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Gennady Zyuganov

Gennady Zyuganov
Геннадий Зюганов
Zyuganov in 2022
Chair of the Union of Communist Parties
Assumed office
22 January 2001
Preceded byOleg Shenin
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Assumed office
14 February 1993
Preceded byValentin Kuptsov
Parliamentary Leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the State Duma
Assumed office
13 January 1994
Preceded byPosition established
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
Assumed office
11 January 1994
Personal details
Born (1944-06-26) 26 June 1944 (age 80)
Mymrino, RSFSR, USSR
Political party
SpouseNadezhda Vitalyevna
Children
  • Andrey
  • Tatiana
RelativesLeonid Zyuganov (grandson)
Education
Awards
Signature
Military service
Allegiance Soviet Union
Branch/serviceSoviet Army
Years of service1963–1966
RankColonel

Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (Russian: Генна́дий Андре́евич Зюга́нов; born 26 June 1944) is a Russian politician who has been the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and served as Member of the State Duma since 1993. He is also the Chair of the Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) since 2001. Zyuganov ran for President of Russia four times, most controversially in 1996, when he lost in the second round to Boris Yeltsin.


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