Larisa Babukh

Larisa Babukh is a Soviet-Russian research engineer and educator who found her way into national politics during the aftermath of the 1991 upheavals. She sat as a member of the State Duma between 1993 and 1995, representing the "Женщины России" ("Women of Russia" grouping). In 1995 she emerged as a leader of the "Образование — будущее России" ("Education – Russia's Future") quasi-party. Attempts to have the new movement registered for participation in the 1995 Duma elections did not succeed due to a failure to obtain sufficient signatures on the nomination submission. She subsequently worked as a senior education administrator. Her attempts to secure re-election to the State Duma were unsuccessful. In 2006 she became a co-chair of the short-lived "Партия социальной справедливости"("Social Justice Party").

Biographical Larisa Vladimirovna Babukh was born at Gvardeysk, a small town and administrative centre in the heart of the newly resettled and renamed Kaliningrad Oblast. She received a higher technical education leading, in 1974, to a degree in radio engineering at the Moscow State Institute of Radio-engineering Electronics and Automation (MIREA).

During 1990/91 she worked as Deputy CEO for "Перспектика Крономарк", a short-lived Soviet-Italian joint venture. She was then employed between 1991 and 1993 as General Director at "Ларина-сервис", a Moscow-based joint-stock company involved in servicing and repairing electric appliances.

In Russian legislative election December 1993 Larisa Babukh was elected as a deputy to the State Duma. She was one of 23 members representing the "Women of Russia" ("Женщины России" / ZhR grouping) in the Duma during the ensuing 24 months. She served as a member of the Duma committee on Education, Arts and Sciences. Most of the more prominent "Women of Russia" ("Женщины России") leaders had connections to the teaching profession

In 1995 she teamed up with Lyubov Kezina and Maria Lazutova to become a co-founder of "Образование — будущее России" ("Education – Russia's Future"), which was intended to become a single-issue political party. It is variously characterised as a "social and political organisation" or as an "education lobby group". Those who had founded the movement nevertheless remained in touch with one another, despite a split within it in 1996. was one of the parties that merged in 2008 to form the "Справедливая Россия" ("Just Russia") party.

Personal Larisa Babukh is married with two sons.