St. Petersburg Vice Governor Albin Igor Nikolaevich is a very popular person. During his long career as a politician, he was able to make both a positive and negative impression on his voters. So, some see him as a wise and sympathetic deputy, ready to help those in need, others as a cunning and prudent entrepreneur who wants to cash in on others. Which of them is right? Who really is the vice-governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin? And why do some call him Slyunyaev?
Igor Albin: biography of early years
The life story of the vice-governor begins on October 4, 1966. It was on this day that Igor Slyunyaev was born in the city of Isilkul (Omsk Region). That is exactly how his last name sounded, which he wore until 2014. Almost all of Igor’s childhood passed in the Vozvyshensky district, North Kazakhstan region (Kazakh SSR). The boy’s parents were not rich people, and therefore, after leaving school, he immediately went to work at Karaganda State University. This allowed him to attend evening courses, which were held specifically for university employees. Thanks to the acquired skills, he quickly changed the place of a simple worker to the position of university laboratory assistant.
In 1984, Igor Albin was drafted into the army. The future politician gave his debt to his homeland while serving in the airborne troops. After demobilization in 1986, he entered training at Moscow State University. Lomonosov. Here he mastered the specialty of a chemical technologist, however, he did not want to work on it. In 1988, he got a job in the internal affairs bodies, which opened up access to the Moscow police higher school. In 1992, Igor Albin successfully graduated from this educational institution and became a secretary in the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth Union (Komsomol). From 1994 to 1996, he served as chairman of the board of Mossibinterbank. The period of life becomes crucial in the life of the future vice-governor, since it was during these years that he decided to go into politics.
The beginning of a political career
Igor Albin's first significant victory was his appointment to the post of Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for Cooperation with the CIS Countries in 1996. A similar push led to the fact that the newly made politician enters the Russian Academy of Public Administration, which he successfully graduates in 1999. In the period from 2000 to 2004, he worked as First Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation. In addition, he is a member of the federal government commission dealing with agricultural issues. In 2006, he received a place as a representative of the executive branch of Altai Krai. He was also lucky to take on the position of member of a commission of the Federation Council working with the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation.
As Governor of Kostroma
In October 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited deputies of the Kostroma Regional Duma to consider Igor Albin (then Slyunyaev) as a candidate for governor. characteristics from colleagues, he received excellent. And already on October 25, 2007 Igor Albin became the governor of the Kostroma region. Alas, the new head of the region did not live up to his hopes. While the crisis was in full swing throughout the country, Albin allowed his region to live on a grand scale. Frequent concerts, exhibitions, cultural events and festivities completely devastated the already depleted budget of Kostroma.
Another reason for the indignation of the people was the fact that Albin invested a lot of money to replace the curbs. At the same time, concrete "curbs" were produced at his own factory, which clearly indicated the financial interest of the governor. But the biggest collapse for Igor Albin was the presidential election held in 2012. So, in his area V. Putin scored the smallest percentage of votes, which cast a shadow on the reputation of the Kostroma politician. That is why in April 2012, Igor Albin voluntarily resigned as the governor and left Kostroma.
Position of Minister of Interregional Policy
But, despite the failed election campaign in Kostroma, Vladimir Putin did not turn his back on the former governor. In October 2012, he appointed Slyunyaev as Minister of Regional Development. In this position, Igor Albin showed himself as an average politician. However, in 2013, he still received a public reprimand from the President of Russia. The reason for this was too rapid tariff increases. It was possible to avoid him, but the politician did not make the proper effort.
Metamorphosis of Slyunyaev in Albina
According to the future vice-governor, the surname Slyunyaev from early childhood brought him a lot of trouble. For example, at school, because of her, young Igor often had to endure insults from classmates. And at a more mature age, he was often embarrassed, pronouncing it out loud. For a long time Igor Nikolaevich did not dare to change his last name. The politician claimed that it was his father’s legacy and that he wouldn’t give him away just like that. And yet, in 2014, Slyunyaev turned into Albina, which immediately attracted the attention of the public. However, this time Igor Nikolaevich has good arguments in favor of such a metamorphosis. According to him, he conducted a genealogical study, within the framework of which it turned out that Albin is the historical family name of his family.
