Igor Lebedev - son of Zhirinovsky: biography, photo

A lot of words are said about statesmen,politicians and other famous personalities. Often people are interested in their families, but rarely one of the relatives of a famous person is of great interest. There are few exceptions to this rule, and among them is the son of the scandalous politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky - Igor Lebedev. He deserves attention if only because since 2009 he has been the head of the Supreme Council of the Liberal Democratic Party. In addition, Igor Lebedev is the LDPR leader in the last three convocations of the State Duma. And one of the achievements of this person is worth noting his position as adviser to the Minister of Labor and Social Development. In addition, the son of Zhirinovsky, Igor Lebedev, is engaged in scientific activities, defended his doctoral thesis in history and became a candidate of sociological sciences.

Biography

At the end of September, the 27th, 1972 was bornIgor Vladimirovich Zhirinovsky. At 16, the guy changed his last name. His parents are Galina Lebedeva and Vladimir Zhirinovsky. According to some reports, the father himself persuaded his son to change his surname, believing that his political activities could affect his son’s personal life.

Then Vladimir was already engaged in the creationliberal party, still in the territory of the USSR. Having listened to his father, the guy decided to get a passport in the name of his mother. For this reason, Igor Lebedev is known to the public by this very name and surname.

Beginning of political activity

The first attempt of a guy to get into the StateDuma was in 1995. He was included in the election list of the party of his father, but he did not manage to get to the post. At that time, he was simultaneously studying at the Moscow Law Academy. The year before, Zhirinovsky had assigned him the post of his own assistant in state affairs.

At the beginning of his work, the son of Zhirinovsky, IgorLebedev performed only minor missions. After Igor received his law degree, his father’s instructions became more serious. Instead of business trips and small assignments, he took up the organization of important meetings that were to be held completely confidentially. Sometimes the task was on his shoulders to conduct serious negotiations instead of his boss.

Carier start

Officially, Igor Lebedev began his careerpolitician in 1997. It was then that he got the post of expert specialist of the head office of the father’s faction in the State Duma. In addition, at that time, the young politician served as head of the LDPR youth organization and the same place in the Youth Initiative Support Center, in the faction structure.

A year later, Igor Lebedev, whose biographybright enough, he becomes adviser to Sergei Kalashnikov, the incumbent minister of labor and social development. It is worth noting that Sergey used to belong to the faction created by Zhirinovsky.

1999 election campaign

When parliamentary events took place at the turn of the centurythe election of the Russian Federation, the son of Zhirinovsky, took the place of one of the leading electoral headquarters of the father’s faction. Some sources say that his task was to monitor the situation in the election of the governor of the Belgorod region and the positive rating of Zhirinovsky’s candidacy for them. But unfortunately, Igor’s father did not win, taking only third place in the race for a leading position and losing to Evgeny Savchenko, gaining only 17.4% of the vote. At the end of this year, Igor Lebedev, the son of Zhirinovsky, whose biography is inextricably linked with politics, stands for election to the State Duma and enters it, being on the list of those elected in the father’s bloc.

After Vladimir Zhirinovsky is electedthe vice-speaker, the son takes his place as head of the faction. At that time, my father simply did not have the right to combine these two positions. According to Vladimir Zhirinovsky, he did not do anything reprehensible or unusual, because in many areas the family business goes from father to son, why there should be exceptions if he is confident in the professionalism of the heir.

Three leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party

State Duma Deputy Igor Lebedev was one of threeleaders of the election list of the father’s faction in 2003. Although according to some sources, its presence in this list is completely random. The absurdity of the situation was that the second issue was to be taken not by Igor, but by Pavel Chernov, who was a KGB officer. Zhirinovsky commented on this discrepancy as something that Chernov did not have time to collect and bring all the documents necessary for the transfer to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.

At that time, Igor Lebedev, whose photopresented in the article, again fell into the ranks of the members of the State Duma and immediately took the post of head of the faction. According to some sources, besides the leadership, Igor is also involved in the editing of party literature, and he has at his disposal all the party funds.

Fifth convocation

The lists for elections in the fifth convocation to the State Duma wereapproved in September 2007 at the LDPR congress. The first on the list was, of course, Vladimir Zhirinovsky himself, at number two was Andrei Lugovoi, a former FSB officer, and then there was already Lebedev’s place. By the way, it is worth noting that at that time entrepreneur Lugovoy was accused by the British authorities of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, who also served in the FSB earlier. At that time, Alexander was granted political asylum in the UK. Thus, after the vote, Lebedev got into the Duma and this time, once again occupying his usual post, but already in the lower house of parliament.

XXII Congress of the LDPR faction

At the end of 2009 a regular congress was held.Zhirinovsky faction, which amended the party’s charter. At that time, information has changed regarding the possibility of combining posts. Thus, the head of the High Council would be quite able to simultaneously be the chairman of the party.

At that time, the position was still owned by Vladimir Zhirinovsky, but less than a month passed, as his son announced that he would combine these posts and take up the relevant posts.

Lebedev's income

In early 2010, a general review of steelinformation is known regarding the financial condition of Igor Lebedev, the son of Zhirinovsky, whose biography testifies to the multifaceted development of this person in the last year. This information shocked almost everyone, because he became the richest man in the position of the head of the State Duma faction. At that time, he was able to earn more than 178 million rubles a year. In addition, in his possession were four apartments and cars, as well as one motorcycle. The following year, his earnings were strikingly different from the previous one, before the sixth congress he was able to get less than 5 million, but he got several apartments in the capital, another car and bought shares of VTB Bank. Yet he remained the richest member on the party’s election list.

Scientific activity

According to the State Duma website, Lebedev hasdoctoral degree in historical sciences, and he is a candidate of sociological sciences. But when and how he earned it is unknown. There is neither that, nor dates, nor any other information on this subject.

Igor Lebedev, biography: Zhirinovsky’s opinion about his son

Like any other father, Vladimir considers hishis son is a little lazy, in his opinion, he can more, but still remains a typical member of the generation of Gorbachev. According to some data, the positions occupied by Lebedev did not cause any surprise among the Zhirinovsky entourage, everything was as if logical and expected. They say about Igor himself that he always counts his actions, listens attentively, ponders everything and only then makes any decisions.

According to the environment, the main disadvantageshereditary politician are his age and lack of charisma of Vladimir Zhirinovsky. According to Lebedev himself, it is not surprising that he does not look like his father. After all, people like him are unique, and Zhirinovsky himself can be only one.

Personal life

Игорь Лебедев находится в браке с Людмилой Nikolaevna. She is three years younger than him, and he met his future wife in childhood. In 1998, their twin sons appeared in their family, named Sergey and Alexander.