Anatoly Sobchak

Anatoly Sobchak
Anatoly Sobchak
Анатолий Собчак
	Sobchak in 1990
Mayor of Saint Petersburg
	In office; 12 June 1991 – 5 June 1996
Preceded by	Boris Gidaspov
Succeeded by	Vladimir Yakovlev
Personal details
Born	10 August 1937; Chita, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	19 February 2000 (aged 62); Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia
Resting place	Nikolskoe Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1988–1991); Independent (1991–1996); Our Home – Russia (1996–2000);
Spouses	; Nonna Gandzyuk (m. 1958, divorced) ; Lyudmila Narusova; (m. 1980)
Children	Maria, Ksenia
Alma mater	Leningrad State University Faculty of Law
Profession	Legal scholar, educator

Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak (Russian: Анатолий Александрович Собчак, IPA: [ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ sɐpˈtɕak]; 10 August 1937 – 19 February 2000) was a Russian politician, a co-author of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the first democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg. He is known to be the mentor of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.