Mezentsev Dmitry Fedorovich was born in August 1959. He is a native of the city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). A well-known Russian statesman, who held far from one high-ranking position, and his work affects a large number of areas, including political and journalistic. Let's talk about how Dmitry Fedorovich Mezentsev climbed the career ladder. Biography and his activities will be discussed in more detail in this article.
A family
His father is a journalist and military man. Mezentsev Fedor Dmitrievich was a colonel and correspondent in the newspaper "Guard the Homeland."
During the Second World War, he was a junior lieutenant of the railway troops. From school, Fedor Dmitrievich tried himself as a correspondent, and during the war he worked in the newspaper “Fight for the Motherland”. The son decided to follow in his footsteps, becoming a journalist in the future.
His brother - Alexander Fedorovich Mezentsev - was the head of the administration of the city of Baikonur and major general. In 2013, he died.
Training
In 1976, after graduating from school in Leningrad, he entered the Institute of Railway Engineers with a degree in Railway Transport Engineer. Now this educational institution has been renamed PGUPS.
During his studies, he actively participated in the life of the institute. He is the Komsomol of the course, the secretary of the Komsomol bureau of the faculty. Even then, the inclinations of a leader began to appear in him. In 1978, he took part in the construction of BAM.
After studying, namely in 1981, he began his professional career as a workshop foreman in the Leningrad-Baltic Locomotive Depot of the Railways. Thus, his career began with work far from the sphere of politics.
War journalist
Since 1983, he was engaged in Komsomol work in his hometown, was the head of the organizational department of the Komsomol district committee, in addition, Dmitry Mezentsev also held a number of posts. His biography is closely related to journalism.
From 1984 to 1990 - an officer in the Soviet Army, he served in the railway troops. In 1986 he became an employee of the army print media.
1988 - Mezentsev is a member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR.
Dmitry Mezentsev: government official
In 1990, Dmitry Mezentsev begins to try his hand at politics. He becomes a People’s Deputy of the Leningrad City Council and the head of his press center (until 1991).
After that, for 5 years he was chairman of the Committee on Press and Media of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office. Represented the Ministry of Information and Press of the Russian Federation in the region.
In the same period, Vladimir Putin also worked at the city hall, who once held the post of chairman in the Committee on Foreign Relations. Thus, they worked with Mezentsev not a single year.
In 2012, he was a candidate for the presidency of the Russian Federation - this decision was approved by the head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin. But the CEC of the Russian Federation then refused to register Mezentsev, as it turned out that he did not have enough signatures.
He is a supporter of the United Russia party. In 2004, he was prophesied the post of director of Channel One, but the appointment did not follow. In the same year, in addition to the post of vice speaker of the Federation Council, he dealt with issues on youth and sports.
Presidential Companion
After Sobchak was defeated in the 1996 elections, Putin and Medvedev quit their job at St. Petersburg City Hall.
In 1996, Putin went to work in Moscow at the Presidential Administration, which was then Boris Yeltsin. Following him, Mezentsev also moved to the capital. The career growth of the politician is associated with his acquaintance with Vladimir Putin.
The Center for Strategic Research was created by personal order of the current president, while he served as prime minister. In 2001, Mezentsev was the chairman of the Council of the Central Soviet Socialist Republic - Siberia, a year later he took the post of deputy chairman of the Soviet Central Executive Committee It should be noted that key employees of the Center in the future were included in the personnel reserve of the President.
Career in Moscow
In 1996, from the northern capital, Mezentsev moved to Moscow. There he took the post of deputy chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Press for 3 years (until 1999).
In 1998, he defended a thesis in psychological sciences.
In November 1999, he became president of the TSR, whose activities were aimed at preparing the election campaign of Vladimir Putin.
From 2002 to 2009, he was a member of the Federation Council as a representative of the executive body of state power of the Irkutsk region, from 2004 - deputy chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
In addition, from 2002 to 2006, he was chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy. In 2004, he oversaw this area, as well as economic issues. In 2008, at the suggestion of Sergei Mironov, Dmitry Mezentsev was re-elected to the position of vice speaker of the chamber.
Secretary General
Dmitry Mezentsev in 2006, first becomes the Commissioner for Affairs and Chairman of the Board of the SC SC. In 2009, he was re-elected to this post for a second term.
At the summit in Beijing in June 2012, he was approved as the SCO Secretary-General until 2015. He was in this post from the beginning of 2013 until the end of last year.
Governor
Prior to that, in 2002 he was elected a senator from the Irkutsk region and represented her interests in the Federation Council. In May 2009, he was nominated for the post of governor of the Angara region.
The candidacy was approved at the Legislative Assembly, and in this position Mezentsev was in May 2012. He was an appointee from Moscow, while local authorities, as a rule, always wanted to see a native of Irkutsk at this post. But they accepted the appointment of a stranger with calm and hope for the best, because Mezentsev had long been a representative of their region and knew firsthand about the problems of the region.
In 2012, he resigned of his own free will, in his place came Sergey Eroshchenko.
Awards of Dmitry Mezentsev
He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree and Honor, also on this list the medal "For the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline", the Medal for Strengthening Russian-Chinese Friendship (China). He was awarded the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honor.
Candidate of psychological sciences and doctoral candidate at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In addition, he is a diplomatic representative.
From 2009 to the present, he is the head of the Department of Political Psychology and a professor at St. Petersburg State University.
Personal life
His wife Evgenia Frolova (born in 1977) is a professor, doctor of law, head of the department at the Baikal State University of Economics and Law. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Do Good.
They have a daughter, Daria, born in 1988. She studied at SPSUTD. In 2008, Fyodor Mezentsev had a grandson.
