Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky was born on April 25, 1946 in Alma-Ata. He was the sixth child in the family. That same year, his father died in a car accident. After graduating from school, he went to Moscow to study at the Institute of Oriental Languages ​​at Moscow State University, later renamed the Institute of Asian and African Countries.

Since April 1967, according to Zhirinovsky, he began to engage in politics. His first political action was that he sent a letter to the CPSU Central Committee addressed to L.I. Brezhnev, in which he expressed his opinion on the need for reforms in the field of education, Agriculture, city government. Soon after this, he was summoned for a conversation at the department of universities of the Moscow State Committee of the CPSU, where it was explained to him that these proposals were “unrealistic for financial and some political reasons.” As a 4th year student, Vladimir Zhirinovsky was sent to Turkey to undergo pre-graduate practice as a trainee translator in the city of Iskenderun. He was arrested “for communist propaganda” (distributing “subversive badges” with the image of V.I. Lenin to his friends) and expelled from Turkey. Zhirinovsky himself says that the badges were harmless, with views of Moscow and Pushkin. The wildest assumptions say that before his visit to Turkey, Zhirinovsky was recruited by the KGB, and Turkish intelligence declassified him and urgently expelled him from the country. According to Vladimir Volfovich, short-term imprisonment became an obstacle for him to join the party, enroll in graduate school, for a long time he was deprived of the opportunity to visit foreign countries.

After graduating from the institute in 1970-1972, he served in the Transcaucasian Military District in Tbilisi as a district headquarters officer. At the institute I studied two languages ​​- Turkish and French; later at the Ministry of Finance courses - English and German. In 1972-1975 he worked in the sector Western Europe international department of the Soviet Peace Committee, in 1975-1977 - in the dean's office for work with foreign students High school trade union movement. From 1977 to 1983 - employee of the Inurkollegium of the USSR Ministry of Justice. From 1983 to 1990, he headed the legal department of the Mir publishing house. In 1989, he stood as a candidate in the elections for director of the publishing house, but lost (he received 30 votes out of 600).

His political career began in 1988, when Zhirinovsky began to actively participate in meetings of various public organizations and groups that emerged en masse under conditions of glasnost and political freedom. In the spring of 1988, he took an active part in the seminars “Peace and Human Rights”, which were held at the Soviet Peace Committee. It was then that he attracted attention as a speaker. After this, he began to often appear at various political meetings of informal groups, where he discussed the idea of ​​​​creating some kind of party. At the beginning of May 1988, Vladimir Zhirinovsky participated in the Founding Congress of the Democratic Union party, but refused to join this organization. According to information and expert group "Panorama", Zhirinovsky spoke at the final meeting of the congress with a proposal to exclude from the Party Declaration the words: "The CPSU led the people through crimes."

Soon Zhirinovsky came up with the idea of ​​creating a Social Democratic Party and wrote a draft party program. He distributed this program, amounting to one typewritten page, among activists of Moscow informal groups, including the Free Interprofessional Association of Workers and the Democratic Perestroika club. In the second half of 1988, Zhirinovsky participated in the creation of the legal Jewish national movement and spoke at the founding conference of the Soviet society of Jewish culture "Sholom". Zhirinovsky was elected a member of the board of the Society together with former first Secretary of the Birobidzhan Regional Committee of the CPSU Lev Shapiro and Zionist Yuli Kosharovsky. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, as a member of the board of the Society, supervised 4 sections: humanitarian-legal, philosophical-religious, historical and foreign economic relations. However, the Society of Jewish Culture as a public organization did not actually take place. In the spring of 1989, together with Vladimir Bogachev, who broke away from the Democratic Party of Lev Ubozhko (previously both of them - Bogachev and Ubozhko - were expelled from the DS party), Zhirinovsky created the initiative group of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The LDP program became a short draft program of the Social Democratic Party. In 1991, Zhirinovsky registered the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union with the Ministry of Justice (with the collapse of the Union, the LDP changed its status to Russian and acquired the name LDPR). In the same year, Zhirinovsky supported the State Emergency Committee, opposed the Belovezhsky Accords of Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich and, having made a record rise for a novice politician, took third place in the Russian presidential elections. Having gained almost 8 percent of the vote, he passed ahead only to Yeltsin and Ryzhkov. Zhirinovsky’s promises to reduce vodka prices played an important role in achieving this result. Vladimir Volfovich's subsequent actions were no less extravagant. For example, he appealed to the then Speaker of the Supreme Council Ruslan Khasbulatov with a call to disperse the “anti-Russian and anti-state” government of Boris Yeltsin and in return proposed his own shadow cabinet, where the writer Eduard Limonov was the Minister of Security, and the leader of the punk group “DK” was entrusted with overseeing the cultural sphere. Sergei Zharikov.

In the conflict between B. Yeltsin and the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation in 1993, he took the side of the President of the Russian Federation. He participated in the Constitutional Conference convened by Yeltsin, supported the presidential draft of the Constitution, as well as Decree No. 1400, which terminated the powers of the Supreme Council and the Congress of People's Deputies and called elections to a new representative body - the Federal Assembly. Motivating his position, he said that, being in conflict with both the Kremlin and the White House, in this case he chose the “lesser evil” and therefore took the side of the President. Zhirinovsky outlined his political views in the autobiographical and journalistic books “The Last Throw to the South” (1993) and “The Last Car to the North” (1995), which provoked a lively public reaction. Zhirinovsky repeatedly persistently spoke out in favor of a ban Communist Party Russian Federation, as well as for the burial of the body of V.I. Lenin.

On subsequent December 1993 parliamentary elections The LDPR was ahead of all other parties in terms of the number of votes received. In December 1995, Zhirinovsky was re-elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the second convocation on the LDPR list. In total, the LDPR collected 11.18 percent of the votes, which allowed Zhirinovsky to create the second largest and most important faction in the State Duma of the second convocation after the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Since then, the LDPR has managed to maintain its presence in the Duma, although the size of the faction is beyond last years decreased. On December 7, 2003, he was elected to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the fourth convocation from the electoral association Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. Leader of the LDPR faction in the State Duma of the first and second convocations. He entrusted the leadership of the LDPR faction in the State Duma of the third and fourth convocations to his son Igor Lebedev, and he himself became Deputy Chairman of the State Duma. Since October 2005 - member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the implementation of priority national projects. Doctor of Philosophy (dissertation for the scientific degree on the topic “Past, present and future of the Russian nation” defended on April 24, 1998). Academician Russian Academy social sciences. Since January 2003, he has been a professor at the Academy of Security, Defense and Law and Order (a public organization created in 1999). Author of numerous publications in the press. On June 5, 2001, Vladimir Zhirinovsky presented to journalists a complete collection of his works in 55 volumes. At the presentation of his works, the LDPR leader emphasized that his works are “the collective work of the party and its faction.” Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation (January 2001). The title was awarded by Decree of the President of Russia "for his contribution to the strengthening of Russian statehood." Awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (April 2006). Accepting the award, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, for whom, according to him, this is the first order in his life, recalled difficult history of domestic parliamentarism of pre-revolutionary and late Soviet times and wished deputies never to fight with state power.

Parents of Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Zhirinovsky's grandfather - Itsek Aizik Eidelstein, a Jew, was a well-known industrialist and respected person in the Kostopol district (then Poland, now the Rivne region of Ukraine). He had his own woodworking factory, where 200 people worked. On its territory operated Railway, which was used to send to Europe finished products. In 1939, after the annexation of Western Ukraine to the Ukrainian SSR, the factory was nationalized. The same fate befell the house where the Eidelsteins and their children lived. And the Germans who invaded the city took them away from the enterprise a large number of equipment. In the archive documents for 1944, the factory of Itsek Aizik is also included in the lists of industrial facilities destroyed by the Germans. Eidelstein. He was also a co-owner of the local football team, Trumpeldor.
Zhirinovsky himself does not remember his father and knows about him only from the words of his mother.

Until 1964, Vladimir Zhirinovsky bore his father's surname - Eidelstein, and upon reaching adulthood, he took his mother’s surname - Zhirinovsky, they refused to change his patronymic.

It was argued that Zhirinovsky's father was a lawyer by profession and graduated from the Sorbonne University in Paris. However, Zhirinovsky denied this information. At a press conference in Tel Aviv in May 2006, Vladimir Zhirinovsky said, “Journalists mocked me: “son of a lawyer.” And I am the son of an agronomist and a businessman.”
According to Zhirinovsky, his phrase, voiced during the 1991 election campaign: “Mother is Russian, father is a lawyer,” were answers to two different quick questions about the nationality of the mother and the profession of the father.
According to the book of the writer Alexander Namozov “Vladimir Zhirinovsky, return to roots” Wolf Eidelstein owned land and grew hops, and also supervised the work of three workshops that carried out primary wood processing for his father's plywood factory. After the annexation of Western Ukraine, Wolf and his brother Aron were deported to Kazakhstan.

Itsek Eidelstein, his wife Rivka, daughter Reizl, granddaughter Lyuba and other relatives who remained in Kostopol at the beginning of the war were shot in the Lesnichevka tract on August 16, 1941, along with another two thousand local Jewish residents. In total, residents of 470 houses were killed.
Wolf got married in Kazakhstan and was then deported to Poland. Then he repatriated to Israel. Was a participant political movement Likud, worked for a company selling fertilizers and chemicals. He died in August 1983 and is buried in the cemetery in Holon.
In June 2006, according to media reports, Vladimir Zhirinovsky visited his father's grave Wolf Isaakovich Eidelstein at the Holon cemetery
August 21, 2007 Vladimir Zhirinovsky arrived on a visit to the city of Kostopol and visited the place where his relatives’ house used to be.
Mother - Alexandra Pavlovna (nee Makarova, after her first husband - Zhirinovskaya), Russian. Vladimir was her sixth child. Zhirinovsky has two brothers and three sisters.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Family of Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Married. SpouseZhirinovsky- Galina Aleksandrovna Lebedeva, candidate of biological sciences. In the 1990s, the Zhirinovskys got married for their silver wedding Orthodox rite.

Son Zhirinovsky Igor Vladimirovich Lebedev was born in 1972. Has a legal education (MSLA). In January 2000, he was elected chairman of the LDPR faction in the State Duma of the third convocation. Elected in the State Duma on the federal list of the Zhirinovsky Bloc. Before being elected to the Duma, he worked in the Ministry of Labor and Social Development of the Russian Federation as an adviser to the minister (Sergei Kalashnikov, former member LDPR faction in the State Duma of the second convocation).

Interesting facts about Vladimir Zhirinovsky

* In 1994, the Chernogolovsky Alcohol Factory began producing Zhirinovsky vodka, which Vladimir Volfovich himself called party vodka. Over 7 years, 30 million bottles were produced and sold.
* In 2006, in honor of Vladimir Volfovich’s sixtieth birthday, Alterwest produced ice cream under the trademark with the original name “Zhirik”.
* In 1997, Valery Komissarov shot the feature film “Ship of Doubles” with Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky starring.
* Worked with rap artist Seryoga in the show “Two Stars”, and also recorded songs with him.

Places of work, positions of Vladimir Zhirinovsky

* Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.
* State Duma Deputy Federal Assembly Russian Federation.
* Head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation (until 2000)
* Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (from 2000 to the present).

Songs by and about Zhirinovsky
* Congratulations - performed by Andrei Makarevich.
* Eh, Vladimir Volfovich - performed by the group “Parrot”, recorded in 1991
* “ex-Gas Sector” - “Hymn to Zhirinovsky”
*Mr. Daduda - “A woman with a cart makes it easier for a mare”
* “Idol”, 1993
* Paddy Goes To Holyhead - Shirinovski - harsh criticism, accusations of Nazism and anti-Semitism, betrayal of his own father

For the 20th anniversary of the LDPR, a disc was released with songs performed by and about Zhirinovsky. Vladimir Volfovich performed both famous hits and original songs.

This story began in April. In April, a scan of a letter to Mr. Kovalev, the chairman of the State Duma commission for monitoring the income of deputies, appeared in Ponomarev’s LiveJournal. “In 2012, in his income statement, Zhirinovsky indicated the income and property of his wife, Mrs. Lebedeva. In the new declaration, Mr. Zhirinovsky showed an income of 2.5 million rubles, ownership of 9 plots of land and two unfinished houses, as well as a GAZ car,” writes Ponomarev. The bottom line: in 2012, the wife was in the declaration, in 2013 - no longer. The above led the deputy from A Just Russia to the idea of ​​Zhirinovsky’s divorce.

At the same time, in an interview with one of the newspapers, Ponomarev said that Zhirinovsky, in his opinion, could get a divorce in order not to declare his wife’s income, which he had previously recorded on her.

Zhirinovsky's lawyer was present at the court hearing; the politician himself, much less his wife, was not noticed. However, a lawyer for the Liberal Democrats said that there was a divorce. “They did not dispute the fact of the divorce itself. They did not like the assumption that this was done with the aim of concealing some cash receipts. They say this has not been proven and cannot be proven,” Ponomarev commented on the outcome of the trial.

Information about the fact of divorce is the only thing Ponomarev managed to get at the cost of 50 thousand rubles. Neither the date of divorce nor clarifying facts were given. Zhirinovsky himself, however, stated that he lives in a “church marriage.”

The situation with Zhirinovsky’s marriage is truly difficult. Different sources provide different information. “While still in the army, he (Zhirinovsky - “MK”) married (1971) Galina Aleksandrovna Lebedeva, whom he met in student years. At first, the newlyweds lived with their wife’s parents. In 1972, their son Igor was born,” according to the party’s official website. And Vesti, describing the political portrait of Zhirinovsky, writes: “Wife - Galina Lebedeva, candidate of biological sciences, virologist. We met at a summer camp in Pitsunda. The wedding took place in 1971, divorce in 1978. However, in 1990, Vladimir and Galina Zhirinovsky widely celebrated their silver wedding.”

The Zhirinovskys definitely have a son, Igor. Igor Vladimirovich Lebedev (he took his mother’s last name) is the leader of the LDPR faction in the State Duma. “I believe that issues of personal relationships are a personal matter for everyone. And no Ponomarev has the right to go there,” Lebedev told MK.

As the party's press service stated, the divorce took place. “They got married in 1971 and divorced in 1978. They have been living in a church marriage since 1993,” the party told us. “Church marriage,” according to the press secretary, means a wedding. Why Zhirinovsky declared his wife’s income for a long time, the party apparatus could not clarify...

V.V. Zhirinovsky is a famous Russian politician. His career is full of bright and controversial events. He always knew how to attract attention with spectacular gestures or paradoxical statements. Biography of this interesting person will be presented in the article.

Childhood

Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky, whose biography interests many, was born in 1946, on April 25, in the city of Alma-Ata. The boy grew up without a father and knows about him only from the words of his mother. It is known that the grandfather of the future celebrity - Isaac Eidelstein - would famous person in the city of Kostopol (Poland, now Ukraine) and owned a woodworking factory. There was a railway on the territory of the enterprise. In 1939 land plot, where the factory was located, became part of Western Ukraine, so all the property of the Eidelstein family was nationalized. Almost all of Vladimir Volfovich’s paternal relatives were subsequently shot. Only the father of the future politician - Wolf - and his sibling Aaron was deported to Kazakhstan. This is where the parents of the future celebrity met. Then Wolf was exiled to Poland, after which he moved to Kazakhstan and disappeared forever from the sight of his relatives. Vladimir Volfovich’s mother, Alexandra Pavlovna, after the divorce, remarried Vladimir Andreevich Zhirinovsky. According to some sources, the future politician bore his father’s surname until 1964; according to others, he always lived under his “today’s” surname. In any case, Zhirinovsky’s peers testify that Vladimir Volfovich had the nickname “Zhirik” as a child. In addition, he grew up in a large family; his mother, in her second marriage, gave birth to five more children - two boys and three girls.

Education

Zhirinovsky, whose biography is discussed in this article, graduated from high school in the city of Alma-Ata. Then he entered the Institute of Oriental Languages ​​at Moscow state university, where he studied until 1970. There he studied Turkish language and literature. At the same time, he was a student at the University of Marxism-Leninism. There he studied at the faculty international relations. After this, Vladimir Volfovich entered the Faculty of Law at Moscow State University (evening department) and successfully graduated in 1977. In 1998, the politician defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “The Past, Present and Future of the Russian Nation.” In addition, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, whose biography is filled with interesting events, speaks several languages: Turkish, English, French and German.

Career

In between training courses, Vladimir Volfovich served in the army. He performed his military duty in the political department of the headquarters, in the Transcaucasian Military District, which was located in Tbilisi. After the army, he got a job at the Soviet Peace Committee, where he worked in the department dealing with the problems of Western Europe. In 1975 (several months), the future politician worked in the dean’s office of the Higher School of Trade Union Movement, then began working at the Inyurkollegium. In 1983, the biography of Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky was marked by a new event - he headed the legal department of the Mir publishing house. Here he became closely involved in political activities. From the LDPR party, a man ran for the post of head of the Russian Federation in 1991, on June 12. Two years later, he became a deputy of the State Duma of the first convocation, at the same time serving as the head of the LDPR faction. In 1995, Zhirinovsky was again elected as a deputy. The biography of the politician developed very rapidly in the 1990s. In 1996, he became one of the candidates for the post of President of the Russian Federation from the Liberal Democratic Party and received 5.78 percent of the votes. In 1999, he already applied for the post of governor of the Belgorod region and, according to the results election campaign takes third place. A year later (in 1997), Vladimir Volfovich was elected to the post of deputy chairman of the State Duma of the third convocation. At the same time, the politician refused to lead the faction of the Liberal Democratic Party. In 2000, Vladimir Zhirinovsky again ran for president. The biography of this man is extremely interesting, because all this time he was one of the most prominent political figures in the country. Having been defeated in the elections, the politician made another attempt to lead the Russian Federation in 2008, but never achieved his goal. In 2011, Vladimir Volfovich began to lead the LDPR faction in the State Duma. Meanwhile, the post of deputy chairman of the State Duma of the sixth convocation was taken by Zhirinovsky’s son. The politician's biography deserves a film adaptation, because he became one of the most odious public figures of its time.

Political Views

Vladimir Zhirinovsky became famous for his extraordinary ideas. For example, he proposed to fully finance foreign countries, lift the moratorium on the death penalty, and prosecute those politicians who were unable or unwilling to fulfill their election promises.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky also became famous for his harsh and defiant statements. The biography of a celebrity in 1995 was “decorated” by a scandalous incident - in live program "One on One" the politician doused his opponent (Boris Nemtsov) with juice. In 2003, Vladimir Volfovich recorded a bold appeal to the President of the United States, George W. Bush. In it, the politician, without holding back in his expressions, condemned the war in Iraq.

All these scandalous antics made Vladimir Volfovich incredibly popular. He was considered a "people's" politician, delving into the needs of ordinary Russian citizens. Zhirinovsky, whose biography is known to many, supported this image in every possible way. In 1994, the Chernogolovsky Alcohol Factory began producing vodka called “Zhirinovsky”. Over seven years, about thirty million bottles were produced. For the sixtieth anniversary of the politician in 2006, a batch of Zhirik ice cream was produced and released for sale. And in the Penza region they sell Zhirinovsky in Chocolate ice cream.

Achievements in show business

The biography of Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is decorated with achievements in domestic show business. The politician recorded several joint songs with rapper Seryoga as part of the “Two Stars” program. In a duet with singer Oscar Zhirinovsky performed the song “Let's Go for a Walk” in 2003. For the twentieth anniversary of the LDPR party, Vladimir Volfovich’s solo disc was released with songs about himself. The politician sings both original songs and famous hits. They are always popular with the public.

Rewards and restrictions

For his harsh statements against certain peoples, Zhirinovsky was banned from entering Kyrgyzstan and the Komi Republic. In 2012, the politician was nominated for an ironic national award called “Big Bird of the Year.” The active legislative activity of Vladimir Volfovich and his efforts in strengthening Russian statehood were noted by V.V. Putin in 2012 - on December 29, the politician became an Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation. In addition, Zhirinovsky published 100 volumes of his works under the general title "Political Classics." Vladimir Volfovich also has an honorary weapon in his arsenal - a personalized dagger from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Personal life

It is known that Zhirinovsky is married to Lebedeva Galina Aleksandrovna Zhirinovsky. The biography and wife of the politician have been discussed more than once in the press. Vladimir Volfovich's beloved is a candidate of biological sciences. The couple got married in 1993 according to the Orthodox rite. That same year they celebrated their silver wedding. Zhirinovsky, biography, whose family is not a secret to the general public, has an only son, Igor. He was born in 1973, graduated from the Law Academy and in 2000 took the post of chairman of the LDPR faction in the State Duma of the third convocation. Before this, Igor Vladimirovich worked at the Ministry of Labor and Social Development of the Russian Federation. There he held the post of adviser to the minister. This is official biography Zhirinovsky. The personal life of a politician occupies the public less than his political activity. However, everyone was pleased to learn that in 1998 he became a grandfather. His son Igor gave birth to twins: Alexander and Sergei. Now the boys are receiving education at a boarding house at Moscow State University.

Zhirinovsky today

Since 2012, Vladimir Volfovich has been a member State Council RF. And at the end of 2011, Zhirinovsky became a candidate for President of the Russian Federation in the 2012 elections. Preliminary polls showed that 7-9 percent of voters were ready to vote for the politician. Thus, his candidacy was in second place. Only Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin received more votes. However, in the elections themselves, 6.22 percent of voters voted for Zhirinovsky. Vladimir Volfovich was beaten by three candidates - Mikhail Prokhorov, Gennady Zyuganov and Vladimir Putin. These are the achievements that decorate Zhirinovsky’s biography. The politician’s personal life is much less eventful. It is known that in 2013 the politician became a vegetarian. Now he's a devotee healthy image life. According to Vladimir Volfovich, soon all members of the LDPR party will gradually become vegetarians.

Now you know about the life and career of one of the most famous people country - Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky.

Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is a famous political figure, founder and leader of the LDPR. This is an odious, bright and rather scandalous figure. Motherland Russian politician- Alma-Ata, parents - Makarova Alexandra Petrovna and Eidelstein Wolf Isaakovich. The deputy’s father worked as an agronomist and lawyer, his mother worked in the canteen of a veterinary institute.

Student years

Very little is known about V.V. Zhirinovsky’s childhood. A reliable fact is that he was born on April 25, 1946, according to eastern horoscope- Dog, zodiac sign - Taurus. Mother is Russian, biological father is Jewish. Thus, it is impossible to say for sure who Zhirinovsky is by nationality. He himself knows about his father only from the words of his mother. Besides him, there were five more children in the family. In Almaty, the future politician graduated from school No. 25. Then he went to Moscow and entered the university, which is now called the Institute of Asian and African Countries. At that time it was the Institute of Oriental Languages.

Vladimir became interested in politics in his youth. In 1967, he began to analyze the situation in different areas. The first significant action was the letter he sent to Secretary General Central Committee of the CPSU Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. The message contained recommendations for improving the situation in the following areas:

• industry;
• education;
• Agriculture.

The student's advice was constructive, and if the management took them into account, the situation in the country could really improve. In particular, for the development of agriculture, the young specialist proposed the following: do not call up graduates from rural areas into the army, and admit them to universities on a non-competitive basis.

Having received a profession, young specialists could return to the village and develop the agro-industrial complex. It is obvious that it is possible to increase plant yields and animal productivity only through the use of progressive methods. But the highest echelons of power thought differently. A little over a month later, the active student was invited to a conversation at the university department of the Moscow State Committee of the CPSU, where they explained that the measures he proposed were not needed, since they were impractical and meaningless.

Beginning of work

Zhirinovsky completed his pre-graduation practice in Iskenderun, where he was sent as a translator. There, the future politician began handing out badges with views of Moscow, but the Turkish authorities considered them propaganda. As a result of the future, the politician was arrested and expelled from the country. Some sources report that the real reason was to declassify Zhirinovsky as a KGB agent.

Subsequently, a short stay under arrest prevented Vladimir Volfovich from becoming a party member. He was also deprived of the opportunity to travel outside the country and was unable to enroll in graduate school. When the future politician graduated from college, he was sent to Tbilisi. There he served as an officer in the political department of the headquarters. This stage lasted from 1970 to 1972. Subsequently, Zhirinovsky changed several more jobs. Organizations and institutions where he worked:

• Peace Defense Scoop;
• Higher School of Trade Union Movement;
• Inurkollegiya is a special division of the Ministry of Justice of the Soviet Union;
• publishing house "Mir".

At his last place of work, V.V. Zhirinovsky headed the legal department. At the age of 43, he took part in the election of director, but voters did not approve of his candidacy. Out of 600 people, only 30 voted for the future leader of the LDPR.

Political career

Since 1988, Vladimir began to take part in the activities of public organizations. This period was marked by a transition to openness and pluralism of opinions. The authorities proclaimed political freedom, which the future leader of the LDPR took advantage of. In the spring of 1988, a series of seminars were held at the Peace Committee, where Zhirinovsky tried himself as a speaker. He managed to win the sympathy of his listeners.

At this time, the young leader was inspired by the idea of ​​​​creating his own party. He actively expressed his thoughts at all meetings of public organizations where he participated. After some time, the young politician was invited to the Democratic Union party. This happened at the Founding Congress of the organization, where Vladimir Volfovich showed himself in an unexpected way. At the final meeting, he made a speech and proposed removing negative statements about the CPSU from the Party Declaration. The text of the document stated that the path along which the Communist Party led the people was criminal.

The next step of V.V. Zhirinovsky was to write the program of the Social Democratic Party, which he was just planning to create. The entire text fit on one page, after which Vladimir Volfovich began distributing the project among various public associations.

At the end of 1988, Zhirinovsky began to participate in the activities of an organization that defended the rights of Jews. The Sholom Society elected him a member of the board. Together with Zhirinovsky, two other famous people sat on the board: Yu. Kosharovsky and L. Shapiro.

Sections supervised by Vladimir Volfovich:

• foreign economic relations;
• philosophical and religious;
• historical;
• humanitarian-legal.

Soon the Sholom society collapsed, and then Zhirinovsky created and led the LDP - the Liberal Democratic Party. The program was based on a previously created project of the Social Democratic Party. Vladimir Volfovich registered his party in 1991. When it broke up Soviet Union, an indication of the country has been added to the name. This is how the Liberal Democratic Party turned into the Liberal Democratic Party. From the very beginning of its existence, the party often found itself in the news, mainly due to the eccentric actions and statements of its leader.

Activities within the LDPR

During the collapse of the USSR, V.V. Zhirinovsky opposed the Belovezhskaya Agreements of Shushkevich, Kravchuk and Yeltsin. In 1991, he became a supporter of the State Emergency Committee, and at presidential elections took third place - an unprecedented success for a little-known political figure. About 8% of voters voted for the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, with only Yevgeny Ryzhkov and Boris Yeltsin ahead of him.

The popularity of the LDPR leader was explained by the fact that he made extravagant promises. Most of them were obviously impossible, but the people did not understand this. Thus, Zhirinovsky claimed that as soon as he became president, he would reduce the price of alcohol. In addition, he called for the “dispersal” of the cabinet of ministers, where “anti-state” figures had gathered, and the appointment of new figures. In particular, S. Zharikov was to become the Minister of Culture, and the politician proposed appointing Eduard Limonov to be responsible for the security sector.

In 1993, a conflict arose between the Supreme Council and B.N. Yeltsin. Zhirinovsky chose to side with the president - at that time such a position was more advantageous. He supported a number of decrees that expanded Yeltsin's powers.

Zhirinovsky explains the ambiguous fact from his biography by saying that at that time the president was the lesser of two evils. His position is set out in detail in his autobiographical books.

In the parliamentary elections held in 1993, the LDPR was ahead of other parties in terms of the number of votes, and 2 years later Vladimir Volfovich was elected to State Duma second convocation. The LDPR became the second largest party, second only to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Over the next 20 s extra years the number of LDPR representatives in the Duma has decreased significantly, but the party is still present in power structures.

Vladimir Volfovich published a lot scientific works and defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “The Past, Present and Future of the Russian Nation.” In 2001, he was awarded the title of Honored Lawyer, and in 2006, Zhirinovsky received the award “For Services to the Fatherland.” This is the political portrait of a scandalous person.

Books by Zhirinovsky

The complete collected works of the scandalous politician total 55 volumes. He wrote several dozen books and hundreds of articles. List of the most significant works:

• “Geopolitics and the Russian Question”;
• "Russia and the Islamic World";
• "The Last Throw to the South";
• "The final blow to Russia";
• “Thoughts and aphorisms: 20 years of the LDPR”;
• “Ivan, smell your soul”;
• "Political Classics";
• “Sociology of world politics”;
• "Saving Russia."

In his works, Vladimir Zhirinovsky touches on the main problems that the Russian people have to face, analyzes their causes and consequences, and looks for ways to improve the situation. Russian statehood he sees it as a target for the capitalism that dominates the United States.

Many brochures raise the issue of relations with the West. Zhirinovsky views the situation from the point of view that integration into the Western economic model will be disastrous for Russia. In his opinion, this threatens the self-destruction of the country.

The politician believes that Russian Federation must develop in a special way, and not copy Western trends and Eastern traditions. Only in this case will the state turn into a powerful and prosperous power. The works of the LDPR leader are so multifaceted that it is impossible to describe them briefly - you need to carefully read each book.

Wife and kids

The wife of Vladimir Zhirinovsky is Lebedeva Galina Aleksandrovna. Her date of birth is April 22, 1949. Galina Aleksandrovna graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University, now she is a candidate of biological sciences. While relaxing at a youth student camp in Pitsunda, she met her future husband. This happened in 1967. After 4 years, the young people got married, and a few months later their son was born.

In 1978, the couple officially divorced, but continued to live together, and in 1996 they got married. Orthodox custom. As it turned out later, the divorce was needed so that the politician could transfer his fortune to his wife’s property. Thus he was left with nothing. There was a lot of talk about this, and some deputies argued that Zhirinovsky was breaking the law. But in practice, a fictitious divorce is very difficult to prove, and to all questions the politician answered that he and Galina Alexandrovna had a church marriage, which had no legal force.