One of the most famous “talking heads” of Russian television, Boris Nadezhdin, represents the liberal opposition there for a demonstrative “flogging” by TV presenters of state television companies. Despite the rejection of the content of his speeches by most viewers of political talk shows, he believes that he is succeeding in conveying his views to his potential supporters. Contrary to many versions circulating on social networks, Boris Borisovich Nadezhdin is the real name of this politician.
Origin
Boris was born on April 26, 1963 in Tashkent, then the capital of Soviet Uzbekistan. He spent his first childhood years in this grain-producing city, where his grandparents raised him. Parents received their education in Moscow. His mother studied music at the conservatory, his father studied at the prestigious Institute of Physics and Technology. In Tashkent, a music school was named after his grandfather, a composer and associate professor at the conservatory, and a monument was erected. In the 30s, my grandfather, then a young composer, was poisoned by the Communist Party to raise culture in Uzbekistan. They are full namesakes, so at least the younger Boris Borisovich Nadezhdin has a real last name. My grandfather, on the other hand, fled after the revolution from Ukraine to Uzbekistan.
Nadezhdin’s great-great-grandfather tried to be elected to the first convocation of the State Duma of the Russian Empire, but did not pass the property qualification. As it turned out, he did not own enough land. In the family of Boris Nadezhdin, for five generations, one of the boys has been called Boris. There are a lot of musicians among his relatives.
Biography and childhood
Nadezhdin was born on April 26, 1963, in the city of Tashkent, where he spent his childhood. Boris was raised by his grandparents, since his parents were still studying at the university. The future political scientist’s mother was fond of music, so she was educated at the conservatory, and Boris’s father, also named Boris, studied at the Faculty of Physics. Boris's paternal grandfather was a very famous composer. He lived and worked in Russia, but then he was sent to Tashkent to develop the music industry there. Now in Tashkent there is a school and a street named after grandfather Boris Nadezhdin.
Nadezhdin in his school years
When Boris was three years old, his parents took him to Moscow. And three years later, the Nadezhdin family moved to the Moscow region. They settled in the city of Dolgoprudny. Nadezhdin is very proud to live in this beautiful city. Even now he does not want to move to the capital. In Dolgoprudny, Boris went to school, but studies did not immediately become easy for him. At first he had difficulties, but gradually he began to make progress. He especially loved the exact sciences.
During his studies, Boris showed an aptitude for the exact sciences and often participated in physics and mathematics Olympiads
Interesting! His parents noticed that Boris was making progress in mathematics, so they decided to transfer him to a school with a mathematical focus at Moscow State University. Boris constantly participated in various Olympiads, and once he even took second place at the All-Union Olympics. The parents were sure that the heir should continue his studies at a technical university. Boris was not against it, so after receiving his certificate he entered the Physics and Technology Institute.
At the university, the future politician not only managed to study well, but also enjoy student life. He was a very active student. Nadezhdin took part in student events, played in KVN, and organized concerts. He had good organizational skills. At the same time, there were no problems with his studies, so Boris graduated from the university with honors. And three years after receiving his diploma, Nadezhdin defended his dissertation and became a candidate of mathematical sciences.
Boris Borisovich has two higher educations and a PhD degree
Five years later, Nadezhdin decided to get a second higher education, but in the humanities. As a result, the choice fell on the Faculty of Law and Public Administration. He worked for some time as an engineer, but during the perestroika period he began to engage in entrepreneurial activities. Nadezhdin founded the Integral cooperative. He managed to get rich, but then he was forced to declare himself bankrupt. Ultimately, Boris Borisovich sold his company and decided to retrain as a politician.
Nadezhdin took his first steps in the political field in the 90s
Boris himself recalls that in those difficult nineties he changed several jobs, several apartments, left physics, earned huge money, went bankrupt twice - in a word, it was not easy for him.
Education
After the devastating Tashkent earthquake of 1966, the parents took little Boris to live with them. In 1969 they moved to the town of Dolgoprudny near Moscow. His strong mathematical abilities manifested themselves during his school years. Therefore, he was accepted into the physics and mathematics school at Moscow State University. While studying in the 10th grade, in 1979 he took second place at the prestigious All-Union Mathematical Olympiad for schoolchildren.
In 1985, he graduated from the Moscow Physics and Technology Institute with honors. While studying at the institute, he was involved in amateur performances, participated in the KVN team, and was the organizer and author-performer of concerts at the festival of bard songs “Phystech Song”. In the biography of Boris Borisovich Nadezhdin, author’s singing will become a hobby for his entire life.
In 1988, he defended his dissertation in the specialty “Theoretical and Mathematical Physics” and received the degree of Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. In 1993, Boris Nadezhdin received a second higher education, becoming a specialist in state law at the Moscow Law Institute, from which he also graduated with honors.
Boris's youth
The reward for his work was a honors diploma from the Moscow Physics and Technology Institute. He spent his time as a student actively engaged in creativity.
The talented guy is recognized as an inveterate KVN player and a popular performer of original songs at the Fiztech bard festival. Since then, songwriting has accompanied him throughout his life.
This did not prevent him from defending his PhD thesis in the field of theoretical and mathematical physics in 1988. The next step for him was receiving a diploma in law.
in his track record until 1990 - the position of an engineer, and then scientific activity at the All-Union Research Institute of Surface and Vacuum Properties.
At a regular job
After graduating from the institute, in 1985-1990 he worked first as an engineer, then, having defended his thesis, as a researcher at the All-Union Research Center for the Study of Surface and Vacuum Properties.
During the perestroika years (from 1988 to 1990), a serious change occurred in the biography of Boris Borisovich Nadezhdin. He took up entrepreneurial activity, organizing and heading the Integral cooperative. In addition, as Nadezhdin himself says, he had to change seven jobs, two houses and several apartments. During perestroika, he managed to get “incredibly” rich three times and go broke twice. He sold his last business, a fairly large insurance company, closer to the 2000s. In 1999, when he had already retrained as a lawyer, he managed to organize the department of law at his native Physics and Technology Institute, which he himself headed. Nadezhdin still works as the head of the department.
Nadezhdin Boris Borisovich
Born in 1963 in Tashkent. Since 1969 he has lived in Dolgoprudny, Moscow region.
In 1985 he graduated with honors from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. In 1993 he graduated with honors from the Moscow Law Institute.
In 1985 – 1990 he was engaged in scientific activities at the All-Union Scientific Research Center for the Study of Surface and Vacuum Properties.
In 1988 organized the research and production cooperative “Integral”. In 1990 elected as a deputy of the City Council of Dolgoprudny and then deputy chairman of the Council. In 1992 appointed Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Region Property Fund. He led the methodological and legal support for privatization in the Moscow region.
In 1994 returned to scientific work as deputy director of the Institute of Structural and Investment Policy, participated in the preparation and examination of bills for the State Duma, including the Civil Code and the law on joint stock companies.
In 1997 – 1998 worked as an adviser to the First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation B. Nemtsov, assistant to the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation S. Kiriyenko. During his work in the Government of the Russian Federation, he prepared about 20 bills, including the main bills from the “Anticrisis Program” of the Government of S. Kiriyenko; prepared about 50 draft Decrees of the President of the Russian Federation and Resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation, including major decisions on issues of natural monopolies (UES of Russia, Gazprom, Transneft), regulation of oil production and export, declaration of income and property of civil servants, legalization of income, elimination of administrative barriers to entrepreneurship , liberalization of the precious metals market, development of cellular communications.
In 1999 – 2003 Deputy of the State Duma, First Deputy Chairman of the Union of Right Forces faction, member of the State Building Committee. Author of dozens of bills, including on the Constitutional Assembly, on elections of the Federation Council, on limiting the number of terms of office of governors, on basic documents identifying a citizen of the Russian Federation, on citizenship, and on political parties.
For many years, he has continued legislative work as an expert in various working groups, including those created within the framework of the activities of the Administration of the President of Russia, the State Duma, the Federation Council, the Central Election Commission of Russia, and the Public Chamber of Russia.
Member of the Public Scientific and Methodological Advisory Council under the Central Election Commission of Russia (2010 – 2016), member of the Scientific Expert Council under the Central Election Commission of Russia (since 2021).
In 1999 created the MIPT Department of Law, which he headed until 2016.
In 2001 he founded the Institute of Regional Projects and Legislation and is the President of the Institute.
March to power
With the beginning of political life in the country, he became involved in social activities. Since 1991, Nadezhdin joined the Movement of Democratic Reforms (DDR) party and became one of the leaders of the regional cell. During these years, the first government position appeared in the biography of Nadezhdin Boris Borisovich. For two years he worked as deputy chairman of the Dolgoprudny City Council, and later was a deputy of the local parliament, in 1993-1997. For several years he headed the legal department at the Property Fund of the Moscow Region.
Nadezhdin made his first attempt to be elected to the State Duma in 1995. However, the Party of Russian Unity and Accord (PRES), led by Sergei Shakhrai, was unable to pass the 5% barrier to enter the Duma, gaining about 1% with great difficulty. He was nominated in a single-mandate constituency and on a federal party list. Boris Borisovich also lost the direct elections, taking fifth place out of twelve in the district. During these same years, he worked as deputy director of the Institute for Structural and Investment Policy.
Early 90s: political career
Our hero began to get seriously involved in political games in the early nineties, when he already had a decent education and experience in the scientific field. First of all, Nadezhdin is engaged in social activities and joins his first party, the Movement of Democratic Reforms; later he already heads an entire division in the region. Our hero’s first public position is associated with Dolgoprudny. Here he became deputy chairman of the city council, after which he entered the local parliament as a deputy. All this lasted until 1997.
During the same period, he decided to join the ranks of the State Duma from the Party of Russian Unity and Accord of Sergei Shakhrai. Unfortunately, the party was unable to get the passing number of votes, the number was less than one percent. A similar collapse awaited our hero in direct elections.
Boris Nemtsov and Boris Nadezhdin
In 1997, his life changed dramatically again. At first he was engaged in legal activities in one company and, having gained strength, became an adviser to Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Boris Nemtsov, with whom he developed a warm relationship. Afterwards, Nemtsov recommended Kiriyenko, a successful politician, to the position of assistant to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. It was not possible to stay in this post for long. In 1998, he joined the ranks of a political movement called “New Force”, where he became a member of the council.
At the helm
After losing the elections, Boris Borisovich gained strength for a year, working as the head of the legal department in a private company. In 1997, he received the position of adviser to the newly appointed First Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, whom he speaks warmly of as his friend, honest and strong, straightforward, not inclined to intrigue.
Nemtsov recommended Nadezhdin to Sergei Kiriyenko, who took him to work as an assistant to the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. He says about his former boss that he very quickly understood the government, and Kiriyenko can cope with any industry. Like this entire government, he stayed in power for a short time - from April to August 1998. In 1999, Nadezhdin joined the New Force movement, organized by his boss, becoming a member of the political council.
In the Duma
The second trip to the Duma in the biography of Boris Borisovich Nadezhdin happened in 1999, when he became number five on the federal party list of the Union of Right Forces (SPS). He actively participated in the election campaign, becoming a member of the political council of the SPS electoral bloc and the head of the party headquarters in the Moscow region.
In the second half of December 1999, he became a deputy of the State Duma of the third convocation, since the party was able to pass the 5% electoral threshold and entered the Duma as a list. In January 2000, Boris Nadezhdin joined the faction formed by the Union of Right Forces. And soon they were elected deputy chairman of the party faction, when Nemtsov, who previously held this position, became chairman of the faction. In the Duma, he was a member of the State Building Committee and a member of the standing commission responsible for law enforcement practice in elections and referendums.
What did you do in the Duma?
Unlike many deputies, Boris Nadezhdin was very actively involved in legislative activities. In May 2000, he introduced a law providing for reform of the regional governance system, including the appointment of governors. He made more than 100 proposals with amendments to various laws, including the law “On Political Parties,” where he proposed to abolish state funding of parties.
As an experienced singer-songwriter, in 2001 he submitted his version of the national anthem to the State Duma for consideration, taking Sergei Mikhalkov’s text as a basis and changing eight words in it.
What did you do in the Duma?
1999 becomes a successful year for our hero. He decides to make a second attempt to join the State Duma, this time from the Union of Right Forces party. In the party, he showed his best side, actively participated in promoting political views, and eventually took a place on the council of the electoral bloc and had the entire headquarters of the organization at his disposal in the Moscow region. At the end of the same year, as a result of the elections, the number of positive votes exceeds the minimum threshold and Boris becomes a deputy of the State Duma.
A year later, the party formed its own faction, which also included Nadezhdin. Following this, he replaced Nemtsov as deputy chairman of the party, because he was higher on the career ladder. Boris was involved in activities within the construction committee. During his work in the Duma, he showed himself as an active legislator and tried to take part in the development and amendment of new rules.
In 2000, he submitted a proposal to make adjustments to the system of regional governance and the appointment of governors to positions. In less than a year, the politician managed to submit more than 100 reforms and amendments to laws in various areas. Particularly worth noting is the point about stopping funding of parties from the state budget.
Boris plays the guitar beautifully and sings romances; such a hobby left a significant mark on his political career. In 2001, Boris proposed for consideration a new version of the anthem of the Russian Federation, namely the new text, which he noticed from Sergei Mikhalkov and changed several phrases.
Retired politician
The year 2003 in Nadezhdin’s political biography was an absolute failure; he lost all the elections in which he participated. In the elections to the Duma in the Mytishchi district in the Moscow region, he lost to the representative of the People's Party, Colonel General Arkady Baskaev. The party whose leadership he was unable to overcome the 5% barrier to enter parliament. And even not a single candidate from the “City of Hope” bloc, headed by Boris Borisovich, was elected to his native Dolgoprudnensky city council. He had to return to teaching.
Boris Nadezhdin's subsequent political initiatives also did not have much success. In 2005, he was a member of the group to nominate the disgraced oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky to the Duma. In 2007, he lost elections to the parliament of the Moscow region with the Union of Right Forces, while accusing local authorities of stealing the party’s votes. Having lost the next elections with the Union of Right Forces, in 2008 he moved to Right Cause, where he was elected as a member of the federal political council.
Currently
In 2011, he terminated his membership in Right Cause because he intended to participate in organizing a new party together with former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. In 2012, I wanted to become a confidant of a presidential candidate. He sent out proposals to everyone with his candidacy. He managed to become an observer from Putin, and then a confidant of Sergei Mironov.
In 2015, he participated in the primaries held by the ruling United Russia party to participate in the State Duma elections, running in the Dmitrovsky district. Such a controversial decision caused a flurry of criticism from liberal comrades. However, there was no political breakthrough; he lost the primaries to Irina Rodina. In 2016, the last elections in the biography of Boris Nadezhdin took place, he was on the list of the “Growth Party”. Without joining the party itself, because, as he said, he sees no prospects for it. Now he teaches at the Physics and Technology Institute, is an expert on a commission under the Federation Council and constantly participates in political talk shows on television.
In a blue eye
Nadezhdin became a real liberal star, taking part in numerous Russian television programs. He believes that the culture of communication at such shows is still far from ideal, but this has to be taken into account. And if a person wants to be truly involved in politics, he needs to be constantly present on the screen or on the Internet. Based on his speech on one of these programs, many clearly identified the nationality of Boris Nadezhdin. Although, in addition to Jewish roots, he also has Russian, Ukrainian and Romanian roots.
He often behaves aggressively during transmissions, explaining this by the specifics and requirements of the current moment. According to him, many viewers are grateful for the presence of an alternative opinion on state channels and for voicing the opinions of the liberal minority. Another question that for some reason many viewers ask is what is the real name of Boris Nadezhdin. After all, it has been reported many times that his great-great-grandfather was his namesake.
Family and hobbies
Boris Borisovich Nadezhdin’s family has four children; the eldest daughter, Ekaterina, already works as a lawyer. In 2009, he had a grandson, Vyacheslav, who is four years older than his youngest son, Mikhail, born in 2013. The eldest boy, born in 2011, became Boris according to family tradition. His wife, Natalia Aleksandrovna, is a psychotherapist by training, but does not work in her specialty; she is involved in raising children and housekeeping.
Natalia is the third wife in the biography of Boris Borisovich Nadezhdin; the family has two common children and two stepchildren. Nothing is known about the mother of the eldest daughter. The politician met Anastasia’s (born in 2001) mother, Anna, when she came to practice at an insurance company owned by him.
He wrote several scientific works in the field of jurisprudence, including “Fundamentals of State and Law of Russia” (1999). Boris Nadezhdin’s most important hobby since his student days has been art song; he has released four albums with his songs. He is also a big fan of skiing and computer games.
Personal life
From his first marriage, Nadezhdin has a daughter, Ekaterina, who has already managed to make Boris Borisovich a grandfather. There is no information about the politician’s first wife. What is known is that the marriage did not last long.
Boris is a father of many children, his youngest son has the same name as the head of the family
Nadezhdin's second wife was a girl named Anna. At that time she was a student. They met at Boris's insurance company, where the girl came to get a job. Anna was married, and Boris had already gotten a divorce. Soon feelings flared up between them. Anna got divorced, and then received an offer from Nadezhdin. They got married and became parents of a daughter, Anastasia. However, this marriage was not successful either.
Note! Now Boris is married to psychotherapist Natalya. His wife gave him two sons - Boris and Mikhail. According to Nadezhdin, according to tradition, one boy in the family should bear the name Boris. The wife does not work, but takes care of the house and raising children. At the same time, Nadezhdin rarely talks about his family, because he does not want them to be under scrutiny.
The politician's last wife is Natalya, who gave him two sons.
Nadezhdin spends his free time with his family, and also likes to play music and sports. Nadezhdin has released four albums, and he writes the songs himself. As for sports, Boris Borisovich is very fond of alpine skiing. In a word, he leads a healthy and active lifestyle.
