Yegor Gaidar

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Yegor Gaidar
Егор Гайдар
Gaidar in 1999
Prime Minister of Russia Acting
In office 15 June 1992 – 15 December 1992
President	Boris Yeltsin
First Deputy	Vladimir Shumeyko
Preceded by	Boris Yeltsin (acting)
Succeeded by	Viktor Chernomyrdin
First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
In office 18 September 1993 – 20 January 1994
Prime Minister	Viktor Chernomyrdin
In office 2 March 1992 – 15 December 1992
President	Boris Yeltsin
Minister of Finance
In office 11 November 1991 – 2 April 1992
President	Boris Yeltsin
Preceded by	Igor Lazarev
Succeeded by	Vasily Barchuk
Personal details
Born	Yegor Timurovich Gaidar (1956-03-19)19 March 1956 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	16 December 2009(2009-12-16) (aged 53) Odintsovo, Russia
Political party	Union of Rightist Forces (2001–2008)
Other political affiliations	CPSU (1980–1991) Democratic Choice (1994–2001)
Spouse(s)	Irina Smirnova (div.) Maria Strugatskaya
Children	3 sons and daughter, Maria Gaidar[1][2]
Education	Moscow State University
Signature

Yegor Timurovich Gaidar (Russian: Его́р Тиму́рович Гайда́р, pronounced [jɪˈɡor tʲɪˈmurəvʲɪtɕ ɡɐjˈdar]; 19 March 1956 – 16 December 2009) was a Soviet and Russian economist, politician, and author, and was the Acting Prime Minister of Russia from 15 June 1992 to 14 December 1992.

He was the architect of the controversial shock therapy reforms administered in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which brought him both praise and harsh criticism. He participated in the preparation of the Belovezh Accords. Many Russians held him responsible for the economic hardships that plagued the country in the 1990s that resulted in mass poverty and hyperinflation among other things, although liberals praised him as a man who did what had to be done to save the country from complete collapse.^[1] Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, who advised the Russian government in the early 1990s, called Gaidar "the intellectual leader of many of Russia's political and economic reforms" and "one of the few pivotal actors" of the period.^[3]

Gaidar died of pulmonary edema, provoked by myocardial ischemia on 16 December 2009.^[4]