Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov is a politician recognized as the leader of the Communists. He ran for president of the Russian Federation four times, while each time taking second place.
Biography
Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov was born in a family of rural teachers (his mother taught in elementary grades, and his father taught most of the subjects at school. A future politician spent his childhood in the village of Mymrino. In his native village, he graduated from high school and began working as a teacher in it.
A year later, he entered the Oryol Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. From 1969 to 1970, he worked as a teacher in his alma mater at the department of higher mathematics, and at the same time worked in a trade union organization, was engaged in Komsomol and party work. Gennady Andreyevich joined the Communist Party in 1966.
Party work
From the very beginning of the 70s Zyuganov began to engage in political activities. In 1970, he was elected to the city and regional council of Oryol. From 1972 to 1974 he held the post of first secretary of the Oryol regional committee of the Komsomol. Then he was the secretary of the district committee, city committee of the CPSU, the head of the propaganda and agitation department of the regional party committee of the city of Oryol, and the deputy head of the ideological department of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
In 1991, Gennady Andreyevich became one of the initiators of the revival of the Communist Party and at the first constituent Congress he was elected chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Zyuganov criticized the policy of Perestroika and called for the removal of Mikhail Gorbachev from the post of Secretary General.
In 1993, the people entrusted the head of the Communist Party with representing the interests in the country's legislative body, Zyuganov was elected to the State Duma of the first convocation on the federal list of his party. Since 1994, Zyuganov has consistently led the party’s faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The Communist leader several times claimed the post of president of the country, but he could not get ahead of representatives of the ruling party.
The politician has a great organizational talent. in addition to his main activity, the leader of the Communist Party is the co-chair of the National Salvation Front, a member of the "Spiritual Heritage" and "Fatherland" movements, and the chairman of the Coordinating Council of the People's Patriotic Forces of Russia.
Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov is an honorary citizen of the city of Oryol. He is the author of socio-economic programs, laureate of the Sholokhov Literary Prize. He was awarded with medals and orders "Badge of Honor", Alexander Nevsky, Friendship of the peoples of Belarus.
