Putin's life story since childhood
President Vladimir Putin is particularly important against the backdrop of recent events in the world, which has made knowing his life story a small piece of information that is of interest to the world at present.
Vladimir Putin was born on October 7th in Leningrad for a year of nine hundred and fifty-two AD. St. Petersburg, now the city under siege nine hundred days into World War II Putin at that time was a little boy who was playing on the street and at that time he was being bullied, He had lost a baby brother before him because of the war conditions and lack of health care that Russia and the world had been living in before Vladimir Putin's birth.
He served in the submarine fleet in the early 1930s, and his father also served in the NKVD destruction battalion in early World War II, later, he was transferred to the regular army and in 1942, he was severely injured.
After the war, Putin's family moved into a room in a shared apartment at a house in St. Petersburg in Paskov Lane, attending elementary school in Leningrad in 1960-1968.
After eighth grade, he attended high school. He was a scientific school focused on chemistry under the auspices of a technological institute and completed his studies there in 1970.
Vladimir Putin graduated in 1975 as his graduation project from the "Principle of MFN Trade in International Law" Putin joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and remained a member until the party disappeared from existence, and Putin served as a spy or appointee to the Soviet Union outside his country's territory for a while.
Putin met Anatoly Sobczak, who was an assistant professor and taught business law and later became co-author of the Russian Constitution and married Lyudmila Shkrebneva with two daughters, Maria and Katrina.
Putin went on to work for St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak as an assistant and in 1994 became deputy mayor.
During Putin's reign in the city government, he was said to have helped the city build highways, connections and hotels, all to support foreign investment, although the city of Saint Petersburg never grew to become the financial force many had hoped for, its fortunes improved as many foreign investors moved into it, such as Coca-Cola and Japanese electronics company NEC.
Putin served about fifteen years as a foreign intelligence officer at the KGB (State Security Committee) including six years in Dresden, East Germany.
He retired from KGB service in 1990 with the rank of lieutenant colonel and returned to Russia to become a security officer for Leningrad State University and was responsible for the institution's external relations.
Putin was appointed through Boris Yeltsin in July 1998 as Director of the Federal Security Service, after which he became Secretary of the Security Council in 1999, and Yeltsin appointed Putin as Prime Minister.
In practice, Putin was not well known to the people and his acceptance of the people rose when he launched a well-organized military operation against separatist rebels in Chechnya.
The people of Russia expressed appreciation for Putin's courage, as well as his support in a new electoral bloc, thus ensuring success in the December parliamentary elections.
Vladimir Putin's first and second presidential term (2000-2004 and 2004-2008) unexpectedly announced his resignation on 31 December 1999 and appointed Putin as acting president. Putin easily won the March 2000 election with 53 percent of the vote.
As president, Putin promised to end corruption and also create a robust orderly market economy and quickly reaffirmed his control over Russia's 89 regions and republics.
Divided into seven new federal regions, each headed by a representative appointed by the President, it removed the right of district governors to sit in the Federation's Senate of the Russian Parliament.
It also reduced the power of unpopular Russian financiers and the media tycoons of so-called "oligarchs" through the closure of various media outlets and the initiation of criminal proceedings against different dignitaries.
In Chechnya he faced a mainly difficult situation of rebels who launched attacks in Moscow and war attacks on Russian troops from the region's mountains.
In Putin's first speech as acting president, the people promised slogans such as "freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, freedom of the press, right to private property - these fundamental principles of a civilized society will be protected", in addition Putin fired many Yeltsin supporters and relatives from his government.
A military campaign was also announced in 2002, but the number of victims remained high in 2001. United States President George Bush's decision to abandon the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, in 2002-2003, Putin joined German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and the French President, Jacques Chirac opposed United States and British plans to use force to push Saddam Hussein's Government in Iraq.
What was Vladimir Putin's father doing?
Putin is the youngest son of three of his father's children, Vladimir Spiridovic Putin. His mother was Maria Ivanovna Butina. Vladimir Putin's grandfather, Spiridon Putin, was a personal cook for Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. His mother was a factory worker and his father was a Soviet Navy recruiter.
Vladimir Putin's father is an army man whose father was recruited into the submarine fleet of the Russian army and completed his tenure before the outbreak of World War II, sent back to the front during World War II, ending up with a serious injury that ended up limping for life because of the wounds of the war he sustained.
Vladimir Putin's wife
Vladimir Putin worked to prevent the media from learning much about his personal life. Lyudmila Alexandrovna Ochiritnaya married Putin from 1983 to 2014.
Lyudmila was a flight attendant for Aeroflot's Kaliningrad branch who met Putin in Leningrad and married in July 1983.
The couple announced their divorce publicly on Russian state television after attending a ballet show, Putin said "it was a joint decision that we barely see each other every one of us have our own life."
Vladimir Putin's children
Putin has two daughters of his divorced Lyudmila who have not publicly acknowledged his children, although the media has reported that Putin has two intentions with his ex-wife.
There are also unconfirmed reports that he may have another daughter in 2015 from a relationship with former Russian rhythm gymnast Alina Kabaeva.
The presence of a child or the affirmation of the relationship with Kapiva was not confirmed, his daughter's names are Maria and Katrina, Maria, the eldest, was born in Leningrad in 1985, Katrina was born in Germany in 1986 when the family lived there during her father's tenure at KGB.
Maria studied biology at college and went to Moscow Medical School, while Katrina specialized in Asian studies at college.
