20 Facts About Vladimir Gruzdev

Vladimir Sergeyevich Gruzdev is a Russian entrepreneur and a politician.

Vladimir Gruzdev was a deputy of the State Duma and governor of the Tula Oblast.

Vladimir Gruzdev was born on February 6,1967, in the village of Bolshevo, Moscow region.

In 2007, Vladimir Gruzdev sold his stake in "The Seventh Continent" to partner Alexander Zanadvorov for about $1 billion, explaining that political career was the priority for him.

In 2014, his fortune reached a peak of $1.3 billion, which allowed Vladimir Gruzdev to take 79th place in the ranking.

Vladimir Gruzdev was a member of several commissions of the Duma: budget and financial, legislative and security, entrepreneurship, education, as well as a joint commission of the Moscow City Duma and the Moscow Government on the regulatory basis of land and property relations.

In December 2003, Vladimir Gruzdev was elected a deputy of the State Duma of the IV convocation for the Chertanovo single-mandate constituency, having received at the elections 149,069 votes.

Vladimir Gruzdev was a member of the Presidium of the Moscow city regional branch of the party "United Russia" and a member of the bureau of the Supreme Council of the party till 2016.

Vladimir Gruzdev was the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Legislation.

In September 2011, Vladimir Gruzdev was included number two into the list of candidates from "United Russia" in the Tula region.

In summer of 2007, Vladimir Gruzdev participated in the expedition of the scientific vessel " Academician Fedorov" to the North Pole.

In 2007, Vladimir Gruzdev was elected Chairman of the Association of Young Entrepreneurs of Russia.

On December 3,2016, the congress of the Association of Lawyers of Russia unanimously elected Vladimir Gruzdev to be the chairman of the board.

In 2017, the Association of Lawyers of Russia held the IV BRICS Legal Forum in Moscow, where Mr Vladimir Gruzdev initiated the discussion on developing new arbitration institutions of the BRICS countries, legal regulation of the digital economy and others.

Vladimir Gruzdev is co-author of a number of publications on factors affecting the quality of the Russian legal system, as well as initiator of a public discussion of amendments to the legislation.

In 2003, Vladimir Gruzdev defended his thesis on "Legal status of civil servants of the Russian Federation and organizational and legal bases for the functioning of the system of training, retraining and advanced training" at the Department of Administrative Law of the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Vladimir Gruzdev has been regularly included in the rating of the magazine Forbes since 2005, with the exception of 2008.

Vladimir Gruzdev owned shares in OJSC Bank Saint Petersburg, OJSC VTB Bank and Gazprom.

In 2012 and 2013, Vladimir Gruzdev took 1,153 and 1,342 places, respectively, in the world ranking of the richest people according to Forbes magazine.

Father, Sergei Vladimir Gruzdev, is a professional military officer, mother, Nelly Vladimir Gruzdev is a teacher of chemistry and biology in high school.