Anatoly Chubais

Anatoly was first married to a woman named Lyudmila, who currently owns a restaurant in St. Petersburg called 'Mechta Molokhovets'. They have two children, a daughter, Olga, and a son, Aleksey.

In the early 1990s, the politician left Lyudmila for an economist, Maria Vishnevskaya.

Recently, in 2012, Anatoly Chubais got married to TV host and screenwriter, Avdotia Smirnova, who is fourteen years younger.

Anatoly Borisovich Chubais was born to Boris Matveyevich Chubais and his wife Raisa Efimovna Sagal on June 16, 1955, in the Belarusian city of Borisov.

Boris was a former World War II and army official, who later worked as a professor of Scientific Communism and Philosophy. Raisa was a former economist who decided to stay at home after becoming a mother. The couple also had an older son, Igor, who is a philosopher.

In 1977, the young boy completed his higher education from the 'Leningrad Institute of Engineering and Economics' (‘LEEI’, which is now called the 'Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics'). The same year he joined the ‘Communist Party of the Soviet Union’, in the city.

Anatoly started working as an Associate Professor at his alma mater, LEEI, in 1982.

The same year he collaborated with economists Grigory Glazkov and Yury Yarmagayev to write an article titled ‘Вопросы расширения хозяйственной самостоятельности предприятий в условиях научно-технического прогресса’ (‘Questions of Expanding the Autonomy of Business Enterprises under the conditions of Scientific and Technological Progress'). The article tried to prove the hypothesis that central planning cannot determine the final demand for products.

During that period, the young economist met Yegor Gaidar, who went on to become the Prime Minister of Russia. Gaidar soon became a regular to lectures delivered by Chubais.

The Russian economist was awarded his Ph.D. in Economics in 1983, for his thesis titled 'Исследование и разработка методов планирования совершенствования управления в отраслевых научно-технических организациях' ('Research and Development of Methods for the Planned Improvement of Management in Industrial Research and Development Organizations').

In 1984, Chubais started presiding over ‘The Young Economists’, a small group of Leningrad-based economists.

This economist and politician is famous for the introduction of reforms to initiate privatization in Russia, which were implemented during the Presidency of Boris Yeltsin. These reforms initially earned him popularity but they were also criticized in the long run. When on the one hand, the citizens of the nation lost all their savings and on the other, the rich continued to amass wealth, his financial moves were condemned.