Background
Mikhail was born on August 12, 1949, in Moscow, Russian Federation in a family of employees.
Mikhail was born on August 12, 1949, in Moscow, Russian Federation in a family of employees.
After graduating from high school in 1966, he entered the Power Engineering Department of the Moscow Higher Technical School named after NE Bauman, that he graduated in 1972 as a mechanical engineer.
In 1982 he graduated from the Higher Party School of the Moscow State Conservatory.
In 1987 - second higher economic education.
After graduation he worked as an engineer at the defense industry enterprise-Central Scientific Research Institute of Automation and Hydraulics.
In 1975-1977 years Mikhail Shmakov served in the Strategic Missile Force (Strategic Missile Forces) in the Baltic States, the commander of the fire department of the missile complex.
From 1977 to August 20, 1991 a member of the CPSU. In 1977, he returned to the defense industry, where he became a leading engineer. In the Central Research Institute of Automation and Hydraulics he worked on the development and testing of rocket technology, including the Oka complex, and participated in the creation of the “Buran” space system.
Head of the Moscow Trade Unions.
He was at the union work since 1986. From 1986 to 1988 - Chairman of the Moscow City Committee of the Trade Union of Workers of the Defense Industry.
From 1988 to 1990 - Chairman of the bureau of the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Workers of the Defense Industry on the management of trade union organizations.
1990 - Chairman of the Moscow City Council of Trade Unions.
Delegate of the XVIII Congress of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, as well as the XIX Congress of Trade Unions of the USSR (October 23-27, 1990), at which the General Confederation of Trade Unions (VKP) of the USSR was formed. Was elected a member of the Council of the WCP. At the plenary meeting of the Council of the WCP on November 30, 1990, he was elected chairman of the commission on legislative initiative and human rights work.
From 1990 to 1994 - Chairman of the Moscow Federation of Trade Unions.
At the head of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia
From 1993 to the present he is chairman of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia. Five times (1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2015) was re-elected to this position.
• By the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of January 15, 1998, he was incorporated into the Joint Commission for the Coordination of Legislative Activities.
• In 1994-1999, headed the organizing committee of the international hockey tournament "Spartak" Cup.
• In 2004 he was elected president of the General Confederation of Trade Unions.
• In the years 2005-2008, member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.
• Since 2006, he is a member of the Executive Bureau and the General Council of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).
• Since 2007, he is president of the All-European Regional Council of Trade Unions of the International Trade Union Confederation.
• From 1993 to 2003, he was elected a member of the administrative council of the International Labor Organization.
• In the years 2005-2006. was elected vice-president of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
In January 2018 he became Vladimir Putin's confidant in the presidential election on March 18, 2018.
Compositions
He is the author of numerous books and articles on social and labor relations, social policy, theory and practice of the workers' and trade union movement:
• "Trade Unions of Russia on the Threshold of the 20th Century" M .: RASI, 1999
• "The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia in a changing society" M .: FNPR, 2006
• "The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia in questions and answers" M .: FNPR, 2006
On July 28, 2016, the Chairman of the Independent Trade Unions of Russia Mikhail Shmakov joined the Council for Strategic Development of Russia
Shmakov’s hobbies were hunting and motor sport. Favorite edition - the newspaper of the Moscow trade unions "Solidarity". He also reads "Economics and Life", "The Financial Newspaper."
He is married. Son Viktor Mihailovich Shmakov - a businessman, enriched largely thanks to the The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia.
