FACTBOX: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s biography

FACTBOX: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s biography © Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASSMOSCOW, May 7. /TASS/. On October 7, 2026, Russian President Vladimir Putin turns 74. Background, education, academic degree Vladimir Putin was born in Leningrad (since September 1991 St. Petersburg) on October 7, 1952. In 1975, Putin graduated from the Department of Law (International Law Branch) of the Leningrad State University. He underwent a retraining course of KGB operatives in Leningrad (1976) and in Moscow (1979) at the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB of the USSR. In 1985, he graduated from the Andropov Institute of the KGB of the USSR (currently the Academy of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, SVR). Academic degree - Ph.D. in Economics. In 1997, Putin defended a thesis entitled Strategic Planning of the Mineral and Resources Base Reproduction in the Context of Emerging Free Market Economy Relations (St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region) at the St. Petersburg Mining Institute. Career in the USSR’s state security services (1970s-1980s) Upon graduation from the Leningrad State University, Putin was assigned to a position in the KGB of the USSR. His first job was in the secretariat and then in the counterintelligence unit of the KGB Office for Leningrad and the Leningrad Region. After a course of studies in Moscow, he was transferred to Department No. 1 (foreign intelligence) of the KGB Office for Leningrad and the Leningrad Region. In 1985, he was given an assignment at the KGB office in the German Democratic Republic (united with the Federal Republic of Germany into a single state in 1990) and worked in Dresden up to 1990. He held positions of a senior operative, assistant and senior assistant to the chief of a section. Putin returned to the Soviet Union in January 1990. Jobs at the St. Petersburg city administration (first half of the 1990s) Starting from February 1990, he worked as a foreign affairs assistant to the Leningrad State University’s rector and then, as an adviser to Leningrad’s Mayor Anatoly Sobchak. In June 1991, Putin was appointed to chair the foreign relations committee of St. Petersburg Mayor’s Office. On August 19-21, 1991, an attempted coup d'etat took place in the USSR, organized by the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP), which included members of the top Soviet leadership. Vladimir Putin, along with other officials from the Leningrad city administration, opposed the GKChP. On August 20, 1991, he submitted his resignation from the state security services. In 1992, Putin took the position of St. Petersburg’s deputy mayor while retaining the post of the foreign relations committee chief. In March 1994, when Sobchak took over as the head of the city’s administration, Putin was appointed his first deputy. Later, when the posts of the head of the city administration and mayor were merged, Putin’s position was renamed to deputy mayor, chairman of the city’s foreign relations committee. Positions in the Presidential Property Management Directorate and the Presidential Staff (second half of the 1990s) After Sobchak's defeat in the St. Petersburg mayoral election in June 1996, Vladimir Putin left his post. In August of the same year Putin was transferred to a position at the Presidential Property Management Directorate in the capacity of its deputy chief. He supervised the directorate’s department of law and foreign property-related matters. In March 1997, he started serving as deputy chief of the presidential staff and chief of the presidential Main Control Directorate. In May-July 1998, Putin served as first deputy chief of the presidential staff (it was headed by Anatoly Chubais in 1996-1997 and by Valentin Yumashev in 1997-1998). Director of the FSB, head of government (1998-2000) Between July 1998 and August 1999, Putin served as director of the Federal Security Service (FSB). Simultaneously, from March to August 1999, he was the Russian Security Council’s secretary. On August 9, 1999, President Boris Yeltsin said in a televised address that he had made a decision to dismiss the government and asked the State Duma to endorse Vladimir Putin as the country’s new prime minister. Yeltsin said he saw Putin as his successor and hoped that he would manage to consolidate society. On the same day, Putin was appointed first deputy chairman of the Russian government and acting head of the cabinet of ministers. On August 16, 1999, the State Duma approved Putin’s appointment as prime minister (233 out of 439 deputies voted for him, 84 against, and 17 abstained). During his tenures as President of the Russian Federation (2000-2008) Between December 31, 1999, and May 7, 2000, he was Russia’s acting president after President Boris Yeltsin had declared his resignation thus placing presidential duties in Putin’s hands. On March 26, 2000, Russia saw an early presidential election. Putin, nominated by a group of voters, emerged the winner to have collected 52.94% of the votes in the first round. Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov was second with 29.21%. The inauguration of the newly-elected president took place on May 7, 2000. On March 14, 2004 Putin was elected for a second term, receiving 71.31% of the vote in the first round (Communist candidate Nikolay Kharitonov was the runner-up with 13.69%). His inauguration took place on May 7, 2004. Putin took office for another four-year term. Russia’s prime minister, United Russia party’s leader (in 2008-2012) Dmitry Medvedev, first deputy prime minister, was elected Russia’s president in 2008. On May 8, 2008, the State Duma approved Vladimir Putin as head of government (392 deputies out of 448 voted in favor, while 56 opposed the appointment). A presidential decree appointing him was signed that same day. Vladimir Putin succeeded Viktor Zubkov as prime minister and led the government until May 7, 2012. In 2008-2012, he led the United Russia party (without being the party’s member). Head of state (since 2012) On September 24, 2011, at the proposal of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the 12th Congress of the United Russia party approved Vladimir Putin as the party's candidate for head of state in the 2012 election. In the March 4, 2012 election Putin was elected president by a 63.6% majority vote in the first round. Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov was second with 17.18%. Putin took office on May 7, 2012. Starting from 2012, the presidential term of office was extended to six years in accordance with an amendment to the Constitution. On March 18, 2018 Putin was re-elected as Russia’s president by a 76.69% majority vote. He participated in the election as a candidate from the United Russia party. The runner-up, Pavel Grudinin of the Communist Party, received 11.77%. On May 7, 2018, Putin took office for a term of six years. On March 17, 2024, Putin was re-elected president once again, garnering 87.28% of the vote, the highest figure in the history of Russia’s presidential elections. He ran in the election as an independent candidate. Communist contender Nikolay Kharitonov came second with 4.31%. On May 7, 2024, the inauguration ceremony took place for Vladimir Putin to assume the office of Russia’s president for a new six-year term. As head of state, Putin is commander-in-chief of the Russian Armed Forces and chairman of the State Council and the Security Council. He also leads Russia’s Military-Industrial Commission (since September 10, 2014). Chair of the presidential councils: On Interethnic Relations (since June 2012); On Countering Corruption and On Science and Education (both since July 2012); On the Development of Physical Culture and Sports and On the Development of Local Self-Government (both since August 2012); On Strategic Development and National Projects (since July 2018); and On Culture (since October 2025). Serves as chair of the presidential commissions On the Development Strategy of the Fuel and Energy Complex and Environmental Safety, and On Military-Technical Cooperation between Russia and Foreign States (since June 2012). Public activities Vladimir Putin heads the All-Russia People's Front public movement, established in 2013 on his initiative as a coalition of socio-political forces. He serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society (since 2010), Lomonosov Moscow State University (since 2013), and the Russian Academy of Sciences (since May 2025), as well as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the non-profit organization Russia - Land of Opportunity (since 2019). Titles and Awards Retired Colonel. 1st Class Active State Counsellor of the Russian Federation (1997). Holder of the Order of the Badge of Honor (1988) and the Order of Honor (1996). He also holds foreign awards: Grand Cross (Grand-croix) of the Legion of Honour (France, 2006); the Order of Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam, 2001); the Order of the Golden Eagle/Altyn Qyran (Kazakhstan, 2004); the Order of Ismoili Somoni, 1st Class (Tajikistan, 2007); the Order of King Abdulaziz (Saudi Arabia, 2007); the Order of Zayed (UAE, 2007); the Order of Outstanding Merit/Buyuk Xizmatlari Uchun (Uzbekistan, 2008); the Order of the Precious Wand (Mongolia, 2009); the Order of the Liberator (Venezuela, 2010); the Order of Friendship of Peoples (Belarus, 2013); the Order of Saint Charles (Principality of Monaco, 2013); and the Order of Jose Marti (Cuba, 2014), the Order of the Republic of Serbia, 1st Class (2014), the Order of Manas, 1st Class (Kyrgyzstan, 2017), the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit (Guinea, 2017), the Order of Friendship (China, 2018), the Order of Uatsamonga (South Ossetia, 2018), the Order of Agostinho Neto (Angola, 2019), the Order of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Leader of the Nation Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan, 2019), the Order of Friendship, Highest Class (Oliy Darajali Do‘stlik, Uzbekistan, 2022), and the Order For Special Patriotic Care and Love for Republika Srpska (2023). In addition, Vladimir Putin’s awards include the Bronze Medal of Merit of the National People's Army of the GDR (1988) and the Gold Medal of the Parliament of Greece (2005). He was awarded the A. M. Gorchakov Commemorative Medal (of the Russian Foreign Ministry, 2001). Putin holds a number of ecclesiastical awards, including the Order of Saint Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles and Grand Prince, 1st Class (Russian Orthodox Church, 2002); the Order of Glory and Honor (Russian Orthodox Church, 2007); the Order of Saint Sergius of Radonezh, 1st Class (Russian Orthodox Church); the Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky, Right-Believing Prince (Russian Orthodox Church, 2024); and the Order of Saint Savva, 1st Class (Serbian Orthodox Church, 2011). He is an Honorary Citizen of Kazan (2005), St. Petersburg (2006), Astrakhan (2008), Sortavala (2010), and Sevastopol (2016), and the Chechen Republic (2024) Recognition and language skills Honorary doctor of a number of Russian and foreign academies and universities, including the Russian Military Medical Academy, St. Petersburg State University, Turkmen State University, Yerevan State University, Baku Slavic University (Azerbaijan), the University of Belgrade (Serbia), and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India). Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Recipient of the Peter the Great National Public Award (2001), the award For Outstanding Activities in Strengthening the Unity of Orthodox Peoples (2002), the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called for Faith and Fidelity (2004), and the Confucius Peace Prize (China, 2011). Named Person of the Year by the American magazine Time in 2007. Topped the list of the world's most powerful people according to the American magazine Forbes in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. In 2017, the US cable channel Showtime aired The Putin Interviews, a documentary by director Oliver Stone based on more than a dozen conversations with the Russian President held over the course of two years. An avenue in Grozny, the Chechen Republic (2008), a peak in the Tian Shan mountain range in Kyrgyzstan (2011), and streets in Bethlehem (Palestine, 2012) and Tskhinval, the capital of South Ossetia (2019), have been named after Vladimir Putin. Co-authored (with Vasily Shestakov and Alexey Levitsky) the book entitled Learning Judo with Vladimir Putin. Speaks German and English. 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