Gennady Zyuganov

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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
Parliamentary Leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the State Duma
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 January 1994
Preceded by	Position established
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 January 1994
Personal details
Born	(1944-06-26) 26 June 1944 (age 79) 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)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Branch/service	Soviet Army
Years of service	1963–1966
Rank	Colonel

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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 per official results.