Valery Zubov

Valery Mikhailovich Zubov (Russian: Валерий Михайлович Зубов; 9 May 1953 - 27 April 2016) was a Russian politician and economist who had served as a member of the State Duma from 2000 to 2016.

Zubov had also served as the second governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai from 1993 to 1998.

He was one of the four co-chairs of the Republican Party of Russia. He was a doctor of Economics, Professor, and specialist in the field of economic statistics.

He was the professor of the Higher School of Business of Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov.

Biography

Valery Zubov was born on 9 May 1953 to a family of geologists.

In 1970, he graduated from high school in Lermontov, in Stavropol Krai.

In 1978 to 1979, he served in the Air Defense Forces.

Between 1982 and 1988, as well as from 1991 to 1992, he worked at the Krasnoyarsk State University.

From 1986 to 1987, he did an internship in the United States at the University of Oklahoma, where he studied the peculiarities of the organization of labor in the US. Then in April, he was elected the 2nd governor (head) of Krasnoyarsk Krai.

On 17 May 1998, Zubov was defeated in the gubernatorial election by Alexander Lebed.

In 2011, he again headed the party list of A Just Russia in the Krasnoyarsk Krai to participate in the Legislative Assembly. He was again elected to the State Duma the same year.

In 2014, Zubov took fourth place among the richest deputies of the State Duma from the Krasnoyarsk Krai.

Zubov was one of eight members of parliament who voted against the so-called law of Dima Yakovlev, which prohibits the adoption of Russian orphans by foreign citizens. He was also one of three deputies who abstained during the vote on the annexation of Crimea.

Valery Mikhailovich Zubov died on 27 April 2016 in Moscow after a long illness. He was buried in Moscow at the Troekurovsky cemetery.

On 9 June 2018, in Krasnoyarsk, in memory of Zubov, a memorial plaque was opened on the house number 12 "B" on Menzhinsky Street. It was there that Zubov had lived and worked from 1984 to 2016.

Family

His widow, Yevgenya Zubova is an associate Porofessor of the Russian Academy of Economics. GV Plekhanov. He had a daughter, Yekaterina, son Ivan Valeryevich and grandson Ivan.