Aleksandr Livshits

Aleksandr Yakovlevich Livshits (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Лившиц; 6 September 1946 – 25 April 2013), was a Russian politician and economist who served as the minister of finance and deputy prime minister of Russia from 1996 to 1997.

He also served as the assistant to the president of Russia from 1994 to 1996.

After politics, he served as the vice president of the holding company "Russian Aluminum" from 2001 until his death in 2013.

Biography

Aleksandr Livshits was born on 6 September 1946 in Berlin to the family of servicemen. His father, Yakov Lazarevich, born on 9 February 1914 in Yekaterinoslav (present-day Dnipro) was an army officer, historian, teacher, and had graduated from MIFLI, and was a member of the CPSU(b), went to the front as a volunteer in July 1941. His father died in Moscow in 2002.

His mother, Liya Mikhailovna, née Vesbland (1918–1993), was a historian, teacher, and had graduated from MIFLI.

His uncle, Eduard born in 1906, was the Deputy Minister of Automobile Transport and Highways of the Soviet Union, and was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was then director of the Moscow Experimental Plant of Loading Machines. In October 1950, his uncle was arrested on participation in the k.-r. nationalist organization and complicity in espionage. He was executed on 24 November 1950.

After graduating from school in 1960, he entered the Moscow Technical School of Automation and Telemechanics. In accordance with the new tasks set for the government, the Ministry of Finance was assigned the functions of controlling expenses and revenues in the federal budget. he became the deputy head of the presidential administration of Russia.

In June 1997, he became the representative of the president of the Russian Federation in the National Banking Council.

Political views

Livshits advocated for a confederation of “democratic” states of the former Soviet Union. He believed that the Russian economy is becoming a market economy, but primitively, a loss of technology. As a result, the country is losing part of its economic sovereignty, with PostFactum agency, in March 1995.

He loved popsicles as a child.

He was fluent in English.

Family He was married to his wife, Galina Timofeyevna Livshits, who had been an engineer and worked at a military plant for 25 years and since then retired as a housewife in 1994. She has two daughters, Yelena and Natalya.