A.E. Serdyukov: biography of the former defense minister

Serdyukov Anatoly Eduardovich in the light of the latest scandalous events has become one of the most illuminated personalities in the media. People are interested in literally everything connected with the former defense minister, from his childhood to today's life. At the same time, there are a lot of stories in the yellow press with a pronounced fantastic tone, which further warms the interest in such an ambiguous person, who is Anatoly Eduardovich. In order to make a full-fledged portrait of this man, you need to know about his true biography.

Early life: childhood, adolescence and adolescence

The birthday of Anatoly Serdyukov is January 8, 1962. At this time, his family lived in a small village called Kholmsky, which is located in Abinsky district of the Krasnodar Territory. Father Anatoly - Eduard Serdyukov, whose biography is not known, worked as a logger in the local forestry. Raisa Serdyukova, the mother of the future minister, worked most of her life on the collective farm. In the family he was the eldest child, his younger sister was called Galina.

Having finished 8 classes, he in 1977 was forced to transfer to the evening school to earn a living, since they were alone with their sister. During this period of his life Anatoly worked as a fitter in the garage. But Serdyukov, whose biography was not very successful, still managed to enter the Leningrad Institute of Soviet Trade in 1980 and even graduate with a red diploma. After graduating from university, he served in the army, passed courses of officers and retired to the rank of junior lieutenant.

Who was before the appointment to the post of minister Anatoly Serdyukov?

The biography of this man is very interesting in that he could find himself in any field of activity. So from 1985 to 1991, Anatoly Eduardovich was the head of the furniture store. Under his head, a nondescript shop number 3 turned into a real furniture salon "Dresden", in which the best furniture from the GDR was sold.

Since 1991, the former chief of staff has become deputy director. Then, on the basis of the furniture store, the furniture company "Furniture-Market" was organized, in which Serdyukov first took the post of deputy general director, and since 1993 became a marketing director. After another 2 years he eventually becomes the general director of this company.

Public service

Minister of Defense Serdyukov, whose biography is connected with the Russian armed forces only by military service on call, began his career in the state field with the Ministry of Taxes and Duties. In this structure, he served as head of the department until 2004, and his job was to work with large taxpayers in St. Petersburg. In 2004 it was announced that the head of the Federal Tax Service is Anatoly Serdyukov.

His biography takes on a militaristic coloring only in the winter of 2007, when Presidential order Anatoly Eduardovich is appointed Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. Thus, he became only the third civilian occupying this post after Leon Trotsky and Sergei Ivanov.

If we pay attention to the related line for the wife of the Minister of Defense, we can not fail to be surprised by such a coincidence as the appointment of Viktor Zubkov in the same year in 2007 as the Prime Minister of Russia, whose son-in-law is Serdyukov. The biography of these two people has much in common, and the patronage of Victor Alekseevich at the first stages of Serdyukov's public service can be traced quite distinctly.