Senator Dmitry Igorevich Azarov is well known to the residents of Samara. He established himself well in various posts in the city leadership, as well as in the Samara regional government.
Biographical Information
The birthplace of the future politician is the city of Kuibyshev. Date - 08/09/1970
His father, also a native and resident of Kuibyshev, has various executive posts behind him (planning institute, Vodokanal, Kuibyshevmelivodkhoz).
The motherland is Magadan. For a long period, she worked in Kuibyshevoblbytekhnik as a supervisor in the technical control department, then she was appointed to the trade union committee as chairman.
Dmitry Azarov, whose biography is closely related to Samara, graduated from Kuibyshev secondary school No. 132 in 1987. From the age of eighteen he, as a student, already worked as an paver. Later, he received two higher educations, first graduating from the Polytechnic Institute in 1992, then having studied perfectly at the Buzuluk Financial and Economic College under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation in 1996.
Production activities
In 1992, Dmitry Azarov began working as a software engineer, continuing to study economics. In leadership positions he is twenty-five years old. First, he was appointed to the post of Deputy Director for Economic Affairs at the Samara Plant, which manufactures boiler auxiliary equipment and pipelines.
Two years later, Azarov was transferred to a similar position in Sintezkauchuk. With its help, the staff of the enterprise in the amount of eight thousand workers managed to avoid bankruptcy proceedings.
This fact to save chemical production of this scale remains the only one in the Samara region.
Further, Azarov is the first deputy general director of Volgopromkhim. In this superior organization, six regional enterprises were combined, with a total staff of 20,000 people.
2001-2006: Azarov - General Director of the Middle Volga Gas Company. He managed to make her the leader of the Russian gas transportation industry, for which he received the Order of Glory to Russia.
In 2003, Dmitry Azarov defended his candidate’s minimum in economics.
Administration job
In 2006, V. Tarkhov was elected head of the city in Samara, who invited Azarov to his team and appointed him his first deputy. The responsibilities of Dmitry Igorevich included monitoring the activities of the financial department, solving economic issues, problems of urban management, environmental safety, industry, business and communications.
The assembled professional team of Azarov doubled the city budget revenues.
Two years later, he voluntarily resigned from his post, as he diverged in views with his immediate superior.
In 2008, Dmitry Igarovich Azarov came to work in the Samara regional government as Minister of Nature Management, Forestry and Environmental Protection.
A year later, he was included in the presidential personnel reserve in the first hundred.
Elected posts
In 2010, Dmitry Azarov, whose photo often appeared on the pages of the regional press, from United Russia took part in the election campaign for the post of Samara city governor.
10/10/2010 he won in the first round, receiving almost 67 percent of the vote.
Five days later, the ceremony of his assumption of the post of head of the administration of the Samara city district.
In March 2011, he was elected President of the Association, which includes the cities of the Volga region.
Since September 2011, Dmitry Igorevich Azarov, whose personal life has become increasingly attracting attention, has also received the post of vice president in the Union of Russian Cities.
In addition to working in the above structures, Azarov began active work at the post of Samara city governor.
Dmitry Azarov, Federation Council
10/10/2014, Azarov had to resign as head of the Samara city district in connection with the delegation of his representative from the region to the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia, where he was elected to the Committee for the Federal Structure, Regional Policy, Local Government and Northern Affairs for the post of chairman.
In September 2014, Vyacheslav Timchenko resigned as chairman of the All-Russian Council on Local Government. Earlier, this deputy of the State Duma became a member of the Federation Council with the filing of the Kirov governor Nikita Belykh.
The All-Russian Council of Local Self-Government was headed by Dmitry Azarov.
Entering the post, vacated after the resignation of Timchenko, he said that he was counting on the full support of members of the State Duma, Federation Council, and the presidential administration. He hopes to do a lot with their help. He considers his main task to maintain the pace in work.
First of all, Azarov told delegates to the congress that he plans to form regional branches on the territory of Crimea.
According to Azarov, people who are potentially active, but not possessing sufficient practical knowledge, often fall into local government bodies. These workers should be assisted.
It is planned to create nine centers for training specialists in the field of local self-government in various constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
Azarov noted that in the speeches of the congress delegates the idea of creating a resource center in each region together with the office of the plenipotentiary presidential representative was proposed.
This should be discussed, listen to the opinion of colleagues - said Azarov. University staff can train staff in such a resource center together with the heads of local self-government structures.
Family status
Dmitry Igorevich Azarov, whose family has always provided assistance and assistance in his political and administrative activities, in a happy marriage for more than 20 years.
Azarov first saw his future spouse, Ellina, when he was in elementary school. They entered into a marriage when they were third-year students of the Polytechnic Institute.
Currently, they are raising two daughters - Polina and Alena.
In his free time, D. Azarov enjoys playing basketball. He reads a lot of fiction.
On the income of Azarov
The site of the Samara city administration constantly publishes information on the income of officials. According to these data, the city mayor Dmitry Igorevich Azarov earned 4.3 million rubles during 2012. His wife received an income of 1.6 million rubles this year.
In addition to two Toyota Land Cruiser belonging to Azarov, he has at his disposal real estate in the form of a land plot, a residential building, two apartments and a utility pantry.
On his wife are also listed, in addition to the land and non-residential premises, two apartments.
In 2014, as a senator, Dmitry Azarov (Federation Council) received an income of 7,207,000 rubles. He has as his property a plot of land of 500 square meters intended for housing construction.
The income of Azarov’s wife in 2014 is 2 131 000 rubles.
Dmitry Igorevich Azarov: interesting facts
Dmitry Azarov has a rather famous ancestor. His great-grandfather was at one time in the city of Smolensk a craft city head. A lot of good was done at this post, in connection with which a monument was erected to him on one of the city squares.
Apparently, Azarov adopted some interesting traditions from his famous ancestor.
For example, every year on the day of Forgiveness Sunday, he goes to the main square of Samara to ask for forgiveness from city residents.
On February 22, 2015, he said in such a speech that he sincerely apologizes to his fellow countrymen and thanks them for the response.
Any leader, according to him, is not able to work without miscalculations and errors, as a result of which ordinary citizens may be offended voluntarily or involuntarily. Each leader, regardless of rank, has the usual human qualities.
The bulk of people understand this very well, and all managers, regardless of their posts, should remember this.
Azarov apologized to those who, for some reason, were unable to provide assistance, who were accidentally injured with a spoken word or deed.
“From my own experience,” said the senator, “I know the importance of recognizing an unfair treatment of ordinary people.”
Governor criticism
In the same speech, he criticized the current governor, who spoke negatively about educational institutions located in the Samara region.
The governor proposed combining the three Samara higher education institutions. At the same time, he made statements that “there is only rubbish going to the Polytechnic University”, that “this university is not worthy of the title of a full-fledged university”, which unjustly offended students and teachers of this university that is more than a century old.
As a result of such rash phrases, the situation in the region grew tense. Opponents of the governor, clinging to these statements, sent sharp criticism on him.
Azarov urged both sides to slow down too emotional passions and ask for forgiveness on such a day.