Vladislav Yurievich Surkov, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, was married twice. Both of his wives are successful business women who have made a dizzying career.
Vladislav Yurievich Surkov. Born and recorded on a birth certificate as Dudaev Aslanbek Andarbekovich. Place of birth - s. Duba-Yurt, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Birthday is September 21, 1964.
Surkov Biography
Vladislav Yurievich has a very interesting biography. He was born in an intelligent family. Mom, Zoya Antonovna Surkova, graduated from the Pedagogical Institute and worked as a teacher of literature. Dad, Andarbek Danilbekovich Dudaev, worked as a teacher in elementary grades. Later, Andarbek Danilbekovich, changed his name to Yuri. Actually, this explains the origin of the current name of Vladislav Yurievich Surkov.
In 1967, the Dudaev family moved to the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. My father went to Leningrad to enroll in a military school there. After graduating from college, he joined the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
In 1969, Aslanbek’s parents divorced, and his mother left Chechnya. He graduated from high school in Skopin, Ryazan region.
In 1981 he was enrolled in the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. But the profession did not appeal to him, so after studying for 2 semesters, he was on the lists for deductions. However, he left his studies voluntarily. Then he was drafted into the army, served, like his father, in the GRU. The service took place in the city of Mor, in Hungary. Aslanbek served for 2 years.
After the army, Surkov entered the Moscow Institute of Culture. There he studied for exactly a year. Perhaps this episode became the key in choosing the first spouse.
Surkov received higher education only in the 90s. This time education was economic. Finally Surkov found his path, because in this area he has achieved very serious heights.
However, you should not think that only a bright head gave the right start to a career. Here the role was played more by the fact that he was at the right time in the right place.
Aslanbek loved to play sports and trained with the famous karateka Tadeusz Kasyanov. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who at that time already had a very great influence, was constantly present there. At first, Surkov was his guard, and later headed the advertising division of the NTTM Center.
From 1988 to 1996, Surkov was engaged exclusively in the advertising business. We can say that he dictated the conditions by which advertising should enter the Russian market.
From 1996 to 1997, Surkov became vice president of Rosprom CJSC, and then went to competitors at Alfa Bank. Rumor has it that he did this because Khodorkovsky refused to include Surkov in the list of partners.
In 1998-1999, Surkov was the first deputy general director for PR of ORT CJSC. This post he took thanks to the recommendation of Boris Berezovsky. On television, Vladislav Surkov made many necessary contacts to get to the civil service.
In 1999, Surkov was first an assistant, and then became deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation. At that time, it was headed by Alexander Voloshin, whom Surkov met while working on ORT.
Since September 20, 2013, Surkov has been Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. He is the author of the concept of "sovereign democracy."
Reassigned to the position of Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation on June 13, 2018.
Surkov's first wife
Vishnevskaya Julia Petrovna. Born in 1956, is a relative of Maria Davydovna Vishnevskaya, the second wife of Anatoly Chubais.
She was the founder of ZAO Metapress, where Surkov worked. There they met. Quickly registered relationship.
In 1998, she opened the Museum of Unique Puppets, thanks to which she became famous. Now the collection has about 400 items.
Vishnevskaya and Surkov did not have joint children, but he adopted her son Artem, who was educated in a private British school. Now Artem lives with his mother in London.
