Background
SOBCHAK, Anatoliy was born in 1937 in Leningrad. In 1958, he married Nonna(have daughter Maria). In 1980 he married Lyudmila (have daughter Ksenia).
SOBCHAK, Anatoliy was born in 1937 in Leningrad. In 1958, he married Nonna(have daughter Maria). In 1980 he married Lyudmila (have daughter Ksenia).
After graduating from Leningrad State University he worked for three years as a lawyer in Stavropol, then returned to Leningrad State University for graduate studies (1962–1965).
In 1990 Sobchak was elected a deputy of the Leningrad City Council, and in May he became the chairman of the Council. He was Mayor of St Petersburg in 1991-1996.
Sobchak began his political career as an opponent of totalitarianism and state violence, an advocate of civil liberties, and a defender of justice and law against despotism. But as things developed, these democratic impulses increasingly took on a purely declamatory character.
The logic of the capitalist reforms demanded the implementation of a hard-line policy that would secure a historically unparalleled distribution of former state property to a thin layer of private owners. A form of Social Darwinism accordingly became the mainstay of Sobchak's politics.
CPSU until 1990; of Supreme Soviet Committee Questions of Legislation, Legality and Law and Order.