Viktor Chernomyrdin

Viktor Chernomyrdin
Viktor Chernomyrdin
Виктор Черномырдин
	Chernomyrdin in 2010
Prime Minister of Russia
	Acting; 23 August 1998 – 11 September 1998
President	Boris Yeltsin
Preceded by	Sergey Kiriyenko
Succeeded by	Yevgeny Primakov
	In office; 14 December 1992 – 23 March 1998
President	Boris Yeltsin
Preceded by	Yegor Gaidar (acting)
Succeeded by	Sergey Kiriyenko
Ambassador of Russia to Ukraine
	In office; 21 May 2001 – 11 June 2009
Nominated by	Vladimir Putin
Preceded by	Ivan Aboimov
Succeeded by	Mikhail Zurabov
Acting President of Russia
	In office; 5 November 1996 – 6 November 1996
Preceded by	Boris Yeltsin
Succeeded by	Boris Yeltsin
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
	In office; 30 May 1992 – 14 December 1992
Prime Minister	Boris Yeltsin (de facto); Yegor Gaidar (acting)
Minister of the Gas Industry; (Soviet Union)
	In office; 13 February 1985 – 17 July 1989
Premier	Nikolai Tikhonov; Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded by	Vasily Dinkov
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Personal details
Born	Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin; 9 April 1938; Chernyi Otrog, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	3 November 2010 (aged 72); Moscow, Russia
Political party	Communist (1961–1991); Independent (1991–1995); Our Home – Russia (1995–2001); United Russia (2001–2010)
Spouse	Valentina Chernomyrdina (m. 1961; died 2010)
Children	Andrey ; Vitali
Awards	Order of Friendship

Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (Russian: Ви́ктор Степа́нович Черномы́рдин, IPA: [ˈvʲiktər sʲtʲɪˈpanəvʲɪtɕ tɕɪrnɐˈmɨrdʲɪn]; 9 April 1938 – 3 November 2010) was a Soviet and Russian politician and businessman. He was the Minister of Gas Industry of the Soviet Union (13 February 1985 – 17 July 1989), after which he became first chairman of Gazprom energy company and the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of Russia (1992–1998) based on consecutive years. He was a key figure in Russian politics in the 1990s and a participant in the transition from a planned to a market economy. From 2001 to 2009, he was Russia's ambassador to Ukraine. After that, he was designated as a presidential adviser.^[1]

Chernomyrdin was known in Russia and Russian-speaking countries for his language style, which contained numerous malapropisms and syntactic errors.^[2] Many of his sayings became aphorisms and idioms in the Russian language, one example being the expression "We wanted the best, but it turned out like always." (Russian: Хотели как лучше, а получилось как всегда).^[3]

Chernomyrdin died on 3 November 2010 after a long illness. He was buried beside his wife in Novodevichy Cemetery on 5 November, and his funeral was broadcast live on Russian federal TV channels.^[4]

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^ "Collection of Chernomyrdin's quotes at a Russian humour website (in Russian)". Dosuga. 25 August 1998. Archived from the original on 10 March 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
^ Мы хотели как лучше... Archived 6 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine, a story of the main Chernomyrdin's proverb by Konstantin Dushenko, an aphorism collector (in Russian)]
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[dosuga.net-2] "Collection of Chernomyrdin's quotes at a Russian humour website (in Russian)". Dosuga. 25 August 1998. Archived from the original on 10 March 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2010.

[dushenko.ru-3] Мы хотели как лучше... Archived 6 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine, a story of the main Chernomyrdin's proverb by Konstantin Dushenko, an aphorism collector (in Russian)]

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