Around the origin of the third president of the Russian Federation, a lot of rumors and speculation are spreading, therefore it is especially interesting to know who Anatoly Medvedev, the father of Dmitry Medvedev, actually was. The article discusses his biography, bit by bit collected from official sources.
Parents
It is known that the father of the hero of the article was called Afanasy Fedorovich, and since 1955 he lived in Korenovsk, Krasnodar Territory, where he worked as secretary of the CPSU RK. Over the 4 years of operation, the village acquired the status of a city. Residents got electricity and running water, and bus service was launched on the repaired roads. Under him, a dairy cannery, a railway station, and a sugar factory started operating. People still warmly recall Athanasius Fedorovich, presented for his work to the government award, his wife Nadezhda Vasilyevna, who devoted herself to raising two children, and her youngest daughter Svetlana, who finished 10th grade with a gold medal.
Anatoly Medvedev, whose photo in his youth is presented in the article, in those years already lived in Leningrad, receiving higher education. He was born on November 15, 1926, and at the time of his father’s appointment to Korenovsk he was 19 years old. Athanasius Fedorovich at the end of 1958 was transferred to Krasnodar, where he worked until retirement.
Origin
Where and in what family was Anatoly Medvedev born? The origin is of great importance, for his father did not immediately get to party work. In the autobiography, preserved so far, the village of Mansurovo, Kursk region, is called a small homeland. The family, which Anatoly Afanasevich called the poor, belonged to the peasant class.
Before the revolution, Athanasius Fedorovich, born in 1904, was a peasant, and from 1928 he joined the collective farm. Since 1933, he began to engage in party work, having studied for a year at the Moscow party school. Upon completion, he was appointed to Kabardino-Balkaria. Children often changed their place of study, as their father was constantly transferred to new places. In 1934, Anatoly Medvedev began schooling in Voronezh, and after 8 years he entered the Dzaudzhikau technical school. At that time the Great Patriotic War was on, father volunteered for the front, and the children with their mother were evacuated to Georgia (Gori).
Studying in Georgia
The railway technical school was also relocated to Gori when the Nazis approached Vladikavkaz. This explains the choice of educational institution. Anatoly Medvedev - a descendant of the peasants - studied with excellent marks, ahead of his peers. In a personal matter, only gratitude and encouragement for community service, participation in drill shows, academic success. Joining the Komsomol in February 1942, the young man was a permanent Komsomol member of the group, which trained 17 people.
Afanasy Fyodorovich, who took part in the battles for the Crimea and the Kuban, after being wounded, moved to Krasnodar, so his son continued his studies in this southern city.
Higher education
As part of the 5% of the best students, Anatoly Medvedev (biography restored according to the documents of the Krasnodar Technical University) became a student of this university. This was the first post-war course, where two-thirds of the students were demobilized soldiers and officers. The young man did not receive a single four during his entire training, proving his right to education. Scrupulous in everything, he was so absorbed in science that in 1949 his heart could not stand it, and the young man interrupted his studies, taking academic leave. Father at that time worked in Pavlovsk, where a young student restored his health.
In parallel, he taught physics and drawing at a local school, leaving behind good memories. Everyone was struck by his intelligence, for even he addressed his students strictly to you, instilling a love of technical disciplines. In 1952, Anatoly Medvedev became a certified specialist in the profession of mechanical engineer. Recently, he was a party organizer of the group, but social activities did not prevent him from receiving an honors degree. He was given a recommendation to work as the head of the workshops, but he chose a different path.
Labor activity
In the same year, the young man went to graduate school at the Institute of Technology in Leningrad (LTI). All his future life will be connected with this university. Having defended his dissertation, he remained a teacher. Being a party member (since 1952), he did not disdain social activity, but he considered science to be his main purpose. Until almost the age of 70, he lectured. Anatoly Medvedev is a professor at the LTI, which went down in the history of the university (now St. Petersburg State Technical University), where D. Mendeleev, D. Chernov, and Hess once taught.
He married Julia Shaposhnikova from Voronezh. The girl graduated from the Faculty of Philology, worked as a teacher of literature. I came to Leningrad to enter graduate school, after which I began to teach at the Pedagogical Institute named after Herzen. The couple lived in Kupchino, called the "sleeping area" of Leningrad.
Family of Anatoly Medvedev
The age difference between them was 12 years. At almost forty, Anatoly Afanasevich was destined to become a father. In 1965, the only son Dmitry was born, in the upbringing of which the parents of both spouses participated. The boy spent the summer in Krasnodar on Krasnaya Street, where his grandparents lived in a two-room apartment. It happened that they themselves came to Leningrad. Anatoly Medvedev and his wife were passionate about science, so help was simply necessary.
However, Julia Veniaminovna scientific career, as a spouse, did not work out. She graduated from guides and in recent years worked in Pavlovsk. Son Dmitry went to study at the usual 305 school. He was fond of chemistry, weightlifting and hard rock. Before him was always the example of his father, in whose room the light was on until late at night. He constantly wrote articles, the house had an excellent library of scientific and technical literature. Having risen in the morning, the son again saw his father at his desk. He was not addicted to smoking or alcohol, because this was not accepted in the house.
Death of parents
Anatoly Afanasevich Medvedev was very worried about the departure of his parents. In recent years, Afanasy Fedorovich worked as an instructor of the regional committee of the party, receiving a modest salary of 120 rubles. But he did not lose heart, characterized by optimism and a great sense of humor. A few years before his death, his wife Nadezhda Vasilievna (died in 1990) became seriously ill and fell ill. Father took all the care of her, caring until the last hour. His daughter Svetlana helped him, but Anatoly Medvedev, whose biography was associated with Leningrad, appeared infrequently.
The death of his wife knocked Athanasius Fedorovich. He rarely began to appear in the yard and completely stopped joking. Sometimes he went out to feed the pigeons, and in 1994 he himself passed away, having reunited with his wife in a cemetery near Krasnodar. Svetlana Medvedeva, the aunt of the future third president of the Russian Federation, was offended by her brother for a while because he paid little attention to elderly parents. She herself, after an unsuccessful marriage, remained lonely, lives in her parents' apartment. Her only son Andrei moved to Moscow.
Son and his family
Today, most often the press is not interested in Anatoly Medvedev himself. Information about his wife and son is becoming more important in connection with the political career that Dmitry Medvedev made. He once hesitated between legal and philological education, choosing in favor of law school. But they managed to enter only the evening department of Leningrad State University. A year later, for excellent performance in his studies, he was transferred to full-time, which he graduated in 1987. Following the example of his father, he began to engage in science. In the same year he entered graduate school, in 1990 - he defended his thesis.
His teacher was Anatoly Sobchak, in the election campaign of which a year earlier Dmitry Anatolyevich took an active part. The mandate of the People's Deputy of the USSR and the activities of Sobchak as mayor (1991–1996) contributed to the take-off of the young scientist’s career. Anatoly Medvedev did not live up to the election of his son as president of the country, but with him, his son was transferred to Moscow, where he worked in the government apparatus, headed the Gazprom Board of Directors. Waited for the father and the birth of a grandson. In 1989, Dmitry Medvedev married Svetlana Linnik. He had feelings for her since school, future spouses studied in parallel classes. In 1995, they had a son, Ilya, now a student at MGIMO.
Afterword
When Anatoly Medvedev, whose personal life is of genuine interest, left teaching, his son took his parents to Moscow.
Mom, Julia Veniaminovna, still lives in his family, but his father showed long-standing heart problems. In 2004, he died of a heart attack.
Around the origin of the head of United Russia since 2012 and the Government of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, there are ongoing ongoing disputes on the Internet. There is a version of his belonging to the Jewish nation, evidence is being sought that the family of grandfather Athanasius Fedorovich belonged to the prosperous class.
One thing is clear: Anatoly Medvedev, the father of Dmitry Medvedev, lived a decent life, becoming for his son an example of a responsible attitude to work.