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Boris Gryzlov is a domestic politician, he was once the speaker of the State Duma, then went underground, and is now again gaining weight in the apparatus (mainly in the Ukrainian direction, where he acted as one of the negotiators).

The heyday of Gryzlov's political career came in the early 2000s, when he stood at the helm of the United Russia party and also served as chairman of the State Duma. However, immediately after leaving the Duma, Gryzlov, without scandals or loud statements, almost completely disappeared from the information field.

Family of Boris Gryzlov

Gryzlov was born into the family of a military pilot, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, and teachers.

Boris Gryzlov's wife- Ada Viktorovna Korner, daughter of Hero Soviet Union(Decree of September 14, 1945) Rear Admiral V.D. Korner, participant in the war with Japan (1945). Graduated from LEIS. Vice-Rector of the "Institute for Accelerated Training of Executives" in St. Petersburg. Rector of the National Open Institute of Russia. Collaborates with former TV presenter Alexander Nevzorov within the framework of commercial and non-profit projects related to equestrian sports.

Son - Dmitry, born in 1979, graduate of the Northwestern Academy civil service with a degree in law, he hosts the “Territory of Freedom” program on the city cable TV channel. In March 2009 he ran for the Georgievsky council municipal district St. Petersburg, however, lost the elections, publicly accusing the leaders of the St. Petersburg " United Russia".

Daughter - Evgenia, born in 1980.

Biography of Boris Gryzlov

In 1954, Gryzlov moved with his parents to Leningrad to his father’s new place of service.

Studied for eight years at high school No. 327. In high school, Gryzlov studied at Leningrad Polytechnic School No. 211, from which he graduated with a gold medal. His classmate was the future director of the FSB, Nikolai Patrushev.

In 1973 he graduated from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications named after Professor M.A. Bonch-Bruevich. Radio engineer, specialist in space communications.

He worked as an engineer at the Comintern Research and Production Association (VNII of High-Power Radio Engineering).

From 1977 to 1996, he worked his way up from a leading designer to the director of a large division of the Elektronpribor production association, where he developed integrated circuits for the latest devices for the needs of defense and the national economy.

In 1985, he became the dismissed chairman of the trade union committee of the Elektronpribor PA.

Until August 1991 - member of the CPSU.

In the 1990s, Gryzlov, while still working at the Elektronpribor PA, was simultaneously engaged in entrepreneurial activity, becoming a co-founder of several companies (Borg, BG (both named after Gryzlov), PetroZIL and others), but did not achieve success in business.

From 1996 to 1999 he worked in the field higher education. Since 1996 - director of the educational and methodological center for new technologies of the Baltic State technical university named after D.F. Ustinova, since 1999 - President of the Interregional Business Cooperation Fund "Development of Regions" (St. Petersburg).

In May 2001, Gryzlov defended his dissertation on the topic " Political parties and Russian transformations. Theory and Political Practice" (Faculty of Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University), receiving a candidate's degree political sciences.

Gryzlov has a number of awards. Honorary Doctor of the Russian-Tajik (Slavic) University.

The political path of Boris Gryzlov

In 1998, Gryzlov ran for the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg in the 43rd district, but did not pass, gaining 3.67%.

In October 1999, he headed the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Unity movement. Almost at the same time, he headed the Interregional Business Cooperation Fund "Regional Development".

From December 1999 to March 28, 2001 - deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the third convocation.

From March 28, 2001 to December 28, 2003 - Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Gryzlov is the only Russian Minister of Internal Affairs who does not have general's shoulder straps.

Two months after his appointment as Minister of Internal Affairs, Gryzlov began structural reform in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Seven main departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were created in federal districts with the stated goal: to organize a unified vertical law enforcement system that connects the federal center and the regions.

In July 2001, amendments to the law “On the Police” changed the procedure for appointing heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the regions. IN new edition the mandatory coordination of their candidacies with the administrations of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation was excluded; it was replaced by taking into account the opinions of the regions.

In May 2002, Gryzlov prohibited assessing the work of the traffic police by the number of violations of rules detected traffic. Gryzlov also introduced standards for the time of arrival of traffic police squads at the scene of traffic accidents.

On August 12, 2002, on the initiative of Boris Gryzlov, the St. Petersburg Suvorov School was created for the children of internal affairs officers and military personnel of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia who died during counter-terrorism operations in the North Caucasus region military school Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On September 10, 2002, Gryzlov issued order No. 870, according to which the protesters Russian citizens You can use force - up to and including execution. The document also repeatedly mentions so-called filtration points - temporary unofficial places of detention for detainees. The existence of such points in the Ministry of Internal Affairs was long denied. Meanwhile, lawyers and journalists talk about repeatedly recorded cases of beatings and torture of detainees at filtration points.

On November 20, 2002, the Supreme Council of United Russia elected him to the post of Chairman of the Supreme Council of the party.

On June 23, 2003, he announced the start of an unprecedented action to neutralize those identified by employees of the Service. own safety Ministry of Internal Affairs, FSB and the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation of bribe takers from among the operational and senior employees of the criminal investigation department of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate. On the very first day, 7 high-ranking police officials were detained, accused of planting drugs or weapons on businessmen, filing cases against them, and then demanding money to stop them.

In June 2003, the Council of Europe's Committee against Torture published its report on Russia, describing the torture used by the police ("boxing blows, slaps, kicks, rubber truncheons, baseball bats or other hard objects, even the use of stun guns").

On July 15, 2003, Gryzlov assured that the fight against unscrupulous police officers would continue. “Unfortunately, there are employees who do not fulfill their oath and disgrace our ranks... There are only a few such employees, and we will wage a merciless fight against them,” Gryzlov said.

On September 1, 2003, in accordance with the presidential decree, the leadership of the Operational Headquarters for managing the counter-terrorism operation in Chechnya passed from the FSB (that is, Nikolai Patrushev) to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (that is, to Gryzlov).

On September 17, 2003, near the headquarters of the United Russia party, the police dispersed a picket organized by the initiative group “No to Gryzlov!” Participants accused him of being involved in politics at the expense of his duties as Minister of the Interior.

On September 20, 2003, speaking at the third congress of the United Russia party, Gryzlov said: “We must move forward. Russia needs a professional and responsible government that the majority of citizens will trust. Our party must give Russia a professional and responsible deputy corps. Usually on the eve of elections "It is customary to make excessive and not entirely responsible promises. I believe that United Russia does not need to follow this tradition; we should not promise mountains of gold. We are not utopians. We are pragmatists."

On September 20, 2003, he headed the federal list of the United Russia party in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fourth convocation.

On October 8, 2003, at the proposal of deputy Viktor Ilyukhin (Communist Party of the Russian Federation), the State Duma considered a draft appeal to the president with a proposal to dismiss Gryzlov from the post of Minister of Internal Affairs. Deputy Alexander Gurov (United Russia) spoke in his defense, claiming that under Gryzlov’s leadership “the number of contract killings has decreased significantly, and the detection rate of rape and theft has increased.” The resolution was not adopted: 100 deputies (mainly communists, agrarians and Yabloko members) voted “for”, with 226 required.

On December 7, 2003, he was elected to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

On December 24, 2003, Gryzlov submitted to Russian President Vladimir Putin a letter of resignation from the post of head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in connection with his election as a deputy of the State Duma of the fourth convocation. On the same day, he headed the Duma faction "United Russia".

On December 29, 2003, he was elected Chairman of the State Duma of the fourth convocation by a majority of votes - 352 votes. Gryzlov said that the United Russia faction intends to achieve the goals that President Vladimir Putin spoke about: doubling GDP, fighting poverty and modernizing the Armed Forces. Gryzlov also said that among the faction’s priority goals is “achieving progress in the field of education, healthcare, providing Russians with housing, increasing wages, pensions, and social benefits.”

On January 21, 2005, the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Vladimir Ustinov made a large report at the Prosecutor General's Office, which contained criticism of the activities of the police during the Gryzlov ministry. “In the ranks of law enforcement officers there are many who either walk on the brink of crime or have long since transgressed it. During 2001-2004, the crime rate among police officers increased significantly,” the report said.

October 17, 2007 at " Rossiyskaya newspaper“An article by Gryzlov was published in which he wrote about the elections to the State Duma: “This is, in fact, a national referendum in support of Vladimir Putin. And United Russia must mobilize to present to the public the program of our main candidate. It is on December 2, 2007 that the issue of the country's leader will be decided. Vladimir Putin is, should be, and will be such a leader."

On December 2, 2007, United Russia, with Vladimir Putin at the head of its electoral list, again won the parliamentary elections by a large margin.

On April 14, 2008, speaking at the Strategy 2020 forum, which preceded the IX Congress of United Russia, Gryzlov said that from 1995 to 2007, the number of officials in the Russian Federation increased from 1 million to 1.5 million people. He called such growth dynamics and called on the state not to solve employment problems in the country by creating unnecessary places government officials, since this will only result in the creation of additional conditions for corruption.

On April 15, 2008, Putin agreed to become chairman of United Russia. On the same day, Gryzlov was re-elected to the post of chairman of the party's Supreme Council.

On December 14, 2011, after the elections to the State Duma of the sixth convocation, Gryzlov resigned as speaker and revoked his deputy mandate, explaining that it was wrong to lead the State Duma for more than two terms in a row.

On December 24, 2011, by decree of the President, Gryzlov was retained as a permanent member of the Security Council. Since then, the media, citing sources in the Kremlin and experts, have assigned him various positions: governor of the Leningrad or Moscow regions, presidential envoy to the Central Federal District, head of the Ministry of Justice, general director of the state corporation for the development of the Far East, president of the RFU. However, none of the predictions came true.

On January 24, 2012, Gryzlov visited the Church of the Theodore Icon Mother of God in St. Petersburg and held a meeting as chairman of the temple’s board of trustees.

On March 30, 2012, the ex-speaker took part in a meeting of the leadership of United Russia with President Dmitry Medvedev.

On April 24, 2012, he was present and spoke at the Reception House at a meeting with Vladimir Putin, when the prime minister announced his intention to resign as chairman of United Russia.

On April 25, 2012, at a meeting between United Russia activists and Dmitry Medvedev, Gryzlov stated that the upcoming congress would unanimously support Mr. Medvedev’s candidacy for the post of party chairman. At the same time, Boris Gryzlov was absent from the congress “for family reasons.”

On August 6, 2012, the former speaker took part in a meeting of the board of trustees of the Russian Geographical Society, which was chaired by Vladimir Putin.

On October 18, 2012, he attended a meeting between the president and activists of the All-Russian Popular Front.

On October 30, Gryzlov chaired a meeting of the bureau of the Supreme Council of United Russia, after which he informed reporters that the regional elections were recognized as successful.

On November 10, 2012, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed member and chairman of the Supervisory Board of the state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom.

In July 2015, he was mentioned in the media as one of the participants in the Security Council meeting led by President Putin on the situation in Donbass and the fight against ISIS.

Boris Gryzlov's officially declared income for 2009 amounted to 16 million rubles.

Scandals (rumors)

In the fall of 2002, information appeared in the media that after the tragedy in Nord-Ost, the resignations of the heads of the security forces, including Boris Gryzlov, could follow (the security forces carried out an unsuccessful operation to free the hostages, as a result of which 129 people died). There were words in the press about Gryzlov’s responsibility for the penetration of a detachment of terrorists into the capital, but there was no reaction to these publications - the State Duma refused to create a commission to investigate the circumstances of the terrorist attack and the deaths of people.

In 2002, Gryzlov’s name was mentioned in connection with one unpleasant episode. His wife's BMW 745 worth $100,000 was stolen. The owner of an expensive foreign car and a famous husband, Ada Gryzlova is a businesswoman herself, works as vice-rector of the St. Petersburg Institute for Advanced Management. About it educational institution There are persistent rumors that the university was founded by Gryzlov himself and that many people from the ruling and business elite went through paid training there. They said that the theft of his wife's car was organized by police officers to draw attention to the business of their unloved patron. Then Boris Gryzlov, without working a day in the authorities, was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs. As Vladimir Putin explained, this was a “political appointment.” According to another version, the high-profile hijacking was revenge for a purge in the police ranks. Operation “Werewolves in Uniforms” began just with Gryzlov’s arrival as Minister of Internal Affairs.

Gryzlov simultaneously combined the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and leader of the United Russia party, which caused displeasure among a number of representatives of the legislative branch. In July 2003, a group of State Duma deputies appealed to the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation, Yuri Chaika, with a request to issue a warning to the United Russia party due to the fact that its leader illegally combines public service with party activities, but Chaika did not see any violations in this.

In 2007, Gryzlov initiated the exclusion of the governor of the Stavropol Territory, Alexander Chernogorov, from the United Russia party lists. The reason was the loss of United Russia in the elections to the Russian Parliament, held in March 2007. They said that United Russia lost to A Just Russia because shortly before the elections they included Chernogorov, who later turned out to have no authority among the residents of the Stavropol region, on the party lists - the leadership of United Russia, in particular Gryzlov, insisted on this, hoping so way to attract votes. But A Just Russia, according to one of the points in the election program, was going to pass a vote of no confidence in the governor - this clever PR move allowed Sergei Mironov’s party to win.

In 2008, Boris Gryzlov found himself at the center of a scandal with State Duma deputy Valery Draganov, his closest ally. The latter was accused of abuse of power, embezzlement and negligence. In 1998-1999, Draganov, on behalf of the State Customs Committee (SCC), decided to transfer the accounts of territorial customs authorities from Most Bank to JSCB Rosbank, which was not a government-authorized bank for placing budget funds.

Subsequently, Draganov and the owner of the Most group, Vladimir Gusinsky, signed an agreement according to which the customs received shares of the Media-Most holding as collateral as a guarantee of repayment of Most Bank's debts to the territorial departments of the State Customs Committee. However, the stake was subsequently washed away, and customs money disappeared from the Most Bank accounts.

The head of the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office, Alexander Bastrykin, having received the Supreme Court's decision on Draganov's guilt, will appeal to the State Duma to remove the latter's parliamentary immunity. But Boris Gryzlov came out in support of his colleague and said that Draganov made the right decision in 1998, thus refusing to remove Draganov’s parliamentary powers.

In November 2009, the chairman of the commission of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences for the fight against pseudoscience and falsification of scientific research, Eduard Kruglyakov, in the newspaper "Science of Siberia" spoke out against the program lobbied by Gryzlov " Pure water" and called the activities of Viktor Petrik, whose inventions Gryzlov actively supported, "a mixture of unfounded delusions of grandeur with depressing ignorance."

On January 28, 2010, Gryzlov declared the Academy of Sciences an obstacle to innovation: “Unfortunately, many initiatives encounter obstacles in their path in the form of the Academy of Sciences and bureaucracy. I know that the Academy of Sciences even has a department for pseudoscience. This fact really surprises me: "How can they take responsibility and say what is pseudoscience and what is not? This is some kind of obscurantism." However, in the end, Petrik’s filters had to be abandoned.

On April 2, 2010, at a meeting with Medvedev, Gryzlov expressed suspicion that the newspapers Vedomosti and Moskovsky Komsomolets, which published the articles “Revenge for the Caucasus” and “Rise from the Toilet,” are connected with terrorists (“If we analyze these three sources , then we will see that they were actually stewed in the same juice. It raises suspicions that these publications and the actions of terrorists are connected."

On April 3, 2010, Alexander Minkin (author of “Rise from the Toilet”) stated that Gryzlov’s statements about him “are very similar to a criminal offense called “slander”: “Either he apologizes - I give him one week to do this. If not, I will sue."

Vedomosti editor-in-chief Tatyana Lysova said she stands in solidarity with MK editor Pavel Gusev, who in an interview with Slon.ru described Gryzlov as “a disgrace for democratic Russia.” “The only connection between the article in the Vedomosti newspaper and Doku Umarov’s statement is the very fact of the terrorist attack in the Moscow metro. It’s a pity that Boris Gryzlov’s analytical abilities were not enough to understand such simple things, but he obviously has a rich imagination,” Lysova summed up.

In May 2010, the press was told that Boris Gryzlov might lose his post as head of the Supreme Council of United Russia - the Russian government was dissatisfied with Gryzlov. The conflict with the newspapers Vedomosti and Moskovsky Komsomolets was difficult for the Kremlin administration to resolve.

They wrote that the Kremlin was already fed up with Gryzlov’s heavy political style and his conservatism. One of the last to openly criticize Boris Gryzlov was the head of the Effective Policy Foundation, Gleb Pavlovsky, who is close to the Kremlin. He said that party leaders like Gryzlov were “eating away the image of Putin and Medvedev” and advised Gryzlov to resign so as not to further discredit United Russia. The Deputy Director General of the Institute openly spoke about Gryzlov’s inadequacy modern development(INSOR) Evgeny Gontmakher. He accused the head of the council of raising all opponents of United Russia to the rank of enemies of the people.

Another of the latest conflicts related to Gryzlov flared up on the eve of May 9, 2011: Gryzlov spoke out against Yuri Luzhkov’s idea to place posters depicting Stalin in the capital, insulting the Moscow mayor in his statements. As a result, the press service of the mayor’s office made a speech on the pages of the media, in which Gryzlov was reminded of his own statements made in 2004, when Boris Gryzlov called Stalin outstanding statesman, which Russia really lacks.

Boris Gryzlov had a daughter, Evgenia. Nothing is known about her fate. Only once, in the early 2000s, a little-known publication wrote that Boris Gryzlov’s daughter Evgenia died back in 1998 at the age of 18 from a drug overdose.

There are quite a lot of people worthy of attention in the Russian political environment. At the same time, there are such persons whose biography should be studied Special attention because of their great authority, experience and achievements. In particular, one of these figures is Boris Gryzlov, one of the “elders” of the Russian political elite.

Facts from life

The future high-ranking official was born on December 15, 1950 in Vladivostok. His father was a military pilot during World War II, after which he became an employee of the Ministry of Defense. Mother worked as a teacher.

At the age of four, Boris Gryzlov moved with his parents to Leningrad, as his father was transferred to a new duty station. For eight years, young Boris studied at secondary school secondary school 327, but in the end he graduated from school 211, and with a gold medal. It is noteworthy that one of his classmates was the current director of the FSB

Students

Boris Vyacheslavovich is a graduate of the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute named after. A. Bonch-Burevich. Received the specialty "radio engineer". An indicator of his perseverance and serious approach to his work can be the fact that in Gryzlov’s diploma, out of 34 grades, 20 were “A’s”. During his studies, he also actively worked in the Komsomol committee and was a commissioner of a construction detachment.

Young specialist

After graduating from university, Boris Gryzlov receives a job assignment at an institute engaged in research activities named after. Comintern. There he was engaged in the creation of communication systems. Since 1979, he has been working at the Elektronpribor production association, where he was able to pass the career ladder from designer to head of structural unit. Specialized in the development of special schemes implemented in defense industry. Until 1991 he was a member of the CPSU.

Active activities

During the 1990s, Boris Vyacheslavovich, while working at Elektronpribor, was simultaneously engaged in business. He co-founded such companies as PetroZIL, Borg and others. From 1996 to 1999, Gryzlov was an employee in the field of higher education. It was at his request that the Institute for Accelerated Training of Managers was created, as well as the Central Institute for Municipal Workers.

First steps in politics

Boris Gryzlov, whose biography is a worthy example to follow, first tried his hand at politics in 1998, when he nominated himself for the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. However, he did not achieve success. That same year, he became the chief of staff of Zubkov, a candidate for governor, who ultimately lost the election. After some time, Gryzlov headed the Interregional Business Cooperation Fund called “Regional Development”.

Work in the State Duma

December 1999. Boris Vyacheslavovich becomes a deputy of the third convocation, having passed through the lists of the interregional movement “Unity”. A month later he becomes the head of the Unity faction in the State Duma. Beginning in May 2000, he became the Duma's representative for relations with the G7 states.

As a deputy, in 2001 Gryzlov defended candidate's thesis. Its topic: “Political parties and Russian transformations. Theory and political practice".

Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

Let us immediately note that Boris Gryzlov is so far the only head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the history of modern Russia who did not have the shoulder straps of a general.

He received his appointment as minister on March 28, 2001. A month later he was also included in the list of members of the country's Security Council. While working in the department, Gryzlov became famous for fighting “werewolves in uniform.”

Gryzlov, as a minister, carried out a reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He created 7 departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the districts of the federation. In addition, Boris Gryzlov, whose position allowed him to make adjustments to the structures he managed, changed the work of the traffic police, prohibiting the assessment of the work of the structure only on detected offenses, and introduced time limits for the arrival of squads at the scene of a traffic accident.

Re-election to the State Duma

On December 24, 2003, Gryzlov once again became a people's deputy, while writing a letter of resignation from the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On the same day, he became chairman of the United Russia faction.

In 2007, already in the Duma of the fifth convocation, a native of Vladivostok became chairman of the country's main legislative body.

Working outside parliament

In 2011, Gryzlov was included in the list of the Russian Security Council as a permanent member. Since December 26, 2015, he has been the representative of Russia in the trilateral group on the issue of resolving the armed confrontation in Ukraine.

Family

In numerous photos of Boris Gryzlov available in the media mass media, you can see his wife Ada Viktorovna Korner (daughter of Hero of the Soviet Union V.D. Korner, a participant in the hostilities with Japan in 1945) and son Dmitry, who is on this moment is the host of the “Territory of Freedom” program on one of the cable TV channels.

He studied at secondary school No. 327 for eight years. In high school, B. Gryzlov studied at Leningrad Polytechnic School No. 211, from which he graduated with a triple certificate. His classmate was the future director of the FSB, Nikolai Patrushev.

In 1973, he graduated from LEIS with a degree in radio engineering. Theme of the diploma: “Ground transmitter of the satellite communication line (artificial Earth satellite).” Of the 34 grades in the diploma insert from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute, there were 20 A's. He was an active member of the Komsomol committee and commissar of a construction brigade.

During his student years, Boris Gryzlov starred in the Soviet film “Sannikov Land”. In the film, he played in one of the episodes - he was sitting at a table in a cafe where the main characters were meeting.

By distribution he ended up in the All-Union Research Institute of Powerful Radio Engineering named after. Comintern, where he developed space communication systems. In 1977, he joined the Leningrad production association Elektronpribor, where he worked his way up from a leading designer to the director of a large division, where he developed integrated circuits for the latest devices for the needs of defense and the national economy. In 1985, he became the dismissed chairman of the trade union committee of the Elektronpribor PA.

In the 1990s, Gryzlov, still working at Elektronpribor PA, was simultaneously engaged in entrepreneurial activities, becoming a co-founder of several companies (Borg, BG (both named after Gryzlov), PetroZIL, etc.). From 1996 to 1999 he worked in the field of higher education. In particular, on his initiative, the “Institute for Accelerated Training of Managers” and the “Central Institute of Municipal Workers” were created. At the same time, he headed the educational and methodological center for new teaching technologies.

In May 2001, Gryzlov defended his dissertation on the topic “Political parties and Russian transformations. Theory and Political Practice" (Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University), receiving a PhD in Political Science.

Boris Gryzlov is the only Russian Minister of Internal Affairs who does not have general's shoulder straps.

Gryzlov, as head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, made changes to the work. So, in addition to existing name the previous name was returned - GAI (state traffic police). In May 2002, Gryzlov forbade assessing the work of the traffic police by the number of detected violations of traffic rules. Gryzlov also introduced standards for the time of arrival of traffic police squads at the scene of a traffic accident.

On November 20, 2002, the Supreme Council of United Russia elected him to the post of Chairman of the Supreme Council of the party.

On December 29, 2003, he was elected Chairman of the State Duma of the fourth convocation by a majority of votes - 352 votes, no other candidates were put to the vote.

Gryzlov said that the United Russia faction intends to achieve the goals that President Vladimir Putin spoke about: doubling GDP, fighting poverty and modernizing the armed forces. Gryzlov also said that among the faction’s priority goals is “achieving progress in the field of education, healthcare, providing Russians with housing, increasing wages, pensions, and social benefits.”

Since United Russia received the majority of parliamentary seats in the State Duma, it was able to carry out the government's legislative initiatives, overcoming the resistance of the opposition. The head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov said on this occasion that the State Duma “is turning into a stamping shop, where laws prepared by someone and not even in our country are automatically stamped, eliminating both social guarantees and the country as a whole.”

As a result of his election as Chairman of the State Duma, Boris Gryzlov acquired the status of a permanent member of the Russian Security Council.

On December 2, 2007, United Russia, with Vladimir Putin at the head of its electoral list, again won the parliamentary elections by a large margin. On December 24, Gryzlov was re-elected Chairman of the State Duma.

In May 2008, after the inauguration of the new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Gryzlov resigned as leader of the United Russia party. The party was led by Vladimir Putin, and Gryzlov remained as chairman of the Supreme Council of United Russia.

On December 24, 2011, by decree of the President of Russia, he was retained as a permanent member of the Security Council. On May 25, 2012, he was again confirmed as a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

On November 10, 2012, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed member and chairman of the Supervisory Board of the state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom.

Since December 26, 2015, he has been the plenipotentiary representative of Russia in the trilateral Contact Group to resolve the situation in eastern Ukraine.

On April 12, 2016, by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he was expelled from the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

In December 2016, he was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation.

Boris Vyacheslavovich is a member of the Public Trustee Council of the Kronstadt Naval Cathedral in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Heads the board of trustees of the Cathedral of the Theodore Icon of the Mother of God in St. Petersburg.

Gryzlov is a co-author (together with V.I. Petrik, academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences) of the invention (patent RU 2345430 C1, application filed on September 10, 2007) “a method for purifying liquid radioactive waste” using nanotechnology. According to Academician Kruglyakov, Chairman, “in the history of the State Duma since Tsarist times, this is the first time when the Chairman of Parliament, burdened with many important government responsibilities, found the time to issue a complex technological patent.” According to Petrik, the installation using the invented technology converted radioactive water into drinking water, however, according to the investigation of Academician Kruglyakov, tests showed that the installation did not provide the declared purification indicators: even with the reduced productivity of the installation, the permissible specific activity of strontium-90 in the water at the outlet of the installation was exceeded 4-8 times. According to Gryzlov at a meeting with journalists held at the Radium Institute on November 9, 2007, the Petrik installation purifies radioactive water with an activity of 2.5-3 thousand becquerels/liter to a level of 1 becquerel/liter, however, according to the investigation of Academician Kruglyakov, nothing similar in there was no testing time. In an interview with Gazeta.ru on March 19, 2010, Gryzlov, however, stated:

I've been studying since school scientific work, I am a research engineer by nature, I worked on quite serious technologies. And I have a number of achievements that have been introduced into industry. Now, as much as time allows, I work on environmental issues. One of the studies made it possible to obtain a patent for a method of cleaning up radioactive waste. This method has been tested at the Techensky Cascades, where waste radioactive waters are located. I can say that the purification coefficient exceeds one hundred, and we can be proud of it.

In October 2010, a journalist from the newspaper “Soviet Russia” (close to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation) in an interview with the deputy director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics Eduard Kruglyakov said: “At the same time, Gryzlov canceled his co-authorship of Petrik’s patent, doesn’t he want to be a patented friend?” - Kruglyakov replied that Gryzlov was “trying to disassociate himself from Petrik.” Kruglyakov emphasized that “there is nothing behind this patent,” “Petrik does not have any technology for cleaning up radioactivity,” negatively assessing Gryzlov’s patronage of Petrik. He also said that water passed through Petrik filters is dangerous.

Gryzlov and the author of controversial studies, Viktor Petrik, are connected not only by co-authorship of a patent on a method for purifying liquid radioactive waste.

On January 20, 2009, at the International Conference “Clean Water,” Gryzlov announced that the water purification system invented by Petrik, winner of the United Russia party competition for best systems water purification 2008, “allows you to obtain water of the highest quality, which is unattainable in other systems.” According to the investigation by Academician Kruglyakov, the largest manufacturers of water purification filters were not notified of the competition and, accordingly, did not participate in it. A comparison of the performance of Petrik filters with filters from three other manufacturers showed that for most of the analyzed parameters, all four filters are almost identical. The only significant difference was in price: the cost of the Petrik filter turned out to be 2.5-3.5 times higher than the others.

There, Petrik thanked Gryzlov and Kiriyenko for their personal participation in his development of purification of liquid radioactive waste. Thanks to this participation, Petrik was able to test developments at the Chelyabinsk burial ground. Petrik also said that thanks to United Russia in Sosnovy Bor The world's first plant for processing liquid radioactive waste is being built.

On April 3, 2009, at the “Innovation: Production of Useful Things” section of the “Strategy 2020. New Tactics” Forum, Petrik recalled Gryzlov’s statement made a year and a half ago that windows would soon appear in which glass would convert energy. According to Petrik, “such glasses have now been developed, and in the near future there is an opportunity to enter their industrial production.”

On April 8, 2009, the chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources and Ecology of the Arkhangelsk Regional Assembly of Deputies, the regional coordinator of the Clean Water project, Andrey Fateev, estimated the total cost of the regional Clean Water program for the installation of the company’s water treatment systems. Golden formula", led by Petrik, at 96 million rubles. In order to implement the program in the current economic conditions, Fateev intends to petition the federal curator of the program, Gryzlov, for support and allocation of funds from the federal budget.

On April 22, 2009, the first meeting of the board of trustees of the exhibition “Innovations and Technologies” was held at the Institute of General Economy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chaired by Gryzlov, where, after hearing Petrik’s report “On innovative discoveries in the field of fullerenes, modern technologies obtaining nanomaterials and alternative energy" it was stated in the minutes of the meeting signed by Gryzlov that "the effects discovered by V.I. Petrik are of significant scientific interest" and it was decided to "organize working groups at the relevant institutes for scientific support of the above-mentioned inventions and technologies."

On June 18, 2009, at the request of Gryzlov, the RAS delegation visited the laboratories of V. I. Petrik during the XXIV Chugaev Conference in St. Petersburg. Videos later published on Petrik’s website with academics praising him caused heated discussion on the Internet and sharp objections from a number of members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Club of Scientific Journalists. After a speech on behalf of the Department of Physical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences by Academician V. E. Zakharov at the general meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences on December 16, 2009, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yu. S. Osipov proposed to discuss this question in a group of RAS specialists under the leadership of Academician E. P. Kruglyakov, chairman.

On December 31, 2009, in an interview, Petrik stated: “Gryzlov is a brilliant scientist! Do you know how many nights he spent with me in these laboratories? Even when no one knew him, not yet a politician.”

Gryzlov’s critical statements in 2010 to the scientific coordination organization under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences became widely known in Russia.

January 28, 2010 on the first All-Russian Forum global development“5+5”, in which representatives of the personnel reserves of the President of the Russian Federation and United Russia took part, Gryzlov said that he was very surprised how the “department for pseudoscience” at the Russian Academy of Sciences could “take responsibility and say that it is pseudoscience, and what not.” Gryzlov called such activity obscurantism.

On January 29, 2010, the Chairman of the Commission for Combating Pseudoscience, Academician E.P. Kruglyakov, in an interview with RIA Novosti, commented on Gryzlov’s statements. Kruglyakov stated that the right to determine what is science and what is not belongs to the scientific community, in particular, the Academy of Sciences, and not to officials. He recalled that on April 22, 2009, Gryzlov signed the minutes of the meeting of the board of trustees of the Innovation and Technology forum, which stated that “the effects discovered by Petrik are of significant scientific interest.” “This decision was made by people who understand little about science. It is completely incomprehensible how, without scientific expertise, it was possible to accept the conclusion that Petrik’s technologies are of scientific interest?” Kruglyakov said. Kruglyakov also expressed the opinion that accusations of obscurantism against the Russian Academy of Sciences and, in particular, the RAS Commission for Combating Pseudoscience, which were heard in Gryzlov’s speech, were caused by scientists’ criticism of Petrik, who created a number of controversial developments and was a co-author of the speaker in the received patent for method of cleaning liquid radioactive waste. According to Kruglyakov, “claims that this technology makes it possible to purify radioactive water to the state of drinking water highest quality, are not true." Kruglyakov claimed that specialists from the Chelyabinsk Federal State Unitary Enterprise Mayak, who participated in the tests of this installation, came to the conclusion that its performance was far from the declared ones, which, in particular, was stated in the commission’s bulletin. “It’s all this that probably causes irritation,” said the scientist.

On March 19, 2010, the editorial office of Gazeta.ru held an online interview with Gryzlov. Gryzlov was the first to be asked “the most popular question among the audience, the most frequently asked” question. This question was devoted to Gryzlov’s accusations against the Commission for Combating Pseudoscience. Gryzlov agreed with the popularity of the question, saying that he had received 6,000 requests on this topic on his LiveJournal. Answering, Gryzlov recalled the persecution of scientists and inventors (in particular, Nikolai Vavilov). He stated that, in his opinion, “today there are those forces that do not want the Russian Federation to turn into a Power that has high tech, to a country that is implementing our president’s plan for modernization, and these forces are suppressing the development of new ideas.” In conclusion, Gryzlov said: “Therefore, some individual scientists do not have the right to claim the truth of the highest authority. I will implement this position."

On March 22, 2010, in an interview with Gazeta.ru, Kruglyakov commented on Gryzlov’s statement: “An ‘individual’ speaker also does not have the right to make fateful decisions. Everyone must do their job. The speaker's main job is to pass laws. I can give advice on laws, but I cannot impose them on anyone...” He emphasized that “it was not the USSR Academy of Sciences that persecuted Vavilov, and the decision about what was right and what was wrong was made in the bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in the presence of Comrade Stalin and on his initiative.” “So when the government peremptorily interferes in science, it is no good and simply dangerous,” Kruglyakov said. During the interview, he denied the accusations made by Gryzlov against the commission.

IN open letter dated March 13, 2010 by Academician V. E. Zakharov to State Duma deputy V. S. Seleznev, explaining the activities of the Commission for Combating Pseudoscience, it is stated:

Here we cannot fail to mention the scandalous collaboration between the adventurer V. I. Petrik and the Speaker of the State Duma B. V. Gryzlov. Since pseudoscience is easily vulnerable to scientific examination, pseudoscientists use all kinds of administrative levers to scientific criticism strangle, which in no way contributes to the development of democracy in the country. Moreover, fighting with the elemental common sense, they poison the atmosphere in society, already fairly poisoned by all kinds of psychics, telepaths and sorcerers. Before calling for consideration of the feasibility of the existence of a Commission on Pseudoscience under Russian Academy sciences, think about the fact that pseudoscience replaces rational activity with fiction, provokes corruption, slows down modernization and undermines the country's defense potential.

Some people assessed the cooperation between Gryzlov and Petrik negatively Russian politicians. Thus, representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, criticizing Gryzlov and Petrik, suggested that the Clean Water project would be used to steal budget funds:

I believe that this format of the Duma Council will involve constructive legislative activity. It seems to me that the State Duma is not a platform where political battles should be held, or some political slogans and ideologies should be defended; this is a platform where constructive, effective legislative activity should be carried out. You and I have the opportunity to discuss issues during parliamentary hearings. Of course, there will be communication between faction leaders. And I think that the Duma Council will work most constructively in this format.

By decision of Gryzlov in 2004, the Analytical Directorate was abolished in the structure of the State Duma (it has now been re-created).

Subsequently, journalists distorted this phrase of Gryzlov, both in meaning and content, turning it into “Parliament is not a place for discussion”, in this form it gained great fame; he died a natural death at the age of 70, and Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake for anti-church statements, was burned at the stake for anti-church statements. also preached the heliocentric system of Copernicus, and the phrase “And yet it rotates! "was attributed to Galileo Galilei many years after his death. IN official text The interview also included a regret about the name of the commission.

Gryzlov Boris Vyacheslavovich, born December 15, 1950, native of Vladivostok. Graduated from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications named after. M.A. Bonch-Bruevich. Has an academic degree of Candidate of Political Sciences. Plenipotentiary representative of Russia in the contact group on resolving the situation in the eastern part of Ukraine since December 26, 2015. Chairman of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party since 2002.

Biography

Gryzlov Boris Vyacheslavovich, born December 15, 1950 in Vladivostok. Four years after Boris was born, his family moved to Leningrad to his father’s new place of service. He studied at secondary school No. 327 for eight years. In high school, B. Gryzlov studied at Leningrad Polytechnic School No. 211, from which he graduated with a gold medal. His classmate was the future director of the FSB, Nikolai Patrushev.

Relatives. Wife: Gryzlova ( maiden name Corner) Ada Viktorovna, born on August 25, 1951, vice-rector of the “Institute for Accelerated Training of Executives” in St. Petersburg, rector of the National Open Institute of Russia, president of the national foundation for youth programs “Dar”. Together with former TV presenter Alexander Nevzorov, he develops projects related to equestrian sports. I met my future husband during my student years.

Son: Dmitry Borisovich Gryzlov, born June 20, 1979, owner of Fashion Radio, graduate of the Northwestern Academy of Public Service with a degree in law. For a long time Gryzlov tried to make his son the leader of the youth cells of the party in power. But due to Dmitry’s scandalous behavior, the idea had to be abandoned. In 2009, he ran for the council of the Georgievsky Municipal District of St. Petersburg, after his defeat he accused United Russia of falsification. For some time he worked as a co-host of the information and analytical program “News 24”, until management received an offer to leave the channel. In 2011, he announced that he would run for deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from United Russia, but refused to participate in the party’s primaries.

Awards. Gryzlov B.V. has the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II and III degrees, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, and the Order of Honor.

Hobbies. Gryzlov loves history, enjoys sports, and plays football. In 2008 For the European Football Championship, he wrote a march for the Russian national team called “Forward Russia!”

Education

After graduating from school, Gryzlov entered the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute named after Bonch-Bruevich. After defending his diploma in 1973. on the topic “Ground-based communication line transmitter via satellite (artificial earth satellite)” he received the specialty “radio engineer”.

Labor activity

• After graduating from university, he worked at the All-Union Research Institute of Powerful Radio Engineering named after. Comintern.

• In 1977, he moved to the Leningrad production association Elektronpribor, where he successively held positions from leading designer to director of a large division.

• In 1985, he became the released chairman of the trade union committee of the Elektronpribor PA.

• In the early 1990s he started doing business. In the mid-nineties, he also created the “Institute for Accelerated Training of Managers” and the “Central Institute of Municipal Workers.” At the same time, he headed the educational and methodological center for new teaching technologies at the Baltic State Technical University named after D.F. Ustinova.

• In 1998, he unsuccessfully ran for the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.

• In 1999, he led the headquarters of a candidate for governor Leningrad region V.A. Zubkova. In the same year he headed the St. Petersburg branch political movement"Unity". In the same year, he was elected to the State Duma, after which he became the leader of the Unity parliamentary faction.

• In 2001, he was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, after which he became a member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

• In 2002, the Supreme Council of United Russia elected him to the post of chairman.

• In 2003, he was again elected to the State Duma, and therefore resigned from his post as head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the fourth composition of the State Duma, he again headed the Duma faction, and also became chairman of the lower house of parliament.

• In the fifth composition formed in December 2007, he retained his deputy mandate and was also elected speaker of the State Duma.

• In 2011, after once again entering the Duma, he refused his mandate.

• On December 26, 2015, he was appointed plenipotentiary representative of Russia in the Contact Group on Ukraine.