Gennady Zyuganov

Gennady Zyuganov
MP
Gennady Zyuganov MP
Геннадий Зюганов
	Zyuganov in 2022
Chair of the Union of Communist Parties
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 22 January 2001
Preceded by	Oleg Shenin
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 14 February 1993
Preceded by	Valentin Kuptsov
Member of the State Duma
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 11 January 1994
Personal details
Born	26 June 1944 (age 80); Mymrino, RSFSR, USSR
Political party	CPRF (from 1993); CPSU (until 1991);
Spouse	Nadezhda Vitalyevna
Children	Andrey; Tatiana;
Relatives	Leonid Zyuganov (grandson)
Education	Oryol State Pedagogical Institute; CPSU Central Committee Academy of Social Sciences;
Awards	Order of Alexander Nevsky; Order of the Badge of Honour; Order of Friendship of Peoples (Belarus); Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation;
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Branch/service	Soviet Army
Years of service	1963–1966
Rank	Colonel

Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (Russian: Генна́дий Андре́евич Зюга́нов; born 26 June 1944) is a Russian politician who has been the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and served as Member of the State Duma since 1993. He is also the Chair of the Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) since 2001. Zyuganov ran for President of Russia four times, most controversially in 1996, when he lost in the second round to Boris Yeltsin.