Vladimir Shumeyko | |
Office: | 1st Chairman of the Federation Council |
Term Start: | 13 January 1994 |
Term End: | 23 January 1996 |
Predecessor: | Office established |
Successor: | Yegor Stroyev |
Office1: | First Deputy Prime Minister |
Primeminister1: | Boris Yeltsin (extraordinary) Yegor Gaidar (acting) Viktor Chernomyrdin |
Predecessor1: | Gennady Burbulis |
Successor1: | Oleg Lobov |
Term Start1: | 2 June 1992 |
Term End1: | 12 December 1993 |
Office2: | Minister of Press and Mass Media |
Term Start2: | 5 October 1993 |
Term End2: | 22 December 1993 |
President2: | Boris Yeltsin |
Primeminister2: | Viktor Chernomyrdin |
Predecessor2: | Mikhail Fedotov |
Successor2: | Office disestablished |
Office3: | Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet |
1Blankname3: | Chairman |
1Namedata3: | Ruslan Khasbulatov |
Predecessor3: | Svetlana Goryacheva |
Successor3: | Nikolay Ryabov |
Term Start3: | 1 November 1991 |
Term End3: | 1 July 1992 |
Birth Date: | February 10, 1945 |
Birth Place: | Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Party: | CPSU |
Education: | Kuban Polytechnic Institute |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Vladimir Filippovich Shumeyko (also spelled Shumeiko) (Russian: link=no|Влади́мир Фили́ппович Шуме́йко; born 10 February 1945) is a Russian political figure.
In November 1991, Vladimir Shumeyko was appointed deputy chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation. In May 1992, Shumeyko, leading a parliamentary delegation, visited Damascus.[1] In June 1992, he became a first deputy prime minister of the Russian government and held that office during the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993. In August 1992, Shumeyko announced that $1 billion of foreign investment was obtained for Russia.[2] Shumeyko held the post of the chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia between January 1994 and January 1996.