Kudrin Alexey - long-term head of the Russian Ministry of Finance

Kudrin Alexey Leonidovich (born October 12, 1960) is a Russian statesman who for more than 10 years headed the Ministry of Finance. He remains one of the most promising figures in Russian politics and an informal leader of the liberal-democratic trend in it.

Childhood and years of study

From where does Aleksey Kudrin lead his life? His biography began in Latvia, in the family of a serviceman. During the first seventeen years of his life, Alexei had a chance to rape his family over the vast expanses of the Soviet Union, but this was the lot of the families of the majority of Soviet officers. From Latvia, eight-year-old Lesha travels to Mongolia as much as possible (imagine what a contrast!), Then, at eleven, in Transbaikalia, then, at fourteen, in Arkhangelsk, where he managed to graduate.

The first attempt to enter a full-time form of study at the Leningrad State University for Aleksey in 1978 was unsuccessful, he was offered to receive an education in evening form, at the Faculty of Economics. But above him hung the possibility of conscription to military service, and in order to avoid him, his father advised Alexei to get a job in a military high school - the Academy of Logistics and Transport of the Ministry of Defense. A couple of years, twisting the nuts in the engine lab of this institution, Alexei Kudrin safely transferred to the full-time department of the university. In 1983, he successfully graduated.

Carier start

After defending the diploma, Alexei Kudrin is assigned to one of the Leningrad academic institutions dealing with the economy, and for a couple of years traineeship in it. Apparently, having proved himself well, he entered graduate school at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in December 1985, and a few more years later he defended his candidate's thesis. Then he returns to his native Leningrad Institute and until 1990, as far as he can develop Soviet economic science.

Coming to the civil service

In 1990, in Leningrad, around the newly elected council, Anatoly Sobchak, who became the first mayor of St. Petersburg the following year, a team of promising young managers begins to form, to which Alexei Kudrin receives an invitation. He leaves his scientific work and moves to work in the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council, where he heads the Committee on Economic Reform. Until 1993, Alexei Kudrin worked in various posts related to economics and finance in the city administration. Then he was appointed first deputy mayor, chairman of the Committee for Economics and Finance of the City Hall of St. Petersburg. During the same period, Vladimir Putin worked as deputy mayor next to him.

State service in Moscow in the period of Boris Yeltsin's presidency

After the defeat of Anatoly Sobchak in the mayoral elections in 1996, his team disintegrated. Alexei Kudrin was invited by Anatoly Chubais, then head of the presidential administration (AP), to Moscow for the post of chief of the Main KRU AP. Soon he invited his colleague from the St. Petersburg mayor's office of Vladimir Putin to the position of his deputy in the KRU. Since March 1997, he became the first deputy finance minister of Chubais in the government of Chernomyrdin and retained this post during the brief premiership of Sergei Kiriyenko. But the famous prime minister Yevgeny Primakov, who defeated the 1998 crisis , Alexei Kudrin obviously did not like, and he forced him to leave his post. After serving six months in RAO UES of Russia under the wing of the former patron of Chubais, our hero waited until the decrepit Yeltsin removed the rapidly growing popularity of Primakov, and again returned to the Ministry of Finance for the post of first deputy after the appointment of Premier Stepashin.

Minister of Finance

After Vladimir Putin took the post of president, and then the head of government, Alexei Kudrin served as the head of the Ministry of Finance from May 2000 to September 2011.

During this period, the macroeconomic situation for Russia was very favorable due to a steady increase in the prices of oil and gas exported. Alexei Kudrin retained additional revenue from oil exports in a specially created Stabilization Fund. Many economists loyal to the Russian government defined its creation as one of Kudrin's main achievements. Nevertheless, other analysts characterized the Stabilization Fund as "dead money", which does not benefit the real sector of the economy. This fund was divided into the Reserve Fund and the National Welfare Fund in February 2008. The funds accumulated in them undoubtedly allowed the Russian Federation to relatively reliably transfer the acute phase of the global financial and economic crisis of 2008-2009. And this circumstance once again confirmed the fact that Alexei Kudrin was right in choosing the direction of the financial strategy of the Russian government.

Loud resignation from the ministerial post

In 2011, after the unprecedented castling of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev in the world history on the posts of the Russian president and the chairman of the government, Aleksei Leonidovich Kudrin faced a dilemma: to continue working at the premiere, behind which is the experience and authority of the presidential power, or to leave. He chose the second option, however, after a series of serious quarrels with his new boss and an unequivocal proposal of the latter to resign from the post of the head of the Ministry of Finance. President Putin did not interfere in this conflict, and Alexei Kudrin engaged in teaching activities at the St. Petersburg State University. He remained, according to the president, his friend and a member of his team. Kudrin Alexei Leonidovich, whose photo after the departure from the government is shown above, remains the leading Russian economist, actively participates in the socio-political life of the country, heads the public organization "Committee of Civil Initiatives."