The wife of the ex-mayor of Moscow, who died a few days ago, can be called one of the richest women not only in the capital, but throughout Russia.
According to open data, she is a billionaire and co-founder of a company with the famous name “Inteko”. By the way, Onya was previously the former owner of the entire company. There are also businesses of smaller importance, but there is no need to even doubt that the woman is rich. After the death of her husband, Yuri Luzhkov, Russians began to wonder how many children Luzhkov and Baturina had and how they lived.
Childhood and youth
The future mayor was born in 1936 (September 21) in Moscow. But due to the busyness of his parents, he spent his early childhood in Konotop with his grandmother. The family was very poor and the parents had to work a lot. Subsequently, Yuri Luzhkov talked a lot about his family, biography and personal life, as he was proud of his roots and past.
Biography
Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov was born on September 21, 1936 in Moscow, but he spent his early childhood, as well as his first seven school years, in his grandmother’s house in Konotop. His father worked at the capital's oil depot, and his mother worked as a laborer at a factory.
In 1953, Yuri Luzhkov returned to his parents in Moscow, where he completed his schooling and entered the Institute. Gubkina. While studying at the institute, he had to work as a janitor and loader at a railway station.
At the same time, his outstanding organizational skills were revealed during various public events and in Komsomol work. By the way, the initial stage of the working biography of the future mayor of Moscow was Kazakhstan, where he was sent along the Komsomol line as part of a student detachment to develop virgin lands.
Political career
After graduating from university, Luzhkov went to his first job at a research institute. At that time, in just a few years, he had risen to the rank of head of the laboratory. Career grew rapidly.
In 1964, he was invited to a leadership position in a group to improve the work of the State Committee on Chemistry. He managed to prove himself from the best side. Therefore, in 1971, he became the head of the automated control system at the Ministry of Chemical Industry.
There have already been stories about his organizational abilities, since under his leadership, any enterprises achieved success. Next was the position of director of the NPO Khimavtomatika. But Yuri Mikhailovich did not really like working at the enterprise, so he decided to return to serve in the Ministry of Industry.
Afterwards, serious changes began in public administration, and in 1991, Yuri Luzhkov joined the Moscow government as prime minister. At that time, it was the position of mayor, it was just called completely differently. By and large, the biography of Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov has always been associated with managerial activities.
Biography of Yuri Luzhkov
Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov was born on September 21, 1936 in Moscow. His father, Mikhail Andreevich, was a carpenter by profession and worked at an oil depot. Mother - Anna Petrovna.
In 1958 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry named after I.M. Gubkin (now Russian State University of Oil and Gas) with a degree in mechanical engineer.
During his studies, he worked part-time as a janitor and unloaded cars at the Paveletsky railway station. At the institute he was involved in Komsomol work and social activities. In 1954, as part of one of the first student teams, he participated in the development of virgin lands in Kazakhstan.
In 1958-1963, he worked as a researcher, group leader, and deputy head of the laboratory for automation of technological processes at the Research Institute of Plastics (now OJSC Institute of Plastics named after G.S. Petrov).
In 1964-1974 he served as head of a department at the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry. In 1968-1991 he was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
From 1974 to 1980 - Director of the Automation Experimental Design Bureau at the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry.
In 1975, Yuri Luzhkov was elected people's deputy of the Babushkinsky District Council of People's Deputies of Moscow.
From 1977 to 1990 - deputy of the Moscow City Council of People's Deputies (Mossovet).
In 1980, he was appointed general director of the research and production association Neftekhimavtomatika.
In 1986-1987 - head of the science department, member of the board of the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry.
From 1987 to 1990 - deputy of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR.
In 1987, on the initiative of the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Boris Yeltsin, Yuri Luzhkov was appointed first deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Moscow City Council of People's Deputies (Moscow City Executive Committee) Valery Saikin. At the same time, he was the chairman of the Moscow City Agro-Industrial Committee and headed the city commission on cooperative and individual labor activities (Yuri Luzhkov’s future wife, Elena Baturina, worked on the same commission).
In April 1990, after the resignation of Valery Saikin, he served as acting chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee. On April 26 of the same year, he was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Moscow City Council of People's Deputies (Mossovet). Luzhkov was nominated for this position by the Chairman of the Moscow City Council, Gavriil Popov, at the suggestion of the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, Boris Yeltsin.
On June 12, 1991, Yuri Luzhkov was elected vice-mayor of Moscow. He ran in the elections together with Gavriil Popov, who was elected the first mayor of the capital. 65.3% of voters voted for Luzhkov and Popov. Second place was taken by candidates for mayor and vice-mayor Valery Saikin and Alexander Kraiko - 16.3% of the votes.
At the same time, from July 1991 to 2001, Luzhkov served as prime minister of the Moscow government (in 2001, the position was abolished, while the capital's government remained subordinate to the mayor).
During the events of August 1991 (attempted coup organized by members of the State Emergency Committee, or “August putsch”) he participated in the defense of the White House. Subsequently, he published the book “72 Hours of Agony: August 1991. The Beginning and End of the Communist Putsch in Russia” (1991).
In 1991, he served as deputy chairman of the Committee for Operational Management of the National Economy of the USSR (the chairman of the committee was Ivan Silaev).
On June 6, 1992, after the resignation of Gavriil Popov, he was appointed mayor of Moscow by decree of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Yuri Luzhkov held this post for 18 years.
In September 1993, he supported the decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1400 on the liquidation of the highest authorities of the country - the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation.
In 1996, he was a member of Boris Yeltsin’s election headquarters during the election campaign for the presidential election of the Russian Federation.
In 1996-2001 - member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. He was a member of the committees on budget, financial, currency and credit regulation, money issue, tax policy and customs regulation, and on constitutional legislation and judicial issues.
On June 16, 1996, he won the elections for mayor of Moscow. Together with him, Valery Shantsev was elected vice-mayor, 88.49% of voters voted for them. Their closest rivals - Moscow City Duma deputy Olga Sergeeva and chairman of the Union of Officers Stanislav Terekhov (candidate for vice mayor) - received only 4.94% of the votes.
In May 1998, Yuri Luzhkov was approved as a representative of the Russian Federation in the House of Representatives of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe.
At the end of 1998, he headed the All-Russian Political Public Organization (OPOO) “Fatherland”. In 1999, the organization merged with the All Russia movement to form the Fatherland - All Russia electoral bloc. Yuri Luzhkov entered the top three of the bloc's list in the elections of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the third convocation.
On December 19, 1999, Yuri Luzhkov was again elected mayor of Moscow, receiving 69.89% of the votes. Valery Shantsev became vice-mayor again. Second place was taken by member of the SPS political council Sergei Kiriyenko and candidate for vice-mayor Vyacheslav Glazychev (11.25%).
On December 19, 1999, he was elected to the State Duma of the third convocation on the federal list of the Fatherland - All Russia bloc (No. 2). Refused his deputy mandate.
In 2001, he became co-chairman of the All-Russian political party “Unity and Fatherland” - United Russia (since 2003 - “United Russia”).
In 2003, from the Russian side, he headed the Russian-Japanese “Council of Wise Men”.
At the elections to the State Duma of the IV convocation on December 7, 2003, he was included in the federal list of candidates from the United Russia party at No. 3. He entered parliament, but refused his deputy mandate.
On December 7, 2003, he once again won the elections for the mayor of Moscow, 74.83% of voters voted in his support (the post of vice-mayor was abolished). In second place was entrepreneur Alexander Lebedev, who received 12.38% of the votes.
In November 2005, he was elected to the bureau of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party. In 2010 he left the party.
On June 27, 2007, deputies of the Moscow City Duma vested Yuri Luzhkov with the powers of the mayor of Moscow on the proposal of Russian President Vladimir Putin (32 out of 35 deputies were in favor).
During Yuri Luzhkov's tenure as mayor, the construction of shopping malls and a business center began in the capital, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Manege Central Exhibition Hall were restored, Victory Park was opened on Poklonnaya Hill, the Cherkizovsky market was liquidated, the Moscow Ring Road was reconstructed, and the Third Transport Ring was put into operation. , monorail. The implementation of a program to demolish five-story buildings has begun. Under Luzhkov, mandatory registration of citizens arriving in the capital from the Russian Federation and CIS countries was introduced. Additional payments to pensions were established for all Moscow pensioners, and they were also provided with free travel on public transport. At the same time, the length of tram lines in the city was reduced, several hundred historical buildings were demolished, including Voentorg and most of the buildings of Teplye Ryad. The buildings built in their place have been repeatedly criticized by the Arkhnadzor public movement.
In the elections to the State Duma of the fifth convocation on December 2, 2007, Yuri Luzhkov headed the regional list of deputies of the United Russia party in Moscow. After the party’s victory, he again refused his deputy mandate.
On September 28, 2010, Head of State Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the early termination of the powers of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov due to the loss of confidence of the President of the Russian Federation. Sergei Naryshkin, who at that time served as head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, called the reasons for his resignation “ineffective city management” and “exorbitant level of corruption” allowed by the mayor and his entourage.
In 2009-2010, several criminal cases were initiated against current and former capital officials for abuse of power and corruption (including against the chairmen of the control committee Alexander Ryabinin and the committee of advertising, information and design of the city Vladimir Makarov, ex-prefects of the Southern and Northern administrative districts Yuri Bulanov and Yuri Khardikov). The media have repeatedly published materials in which Luzhkov was accused of having connections with business structures, in particular with the Most group and the owner of the Cherkizovsky market Telman Ismailov.
In October 2010, Yuri Luzhkov became the dean of the faculty of management of large cities at the International University in Moscow (the president of the university is Gavriil Popov). In November 2012, he was transferred to the position of vice president of the university.
In 2021, he became a confidant of the candidate for deputy of the State Duma of the 7th convocation, Vladimir Komoyedov, who ran on the Communist Party of the Russian Federation list as part of regional group No. 9 (Republic of Crimea, Kaliningrad region, the city of Sevastopol) and in the Sevastopol single-mandate constituency No. 219. Komoyedov did not get into the Duma.
He was the owner of Private Equestrian LLC in the Ozersky district of the Kaliningrad region. The agricultural enterprise is engaged in horse breeding, growing grains (including sinichi) and industrial crops, and mushrooms. In May 2021, the company began producing cheeses under the general name “Honey Meadows”, and in 2018 - quail eggs and honey.
He was the president of the Moscow International Business Association (1997-2010), the International Assembly of Capitals and Major Cities.
He was a member of the board of directors of JSC "United Petrochemical For Military Merit" (2003), "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV, II and I degrees (2016; 1995; 2006), medals "Defender of Free Russia" (1993), "In Memory 850th anniversary of Moscow”, “In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg”, etc. Has awards from foreign countries: the Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots (Armenia), Friendship of Peoples (Belarus), “Danaker” (Kyrgyzstan), Prince Yaroslav the Wise, V degree (Ukraine), Polar Star (Mongolia), etc.
Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR and State Prizes of the Russian Federation for 1995 (in the field of literature and art) and 2000 (in the field of science and technology). Laureate of the Russian Government Prize in the field of science and technology for 2008. Honorary chemist of the USSR. Honored Chemist of the RSFSR. Honored Builder of the Russian Federation (1996).
Honorary Doctor of the International University in Moscow, Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honorary Professor of Moscow State University, Academy of Labor and Social Relations, etc. He has departmental and public orders and medals, awards of the Russian Orthodox Church and regions of the Russian Federation. Honorary citizen of a number of cities in Russia and CIS countries.
Author of the books “The State of Healthy Selfishness” (1995), “We Are Your Children, Moscow” (1996), “The Image of the Goal of Russian Reforms and the Strategy for Managing Trends in Russia’s Socio-Economic Development” (1998), “Renewing History: Humanity in the 21st Century. and the future of Russia" (2002), "Manual for the future mayor" (2003), "The Secret of Gostiny Dvor. About the city, about the world, about myself" (2006)", "About love..." (2007), "And the stars look down" (2018).
Yuri Luzhkov owned more than 120 patents for various inventions (including in the field of chemistry, on the Moscow Ring Road, a monorail road, a new type of bee hive, an open pie, pie, a method for producing a drink from Alena curd whey).
He was married for the third time to Elena Nikolaevna Baturina, who until 2011 was the owner, now the president of Inteco Management. Included in the ranking of the richest women in Russia. According to Forbes magazine, in 2021 her fortune was $1.2 billion (first place in the ranking). The daughters of Yuri Luzhkov and Elena Baturina are Elena (born 1992) and Olga (born 1994). Elena graduated from the University of London with a degree in politics of Eastern European countries, Olga studied at University College London, then completed her undergraduate degree at New York University.
Resignation of Yuri Luzhkov
At the beginning of 2010, documentaries devoted to the corruption of Moscow officials, including Yuri Luzhkov, began to appear more and more often on television. His family was involved in a series of scandals and trials.
As a result, on October 1, 2010, the mayor resigned. Sergei Sobyanin was immediately appointed in his place. Luzhkov, taking his family with him, went to London for some time. Even the daughters, who were studying at Moscow State University at that time, were forced to continue their studies in England.
Family and Children
Nothing is known about Yuri Luzhkov’s first marriage. It was fleeting love, but the marriage quickly fell apart due to the fact that the young people did not find mutual understanding. There were no children in the family, which also became a serious factor.
Marina Bashilova became the second wife. They had two sons, who were named Mikhail and Alexander. It was a fairly strong marriage, but at the age of 54, Marina died. She had advanced liver cancer.
Many said that she drank heavily, and this caused serious violations. In the biography of Yuri Luzhkov, his personal life and children, to whom he paid special attention, had a very important place.
In 1991, he met Elena Baturina, at that time he no longer thought about starting a family. Subsequently, this barque turned out to be so strong that the family had two children: Elena and Olga. In addition to being a faithful wife, Elena was also her husband’s business partner; her fortune is estimated at more than $1 billion.
Interesting!
In 2021, Luzhkov and Baturina got married in a church, this happened 25 years after the official wedding.
If we talk about the biography of Yuri Luzhkov, many are interested in the nationality of the politician. He is Russian, but his roots are really mixed, since there were both Ukrainians and Jews in the family. But Yuri always considered himself Russian, a native Muscovite.
Personal life
Luzhkov met his first wife Alevtina during his student years. They did not have any children together. And the marriage itself turned out to be short. His second wife was Marina Mikhailovna Bashilova, who bore him two sons - Alexander and Mikhail. Unfortunately, she died at age 54 from an aggressive malignant liver tumor.
Yuri Luzhkov and Elena Baturina
For the third time, fate smiled at Yuri Mikhailovich in 1991, when he married Elena Baturina. The marriage turned out to be strong, Yuri Luzhkov no longer thought about changes in his personal life. Having given birth to two daughters (Elena and Olga), Elena became a faithful wife and reliable business partner for her husband. The couple got married in 2021 - exactly a quarter of a century after the wedding. For several years in a row, Elena Baturina ranked first in the top 10 richest women in Russia according to Forbes. Her fortune is estimated at $1 billion.
For a long time there were rumors in the press that Luzhkov’s nationality was Jewish, and that his real name and surname were Moisha Katz. Considering that Yuri Mikhailovich’s father is from the village of Molodoy Tud, which is located not far from Tula, and his mother is a native of the distant Bashkir village of Kalegino, such speculation was considered someone’s joke.
Wife and daughters of Yuri Luzhkov
This topic is periodically raised by Luzhkov’s relatives at anniversaries and family events. Most often it serves as a reason for good jokes and general fun.
Unfortunately, his advanced age and excess weight (with a height of 174 cm, Luzhkov’s weight reaches 94 kg) made themselves felt, and at the end of December 2016, Luzhkov felt unwell during a visit to the reading room of the Moscow State University library. The condition turned out to be so bad that the staff of the educational institution had to call the resuscitation team.
Former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov
Over the next 24 hours, Yuri Mikhailovich suffered a brief clinical death, but was successfully brought back to consciousness by Moscow doctors. Now his health is not in danger.
Cause of death
At the moment, the cause of death is precisely known: after a planned operation on the heart, it stopped. Now there are a lot of different information articles on the Internet that say that the mayor died during the operation, but this is not true.
It was successful, but subsequently Yuri Mikhailovich fell into a coma and died without regaining consciousness. This happened on December 10, 2021. This is how the biography of Yuri Luzhkov ended.
He was operated on in Munich. This was a planned operation for which he had been preparing for a long time. The doctors promised only a positive outcome, which is why the former mayor agreed. But, as it turned out, everything did not go according to plan. Of course, age also took its toll, which did not allow the body to recover after serious surgery.
Important!
Yuri Luzhkov will be buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery. Patriarch Kirill will perform the funeral service in the central church of the capital.
At the moment, it is known for sure that the Moscow authorities have already offered their assistance in transporting the body. There is currently no more detailed information on this matter.
