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The family of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has served in office from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012, comes from the Russian peasantry. Spiridon Putin (1879–1965) was a cook in Gorky (now known as Nizhny Novgorod), his son Vladimir Spiridonovich (1911–1999) participated in World War II, and grandson Vladimir Vladimirovich (born 1952) made a career in the KGB and the FSB, before being ...
Putin also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 [e] and again from 2008 to 2012. [f] [7] At 24 years, 11 months and 11 days, he is the longest-serving Russian or Soviet leader since the 30-year tenure of Joseph Stalin. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He ...
Spiridon Ivanovich Putin was born to Russians Ivan Petrovich Putin (1845–1918) and Paraskeva Matveevna Putina (née Golubeva; 1844–1906) in Tver Governorate, Russian Empire. At 12 years old he worked with his cousin at an inn in Tver , and at 15 years old he moved to Saint Petersburg to study cooking.
In 2008, Putin, then 56, responded to reports he had allegedly divorced his wife for a 24-year-old Olympic gold medal gymnast named Alina Kabaeva. Kabaeva was once known as "Russia's most flexible ...
Here’s a look at the life of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Personal. Birth date: October 7, 1952. Birth place: Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia. Birth name: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
For Putin’s family, the war meant the siege in Leningrad. For other Russian families, it is the defense of Moscow, the block-by-block fight in Stalingrad, the rout at Kursk, the final triumph in ...
Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Ocheretnaya [1] [a] (formerly Putina; [b] née Shkrebneva; [c] born 6 January 1958) is a Russian linguist who served as the first lady of Russia from 2000 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2014 while married to her then-husband, Vladimir Putin, the current president and former prime minister of Russia.
Vera Nikolaevna Putina (Russian: Вера Николаевна Путина; 6 September 1926 – May 2023) was a Georgian woman who, from 1999, stated that Vladimir Putin ("Vova") is her son. The woman's claims contrast with Putin's official biography, which states that Putin's parents died before he became president.