Sergei Yastrzhembsky is a prominent diplomat and statesman of Russia. He held rather important posts, was a member of the inner circle of President Boris Yeltsin. After leaving the civil service, Sergei Vladimirovich completely switched to his main hobby: he always burned with a passion for hunting for large predators.
From the biography of Sergei Vladimirovich Yastrzhembsky
The future statesman was born in the capital of the USSR on December 4, 1953. His father was a military man who led one of the services in the MiG corporation. Mom worked as a lecturer at the Central Museum of V.I. Lenin. Sergey has Polish roots. The surname comes from the Polish word hawk. The Yastrzhembsky family lived at one time in the Brest Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
From a young age, Sergei showed ability to languages. At school, he was best given humanitarian disciplines. Most of all Yastrzhembsky loved history and geography. The young man was interested in politics, but was actively engaged in Komsomol activities, was a member of the Komsomol from 1966 to 1981. At the end of high school, Sergei became a student at MGIMO. The future billionaire Alisher Usmanov studied with him. University of Yastrzhembsky graduated in 1976.
Sergey Vladimirovich is fluent in several languages. Among them: French, English, Portuguese, Italian, Slovak.
In his student years, Sergei had access to a special library of his institute, where he could study the true history of the USSR. He repeatedly traveled outside the country. Of these trips, Yastrzhembsky often brought political literature, including the works of dissidents.
After graduating, Sergei Vladimirovich went to study at the graduate school of the Institute of the International Labor Movement.
Career of a diplomat and statesman
Since the late 70s, Yastrzhembsky is a researcher at the Academy of Social Sciences. Two years later, Sergey Vladimirovich already worked in the editorial office of the journal "Problems of Peace and Socialism", where he was a referent, editor, and deputy executive secretary. From the late 80s to 1990, Yastrzhembsky worked in the international department of the CPSU Central Committee as a senior referent. Then he was a member of the management of Megapolis magazine. He was deputy head of the Foundation for Social and Political Studies.
Since 1992, Yastrzhembsky has been in diplomatic work for several years - he was the director of one of the departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, was responsible for information and press issues there.
From 1993 to 1996, Sergey Vladimirovich served as ambassador to the Slovak Republic. After that, he received a new appointment: Yastrzhembsky became the press secretary of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Sergey Vladimirovich worked in this important post for two years. When fulfilling duties in a new position, Yastrzhembsky himself had to understand all the difficult aspects of politics.
Since the spring of 1997, Sergei Vladimirovich becomes deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Russia. He worked in this capacity until the fall of 1998. Yastrzhembsky was among those who sent a letter to President Yeltsin, in which a list of candidates for the post of head of government was presented. The list of candidates was Yuri Luzhkov. This caused irritation to Yeltsin’s environment. After such a letter, all its authors lost their posts.
