Gennadiy Seleznyov

Gennadiy Nikolayevich Seleznyov (Russian: Геннадий Николаевич Селезнёв; 6 November 1947 – 19 July 2015) was a Russian politician, the Chairman of the State Duma^[1] from 1996 to 2003.

Gennadiy Seleznyov

Ivan Rybkin

Boris Gryzlov

Viktor Arkhipov (acting)
Igor Ashurbeyli

Gennadiy Nikolayevich Seleznyov

6 November 1947
Serov, Sverdlovsk Oblast, RSFSR

19 July 2015(2015-07-19) (aged 67)
Moscow, Russia

Russian

Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1964 - 1991)
Communist Party of the Russian Federation (1991–2002)
Party of Russia's Rebirth (2002–2015)

Irina Seleznyova

Tatyana Seleznyova and Kirill Seleznyov

Saint Petersburg State University

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Early life and career[edit]

Born at Serov in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Gennadiy Seleznyov went to school from 1954 to 1964. He went to study journalism and joined the communist party. In 1969 he finished university and started working for the Pravda newspaper. After the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was outlawed in 1991, Seleznyov quit it. In 1993, however, he joined the Communist Party of the Russian Federation led by Gennadiy Zyuganov.

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Chairman of the State Duma[edit]

First term[edit]

In the 1995 Parliamentary elections in Russia, the Communist Party took the majority. However, Zyuganov did not become the speaker of the Duma as he was too busy with his 1996 Presidential campaign. Instead, he offered the job to his fellow communist Gennadiy Seleznyov. Seleznyov took office in 1996.

As speaker Seleznyov protested against many reforms of President Boris Yeltsin and the Party rejected several reforms like the proposed complete denationalization of land in 1998. When Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko opened the markets, Seleznyov protested saying the Russian economy wasn't ready yet. In 1999 the Communist Party once again took the largest number of seats and Seleznyov was re-inaugurated.

Moscow Oblast gubernatorial candidacy[edit]

In 1999 Gennadiy Seleznyov also ran for Governor of Moscow Oblast. However, he lost to the former general and vice presidential candidate Boris Gromov.

Personal life and death[edit]

Seleznyov had a son, Kirill Seleznyov (b. 1974), who is a prominent Russian businessman and a top-manager of Gazprom. Gennadiy Seleznyov died from complications due to lung cancer in Moscow on 19 July 2015.^[6]

2nd class

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"

Order of Friendship of Peoples

Medal of Merit for the (2003)

Stavropol Krai

(Belarus, 2001)

Order of Francysk Skaryna

"Person of the Year" award

"Silver Cross" of the Russian Biographical Institute

Gold badge of honour "Public Recognition"

"Dove of Peace" of the International Public Foundation "World Without Wars" (Moscow)

Academician and Member of the International Academy of Social Sciences

Associate Professor of the

Moscow University for the Humanities

Honorary Professor of Journalism,

Saint Petersburg State University

Member of the International Academy of Information Technology

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