Anatoly Sobchak


Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak was a Russian politician, a coauthor of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the first democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg, and a mentor and teacher of both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.

Anatoly Sobchak was born in Chita, Siberia, USSR, onAugust 1937. His father, Aleksander Antonovich, was a railroad engineer, and his mother, Nadezhda Andreyevna Litvinova, was an accountant. Anatoly was one of four brothers. In 1939, the family moved to Uzbekistan, where Anatoly lived until 1953 before entering Stavropol Law College. In 1954, he transferred to Leningrad State University. In 1958, he married Nonna Gandzyuk, a student of Hertzen Teachers College. They had a daughter called Maria Sobchak born in 1965, who is currently a St Petersburg lawyer while her son Gleb Sobchak born in 1983, graduated from the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University.

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