Sergei Kiriyenko (born July 26, 1962) is a Russian statesman and politician. He was briefly Prime Minister of Russia from March 23 to August 23, 1998 during the second presidential term of Boris Yeltsin. He is currently the head of Rosatom, the state-owned nuclear energy corporation.
Origin
Kirienko Sergey Vladilenovich comes from a family of employees. His grandfather, Jacob Izraitel, was a participant in the revolution and civil war, during which he served in the Cheka. It is known that Lenin personally awarded him with a registered pistol for the conscientious service of the Soviet government. In the 30s of the last century, Jacob Izraitel led the Soviet border guards in Armenia and Abkhazia, then was the director of the Abkhaz branch of the state bank. His son Vladilen - the father of our hero - became a researcher, a doctor of philosophy after graduating from Moscow State University, and taught at a university in Gorky. The surname that Sergey Kiriyenko bears belongs to his mother, Larisa Vasilievna.
Childhood
Where did Sergey Kirienko start his life? His biography began in Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia, where his grandfather Jacob lived and worked. Sergey's parents were housemates and went to the same school. The family was created while still students, and Papa Seryozha studied in Moscow and his mother in Odessa, so the first years of his life were raised by his grandfathers and grandmothers by father and mother (fortunately, they all lived in the same house).
Then the family of Vladilen and Larisa Izraiteli lived for a while in Gorky, where my father began to pursue a scientific career at the Institute of Water Transport. However, their family life did not work out, and when their son was 10 years old, they divorced. Larisa and Sergei left for Sochi, where she took her maiden name for herself and her son.
Years of study
After graduating from Sochi secondary school, Kiriyenko Sergey Vladilenovich, whose biography again brought him to Gorky, entered the shipbuilding department of the Institute of Water Transport Engineers, where his father taught. During his studies, he lived in the family of his father and his second wife, who taught at the same university. Already at that time, Sergey Kiriyenko was actively engaged in public work, he was a Komsomol member of the faculty (for those who are young, we explain that the Komsomol (or the entire “Komsomol organizer") is the secretary (as the leaders in communist organizations call it) of the bureau of the Communist Youth Union). In 1982 he became a member of the CPSU.
Soviet career period
After graduating from the institute in 1984, Sergey Vladimirovich Kirienko served military service in the air defense forces as a deputy platoon commander in Ukraine, near Nikolaev. Returning after service to the Gorky factory Krasnoye Sormovo, Kiriyenko soon became a Komsomol member of the workshop, then an enterprise, and since 1989, 2nd Secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the Komsomol, he entered the Central Committee of the Komsomol. In 1990, he was elected to the regional council.
In those years, the cooperative movement was rapidly developing in the country, various youth associations were created at enterprises under the auspices of the Komsomol, seeking to engage in economic activity, the so-called youth housing complexes - MZHK were created, whose task was to organize the construction of housing for working youth. All these issues were precisely under the jurisdiction of Sergey Kiriyenko as secretary of the Komsomol regional committee.
The beginning of a career in new Russia
With the advent of market relations in our lives, Sergei Kiriyenko, like most Komsomol workers of his rank, was not at a loss and quickly found a place for himself (or maybe he prepared it in advance). In 1991, a multidisciplinary joint-stock youth concern - AMK - was created in Gorky. What does the word multidisciplinary mean here? The fact that AMK undertakes any activity - trades, builds, repairs, designs, etc., receiving orders from serious Gorky enterprises. And his director, of course, becomes a young and promising manager Sergei Kiriyenko. Without leaving the leadership, he is studying in absentia at the Academy of National Economy in Moscow, studying finance and banking.
And the labors were not in vain. In 1993, he heads the Nizhny Novgorod bank Guarantee, is a member of the board of directors of the Borsky Design Bureau in Bor, and becomes a member of the board of the Nizhny Novgorod Exchange. In 1996, Kiriyenko was appointed (on the recommendation of Governor B. Nemtsov) the president of the Norsi Oil oil company.
In May 1997, B. Nemtsov, who moved to Moscow to the post of First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government, invited him to the post of Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy, and Nemtsov himself occupied the ministerial position, combining it with the Deputy Prime Minister. But already in November of that year, the ministerial chair was vacated, and he was occupied by Sergei Kiriyenko.
Prime Minister
The government cabinet of Sergei Kiriyenko (March 23, 1998 - August 23, 1998) was the sixth in the Russian Federation, it was preceded by the second cabinet of Viktor Chernomyrdin, and Primakov’s cabinet followed. At first, on March 23, Kiriyenko was appointed by Yeltsin and. about. the prime minister, and then proposed to the State Duma for approval as many as three times: April 10 (143 votes in favor, 186 against, 5 abstained), April 17 (115 in favor, 271 against, 11 abstained), April 24 (251 in favor, 25 against). Thus, the third time he was appointed prime minister. According to the Russian Constitution, if the State Duma rejects the prime minister’s candidacy proposed by the president three times, then it should be dissolved and parliamentary elections held. Obviously, the deputies didn’t really like this prospect, and in anticipation of the impending crisis and the default of Russia, nobody, except Kiriyenko, claimed to be the prime minister.
Along with Deputy Prime Minister Nemtsov, he tried to improve the Russian economy with an IMF loan, and this raised his national debt to $ 22.6 billion. At the same time, he tried to get financing for government spending in the financial markets, raising interest rates on Russian government bonds in June 1998 up to 150%.
But servicing such government bonds was unrealistic, and on August 17, Kiriyenko’s cabinet defaulted, which led to the devaluation of the Russian ruble and the 1998 financial crisis in Russia. The prime minister in charge of default resigned on August 23.
Career after the crisis
Together with Nemtsov, Chubais, Irina Khakamada and Yegor Gaidar, Kiriyenko formed the Union of Right Forces (SPS), which took fourth place in the 1999 State Duma elections. About a year after the election, Kiriyenko led the SPS faction in the Duma.
He participated in the election of mayor of Moscow and took second place after Yuri Luzhkov, elected for a second term . Since May 2000, Kiriyenko was appointed Presidential Representative in the Volga Federal District.
On November 30, 2005, the new head of Rosatom was appointed president. Sergei Kiriyenko, who then held this position, continues to lead the nuclear industry in Russia to this day.
But, like any person, he lives not only work. What is Sergey Kirienko in his personal life? His family is strong. With his wife, Lyudmila Grigoryevna, he met back in the Sochi school, married her at 19, while still a student. They have three children. The eldest son Vladimir is engaged in banking business, the two youngest daughters are still studying.