actually, apart from scandals in the media, this did not entail any significant consequences for the government official. And after all, this is not the only such episode with the "scientific" works of domestic statesmen. Suffice it to recall that even President Vladimir Putin was convicted of the same sin a few years ago.
