1. former minister sports and the current Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko in his first specialty is a minder. He received it while studying at the GPTU No. 226 of the river fleet in the city of Petrokrepost, Leningrad Region. In 1987, Mutko graduated in absentia from the Leningrad Institute water transport majoring in Mechanical Engineer on Ship Machines. As president of the Zenit football club, Mutko graduated from the law faculty of St. Petersburg State University in 1999.
2. In 1992, Vitaly Mutko joined the team of the head of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak, taking the post of deputy mayor of the city - chairman of the mayor's office committee on social issues. During the same period, Vladimir Putin worked as chairman of the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office.
3. As an official of the city hall of St. Petersburg, Vitaly Mutko headed the board of trustees of the Zenit football club. The team that was relegated from the elite division was invited to revive the coach Pavel Sadyrin, which led Zenit in 1984 to victory in the USSR championship. Sadyrin really returned the team to the big leagues, but in 1996 he was forced to leave the club. The initiator of the scandalous parting with Sadyrin was Mutko, who since 1997 took over as president of Zenit. Together with the coach, several leading players left the team.
4. In April 2005, Vitaly Mutko was elected head of the Russian Football Union for the first time. During the first coming of Mutko to the RFU, all the main successes of Russian football of the post-Soviet period fell - in May 2005, CSKA won the UEFA Cup, in 2008 Zenit also won the UEFA Cup, adding the UEFA Super Cup to it. At the 2008 European Championship, the Russian team reached the semi-finals, winning the bronze medals of the tournament - best achievement national team since 1988.
5. In 2008, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Vitaly Mutko was appointed Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy Russian Federation. The first Winter Olympics under Minister Mutko turned into a real nightmare for the Russian team - in 2010, at the Games in Vancouver, the Russians won 15 medals (3 gold, 5 silver, 7 bronze and took 11th place in the unofficial team standings. This is the worst result ever domestic sports.6. In 2010, Vitaly Mutko was one of the leaders of the Russian delegation in the elections of the host country of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Mutko delivered a welcoming speech at English language, which went down in history under the name "Let me speak from May Hart in English". An official who did not know English taught the text written on paper in Russian letters. The recording of this speech blew up the Internet.
7. In 2015, Mutko's difficult relationship with the English language made itself felt again. Answering questions from foreign journalists about the corruption scandal in FIFA, the official said: “World cap from Rush from the know of problems. From Veri Good Tempo, from Open New Stadium, Nou Aria. From know problems. From the know of criminality. Since then, the phrase "Know criminality" literally haunts Vitaly Mutko. After this retort Russian President Vladimir Putin gave Mutko a self-instruction manual for the English language.
8. Vitaly Mutko became one of the main defendants in the so-called "McLaren report" related to the investigation of doping in Russian sports. On July 19, 2016, by decision of the IOC Executive Committee, Mutko was deprived of accreditation for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. On October 19, 2016, Mutko left the post of Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation, becoming Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation for Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy.
9. Former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov claims that he has repeatedly discussed with Vitaly Mutko the use of doping by Russian athletes, as well as ways to hide the traces of its use. In particular, according to Rodchenkov, this happened at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Commenting on the accusations, Mutko said: “Let Rodchenkov take his “duchess” himself and ride headfirst along the bobsleigh track. Let's see how far he goes." December 5, 2017 .
10. In 2015, Vitaly Mutko was re-elected head of the Russian Football Union. He is one of the key persons responsible for the preparations for the FIFA World Cup, which in 2018 year will pass in Russia. According to Mutko, the sanctions imposed by the IOC on Russia will not affect the prospects for holding the World Cup in our country.
No longer a minister. There have been talks and rumors about Vitaly Leontyevich's departure from his post for a very long time, and now the point has been made. Only this dot is part of the exclamation mark. Mutko leaves the post of Minister of Sports and goes for a formal promotion -. In this chair, Mutko will definitely do a lot of things that will remain in the memory of the people for centuries. We recall the deeds that Vitaly Leontyevich can already be proud of.
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Introduction to sports
its activities in big sport I didn’t start working as the president of Zenit, as is commonly believed, but a little earlier. From 1992 to 1996, the young and promising vice-mayor of St. Petersburg for social projects was to hold the Goodwill Games, a kind of mini-Olympics of that time. There was no money in the difficult years of the reforms, experience and administrative resources, too, but Vitaly Leontievich managed it. The games were recognized as one of the best and received high marks from the sports federations.
Gus Ivanovich's invitation
Perhaps the main success of Mutko in the football field falls on 2006. The head of the RFU, contrary to the opinion of veterans grumbling about the traditions, decided on a bold move for those times - to put a foreigner at the head of the football team. Yes, what! Guus Hiddink was known in those days as the best specialist in working with national teams. Under his leadership, South Korea and Australia achieved historic success, and the Netherlands kept the mark. The bet on the ability to bring the team to peak form at the right time at the European Championship - 2008 worked like a Swiss watch. The Russians alternately defeated the reigning champions - the Greeks, then the Swedes and in an epic match, after which it was possible to "finish everything", the Dutch. Hiddink received an honorary patronymic Ivanovich as a prefix to the title and became a popular favorite.
"Let me speak from my heart"
Vitaly Mutko's speech in December 2010 in Zurich, where he already presented the Russian application for the 2018 World Cup as Minister of Sports, became a Youtube hit all over the planet. Despite the funny and harsh Russian accent and reading from a piece of paper, she played a positive role in the eyes of the world community. Say, if the minister was already able to pronounce it in English, then we will be able to build such diligent roads with stadiums. And most importantly, the minister really spoke from the bottom of his heart.
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Order for the capture of Kazan
Another undoubted success of the minister was the holding of the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan on a truly Olympic scale. Russian athletes performed at the games with almost the strongest squad and won the medal count with one goal, but the level of arenas, infrastructure, the scale of the opening and closing ceremonies were at their best. For this success, the Minister of Sports received the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree.
Medaliy Leontyevich
After the successful holding of the Olympic Games in Sochi and the victory of the Russian team in its medal standings, Mutko became one of the most popular ministers in the country. Every day he congratulated the next champions and prize-winners and was strongly associated with their medals, for which. Unfortunately, the brilliance of this glory may fade if the revelations of the former head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov backed up with real evidence.
“There is no money, Don Fabio, but you stay there”
Mutko continued the practice of inviting foreign coaches even after leaving Hiddink. When the Russian team for the first time in 12 years made it to the World Cup in 2012, Fabio Capello negotiated an unprecedentedly expensive contract until 2018, including with a ministerial visa. And then, as luck would have it, a crisis broke out and problems with sponsors in the RFU, and Capello was left without a salary. In parallel, the national team began to fail the qualifying round for Euro 2016. The way out of this situation was the financial assistance of the RFU from Alisher Usmanova, parting with the Italian by agreement of the parties and the resignation of the head of the RFU Nikolai Tolstykh, whose post was taken by Mutko himself.
Vitaly Meldonievich
The beginning of 2016 turned into a nightmare for Russian sports. Dozens of athletes, including world stars Maria Sharapova, Pavel Kulizhnikov, Yulia Efimova, Alexander Povetkin and others tested positive for meldonium. The fact that he was included in the list of prohibited drugs from January 1, 2016, "Championship" warned in early October. However, neither the Minister of Sports nor RusADA initiated studies of his withdrawal period and did not work with athletes. Mutko at that moment did not really know what to do, but, fortunately for him, WADA recognized their shortcomings and, in order to avoid mass lawsuits, amnestied most of the athletes who had a small concentration of the substance in the sample.
"Know Crime"
but main reason the resignation of the minister in the underestimation of completely different threats - the massive use of much more serious illegal drugs. Knowing and warning all Alexander Tikhonov now on all talk shows shows a clipping from a newspaper in 2010, where else Jacques Rogge before the Olympics in Vancouver, he called on the Russian sports leadership to finally take care of the problem of mass doping in Russian sports. Vitaly Leontyevich called it nonsense and psychological pressure on Russian athletes before the Games. That was his reaction to the film's release. Hayo Zeppelt on the German TV channel ARD, the revelations of the couple Stepanov, the disqualification of all Russian athletics and the exposure of Rodchenkov. Briefly, the minister's explanations can be summed up in one phrase thrown to foreign journalists: "No criminality."
Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko is one of the most closed officials to the press. The statesman appears before the public either during the major sporting successes of Russian athletes, or as a defendant in scandals. Vitaly Mutko is spoken about in different ways. He is called both a strong business executive, and a hard-working official, and a person from Putin's close circle. Let's try to briefly understand the biography of a state functionary.
Childhood and education
In 1958, a son, Vitaly, was born in the family of a loader and a machine operator near Tuapse. Since childhood, the boy dreamed of connecting his life with the sea. After 8 classes of high school, he decides to enter the river school in Rostov-on-Don. Having flunked the entrance exams, Vitaly wants to try his luck in Leningrad. There he enters first at the vocational school, and then at the naval school of Petrokrepost (now Shlisselburg). After graduation, Vitaly Leontievich worked for 2 years on the excursion motor ship "Vladimir Ilyich", which served excursion routes from the Northern capital to Valaam and Kizhi. The year 1978 became fatal for the future minister. Then he decided to enter the Leningrad River School, where he began to get involved in trade union work, which subsequently provided him with acquaintance with the right people.
Carier start
In 1979, Vitaly Leontyevich joined the ranks of the Communist Party. At the school, he headed the department of the trade union committee, and in 1983, by distribution, he ended up in the committee of the Kirovsky district of Leningrad. In parallel with his work at the post, Mutko continued his studies at the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport. By 1990, Vitaly Mutko could be spoken of as an established statesman. He heads the department for social issues of the district executive committee and becomes one of the initiators of the establishment of the Council of Chairmen. During coup d'état it is this organization that will support the nomination of Anatoly Sobchak for the role of mayor of St. Petersburg. Probably, it was the acquaintance with Anatoly Alexandrovich that provided Mutko with a quick career advancement.
Since 1992, Mutko has been in charge of physical education, medicine and sports in the government of the first mayor of the northern capital. It was then that he met Vladimir Putin, who also worked in the Sobchak team. The civil service of Vitaly Leontievich was interrupted in 1996, when the governor of St. Petersburg became the governor of both Mutko and Putin, and almost the entire team of the first mayor.
Mutko and football
Back in 1992, Vitaly Leontievich began to supervise the St. Petersburg "Zenith" on behalf of the city administration. In 1995 he became the formal president of the team. Then they said about Vitaly Mutko that he allocates about half a million rubles from the treasury annually for the functioning of the club. Later, he signs a contract with the Baltika brewing company, which became the first sponsor of Zenit. After his dismissal from government posts in 1996, Vitaliy fully concentrated on football work. In 1999, he signed a contract with Gazprom, which is the main shareholder of Zenit to this day. Mutko remained club president until 2005. During this time, the team has significantly improved, breaking into the top five leaders of the domestic championship.
From 2001 to 2003, there was a parallel position held by Vitaly Mutko. according to the rules, he cannot be the head of one of the championship clubs at the same time, but for some reason this did not embarrass the football officials. In 2005, Mutko again headed the organization, and in 2009 he even became one of the authorized members of FIFA. During his reign there were a number of scandals. The latest was the failure of the Russian team under Hidding and the further payment of a huge severance pay to the coach.
Mutko - minister
In 2008, Putin becomes prime minister and begins to form a cabinet of ministers around him. The portfolio was also received by his old colleague Vitaly Mutko. The sports minister took office on May 12. A year earlier, Mutko was talked about as one of the responsible persons in the preparation of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014. The Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko has focused one of the main directions of his work on the organization of another large-scale project - the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Despite a number of setbacks, he managed to keep the portfolio of the minister in 2012, when Dmitry Medvedev became his immediate superior. Under Vitaly Mutko, the Russian Olympic team for the first time in many years did not enter the top three at the 2012 Olympics. However, the minister is assigned a number of merits. It was under his leadership that they managed to win the right to host the World Cup, the Universiade in Kazan and the Olympic Games in Sochi. Despite all the shortcomings, even negative-minded citizens call the official a strong business executive.
Mutko and the Internet
In 2010, Vitaly Mutko became famous on the Internet. At the FIFA meeting, he represented Russia as a contender for the title of host of the 2018 football championship. In an attempt to impress the public, he decided to give a speech in English. The expression "let me speak from my heart", said by an official with a terrible accent, became a popular meme on the Web the very next day. The video with the speech on Youtube gained several million views in a matter of days.
Vitaly Leontievich Mutko was born on December 8, 1958 in the village of Kurinskaya Krasnodar Territory. In 1972 he entered a vocational school, and then moved to the Nautical School of the city of Petrokrepost, Leningrad Region. In 1977-1978, Mutko was a sailor on the ships of the North-Western River Shipping Company and the Leningrad Sea Port. In 1978 he continued his studies, enrolling in the Leningrad River School. He graduated in 1983 and was sent to the Kirov District Executive Committee of Leningrad. At the same time he entered the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport, graduating in 1987.
In the executive committee of the Kirovsky district, Mutko worked as an instructor and head of the department for social issues. By 1990, he became secretary, and after that, chairman of the executive committee. Also in 1990, Mutko became a deputy of the Kirov District Council, and in 1991 - the head of the administration of the Kirov District. In 1992, Mutko took the position of Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak and Chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Social Issues. He supervised culture, health care and sports.
Since 1992, Mutko has been the curator of the Zenit football club from the government of St. Petersburg, and in 1995 he became its president. In 1996, Vladimir Yakovlev became the new governor of St. Petersburg instead of Sobchak, after which Mutko left the city government and focused on working at Zenit. He remained club president until 2003.
In 1999, Mutko graduated from the Faculty of Law of Saint Petersburg State University. In the 2000 presidential election, he was one of the confidants of candidate Vladimir Putin. In the same year, he headed the election headquarters of Valentina Matvienko, who announced her intention to participate in the election of the governor of St. Petersburg, but then withdrew her candidacy. In 2003, after Putin, who became president, removed Yakovlev, Matvienko was nevertheless elected head of the city.
From August 2001 to October 2003, Mutko served as president of the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL). On October 29, 2003, Matvienko was appointed representative in the Federation Council from the government of St. Petersburg, became chairman of the commission on youth and sports. On April 2, 2005, at a meeting of the executive committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU), Mutko was elected president of this organization. In June 2006 he defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of economic sciences. On February 21, 2007, he was re-confirmed as a senator. In September 2007, he was appointed a member of the Council for Development under the President of the Russian Federation physical education and sports and the preparation and holding of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
In March 2008, Dmitry Medvedev, First Deputy Prime Minister and Putin's successor, won the presidential election. On May 8, at a meeting of the State Duma, Putin was approved as prime minister, and on May 12, he made appointments to the government. Mutko headed the newly created Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation in the cabinet. At the same time, he retained the post of head of the RFU.
Mutko is married and has two daughters.
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Biography, life story of Mutko Vitaly Leontyevich
Vitaly Leontievich Mutko is a politician, head of the Ministry of Sports of Russia. Previously, he was the head of the Ministry of Sports and Tourism, a member of the Federation Council, and served as vice-mayor of St. Petersburg.
basic information
Mutko was born in the village of Kurinskaya (Krasnodar Territory) on December 8, 1958. The father of the future successful official worked as a loader, and his mother worked as a machine operator in the timber industry. As a child, Vitaly was a calm and obedient child. At school, he studied diligently and was considered one of the best students.
As a child, Vitaly dreamed of being a sea captain. After graduating from 8 classes, the boy left for Rostov-on-Don, because he wanted to study at the river school. However, the exams were failed, but Vitaly was not at a loss and left for Leningrad, where he entered a vocational school, and then transferred to a nautical school, which he graduated with honors, having received the specialty of a minder.
Mutko, after studying at a vocational school, worked as a sailor in the seaport of Leningrad. He was engaged in sightseeing ships and bulk carriers, on which he sailed many times to other countries. In 1978, Vitaly entered the local river school, after which he began to study at the Institute of Water Transport.
After graduating from the institute, Vitaly began studying at the St. Petersburg State University at the department of economics. In 2006, Mutko defended his Ph.D. State University finance and economics. Despite his love of the sea, Vitaly Mutko turned his attention to big politics and important connections, which helped him become a key figure in sports and government circles.
Political activity
While studying at the institute, Vitaly was active on the Komsomol line, which eventually led him to the Communist Party. Party work made Mutko the head of the Kirovsky district of Leningrad. Further, he became one of the founders of the Council of Chairmen, and a year later the Council nominated the mayor of the city.
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Devotion made it possible for Mutko to reach serious heights in the political sphere. Vitaly Leontyevich received the post of vice-mayor of the city, where he controlled sports, culture and health issues. At this time, the team included many well-known politicians, for example, .
In 1992, Vitaly Leontyevich got into football, becoming the curator of the Zenit government club, of which he became the head a little later. After 4 years, Mutko's career began to decline, as the team promised to resign if they lost. The mayor of the city still lost the battle for the seat, but only Kozak and Mutko left the government.
After leaving his post, Vitaly Leontievich began to actively engage in Zenit and led this team until 2003. Thanks to Mutko, the team reached a qualitatively new level and became elite.
Head of the Ministry of Sports
In 2000, Mutko took the position of head of the Premier League, after 5 years he began work as president of the Football Union of Russia. Further, Vitaly Leontyevich was appointed to the post of chairman of the commission dealing with sports.
After becoming president of the country in 2008, Mutko began to head the Ministry of Tourism, Sports and Youth Policy, while he did not leave the post of president of the RFU. The public reacted ambiguously to such an act, so Mutko left the Federation Council and concentrated on the problems of the executive branch.
A year later, the official became a member of the executive committee of FIFA - the International Football Federation, a few months later he announced that sports structures should be headed by athletes, not officials. Mutko stopped working as president of the RFU, but retained the position of minister of sports.
In 2015, the official returned the post of president of the RFU. The combination of the work of the Minister of Sports and the President of the RFU was provided for until September 2016. The official himself was going to be the head of the RFU until 2018, and specifically - before the start of the World Cup in Russia.
Private life
He met his wife Tatyana Mutko when she worked in the personnel structure of the Baltic Sea Shipping. Tatyana Mutko left her job and devoted her life to her family and husband.
In 2010, Tatyana became a figure in the scandal that unfolded as a result of the visit of the Russian delegation to Vancouver for the Olympics. It turned out that Mutko's wife is not an official member of this delegation, therefore she cannot carry out such visits at public expense. An unfortunate misunderstanding hastened to settle, Mutko's wife paid 52 thousand rubles in compensation for her flight.
The couple have two daughters: Maria and Elena. The eldest daughter Elena is a serious entrepreneur and heads the Leon Dental Center. Maria decided to follow in her father's footsteps and majored in economics.
Mutko owns two plots of land, as well as an apartment of 18 square meters. The spouses have shares in other apartments.