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Gennady Zyuganov
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Person

Gennady Zyuganov

b. 1944

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Born
26 Jun 1944 · Mymrino
Part ofRussia1223 – todaySoviet Union1848 – 1991

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 94 years
  1. 26 Jun 1944BornBorn in Mymrino
  2. 1993RoleMember of the State Duma
  3. 1994 – 1996RoleSpecial Guest of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  4. 1996 – 2004RoleRepresentative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  5. 1996 – 2022RoleMember of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  6. 1997AwardMedal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
  7. 2005 – 2016RoleRepresentative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  8. 2009AwardOrder of Honor
  9. 2014AwardOrder of Alexander Nevsky
  10. 2016AwardOrder of the Friendship of Peoples
  11. 2016AwardMedal to Participant in Military Operations in Syria
  12. 2019AwardOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
  13. 2019AwardRussian Federation Government Certificate of Honour
  14. 2024AwardHero of Labour of the Russian Federation
  15. 2024AwardOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class
  16. 2024AwardOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
  17. 2024AwardOrder of Honor

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1944 – today).

  1. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  2. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  3. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  5. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  6. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  7. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  8. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  9. 1956Suez Crisis
  10. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  12. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  14. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  16. 1968Prague Spring
  17. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  18. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  19. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  20. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  21. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  22. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  23. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  24. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  25. 1985Schengen Agreement
  26. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  27. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  28. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  30. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  32. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  33. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  34. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  35. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  36. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  37. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  38. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  39. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  40. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring

Biography

Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (Russian: Геннадий Андреевич Зюганов; born 26 June 1944) is a Russian politician who has been the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation since 1993 and a member of the State Duma since 1994. He is also the chair of the Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) since 2001. Zyuganov ran for President of Russia four times, most notably in 1996, when he lost in the second round to Boris Yeltsin.

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