Sergey Mironov
Russian politician (born 1953)
Sergey Mikhailovich Mironov (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Миронов; born 14 February 1953) is a Russian politician. He served as Chairman of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, from 2001 to 2011. He leads the faction A Just Russia in the State Duma.
Life and career
In 1967 he joined the Komsomol.
In the 1970s, Mironov served in the airborne troops in the Soviet Army. In 1973 he was elected as deputy secretary committee of the Komsomol on ideological educational work at the Leningrad Mining Institute. After graduating from the Institute he worked as an engineer-geophysicist. After a brief time of working as an entrepreneur, he entered politics and, in 1994, was elected deputy of the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly. In June 2000, he was elected vice-chairman of the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly and, in 2001, entered the Federation Council of Russia as a representative of Saint Petersburg. In December 2001, Mironov was elected to be a Speaker of the Federation Council.
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