Despite the fact that Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov has not been the mayor of the Russian capital for several years, his name, nevertheless, continues to be associated with Moscow. It was during his 18 years of reign that it reached its peak. Why did he leave this post? Yuri Luzhkov was removed from his post by order of the current President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev in 2010. The reason was stated: "Due to the loss of confidence."

Further in the article we will talk about childhood, youth, the activities of the former mayor of the capital of the Russian Federation and try to figure out what caused this “distrust”. In addition, we think it will be interesting for you to find out what Yuri Luzhkov is doing today, where he now lives and what he does. Of course, another person of his age would calmly sit in his dacha, fish or travel the world, enjoying the years measured by God. However, the former mayor of Moscow is not made of such a test. He cannot spend a day without work, he is such a workaholic.

Yuri Luzhkov, biography: the beginning

The future mayor of Moscow was born in the capital of the USSR in 1936 in the family of the carpenter Mikhail Luzhkov. Father's ancestors from time immemorial lived in the Tver province, in the village of Luzhkovo, which is now not on the map. Yuri's parents met near Tver at the Novy Trud plant. Mom was a native of Bashkortostan and worked as a handyman. They soon got married, and when the woman became pregnant, the young family, fleeing hunger, moved to Moscow. Here my father got a job at a tank farm. Then Yuri was born, and when he grew up a little, he was sent to his grandmother in Konotop.

Education

There he completed the seven-year school and returned to Moscow to his parents for further studies. Grades 8-10, he studied at the Moscow school number 529, after which he entered the Gubkin Institute of the Petrochemical and Gas Industry. In parallel with his studies, Yuri Luzhkov worked first as a janitor and then as a loader. Naturally, he did not have time to study perfectly well, but he was a hardworking and zealous Komsomol member, a skillful organizer of various student events. In 1954, he enrolled in a student detachment, which went to Kazakhstan to develop virgin lands.

Labor career

The life of Yuri Luzhkov after returning from Central Asia, where he stayed for about 4 years, followed the scientific path. He was promoted to junior researcher at the Research Institute of Plastics. After working here for 5 years, he rose to career ladder before the post of deputy head of the laboratory, which was engaged in automation technological processes... In parallel with his work, he was actively involved in social and political activities, headed the Komsomol cell of the institute. In this new position, he was noticed in the State Committee for Chemistry, and after a few years he became the head of the entire automation department. In the same 1968 he joined the ranks of the CPSU. Several more years have passed, and now Yuri Luzhkov already holds the post of head of the management automation department at the Ministry of Chemical Industry of the Soviet Union.

Political activity

In 1975, Yuri Mikhailovich was elected people's deputy Babushkinsky District Council, and in 1977 - a deputy of the Moscow City Council. In 1987, in the midst of perestroika, he was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, and immediately fell into the team of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, the First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR. Having shown himself in this field, he is appointed the First Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee. At that time, the number of cooperatives in the country was growing every day, and at the same time he headed the commission of individual and cooperative activities, and then received the post of chairman of the agro-industrial committee of the capital.

To the cherished dream

In 1990, the chairman of the Moscow City Council, Gavriil Popov, on the recommendation of Boris Yeltsin, nominated Yu.M. Luzhkov for the post of head of the capital's city executive committee, and in 1991 he was elected vice-mayor, that is, Popov's deputy, and then the prime minister of the Moscow government of the new executive body... During the well-known events of 1991, he and his pregnant wife were active participants in the defense of the White House.

Mayor of moscow

In 1992, all over the country, and Moscow is no exception, due to spontaneous interruptions in food, coupons began to be introduced. Naturally, this led to discontent among the population. The people poured into the streets, and the current mayor, Gavriil Popov, announced his resignation. The giant city was left without a leader, and then by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation B. Yeltsin Yuri Luzhkov became the new mayor of the capital. This, perhaps, became the most significant event in his life, because for the next 18 years the fate of one of the largest cities in the world was in his hands. In this post, he was re-elected 3 times, and always with a huge margin from other candidates - his competitors. At the top, everyone knew and felt that Yeltsin himself was patronizing Luzhkov. And he, in turn, always supported the president. He was among the founders of the NDR party "Our Home is Russia", and in 1995 was involved in promoting it in the elections to the People's Duma.

Treason or political games?

In 1999, in Last year In the 2nd millennium, Yuri Luzhkov suddenly changed his position on the country's president and united with Primakov. They created the Otechestvo political party, criticized Boris Nikolayevich and demanded his early resignation. By this time Luzhkov was already a member of the Federation Council and was a member of the most important committees on financial regulation, taxes, banking, etc. In 2001, another party appeared in his life - “ United Russia”. And Yuri Mikhailovich, two years ago one of the leaders of the Fatherland party, becomes its co-chairman. Since then, the main focus of his activities has become the support of Vladimir Putin. And he, for his part, took care of the mayor in every possible way, and even personally presented Luzhkov's candidacy to the Moscow City Duma deputies as mayor of the capital. Well, who could go against the president of the country, and Yuri Mikhailovich again headed the leadership of Moscow for another 4 years.

Removal from the post of mayor

In the fall of 2010, during the reign of Dmitry Medvedev, suddenly several of the central TV channels left documentaries criticizing Luzhkov's activities as mayor. Of course, in the country, many were surprised, because he long years was under the auspices of Putin, and here they are! Yuri Luzhkov was indignant and wrote a letter addressed to the president of the country, in which he expressed dissatisfaction with Medvedev's inaction in connection with the appearance of such slanderous and compromising programs. The subsequent actions of the president came as a surprise to the mayor of Moscow. Luzhkov was dismissed from office in accordance with Medvedev's decree, the reasons given for his lack of confidence in him. Of course, for Yuri Mikhailovich it was strong blow but not fatal.

Personal life

Luzhkov Yuri Mikhailovich was married three times. He met his first wife Alevtina at the institute. They played a student wedding, got a room in a dormitory, but soon both realized that they had rushed to formalize the relationship and filed for divorce. Alevtina did not have time to give birth to children, so they parted quietly and peacefully.

Second wife Marina Bashilova was also his classmate. As you can see, Luzhkov enjoyed the favor of women, or maybe he knew how to properly look after ?! Nevertheless, this marriage, apparently, was "by calculation", because the future father-in-law, Mikhail Bashilov, was a prominent party and economic figure, and soon after that he became the deputy minister of the petrochemical industry of the USSR. It was in the area where Luzhkov was able to make such a dizzying career. The second family of Yuri Luzhkov was very strong. Marina bore him two sons, Mikhail and Alexander, but in 1988 she fell ill with liver cancer and passed away, leaving Luzhkov as a widower.

The third time he married Elena Baturina. For several years now, she has been the richest woman in Russia according to Forbes magazine. She bore him two daughters - Olya and Lena. They were educated in the UK and today are successful "businesswoman". After 25 years of marriage, Baturin and Luzhkov in January 2016 went down the aisle.

Luzhkov Yuri Mikhailovich: where is he now?

Many people think that Luzhkov did not go abroad. He still lives in his native country and, despite his advanced age, is engaged in business. Surely you will be interested to know how old is Yuri Luzhkov now? In the fall of 2016, he solemnly celebrated his 80th anniversary. On this day, she and Elena Baturina took part in a volunteer cleanup, during which 450 fruit trees... The event was attended by the most powerful and richest people in the country. There is no information about whether Vladimir Vladimirovich was among the guests. However, the day before this significant date, he awarded the former mayor with the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, 4th degree.

But on the eve of the New Year holidays with Luzhkov there was a nuisance. He arrived at the library of Moscow State University, and suddenly, in the presence of Rector Sadovnichy, his health worsened. I had to call an ambulance. Rumor has it that on that day he survived clinical death however, his spokesman does not confirm this information.

But in January 2017, an article appeared in the press about the ex-mayor's new enterprise for the production of buckwheat and cheese. Such a restless workaholic is Yuri Luzhkov - “the man with the cap,” as Muscovites called him.

Both daughters of the former Moscow mayor have already graduated. They, like their mother, Elena Baturina, live abroad, but often visit Russia, said Yuri Luzhkov.

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"The eldest, Elena, works in one of the structures related to the hotel business. The youngest, Olga, is carried away by interior design and decided to develop knowledge and professional skills in this area," Luzhkov told reporters.

Baturina comes to Russia quite often - as the ex-mayor specified, on business and to see friends. "Girls come no less often, mainly to friends and for family reasons - they visit their grandmother," he said.

As for Baturina's business, it includes hotels and the production of alternative energy. And in recent times, added the former Moscow mayor, also construction and building materials, "which she loves so much and in which she is excellently versed."

"The wife is doing well. She does most of the business in the West, in several European countries, in the United States. After she and the girls had to leave Russia, she built a completely new, diversified business," RIA Novosti quotes Luzhkov.

The wife of the ex-mayor, President of Inteco Management Elena Baturina in 2017 remained at the top of the ranking of the richest Russian women according to Forbes. At the same time, her fortune decreased by $ 100 million over the year - to one billion.

Yuri Luzhkov has a farm in the Ozersk District of the Kaliningrad Region. The ex-mayor is engaged in his favorite business - beekeeping, and also grows mushrooms - oyster mushrooms.

The day before, a rumor spread through the media: they say, the daughters of the ex-mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, 16-year-old Olya and 18-year-old Lena, have traded Moscow State University for the University of London. Even new academic year they supposedly started in England ...

The journalists got excited. After all, before that, we recall, and another rumor passed. It was rumored that Yuri Mikhailovich himself and his wife Elena Baturina were packing their things before moving to the homeland of the British Queen. Has the entire Luzhkov family decided to change their place of residence?

"Komsomolskaya Pravda" went to Moscow State University, where on September 1, both daughters of the former Moscow mayor began their studies.

Lena Baturina on her page "VKontakte" in different images


Olya was taken to school by bodyguards


16-year-old Olya, who graduated from school as an external student, entered the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University this year. Students of this age at the faculty are not uncommon, and 14-year-old freshmen meet here as well.

“When Olga Luzhkova was found in the lists of applicants, they even laughed that the surname was loud, and then it turned out that it was really the mayor’s daughter,” a student of the economics department named Suren told KP. - Several times I saw that her bodyguards were taken directly to the doors of the faculty. However, they were not allowed inside.

“This year we saw Olya in September, at the initiation into students,” the second-year student Oksana confirmed to the KP correspondent.

“After this celebration, I crossed paths with her several times in the corridors and on the stairs. The guys say that at the lectures, where several groups usually sat, Luzhkova was seen quite often. She did not sit down from the rest of the students, but she did not get especially close to anyone.

— Last time I saw her at the university on September 26, the day when Yuri Luzhkov was removed from his post, says 19-year-old student Natalya.

Lena Baturina - about myself "VKontakte": "I love, as my mother says, to lead a vulgar lifestyle"


Classmates say that after her father's resignation, Olga did not appear at school, and two weeks ago rumors spread around the faculty that she had taken her documents from the university - in connection with a transfer to one of the universities, either Switzerland or Austria. Olya Luzhkova's former classmates have not heard anything about the English "version" that the media trumpets. However, in the academic section of the Faculty of Economics, the fact of transfer of student Olga Baturina to another university was not confirmed to us:

“We answer such questions only after official inquiries, while we cannot say how long it will be considered, and whether we will answer in the end,” a faculty member who refused to introduce himself told us. - Still, this or that student studies with us or does not study - this may be his private secret.

Carried away by emo culture, Luzhkov's daughter dyed her hair in pink color


Elena Baturina - emo


But what classmates say about Elena Baturina ( eldest daughter ex-mayor was listed at the university under the name of her mother), who studied two courses at the Faculty of Public Administration, and this summer transferred to the Faculty of World Politics. Under the supervision of bodyguards, she was never seen: she came to the university alone, she was not particularly proud of her position.

An interesting detail: 18-year-old Lena is fond of fashionable youth trends like emo and punk, dyes her hair pink and black, and prefers an informal style in clothes. There is a bike around Moscow State University that one of the guys from its stream once came to a concert of a popular youth rock group and unexpectedly met Lena Baturina among the "coming off". Such democratic character of the ex-mayor's daughter was perceived ambiguously in the student environment: someone assessed it as a "test", someone - that the girl is "mad with fat".

Peers - about Lena Baturina: "In fact, an ordinary girl!"


- In fact, an ordinary girl! - says the student of the Faculty of World Politics Mikhail. - No different from others.

Lena wore red hair at school

It is also known that the eldest daughter of Yuri Luzhkov did not succeed in her studies. Several times she failed to pass the exams the first time.

- As far as I know, the last session was given to her with difficulty, because she world politics and transferred, - said one of the now former classmates of Lena.

Official representatives of Moscow State University denied rumors about the transfer of daughters to another university. The press service of the Inteko company, which belongs to the mother of the students, Elena Baturina, also did not confirm this information. They also reported that Elena Baturina herself also did not leave for England, but continued to work in Moscow.

However, you can learn about the personal life of Olya and Lena firsthand. The sisters are quite active in unsubscribing on their pages on the Vkontakte website. True, for conspiracy, they slightly changed their names - so that uninvited guests would not come in. By the way, Olya's page is closed to outsiders, but Lena fearlessly uploads a photo here.

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Lena loves to "chop loaves and cut fountains"

Outgoing Lena is not shy about looking funny


Activity: A lazy screech with moss (:

Interests: Chop loaves, trim fountains, vacuum the desert, file down doors

Favorite music: Punk, Alternative, Reggae, Hardcore, Trance, Drum And Bass, House, Rock, Jazz, etc.

Favorite films: Pirates Caribbean, 1,000,000 BC, Requiem For A Dream, Eurotrip, 5th Element, Night of the Living Dorks, Silent Hill, The Hills Have Eyes, Saw, 99 Francs, Cargo 200, etc.

Favorite TV Shows: Lost, Scrubs, FlashForward, etc.

Favorite books: Victor Pelevin, Bernard Verber, Ryu Murakami, Erlend Lou, Frederic Beigbeder, Jerome Salinger, Chuck Palahniuk, Roger Zelazny, Dmitry Glukhovsky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Dmitry Lipskerov, Melvin Burgess, Paulo Coelho and others.

Favorite games: Gothic 3, Heroes of Might & Magic 3, The Sims, etc.

Favorite quotes: "All people are alike"

About myself: I love, as my mother says, to lead a vulgar lifestyle (:

Career:
place of work: cafe "Airship", Moscow, 2007-2007

Promoter
place of work: CJSC Inteko Moscow, 2007-2007

Small errands
place of work: magazine "IndiGO" Simferopol, since 2009

Journalist

Clubs:"Point", "B1 Maximum".

Culture: Paleontological Museum, Moscow. *

The informational rush on the family of Yuri Luzhkov did not lead to an answer to the traditional Russian question: Who is mrs. Baturina? The videos shown on TV depicted an iron lady in front of us, with all the traditional occupations for people of this kind: business, horse dressage, private boarding houses and real estate far from the Motherland. Even a doubt crept in: does it conduct a physiological activity typical of our biological species, at least at the level of definition according to Ozhegov's dictionary, where it is said that a person is “ Living being possessing the gift of thinking and speech, the ability to create tools and use them in the process of social labor. "

In part, all this is due to the closeness of Elena Nikolaevna. She never talked about her family, childhood, first love, girlish dreams - about everything that forms an adult from a child and a teenager, with his established habits and views on the surrounding living and inanimate environment.

Svobodnaya Pressa tracked down a neighbor of the Baturins family who lived with them in a residential building from the Fraser plant on Sormovskaya Street. Pensioner Maria Ivanovna Tyurina in a monologue for "SP" recalls what kind of family it was and how she personally remembered Elena Nikolaevna Baturina.

“We lived in the same entrance, I am on the 8th floor, and they are on the 6th. Parents Tamara Afanasyevna and Nikolai Yegorovich were honest Soviet workers, and their children went to them. I was more friends with Tamara, she worked as an inspector of the quality control department at "Fraser", with work and intelligence got out to this position. The family was teetotal and friendly. They always greeted, on holidays they went out into the yard. And we celebrated not only Soviet holidays together, but also Easter. We went to Trinity for birch branches.

They were native Muscovites. It seems like during the first famine (in 1921 - "SP") their ancestors came here. Whether from Ryazan, or from Kazan, I will not say for sure.

Lena also greeted me and her husband: “Uncle Lyosha, hello! How is your health?" Now no one asks that, but before people were different, friendly.

Vitya, of course, like all the guys, was joking. And Lena is serious, businesslike. Even then she said that "I have no time to do nonsense." Mamkina and the folder are such an assistant. She did not disdain hard work either. How many times have I seen - either dragging potatoes, or knocking out a carpet in the yard in winter.

And already under Gorbachev, we, milling cutters, were given plots of 6 acres. Then very many were afraid that now we would cultivate the land, and then, like under Stalin, they would again take it away. It seems that the Baturins did not take the land back then, which means that someone was dispossessed of them, too, such things are simply not forgotten.

Tamara, of course, was worried when Lena got married to Yura (Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov - "SP"), she said that he was no match for her. And he was much older than her. Lena already had a guy then, he was so handsome, tall - a gymnast. Everyone thought that she would marry him, but fate turned out like that. I calmed Tamara, said that everything was in God's hands. And in truth, Lena needed a competent person, not a gymnast, she herself graduated from the institute, and got into secretaries in the executive committee. And Yura did not drink or smoke. Once one of our yard drunkards asked him to smoke, so Yura told him for a long time that living the way he does is not good, it shames not only himself, but the whole house. And Lena was beautiful then, always neat. I myself hardly saw her then - the Baturins had already moved from us to a new house, like on Tashkent Street. But I won't lie, maybe some other street, but I remember Tashkentskaya.

And then it turned out that Yura was also an honest person. When Lena's dad, Nikolai Yegorovich, died, Luzhkov ordered the funeral to repair their entrance. Will anyone try so hard in front of people now?

Nikolai Yegorovich, of course, was worried about his native Frezer plant until the last moment. He was knocked down by the fact that his machine was sold for scrap there.

The Frezer plant is still standing, but there are no workers there, only businessmen store something, they carry it back and forth, it even happens - at night, when people are supposed to sleep. It's a shame for the plant. We would like Elena Nikolaevna to buy Fraser and do everything there as it used to be. So that people have a meaningful working life again. So that people do not wander around the courtyards uselessly, do not misbehave.

This year my grandson graduated from the same institute as Lena (the Academy of Public Administration - "SP"). I wrote her a letter asking if I could take my grandson to Inteko, but I never received an answer.

In general, we, milling cutters, are very proud of Elena Nikolaevna Baturina, that she, like us, is from working family got out in the most famous people Russia. She understands simple life. "

The daughter of the ex-mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov and herself rich woman Elena Baturina's Russia - Elena Luzhkova - received Cypriot citizenship. This follows from the data of the British register of legal entities. Earlier, a series of publications showed that many wealthy Russians have island passports (Cyprus and Malta). For example, billionaire Oleg Deripaska and Yandex founder Arkady Volozh. These are "golden visas" with which it is easier to travel around the world.

Elena Luzhkova is 25 years old. She lives in the UK. The girl graduated from the University of London, specializing in the politics of Eastern European countries. As recently Yuri Luzhkov, now his daughter Elena works in London "in one of the structures associated with the hotel business."

Elena is also trying to do business on her own. In 2016, she registered Whip Limited. Profile - "other business support activities not included in any headings" (registry data). And earlier Elena had another company - Claredron education (her profile was no more intelligible).

The cards of both companies indicate that Elena has Cypriot citizenship.

I no longer have the Whip company, I recently closed it, - Elena Luzhkova told Life. - She does not plan to do anything, I registered her so that no one would steal her name, but this is no longer relevant to me. The Clarendon company also did nothing and was also registered to be entitled to use the name. Yes, it is also closed. As for the business in the future: I don't want to talk about something ahead of time, so that if it suddenly does not work out, then there was no need to report on it.

In a conversation with Life, the girl did not deny that she had a Cypriot passport. To confirm and give details too.

As for the passport, I'm afraid I can’t answer you anything, it’s personal, ”she said.

Elena noted that she travels to Russia on vacation, but spends most of her time in the UK, because she works there.

In order to obtain a Cypriot passport, a foreign citizen must invest at least € 2 million in real estate in the country or € 2.5 million in Cypriot companies or government bonds.

At the same time, give up your home country not necessary - but you can travel around the world, getting visas easier. This is why this program is called the "golden visa".

The structures of Elena Baturina are investing in real estate in Cyprus much more money than you need to obtain citizenship. As, in the summer of 2018, she will begin to build a residential complex in Limassol (a city in the south of Cyprus). Investments will amount to € 40 million. By the way, Baturina herself is listed as a Russian citizen in the British register of legal entities.

citizenship in exchange for investment ".

In January 2018, RBC announced that hundreds of wealthy Russians received the citizenship of Malta. Among them are the founder and co-owner of Yandex Arkady Volozh and members of his family, the owner of the investment and development company O1 Properties Boris Mints and members of his family.

By the way, the younger sister of Elena Luzhkova, Olga, also lives abroad. She opened and runs the Herbarium bar near Baturina's Grand Tirolia Hotel in Kitzbühel, Switzerland.

He himself spends a lot of time at his farm near Kaliningrad, where he grows buckwheat, wheat, barley and breeds horses and sheep.