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Today Moscow is one of the world's largest megacities. This is not only a city with a long history, but also a modern financial and business center. Over the course of several decades, it has changed so much that it makes former Soviet emigrants open their mouths in surprise. But where is Luzhkov now, the man largely thanks to whom this miracle happened?

Who was the mayor of Moscow before Luzhkov?

The personality of Yuri Mikhailovich is so strongly associated with the metropolitan life of the 1990s and 2000s that all other names pale in comparison with him. This is what happened with Gabriel Popov, the first person to sit in the mayor’s chair in Zlatoglava (in 1991-1992). However, this does not mean that his merits are insignificant:

During the perestroika period, he was an active supporter of the country's transformation into a democratic rule of law state;
He did a lot to de-Sovietize the capital: on his initiative, monuments to the executioners of the communist regime that stood in the very center of the city were demolished;
Largely thanks to his efforts, the 1991 putsch was prevented. It is believed that he informed American intelligence (and that intelligence - the country's top officials) about the impending coup;
He is an economist (received his doctorate in 1970) and a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences;
Besides scientific work, is known for his journalism, where he expresses very controversial views. For example, he talks about the need to introduce an electoral qualification.

The rise to power of the “man in the cap”

Gabriel Popov had many positive qualities- from a brilliant education to high managerial abilities - but he did not have a bright and memorable charisma. Therefore, Luzhkov, who replaced him, became much more entrenched in the people’s memory:

Thanks to his aspirations, the construction of a financial center called Moscow City began. The complex of several skyscrapers has become one of the calling cards of the city and Russia as a whole;
Being an Orthodox Christian, he did a lot for religious revival. Under him, the restoration of churches destroyed under the Soviets began (the most striking example is the Cathedral of Christ the Savior);
Belokamennaya has turned into one of the richest and largest cities in Europe and the world. During Luzhkov's time in power, gross regional product more than doubled;
However, the circle of interests of the political heavyweight was not limited only to the Moscow Ring Road. “Kolobok,” as his supporters affectionately called him, did a lot to support the Russian-speaking diaspora in Sevastopol during Crimea’s stay as part of Ukraine.

What does Luzhkov's wife do?

As a rule, a politician’s wife is given the sad fate of being her husband’s shadow, modestly accompanying him at social events. However, a figure of such stature as Yuri Mikhailovich chooses games to suit himself.

Of all three of Luzhkov’s wives, the most famous is his current wife, Elena Baturina:

She was born into a family of low income, but from the very youth began to make a career. While not yet an adult, she rose to the rank of worker in the technological department at the plant where her parents worked;
Her first successes prompted her to take up engineering. After graduation, she quickly rises through the ranks to the position of technical director;
On the eve of perestroika, she worked for a short time in the Executive Committee of the city of Moscow, where she met her future husband;
During the devastation of the 90s, she founded a family business together with her brother Victor. Initially it specialized in chemical production, later in housing construction;
During her husband's tenure as mayor, Baturina became one of the wealthiest women in Russia and the world. Her capital is estimated at several billion dollars.

Resignation from the post of mayor

« If you are destined to be born in an empire, it is better to live in a remote province by the sea“- these are probably the words that came to Luzhkov’s mind in 2010, when his entire political career went up in smoke in a matter of months:

The conflict between the new President Dmitry Medvedev and the Moscow mayor has not been made public for a long time;
Rumors about the impending resignation of the political centenarian began after Medvedev refused to participate in the celebration of Moscow City Day on August 18, 2010;
A month later, a wave of revealing television programs in the spirit of Soviet newspapers of the 30s swept across all key television channels in the country. For the first time in many decades, it suddenly became clear that the administration of the capital was extremely inefficient and corrupt;
However, the mayor refused to leave “of his own free will” and remained in the chair until the end. As a sign of protest against compromising broadcasts, he turned... to Medvedev himself, writing an angry letter;
This did not help him; on September 28, 2010, a well-known decree was issued with the wording “loss of trust.”

Reasons for disgrace with the mayor

The closeness of Russian politics and the lack of a free press leave wide scope for speculation about what is happening in the corridors of power. Therefore, the resignation of the Moscow mayor in 2010 seems no less a mystery than the phenomenon of the Tunguska meteorite.

Among the most frequently cited reasons for the destruction of Luzhkov as a power figure are:

Possible connections of the former mayor with the criminal world, which ensured his political longevity and the prosperity of his wife’s business;
A split in the leadership of United Russia. The capital's mayor was one of the co-founders of the party in power, but gradually misunderstandings with former comrades began to grow like a snowball;
Problems with Sochi construction sites for the 2014 Olympics. A significant part of the projects was carried out by the family company Inteko, owned by Elena Baturina. Delays in the construction of stadiums and hotels could result in disgrace on an international scale;
Loss of popularity among voters. Unfortunately, in our country this point comes in last place. Yuri Mikhailovich was at the helm of power for no less than 18 years, and during these years he managed to get pretty fed up with the people.

Where is Luzhkov now and what is he doing?

After his resignation, his path to politics was barred:

His first position after retirement was the post of dean at the International University;
He was not destined to stay in Russia for long. The authorities began persecuting him and his wife's company;
Therefore, without thinking twice, he decided to acquire a residence permit in the “province by the sea” - namely in Latvia;
The idea was not successful, and the former mayor chose the hometown of the Russian corrupt elite as its location - London;
But he decided not to break ties with his homeland. So, in 2012, he bought a stake in one of the domestic chemical concerns. And the next year he founded an agro-industrial enterprise in Kaliningrad;
After Putin returned to presidential power, the attitude towards the disgraced mayor softened. So much so that in 2016 the latter received the medal “For Services to the Fatherland.”

How is democracy better than authoritarianism? It allows those who lose in the competition for power to leave with dignity. Probably, one of the architects of modern Russian politics, Yuri Luzhkov, also came to this belated thought. No major newspaper writes where he is now. But there was a time when his name was second or third in the whole country.

Causes of death of Yu. Luzhkov 12/10/2019

Yuri Luzhkov died at the age of 83 in one of the medical centers in Munich during heart surgery. Luzhkov's assistant Timur Shogenov subsequently confirmed that Yuri Mikhailovich had died immediately after surgery .

Here is what Alexey Sazonov, third secretary of the Russian Consulate General in Munich, says about this:

Yuri Luzhkov died at night in a Munich clinic. There is no information from the hospital yet about the specific circumstances of the death. Issues with transporting the body are being worked out; if necessary, the consulate is ready to provide all the necessary support.

In December 2016, Yuri Luzhkov was urgently hospitalized in Moscow after he unexpectedly fainted in the fundamental library of Moscow State University. Then the media wrote that the 80-year-old ex-mayor ended up in intensive care, and voiced versions of what he experienced clinical death, however, Luzhkov himself later called this information rumors. He then reported that doctors diagnosed him with a slight inflammation of his right lung, which arose due to a viral infection.

Businessman Viktor Baturin, brother of Luzhkov’s wife Elena Baturina, told the telegram channel “Podyom” that he last saw the former mayor of Moscow on Saturday, December 7. According to him, he felt good.

“I saw him on Saturday, he was smiling, he looked great,” he said.

According to him, yesterday everything was fine with Luzhkov, he and his wife flew out of Russia. According to REN TV, Luzhkov died during heart surgery in Munich.

Video: how did the former mayor of Moscow live?

In this video, NTV correspondents will show how Yuri Luzhkov lived and what he did in his free time:

We can say with 100% certainty where Luzhkov lives now. After his resignation, the disgraced mayor lived for some time in Austria, then in England, but it is obvious that he was irresistibly drawn to his homeland. At first he lived in the Kaluga region and kept an apiary, but obviously his soul demanded more. The former mayor could not simply breed bees and pump out honey, and he soon moved to the Kaliningrad region, where there was more room for his nature.
Where does Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov live now?
After his resignation, after traveling abroad for three years, Yuri Mikhailovich returned to Russia and found a dilapidated stud farm in the Kaliningrad region. This old German enterprise was destroyed in the early 90s, but apparently Elena Baturina (the wife of the former mayor), who at one time headed the Russian Equestrian Federation, saw potential in this plant. The Luzhkov family bought 87% of the shares of the Weedern stud farm and began to restore it.
Five thousand hectares of land are occupied by a stud farm, sheepfold, cowsheds and fields, where Yuri Mikhailovich breeds pedigree sport horses and the famous “Romanov” sheep.
It must be said that Weedern is not just a stud farm. This is the entire estate of an old Prussian family, and the last owner, Anna von Zitzewitz, left it only in 1946. About ten years ago she came to her family nest, and despite the sadness, she was sincerely glad that the estate was alive and working. The former mayor did not rebuild everything, but began to reconstruct and restore the former appearance of the estate. He has already managed to obtain the status of breeding reproducer of Hanoverian horses, and this is quite a prestigious title.
The Weedern agricultural complex is growing, and every year Yuri Mikhailovich is mastering new directions. Currently, rapeseed, buckwheat and wheat are grown in the fields of the Agrocomplex. Often the owner himself gets behind the wheel of the combine and works along with other combine operators.
Prohibition reigns within the Agricultural Complex, but this is not what irritates the workers. Luzhkov, as his employees say, “had a problem in one place.” He doesn’t sit still for a second and is constantly doing something, constantly controlling everything and driving everyone around. Although, he drives on business, and pays a good salary, which reconciles the workers with their boss.
A couple of years ago, the ex-mayor decided to start producing cheese. Pedigree dairy cows were purchased in Germany, equipment in Slovenia, and the Honey Meadows trademark was registered. A batch of “Adyghe” cheese was produced for testing, with plans for brie, camembert, and so on, right down to parmesan.
Residents of the region approved of this initiative of Yuri Mikhailovich, since his products are sold in stores at social prices and are of high quality. The volumes do not yet allow us to go further than the area, but for now this is enough.
The success of Luzhkov's farm is explained not only by his hard work, but also by his scientific approach to business. Yuri Mikhailovich carefully studies the experience of his foreign colleagues and understands that if the Germans receive 10 tons of hay per hectare, and in Russia the average norm is 3 tons, then something is wrong here.
With his own hands, the former official repairs and even makes changes to the equipment, making it more productive, which greatly surprises the workers.
The disgraced mayor ceased to be disgraced when, on September 21, 2016, Russian President V. Putin awarded him the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, “for active social activities" This award gave a new impetus to the former politician and opened up new development prospects. Yuri Mikhailovich believes that he has learned a lot and can give practical advice to agricultural industrialists based on personal experience.
Left without a position and becoming a farmer, Luzhkov began to better understand the problems of ordinary citizens, small entrepreneurs and farmers. Having built the road to his stud farm at his own expense, for a long time he butted heads with local officials who did not give permission to start operation, finding fault with little things. This both makes Luzhkov happy and sad. After all, he built hundreds of kilometers of roads, but now he cannot legalize 300 meters.
Luzhkov’s wife Elena Baturina does not share her husband’s passion for farming and considers it a “hobby”. She lives permanently in London, visits her husband from time to time and gives money for his new projects. Yuri Mikhailovich, on principle, does not take out bank loans, considering them predatory.
Now Yuri Luzhkov is happy with his life, although sometimes he feels annoyed with his past. The resentment of injustice towards him is forgotten only when he gets behind the wheel of a tractor or walks around his property.
Here he sees the results of his work and is glad that all this appeared thanks to his work. This year Yuri Mikhailovich will turn 82 years old, but he is not going to retire and climb onto the stove. He has too much to do, too much to accomplish.

Luzhkov Yuri Mikhailovich - a prominent political figure Russian Federation, a Moscow governor for 18 years, a doctor of chemical sciences, a writer, and in recent years a farmer. Yuri Mikhailovich was born in Moscow (date of birth - September 21, 1936), but he spent his early childhood, as well as seven school years, in Konotop - in his grandmother’s house.

After his resignation, Luzhkov moved his family to London, where his daughters continued their studies at Moscow State University, and his wife continued to develop the business. Later, the Luzhkov family chose Austria as their place of residence.

In 2012, it became known that the former mayor of the capital was on the board of directors of Ufaorgsintez, and in 2013 he bought 87% of the shares of Weedern (buckwheat production, mushroom cultivation). Yuri Luzhkov, having long been interested in agriculture, in 2015 created his own farm in the Kaliningrad region, where, in addition to livestock, he grew winter crops and corn.
The “end of disgrace” happened on September 21, 2016, when, by decree of Vladimir Putin, Luzhkov was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland. The award, according to Yuri Mikhailovich himself, became a real gift for his 80th anniversary. After the gala event, Luzhkov and Putin had a long conversation, the former mayor of Moscow thanked the president for getting out of the “timelessness in which he was immersed” since 2010.

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President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree “On the early termination of the powers of the mayor of Moscow,” Interfax reports. “To remove Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov from the post of mayor of Moscow due to the loss of confidence of the President of the Russian Federation,” the decree says
First channel

According to the Kremlin press service, the president appointed the head of the city construction complex, Vladimir Resin, as acting mayor of Moscow. Resin, 74, is the oldest among Moscow's deputy mayors. During the absence of the mayor, it was Resin, as a rule, who was entrusted with the powers of the acting governor.

Let us note that only the day before, Luzhkov, having returned from a week-long vacation, announced that he was not going to resign. The mayor noted that after his vacation he began to perform his duties as mayor “in a great mood.” The city administration informed journalists that Luzhkov was going to go on three planned foreign business trips in October - to Germany, Vietnam and Kazakhstan. Articles dedicated to Luzhkov's resignation and the events that preceded it were written on Tuesday by Zagolovki.ru.

Let us remind you that President Medvedev is currently on an official visit to China. Previously it was assumed that the decision on resignation would be made after Medvedev returned to Moscow. As presidential press secretary Natalya Timakova told reporters on Tuesday, Medvedev does not plan to meet with former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov after his return.

The head of state's press secretary recalled that Luzhkov took a week off, which was agreed upon with the presidential administration. According to Timakova, Luzhkov had to “think about how he would act next.” As Timakova made it clear, Luzhkov was offered a softer option for early termination of office. “Today, there are two options for the head of a region to leave his post early - either at his own request, which is expressed in a resignation letter, or when the president makes such a decision, but with strict wording - a loss of trust,” Timakova recalled. “Draw your own conclusions,” added the presidential press secretary.

“Yuri Luzhkov is now a simple citizen,” Timakova emphasized. When asked by Life News whether the ex-mayor would be nominated for a state award, the press secretary replied that “we are not even talking about this.” Let us note that in a similar scenario, in July 2010, the president dismissed another political “heavyweight” - the head of Bashkiria, Murtaza Rakhimov. Then Rakhimov announced his voluntary early retirement, and Medvedev awarded him the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st degree.

Thus, Luzhkov’s statements made the day before that he would not leave, and comments from the president’s press service mean that negotiations with the Kremlin on the terms of the mayor’s resignation were carried out and were terminated, since the parties did not reach a compromise. As a source close to the leadership of United Russia told the Vedomosti newspaper, among the posts that were offered to Luzhkov in exchange for his voluntary departure were the chairman of the Federation Council and the head of the state corporation Olimpstroy. As analysts suggest, it is possible that the parties did not agree when discussing the conditions or timing of the mayor’s departure.

Let us recall that Yuri Luzhkov served as mayor of Moscow for 18 years - from 1992 to 2010. Before him, the chairman of the Moscow City Council of People's Deputies from April 1990 to June 1991 was Gavriil Popov. From June 1991 to June 1992, Popov held the officially established position of mayor. In January 1992, in agreement with Popov, Luzhkov reformed the structure of the Moscow government and formed a “government economic reforms"On June 6, 1992, after Popov resigned, Luzhkov was appointed head of the executive branch - mayor of Moscow, who retained the post of head of the city government.

Among previous capital mayors, Vladimir Promyslov broke Luzhkov’s record for holding this post. He served as chairman of the executive committee of the Moscow City Council of People's Deputies for 22 years - from March 1963 to December 1985. Then, from January 1986 to April 1990, Moscow was led by Valery Saikin.

Luzhkov learned about his resignation at work

According to Interfax, on Tuesday Luzhkov arrived at work at the capital's mayor's office at about 7:50. At his workplace, Luzhkov learned the news that by presidential decree he had been removed from his duties as mayor of the city. According to the agency, City Hall officials who arrived at work on Tuesday morning were “in slight shock and prostration.” The decree of the Russian President, published by news agencies, is circulating around.

Earlier it was reported that according to the working schedule of the Moscow mayor, the next meeting of the Moscow government should take place, scheduled for 10:00. Prior to this, the subordinates of the capital's mayor, his friends, and deputies of the Moscow City Duma intended to congratulate the mayor on his birthday, which Luzhkov celebrated in Austria on September 21.

As it became known, the meeting of the capital’s government will be held as planned, its agenda will not change. On Tuesday, the capital's government plans to consider the draft law "On subsoil use in the city of Moscow" and the program to promote employment in the capital for 2011. The event will be hosted by the acting mayor of Moscow, Vladimir Resin. As a source in the mayor's office suggested, perhaps before the start of the meeting of the capital's government, Yuri Mikhailovich will want to say goodbye to those with whom he worked on the same team for 18 years.

Chronicle information war against Luzhkov

The information war against Luzhkov began in the media in early September. Then the NTV channel aired the film “The Case in the Cap,” in which Sergei Dorenko, editor-in-chief of the Russian News Service radio station, was one of Luzhkov’s main critics. Back in 1999, Dorenko published a series of revelations about the leaders of the Fatherland - All Russia electoral bloc, among whom was Luzhkov.

The film “The Case in the Cap” talked about the connection between the business of Luzhkov’s wife Elena Baturina and the Moscow government, about Luzhkov’s material interest in the construction of a highway through the Khimki forest, the authors did not ignore Luzhkov’s ardent passion for beekeeping. The film told how the mayor saved his bees during the smog this summer. It later turned out that the clumsily made film was edited just 24 hours after the TV channel received an urgent order for it.

On September 11, NTV continued the attack by showing a story about Luzhkov in the Maximum program. The program talked about the company of Elena Baturina and the reconstruction of the legendary sculpture “Worker and Collective Farm Woman”.

On September 12, NTV showed two more programs criticizing Luzhkov and the mayor's office he heads. In "Emergency. Weekly Review" there was a story called "A Dog's Tail," which told how city officials were stealing money allocated for stray dogs. In the “Final Program,” politicians dissatisfied with Luzhkov told how Baturina, thanks to her husband, earned her multi-billion dollar fortune.

On the same day, the anti-Luzhkov story was shown by the 24-hour news channel "Russia 24", part of the state holding VGTRK. The report talked about the demolition of architectural monuments in Moscow under the pretext of reconstruction. A critical story was also released as part of the “Time” program on “First”.

Before Luzhkov went on vacation, viewers were shown the film “Dear Elena Nikolaevna” on NTV. Oddly enough, the creators never unequivocally linked the enormous personal fortune of the richest woman in Russia with the influence of Luzhkov.

Luzhkov himself called these television stories “dirt” and announced his intention to sue their creators. The mayor assured that he would not leave his post, but the Kremlin immediately reminded him that this issue was within the competence of the Russian President. A public opinion poll showed that Luzhkov's rating began to rapidly fall. As it turned out, 19.5% of participants in the Levada Center survey trust Luzhkov to one degree or another, and almost 54% do not trust him.

Only the capital's TVC channel stood up for the disgraced mayor of Moscow - the program "Postscript" showed a story dedicated to the achievements of the Moscow mayor.

Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov (born September 21, 1936, Moscow, USSR) - Russian politician, second mayor of Moscow (1992-2010), co-chairman of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party (2001-2010), dean of the Faculty of Management major cities International University in Moscow.

Born on September 21, 1936 in Moscow in the family of a carpenter. My paternal ancestors lived in the now defunct village of Luzhkovo in Tver province; father Mikhail Andreevich was born in the village of Molodoy Tud (now Oleninsky Tverskoy district region); in 1928 he moved to Moscow and got a job at an oil depot. Mother Anna Petrovna is a native of the village (currently the village) of Kalegino.

In 1953 he graduated from school. Three last year(grades 8-10) Yuri Luzhkov studied at school No. 1259 (then No. 529). In 1954, he worked in the first student team that explored virgin lands in Kazakhstan (together with Alexander Vladislavlev). Graduated from the Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry named after. Gubkina.

From 1958 to 1963, he worked at the Research Institute of Plastics as a junior researcher, group leader, and deputy head of the technological process automation laboratory.

From 1964 to 1971 - head of the control automation department State Committee in chemistry, joined the CPSU in 1968, remained a member until 1991, from 1971 to 1974 - head of the department of automated control systems (ACS). From 1974 to 1980 - Director of the Experimental Design Bureau for Automation under the Ministry of Chemical Industry.

In 1980, he was appointed general director of the research and production association Neftekhimavtomatika, and in 1986, head of the department for science and technology of the Ministry of Chemical Industry.

Member of the CPSU from 1968 until its ban in August 1991. In 1975, he was elected as a people's deputy of the Babushkinsky District Council of Moscow, and from 1977 to 1991 - a deputy of the Moscow City Council. He was a deputy of the Supreme Council (SC) of the RSFSR of the 11th convocation (1987-1990).

In 1987, on the initiative of the new first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU, Boris Yeltsin, who was selecting fresh personnel, he was appointed first deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee. At the same time, Luzhkov became chairman of the Moscow City Agro-Industrial Committee and headed the city commission on cooperative and individual labor activities.

The secretary of this commission was Elena Baturina. As the head of Mosagroprom, he came into conflict with Literaturnaya Gazeta over the publication of an article about the unsuitable quality of sausage produced at the Moscow meat-packing plant.

He filed a lawsuit against Litgazeta, banned the admission of journalists and trade inspectors to all enterprises producing food products, but after the newspaper published his statement of claim and letters from readers in support of the author of the article, he withdrew the lawsuit.

In April 1990, before the first session of the newly elected democratic Moscow Council, he became acting chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee as a result of the resignation of the last communist chairman of the executive committee, Valery Saikin.

The new chairman of the Moscow City Council, Gavriil Popov, on the recommendation of B. Yeltsin, nominated Yu. Luzhkov to the post of chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee.

In the summer-autumn of 1990, Yu. Luzhkov tried to actively implement the resolution of the Moscow Council, signed by G. Popov, on the introduction of trade in goods using passports with Moscow registration and “buyer’s business cards”, which caused retaliatory measures from the regions neighboring Moscow, which stopped supplying food to Moscow .

In July 1991, Luzhkov was proposed for the post of vice-mayor of Moscow and chairman of the Moscow government by the chairman of the Moscow Council, Gavriil Popov, as an experienced business executive and was approved by a vote of deputies.

In 1992, Moscow Mayor G. Kh. Popov unexpectedly resigned. On June 6, 1992, by Decree of the President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, Luzhkov was appointed mayor of Moscow and was subsequently re-elected to this post four times (1996, 1999, 2003, 2007) (receiving 88.5%, 69.9%, 74.8%, respectively) votes and 32 out of 35 votes of Moscow City Duma deputies; V.P. Shantsev was elected vice-mayor together with Luzhkov the first two times, the post ceased to be elective).

From 1992 to 1996, Luzhkov served as mayor of Moscow without elective powers, on the basis of a decree.

In October 1993, during the dispersal of the Supreme Council, he sided with the president. By his order, the White House building, along with nearby residential buildings, was cut off from all communications.

In December 1994, Luzhkov established the first commercial television company in Russia, Teleexpo.
In the 1999 elections, together with Primakov, he headed the Fatherland party, which criticized Yeltsin’s policies and advocated his early resignation.

Member of the Federation Council (1996-2002). He held the position of member of the Federation Council in accordance with the procedure in force at that time as the head of a subject of the federation.

Yu. Luzhkov - member of the State Council under the President of the Russian Federation, representative of the Russian Federation in the Chamber of Regions of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe, former member Federation Council Committee on Budget, Tax Policy, Currency Regulation, Banking.

Since the end of 1998, Yu. Luzhkov has been the leader of the All-Russian political public organization"Fatherland", now co-chairman of the Supreme Council of the All-Russian political party"United Russia".

During Luzhkov's tenure as mayor, Moscow grew significantly as an important economic center. Thus, the total retail area of the city increased from 2.3 million square meters. m in 1997 to 3.06 million sq. m. by January 1, 2001. The number of hotel-type organizations has increased by almost a quarter.

The industrial production index, as a percentage of the previous year, was 77% in 1992, 99% in 1997, 102% in 1998, 114% in 1999. Industrial production in 2007 alone in Moscow it grew by 11.5%.

The retail market has grown significantly. Currently, there is active support for small businesses: for example, rent for premises for small businesses should now not exceed 1,000 rubles per sq. m. meter.

During this period, the appearance of Moscow underwent significant changes: many new buildings, highways and transport interchanges were built. The Third Transport Ring has appeared, the purpose of which is to relieve congestion on the capital’s roads and reduce the number of traffic jams.

Due to the constant increase in the number of cars on the roads, the problem of traffic jams in the capital remains one of the most important in the life of the city. The Moscow metro has been significantly expanded. Under Luzhkov, monorail transport and light metro were put into operation for the first time in Russia. The construction market has risen quite strongly.

The Cathedral of Christ the Savior was completely restored. To the 50th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War a memorial complex and Victory Park were founded on Poklonnaya Hill. The Bolshoi Theater is currently undergoing active restoration.

The opposition often accuses the mayor of his control over the Moscow courts and corruption. At the same time, critics regularly refer to the fortune of his wife, Elena Baturina, which, according to Forbes, is 4.2 billion US dollars, and her sister’s husband, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, the main shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sistema JSFC, whose net worth is Forbes estimates it to be worth US$10 billion. Thus, in September 2009, a brochure (positioned as an independent expert report) by Boris Nemtsov “Luzhkov. Results."

Luzhkov, as mayor, is often criticized for densifying Moscow with an excessive number of offices and housing, disturbing the historical urban landscape and littering the city with sculptures that, according to some, have “dubious artistic value” (see Zurab Tsereteli, Mikhail Shemyakin).

Under Luzhkov, at the suggestion of animal rights activists, the capture and euthanization of stray dogs was banned in Moscow, which led to such problems as frequent attacks by feral packs of dogs on people; the outcomes of some of them were fatal.

In 2009, Luzhkov was criticized for introducing a new program to redistribute rainfall in Moscow and the Moscow Region in order to reduce the cost of cleaning Moscow streets. Environmentalists and the leadership of the Moscow region fear that such an act could harm environment capitals and regions.

Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov became famous for his inventive activities in the early 2000s. He has more than a hundred inventions to his credit, including such as a method for producing hydrogen and thermal energy and a rotary internal combustion engine, two versions of the Vorobyovy Gory sports and recreation complex and a method for photoinactivation of the avian influenza virus.

Here is an incomplete list of inventions of Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov:
1. Device for extracting gel-like concentrate when processing hydrocarbon oils
2. Plant for desalination of salt water and method of desalination of salt water using the plant
3. Installation for water ozonation and method of water ozonation
4. Means and method for protecting non-metallic materials from biodestruction
5. Method of photodisinfection of water
6. Method for producing aluminum chloride
7. Method for producing filter material and filter fibrous material
8. Method for producing 5-aminolevulinic (5-amino-4-oxopentanoic) acid hydrochloride
9. Method for analyzing multicomponent gas mixtures
10. Sorption gamma resonance detector
11. Multifunctional polynomial gas filter
12. Quaternized phthalocyanines and method of photodisinfection of water
13. Catalyst for purifying air from carbon monoxide
14. Baker's yeast cultivation plant
15. Method for producing sbiten
16. Method for producing a drink from curd whey “Alena”
17. Method of production of fruit drink
18. Method for producing honey drink
19. Method for producing kvass or fermented drinks from grain raw materials
20. Method for obtaining a biologically active food product from yeast processing
21. A consortium of microorganisms propionibacterium shermanii, streptococcus thermophilus, acetobacter aceti, used for the preparation of fermented milk products, and a method for producing fermented milk products.
Luzhkov has a large number of awards.

Russian awards:
* Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st degree (September 21, 2006) - for outstanding contribution to the strengthening of Russian statehood and the socio-economic development of the city
* Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (November 14, 1995) - for services to the state, great personal contribution to the implementation of reforms aimed at restructuring the city’s economy, successful reconstruction of the historical center of the capital, revival of churches, construction of the Victory memorial complex on Poklonnaya Hill
* Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III degree
* Order of Military Merit (October 1, 2003) - for great personal contribution to increasing the combat readiness of troops and ensuring the defense capability of the Russian Federation
* Order of Honor (August 19, 2000) - for his great contribution to the preservation and restoration of cultural and architectural monuments of the city of Moscow
* Medal “Defender of Free Russia” (November 9, 1993) - for the performance of civic duty in defending democracy and the constitutional order on August 19-21, 1991
* Medal “In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow”
* Medal “In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg”

Soviet awards:
* The order of Lenin
* Order of the Red Banner of Labor
* Medal “For Strengthening the Military Commonwealth”

Awards of Russian regions:
* Order named after Akhmat Kadyrov (2006, Chechen Republic)
* Medal “For Services to the Chechen Republic” (2005)
* Order of the Republic (2001, Tuva) - for many years of fruitful cooperation and great personal contribution to the socio-economic development of the republic
* Medal “60 years of education of the Kaliningrad region” (2006)

Foreign awards:
* Order of St. Mesrop Mashtots (Armenia)
* Order of Friendship of Peoples (Belarus, February 16, 2005) - for great personal contribution to strengthening economic, scientific, technical and cultural ties between the Republic of Belarus and the city of Moscow of the Russian Federation
* Order of Francis Skaryna (Belarus)
* Francis Skaryna Medal (Belarus, September 19, 1996) - for significant contribution to strengthening friendly relations between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation
* Anniversary medal “Tynga 50 zhyl” (“50 years of virgin soil”) (Kazakhstan)
* Medal “Astana” (Kazakhstan)
* Order "Danaker" (Kyrgyzstan, February 27, 2006) - for significant contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation, development of trade and economic relations between the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation
* Order of Yaroslav the Wise, V degree (Ukraine, January 23, 2004) - for significant personal contribution to the development of cooperation between Ukraine and the Russian Federation
* Order North Star(Mongolia)
* Order of the Lebanese Cedar
* Bavarian Order of Merit (Germany)

Awards from religious organizations:
* Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir, 1st degree (November 1993) - for participation in the restoration of the Cathedral of the Icon of the Kazan Mother of God on Red Square
* Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, 1st degree (ROC)
* Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, 1st degree (ROC)
* Order of the Holy Blessed Grand Duke Demetrius Donskoy, 1st degree (ROC)
* Order of St. Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1st degree (ROC, 2009)
* Order of St. Andrei Rublev, 1st degree (ROC, 2009)
* Order of St. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, II degree (ROC)
* Order of St. Sava, 1st degree (Serbian Orthodox Church)
* Order of Al-Fakhr (Order of Honor) (Council of Muftis of Russia)

Departmental awards:
* Medal of Anatoly Koni (Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation)
* Golden medal Ministries Agriculture Russia "For contribution to the development of the agro-industrial complex of Russia"
* Medal “Participant in emergency humanitarian operations” (EMERCOM of Russia)
* Olympic Order (IOC, 1998)
* Medal “100 years of trade unions” (FNPR)

Public awards:
* International Leonardo Prize 1996
* Honorary badge (order) “Sporting Glory of Russia”, 1st degree (editorial office of the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” and the board of the Russian Olympic Committee, November 2002) - for organizing the mass construction of sports facilities in Moscow

Prizes and honorary titles
* Three thanks from the President of Russia
* Laureate of the USSR State Prize
* Laureate of the State Prize of Russia
* Laureate of the State Prize for Peace and Progress of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
* Laureate of the Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
* "Honored Chemist of the Russian Federation"
* “Honored Builder of the Russian Federation”
* “Honored Worker of Railway Transport”
* Honorary Citizen of Yerevan (2002)

Family
* He married his first wife, Marina Bashilova, in 1958. They had two sons - Mikhail and Alexander. Marina died in 1989. In 1991, Yuri Luzhkov married for the second time, to Elena Baturina. In his second marriage, two daughters were born - Elena (1992) and Olga (1994).
* Luzhkov’s wife, Elena Baturina, is currently a billionaire entrepreneur, owner of the Inteko company, which carries out numerous construction and production contracts in Moscow and other regions of the Russian Federation.

Characteristic features of Yuri Luzhkov's image:
* permanent headdress - cap;
* hobbies: beekeeping, tennis, horse riding. A few years ago, a statue of the mayor-tennis player was erected in one of the Moscow parks. Luzhkov likes to give honey from his apiaries as a gift on any special occasion.

Luzhkov is a Doctor of Chemical Sciences. Luzhkov is an honorary professor at Moscow State University, the Academy of Labor and social relations, a number of domestic and foreign universities, academician of a number of Russian academies.

* October 19, 1996 in the Moscow newspaper “ A New Look“The first assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, the head of the Security Service of the President of the Russian Federation, Alexander Korzhakov, published a sensational statement, from which it followed that Boris Berezovsky persuaded him to kill Luzhkov, as well as Vladimir Gusinsky, Joseph Kobzon and Sergei Lisovsky. Western media reacted to the sensational statements of the Russian newsmaker.
* At the New Year's party of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta on December 24, 2007, an auction was held, during which Yuri Luzhkov's silver cap was sold for one million dollars. The cap was purchased by Andrey Pankovsky, First Deputy General Director of the DSK-1 company.
* On May 12, 2008, Yuri Luzhkov was declared “persona non grata” on the territory of Ukraine for anti-Ukrainian statements.
* In June 2008, the issue of declaring him “persona non grata” on the territory of Georgia for anti-Georgian statements was considered.
* In May 2009, the Security Service of Ukraine declared Luzhkov “persona non grata” due to his statements at the 225th anniversary Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, which were regarded by the Ukrainian authorities as provocative.
* Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov lives in the Moscow region (in the Molodenovo residence on Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway, 20 km from the Moscow Ring Road).
* In 2006, Luzhkov demanded that artists provide information about the performance of songs accompanied by a soundtrack.
* Since 2003, Luzhkov and his wife Elena Baturina regularly visit the UPDC golf club of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Nakhabino near Moscow

On September 28, 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree “On the early termination of the powers of the mayor of Moscow,” according to which Luzhkov was relieved of the post of mayor of Moscow “due to the loss of confidence of the President of the Russian Federation.”

On October 1, 2010, Luzhkov was appointed dean of the faculty of management of large cities at the International University in Moscow. The appointment order was signed by the president of the university, former mayor of Moscow Gavriil Popov. The Faculty of Management of Large Cities was created in 2002 on the initiative of Yu. M. Luzhkov, in that year Luzhkov became scientific supervisor of this faculty and an honorary professor of the university.