One of the most famous politicians of the 1990s was Victor Ilyushin. This man was the first assistant to Boris Yeltsin and, of course, had a serious influence on him. In many photos, Viktor Ilyushin is captured with the presidential family.
Adolescence
Ilyushin Viktor Vasilievich was born on June 4, 1947 in the city of Nizhny Tagil near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). His father was a metallurgist. The future first assistant to Yeltsin began his career in 1965 at the Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (NTMK) as a simple mechanic. Gradually studied at the evening department of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, mastering the specialty "Electric drive and automation of industrial plants." Having received higher education and the profession of electrical engineer in 1971, he left the job of a locksmith and began to master party positions.
Carier start
The first step on the administrative career ladder was the post of secretary of the NTMK Komsomol committee.
A year later, Ilyushin went on to increase and received the post of second secretary of the Nizhny Tagil city committee of the Komsomol. Viktor Vasilievich worked in this position until 1973, after which he became the first secretary.
Two years later, in August 1975, he acquired the post of second secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the Komsomol. In June 1977 he became the first secretary of the regional committee.
Three years later, in the spring of 1980, he transferred to the post of deputy head of the organizational department of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the Communist Party of the USSR. In this post, Viktor Vasilievich met the future President of Russia, and at that time Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He took him as his assistant.
The subsequent biography of Viktor Vasilyevich Ilyushin was closely associated with his illustrious fellow countryman Yeltsin.
Political activity
In 1985 he was transferred to Moscow, where he became an instructor in the Department of Party Work of the Central Committee of the CPSU. In the same period, he mastered the specialty “Social Studies” at the Academy of Social Sciences (now the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration), completed his studies in 1986.
In the same year, he again began to work under the leadership of Boris Yeltsin, who during this period became the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR. Ilyushin became an assistant to Boris Nikolaevich. A year later, the future president left this post, and Viktor Vasilievich returned to the department of party work of the Central Committee of the CPSU to his former instructor position.
In March 1988, he was sent on a business trip to the Republic of Afghanistan. In this southern country, Ilyushin Viktor Vasilievich served as an adviser to the apparatus of the Central Committee of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan. He returned back to Moscow in October of that year.
In 1990, he returned to the team of Boris Yeltsin, who had already headed the Supreme Council of the Russian Federative Socialist Soviet Republic, and took the place of head of the secretariat. He took a direct part in the election campaign of Boris Nikolaevich and campaigning for him.
After the failure of the State Emergency Committee in August 1991, resigned from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He stated that long before that he had stopped paying membership dues.
In the summer of 1991, he became Secretary of the President of Russia Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, and in May 1992, when the secretariat was finally abolished, Viktor Ilyushin became Yeltsin's first assistant. Yeltsin’s first assistant, according to reports, was deciding on the meetings of the head of state with any of the ministers, specifying the work schedule of his superior.
In the fall of 1993, he was one of the authors of the infamous "Decree No. 1400" on the dissolution of the Supreme Council, which resulted in the tragic events in Moscow in early October 1993.
After Yeltsin became president for the second time in July 1996, Ilyushin leaves his team. On August 14 of the same year, he joined the Government of the Russian Federation and became then-Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin for social policy, having replaced Yuri Yarov.
A month later, he took the post of deputy chairman of the Organizing Committee to prepare St. Petersburg for participation in the competition of cities - potential candidates for the right to host the 2004 Olympics (which were eventually held in Athens).
In October of the same year, he headed the Commission for UNESCO, and in November became the head of the government commission to combat the use and illegal distribution of drugs.
On March 17, 1997, he was removed from the post of deputy chairman of the Prime Minister, his post was headed by a young politician Boris Efimovich Nemtsov. From the same period, Ilyushin’s actual exit from big politics begins.
Work at Gazprom
He goes to work at RAO Gazprom and is elected as a member of the management board. At the end of 1997, he headed the Board of Directors of the newly formed media holding of Gazprom-Media OJSC, however, on June 9, 1998, he left this post, transferring it to Sergey Zverev. Ilyushin himself in 1998 headed the Department for Work with Regions of Gazprom and was a member of the board of this organization.
In May 2011, he headed the Department for Work with Government Authorities of the Russian Federation, but in December of the same year he was relieved of this position and resigned from the board due to the expiration of his authorized term.
He was elected to the post of deputy in the Nizhny Tagil City Council, Sverdlovsk Regional Council, Lenin District Council of Sverdlovsk.
