Biography of Vladislav Surkov
Surkov Vladislav Yuryevich (initially Dudayev Aslanbek Andarbekovich) – former assistant to the President of the Russian Federation (until February 2020), former first deputy chairman of the board of CB Alfa Bank, chairman of the board of directors of AK Transnefteproduct, head of the government apparatus, deputy prime minister.
He was responsible for relations with the courts, religious organizations, the prosecutor's office, supervised justice, statistical authorities, and the media. He ended up in the administration of the head of the country during the years when Boris Yeltsin was in office, after which he was able to remain in power and improve his rating. Among his political projects are the election bloc “Unity” and “Motherland”. He is the author of the United Russia party, A Just Russia, and a supporter of “sovereign democracy”.
Vladislav Surkov - the “gray eminence” of Russian politics
Experts, analysts, and politicians have conflicting assessments of the consequences of Surkov’s activities. Some consider him a brilliant political strategist, a creatively gifted person with a penchant for aestheticism, while others consider him an eminence grise, a cynical manipulator who destroyed democracy in the country.
Childhood and education of Vladislav Surkov
The future high-ranking statesman was born in Duba-Yurt, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, into a family of rural intellectuals. Mom, Zoya Antonovna Surkova, read literature at school, having studied at the Lipetsk Pedagogical Institute, dad, Andarbek Danilbekovich Dudayev, was a primary school teacher. He subsequently changed his name to Yuri.
Vladislav Surkov in childhood with his mother
In 1967, the family moved to the capital of Chechnya, the city of Grozny, and the father went to Leningrad to enter a military school. Later he served in the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the country's Armed Forces. Yuri Dudayev never returned home.
In 1969, when the family finally broke up, Vladislav’s (then Aslanbek’s) mother left the Chechen Republic with him.
Vladislav Surkov in his youth
Surkov received his secondary education in Skopin, in the Ryazan region. In 1981 he entered the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, where he studied for about two semesters. Leading a riotous lifestyle, he was nominated for expulsion, but left his studies voluntarily. The following year he was drafted into the army and served for two years in the Hungarian town of Mor in the GRU.
Having retired to the reserve, the future politician made a second attempt to become a university student and entered the alma mater of domestic informals - the Moscow Institute of Culture, but again left his studies after about a year.
Surkov received his higher economic education only in the 1990s, at the capital’s International University.
The beginning of the career of Vladislav Surkov
Sports contributed to the successful start of Surkov’s career. He trained with stuntman Tadeusz Kasyanov, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who headed the Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific and Technical Programs of the Youth Initiative Foundation, also attended the training sessions of the famous karateka. In 1987, Vladislav first became his security guard, and later headed the advertising department of the NTTM Center.
Vladislav Surkov founded the Metapress agency
Those around him (for example, Leonid Borisovich Nevzlin) characterized Surkov as a thinking, collected and creative young man. In 1988, he headed the Metapress Market Communications Agency, and in 1992 he became the head of the domestic association of advertisers, designed to dictate the rules of the game in the Russian advertising market. Until 1996, Vladislav Surkov held various positions in, managing advertising activities.
In 1996-1997, Surkov rose to the rank of vice president of Rosprom CJSC. Then he left Menatep to join competitors at Alfa Bank (allegedly due to Khodorkovsky’s refusal to make him a partner).
Interview of Vladislav Surkov to Chechen TV In 1998-1999, Vladislav received the position of first deputy general director of ORT OJSC for PR. Boris Berezovsky recommended him for this post.
Surkov Vladislav Yurievich
The media noted that Surkov was smart, knew how to behave modestly with management, hiding the manifestation of his enormous ambitions, but was harsh towards his subordinates. In his new position, he made many useful contacts, in particular with Alexander Voloshin.
Biography of Vladislav Surkov: What is known about the mysterious presidential assistant
Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov is a person, on the one hand, very famous, but on the other hand, he is quite closed to the media. His life, if you look in more detail, does not at all resemble the bureaucracy described by Gogol, vegetating on chilly evenings with a runny nose over a cup of thin, sleepy tea, wrapped in a blanket. It is, rather, the basis for a real adventure novel, plot-related with a work of a purely production genre. Arthur Haley would be jealous, and together with Tom Clancy they would probably chip in to buy such a plot.
The boy was born on September 21, 1964 in a family of teachers, one might say, in an international one, which was not at all uncommon in the USSR. His mother, after graduating from the pedagogical institute, was sent to Checheno-Ingushetia on assignment, where she met her colleague Yuri (Andarbek) Dudayev, the future father of our hero, and married him. Therefore, it is not surprising that Vlad lived for the first 5 years in his father’s homeland. But he finished high school in Skopin, Ryazan region, where his mother moved after divorcing her husband.
In 1983-1985, like most Soviet youths, Vladislav Surkov went through army school. But, like the overwhelming minority of the same category of the population, it was very harsh for him, since, according to the Minister of Defense in 2001, Sergei Ivanov, Surkov served in the GRU special forces. This was confirmed by his father, who also served in the Main Intelligence Directorate.
In 1987, Vladislav Surkov received the first platform for realizing his creative potential - he headed the advertising department of the Center for Intersectoral Scientific and Technical Programs of the Youth Initiative Fund under the Frunzensky District Committee of the Komsomol, headed by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Then his career resembles the takeoff, if not of a rocket, then of an airplane. Head of the market communications agency, senior positions in Menatep of the same Khodorkovsky, at the same time president and vice-president of the Russian Association of Advertisers. Then responsible positions in Rosprom, Alfa Bank, ORT.
In 1999, Vladislav Surkov entered the civil service, becoming first assistant to the head of the Presidential Administration (PA) of the Russian Federation, and in August of the same year - deputy head of the AP. This is at 34 years old! In 2000, when he was not yet 36 years old, Surkov was awarded the class rank of Actual State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 1st class. This is, for a moment, the highest class rank in the civil service. If you look at the analogies with military ranks - colonel general or army general. Without cronyism, shaggy hand, etc.
In March 2004, Vladislav Surkov combined the position of deputy head of the Presidential Administration with the duties of assistant to the President of the Russian Federation. Four years later he became First Deputy Head of the Administration. Then in December 2011 he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Russia. After joining the government in 2012, Surkov became head of the apparatus, headed the commission for the development of television and radio broadcasting, and began to oversee the media, justice, statistics, interaction with the courts and the prosecutor’s office, and personnel issues.
In 2013, Vladislav Surkov returned from the government to the president, again becoming his assistant. The field of his activity became Ukraine, after the victory of Euromaidan - issues of resolving the conflict in Donbass.
The personality itself is very gifted. What Vladislav Surkov is enough for a dozen ordinary people, not even political forces. Almost every public speech by Surkov becomes a significant phenomenon. A year ago (February 11, 2019), Surkov published an article “Putin’s Long State,” which caused a storm of discussions and discussions. And there was hardly a single media outlet in Russia that did not quote the points expressed in that article.
Even his opponents give him credit. Mikhail Prokhorov called Surkov “the main puppeteer of the political process,” and Mikhail Khodorkovsky called his former subordinate (and at one time his bodyguard during the tumultuous youth of the Komsomol businessman Khodorkovsky) “an exceptionally gifted PR man and a very talented creative person,” who can be punished for his talent forgive everything or almost everything.
Which is not surprising. As a child, little Vladik had a rare ability to win over everyone around him - grandparents, other relatives, teachers, classmates, etc. And he certainly hasn’t lost this ability over the years.
And he is simply gifted by nature. He writes music, and not just any music, but even symphonic music. Plays the guitar masterfully. Writes lyrics for songs of popular rock artists. But, to put it mildly, he does not shy away from more “serious” literary formats. The novel Near Zero, attributed to him, published under a pseudonym, also caused a stir in Russian society. Like the novel “The Machine and the Great, or the Simplification of Dublin.”
He is only 55. A man in full bloom, as one cartoon character said. And hardly anyone can imagine how much more he can do wherever he wants. If he wants.
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Vladislav Surkov in civil service
In 1999, Surkov transitioned to civil service. At first, he performed the duties of an assistant, and later - deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation (which was headed by Alexander Voloshin) - assistant to the president of the country.
Vladislav Surkov - presidential aide
From 2008 to 2011 - first deputy head of the presidential administration. In 2011 he took the position of Deputy Prime Minister, and from the following year - Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. Vladislav Surkov: Russia's strategy during the crisis (2012) In 2013, the Russian President pointed out shortcomings in the activities of the highest executive body of the state, saying that the government had not fulfilled even half of its instructions. At that moment, Surkov expressed an objection to the head of the country on this issue, which, according to some analysts, was the reason for his resignation immediately after the televised debate with the reason “of his own free will.” The reason for the resignation of Vladislav Surkov is objections to Vladimir Putin. Since September 2013, Vladislav Surkov has taken the position of assistant to the president on the prospects for relations with partially recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia. According to unofficial information, the official is also responsible for relations with Ukraine. Thus, according to information from O. Rybachuk, Secretary of State under former President Viktor Yushchenko, Surkov was responsible for supporting (financially) the election campaign of Viktor Yanukovych.
Vladislav Surkov and Ramzan Kadyrov
The former head of the SBU, Valentin Nalyvaichenko, stated the alleged involvement of the Russian side in the person of Surkov in the events of the Euromaidan, and also reported that Surkov was the coordinator of the actions of the armed formations of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR.
Political scientists and experts note the strengthening of the positions of the majority of the national leader’s assistants in the ranking of the country’s leading politicians (Anton Vaino – on 16th line, Evgeny Shkolov – on 50th). And only Surkov’s place is significantly weakened. He ended up in 62nd position.
Vladislav Surkov and Vladimir Putin - “the roads diverged”
In March 2014, sanctions were imposed against Vladislav Yuryevich by the United States of America, Australia, and the European Union, as one of the main Russian civil servants in power responsible for the gross violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.
According to various sources, Vladislav Yuryevich came to Donetsk in the summer of 2015, where he allegedly lobbied for the interests of VTB Bank. In addition, despite the prohibitory sanctions, he tried to travel to Bulgaria. As a result, he was allegedly expelled from the Republic and banned from entering the eurozone countries for life.
Vladislav Surkov now
Surkov not only participates in the political life of the country, but also analyzes the current situation in his publications. In 2019, on the pages of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, he published the theses of the Russian authorities. The article was called “Putin’s Long State.”
In it, Vladislav outlined the idea that today’s Russia is a superpower that Western countries should fear. The politician put the model of the state under the leadership of Vladimir Vladimirovich on a par with the state models of Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Vladimir Lenin.
In May 2020, false information appeared that Surkov had resigned. Some media and telegram channels specified that the statement was on Vladimir Putin’s desk already in February, but then the president did not sign it. Ksenia Sobchak, Alexey Venediktov, Dmitry Drize joined the spread of rumors. Later, official denials followed from Alexei Chesnakov and Dmitry Peskov.
But in January 2020, it became known that the politician had left his post. The official decree releasing Surkov from the post of presidential assistant was signed by Vladimir Putin in mid-February.
Personal life of Vladislav Surkov
The first wife of a government official, Yulia Petrovna Vishnevskaya, is an art critic.
They met in their youth and quickly registered their relationship. Vladislav adopted Artem, Yulia's son from his first marriage; The couple had no children together. Over time, the couple began to spend more time separately. His wife opened a Museum of unique dolls, which she collected all her life, and then moved to London. Now she lives permanently in the capital of Great Britain.
Vladislav Surkov and his wife Natalya Dubovitskaya
Vladislav met his second wife Natalya Dubovitskaya while working at, where until 1998 she was his personal secretary. After that, she headed the interior design company “Workshop of Elegant Solutions 21st Century”. She currently holds the position of Deputy General Director for PR at the RKP Group of Industrial Enterprises.
In his second marriage, the politician had three children: the eldest son Roman was born in 2002, two years later his daughter Maria was born, and already in 2010 the wife gave the politician another son, Timur.
Family of Vladislav Surkov - wife and three children
Vladislav Surkov does not advertise his personal life, but his wife often attends social events and posts family photos on social networks. A happy family life can also be judged by photographs of his son Roman, who often posts photos on Instagram.
The son of Vladislav Surkov posts a photo with his father on Instagram
The politician knows English perfectly and is engaged in literary and musical creativity. He has state awards, including the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree and Alexander Nevsky, P.A. Stolypin medal. II degree.
Personal life
The personal life of Vladislav Surkov was not hidden from the public eye. The statesman was married twice. His first marriage was registered immediately after the end of his military service. Surkov's first wife, Yulia Vishnevskaya, was an art critic and collector of unique dolls.
After legalizing the relationship, the government official adopted Yulia’s son from her first marriage, but they had no children together. The relationship between the spouses did not work out due to divergent interests, and as a result the couple separated. Now Vladislav Yuryevich’s ex-wife lives in London, and his adopted son Artem received a higher education at Moscow State University and is engaged in real estate.
Vladislav Surkov and Natalia Dubovitskaya / RusBase
For the second time, the assistant to the Russian president married his personal secretary at the MENATEP bank, Natalya Dubovitskaya. This marriage became stronger than the first. The second wife gave birth to Surkov three children - Roman, Maria and Timur. The man’s wife is the deputy general director for public relations of the RKP Group of Industrial Enterprises, and is also one of the shareholders of companies that support Russian designers.
Vladislav Surkov devotes his free time from politics not only to his family, but also to creative activities. He enjoys writing symphonic music and lyrics, and playing the guitar. He is also a fan of Russian rock. The politician became the author of lyrics for musical compositions from two albums by rock musician Vadim Samoilov, “Peninsulas” and “Peninsulas-2.”
