Volkov Leonid Mikhailovich - politician, IT specialist and oppositionist. The biography of this man is very curious in that he is one of the few deputies to keep up with the times. It so happened that today the name of Leonid Volkov is often associated with his information business, which until recently was only notes on paper.
But let's talk about everything in order. After all, first you need to understand what kind of person Leonid Volkov is, and what is his life path? And only then to understand what political views he adheres to.
Leonid Volkov: biography of early years
The future politician was born in Yekaterinburg on November 10, 1980. Almost all of his childhood passed in this city. The boy's father was Mikhail Vladimirovich Volkov - an honored teacher, an employee of the Ural State University. It was he who instilled in young Leonid a passion for exact sciences, which played a very important role in the fate of the politician.
After leaving school, Leonid Volkov entered the same university where his father worked. Volkov chose the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics as the main direction, which he successfully graduated in 2002. But Leonid did not stop there. Three years later, he graduated from graduate school at the Ural State University. And in 2006 he defended his doctoral degree and became a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences.
The first career achievements
Leonid Volkov studied to earn money while still at the university. So, in 1998, he got a job moonlighting at the local company SKB Kontur. The talent of the young programmer was quickly noticed by the top management of the organization. Thanks to this, his career progress was very rapid.
In 2007, he became the chief executive of the Federal Project Office. This position gave Leonid Volkov an unforgettable experience, which in the future will allow him to create and develop his own projects. As for work in SKB Kontur, in recent years he has been introducing new ideas related to the creation of electronic accounting systems.
In 2010, Leonid Volkov left the company. The reason for leaving was the political activity of the programmer, which was not combined with work in the office.
Political activity
Guided by the idea of a democratic society, Leonid Volkov joined the Solidarity movement in 2009. In March of the same year, he applied for participation in the elections to the Yekaterinburg City Duma. And since Fortune was supportive of the young politician, he wins this battle for the votes of voters.
Having made his way to the deputies of the city administration for four years, he becomes a member of the commission on urban economy. Also, Leonid Volkov has the responsibility for all issues related to information policy and self-government in Yekaterinburg.
In October 2010, he became one of the main organizers of the rally in defense of Yegor Bychkov. The emotions received during these actions, he will later throw out in the book "Cloud Democracy", which was published in the summer of 2010. By the way, he worked on the book together with the famous political scientist Fedor Krasheninnikov.
In 2011, Leonid Volkov tried to win the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region. However, his ambitions were defeated by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. So it turned out that the judges saw signs of fraud associated with exceeding the number of voters' signatures.
In August 2012, Volkov Leonid Mikhailovich joined the Coordination Council of the Russian opposition. Here he gets the role of chairman of the central committee, which allows Volkov to always be at the center of all events.
In 2015, he adjoins the ranks of those who today are considered opposition forces. To be more precise, Leonid Volkov becomes one of the members of the party PARNAS (Party of People’s Freedom). Mostly here he was engaged in selective training. So, in 2015, he tried to help his party members win the elections to the Legislative Assembly of Novosibirsk. Alas, his efforts were unsuccessful, which greatly shook the confidence of the politician.
However, Leonid Volkov did not give up. Soon he resumed his work, but this time at the election headquarters of PARNAS in the Kostroma region.
Work with Alexey Navalny
In the summer of 2013, Leonid Volkov took up the promotion of the candidacy of Alexei Navalny for mayor of Moscow. Thanks to his intervention, Navalny’s rating began to grow rapidly. But in the final analysis, this was still not enough to win.
However, in June 2015, an incident occurred that caused people to look differently at the cooperation of these two people. So, on July 17, a brawl occurred near the Novosibirsk headquarters of PARNAS, during which protesters threw eggs at Navalny.
During these events, Volkov tried to protect the boss from the camera lenses. And it so happened that in the heat of battle, he broke the microphone of a LifeNews journalist. As a result, charges were brought against the politician under the article “Obstruction of the legitimate professional activities of a journalist”. At the moment, the case is in court, and Volkov gave a written undertaking not to leave the country.
Searchlight company
At the end of 2010, Leonid Volkov and his wife Natalya Gredin founded the company "Spotlight". According to the politician himself, his organization is aimed at illuminating the path for those who want to realize interesting Internet projects.
More precisely, the "Spotlight" is committed to helping young professionals advance in the network.
