Main achievements: judicial and administrative reforms, “pacification” of the North Caucasus, preparation for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.
Family
Was married twice. First wife - Lyudmila Kozak– heads the charity foundation “Family for Every Child”.
Eldest son - Alexey Kozak(born 1984) – 2009 – investment manager of the department of direct investments and special projects of VTB Capital, an investment subsidiary of VTB State Bank. He is also a business partner of close friends of the brothers. Magomedovs who have serious commercial interests in Olympic Sochi. Owns a share in the YuVA company located near Moscow (affiliated with the First Mining Company of the Summa group).
Younger son - Alexander Kozak(born in 1988) – in 2009 Graduated from the Faculty of Management of the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Second wife - Natalia Kvacheva– partner of the law firm "YUST", once founded by D. Kozak.
Kozak’s younger brother was once the owner of a network of gas stations, then became the head of one of the banks.
Biography
1976-1978 - served in the special forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the USSR General Staff. Then he studied at the Vinnitsa Polytechnic Institute, after which he moved to Leningrad (St. Petersburg).
1985 - Graduated from the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University. 1985-1989 – prosecutor, senior prosecutor of the Leningrad prosecutor's office. 1989 - Head of the legal department of the Monolit-Kirovstroy concern, legal adviser to the Association of Sea Trade Ports.
He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, the Order of St. Anne, the Order of Akhmad Kadyrov, the badge of honor for services to Kabardino-Balkaria, and the medal "Glory of Adygea". He enjoys skiing and tennis.
Policy
1990-1991 - Deputy Head of the Legal Department of the Leningrad City Executive Committee, then Head of the Legal Department of the City Council. Here I met Vladimir Putin. At the same time, he created the legal company Neva YUST. The company's partner is a State Duma deputy of the fourth, fifth and sixth convocations Vladimir Pligin, is considered a close friend of Kozak. Pligina repeatedly tipped to become Minister of Justice.
1994 – Chairman of the Legal Committee of the St. Petersburg City Hall, member of the Government of St. Petersburg. Considered the author of the city charter of St. Petersburg.
1996 – after defeat Anatoly Sobchak in the elections of the head of the city of Kozak at the request Putin remained in the city government. Noted by a large number of vetoes imposed on bills of local deputies. There was even the term “Kozak sieve,” which meant a strict check of bills for compliance with the Constitution and city laws.
1998 – Kozak was appointed vice-governor of St. Petersburg, but subsequently resigned due to disagreements with the governor Vladimir Yakovlev.
In May 1999 there were rumors about Kozak’s appointment as deputy head of the presidential administration for legal issues, without patronage Putin. Immediately after appointment Putin Prime Minister Kozak moved to the government apparatus. Putin tried to lobby for appointment Vladimir Strzhalovsky Minister of Sports, and Kozak Prosecutor General of Russia, however, as a result of complex behind-the-scenes games, both appointments failed, and the position of prosecutor went to Vladimir Ustinov from the “Yeltsin team.”
With the participation of Kozak, he was given the position of chief of staff of the government with the rank of minister. Kozak’s appointment was regarded by the media as compensation for the fact that his candidacy was not nominated for the post of Prosecutor General and he was not appointed presidential envoy in one of the federal districts. He was involved in bringing legislative acts of Russian regions into compliance with federal law, and was responsible for the preparation of judicial, administrative and local government reform.
In the winter of 1999-2000. Kozak oversaw the development of the project for the strategic development of Russia until 2010 (it was handled by the “Center for Strategic Research” under the leadership). Kozak also had to prepare the election campaign Putin, however, this task was entrusted Dmitry Medvedev.
Since June 2000 – Deputy head of the presidential administration.
In August 2000 was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO Sovcomflot.
Winter 2003 Kozak became the head of the election headquarters Putin. After the election, he returned to the White House as chief of staff.
In 2004 headed the government apparatus with the rank of minister.
It was expected that in his new position he would continue the reform of the executive branch, as well as reorganize the Central Bank and the presidential administration.
In September 2004 After the terrorist attack in Beslan, Kozak was relieved of his post as head of the government apparatus and appointed presidential plenipotentiary representative in the Southern Federal District. It was not possible to pacify the North Caucasus; conflict resolution was carried out “manually”.
2007 - Minister of Regional Development of the Government. Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the State Corporation for the Construction of Olympic Venues and the Development of the City of Sochi as a Mountain Resort. After winning the presidential election, Medvedev retained the post of head of the Ministry of Regional Development in Putin’s government.
2008 - Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, responsible for hosting the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.
In May 2012 reappointed to the post of Deputy Prime Minister. In recent years, Kozak's legislative and managerial activities have declined significantly.
In February 2014, Kozak said that excluding infrastructure costs, 214 billion rubles were spent on preparations for the Sochi Olympics. However, the costs were completely worth it, as they transformed the image and “melted the ice of skepticism regarding the new Russia.” According to him, the Olympics helped the world see and understand the Russian people and the country's culture.
“The ice palaces will not be abandoned, they will work. The infrastructure will serve the residents and guests of the resort,” the Deputy Prime Minister said.
In April 2014, sanctions were imposed against Kozak by the United States and the EU.
Since March 23, 2014, he has been in charge of the Russian government for issues related to the new constituent entities of the Russian Federation - the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.
In September 2015, Kozak promised that the gambling zone in the Sochi mountain cluster should start operating in the summer of 2016.
In September 2015, Kozak said that there was no and was not expected to be a significant deterioration in the food situation in Crimea due to the blockade of cargo supplies from Ukrainian territory on the peninsula, since the authorities had prepared for this in advance.
“As of today - this blockade has been going on for 24 hours - there is no significant deterioration in the situation due to the fact that the initiators (of this action), activists, announced this in advance, three weeks ago. We have prepared accordingly and the regions of Russia that provide patronage assistance, starting in April last year, the Republic of Crimea was provided with food supplies to the relevant retail chains,” Kozak said, emphasizing that the situation is not expected to worsen.
Income
According to the declaration for 2012, D. Kozak’s income amounted to 4.3 million (15.4 million rubles for his wife). He earned the bulk of his capital as a private lawyer, then received only the salary of an official. The family owns two plots of land, three apartments, a residential building, and an Audi car.
Lives in Moscow in the same house with Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Viktor Ivanov, head of Sberbank German Gref, and former Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov.
Gossip
D. Kozak together with D. Medvedev in the mid-1990s. saved V. Putin from accusations by a group of Leningrad City Council deputies who accused the future president of issuing licenses for the export of raw materials and non-ferrous metals abroad for the supply of food products, which never arrived in the city. This scandal almost put an end to V. Putin’s career.
In January 2001 D. Kozak presented to the leadership of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation the concept of judicial reform, which included the abolition of the lifelong status of judges, limiting the immunity of judges, removing the Investigative Committee from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and transferring to it all cases investigated by the police, tax police and prosecutor's office. The judicial reform was pushed through, but D. Kozak made enemies in the person of the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Lebedev, and the Chairman of the Council of Judges of Russia, Yuri Sidorenko.
In 2003 D. Kozak was involved in resolving the issue with Transnistria, prepared the so-called “Kozak Memorandum”, which provided for the unification of Moldova and Transnistria into a single federal state. The negotiations failed: the President of the Republic of Moldova, Vladimir Voronin, refused to sign the Memorandum, as a result of which the visit of Russian President V. Putin to Chisinau was disrupted.
In 2004 Governor of the Saratov region Dmitry Ayatskov was able to avoid criminal charges after a conversation with D. Kozak.
In 2004 D. Kozak proposed classifying all documents and actions of the Cabinet of Ministers, that is, completely removing the government from the zone of public control. The initiative was harshly criticized by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov. This episode became another moment in the history of the confrontation with M. Fradkov. According to rumors, the appointment of D. Kozak to the “deliberately executed post” of plenipotentiary representative in the Southern Federal District was “a link lobbied by the Kremlin security forces and M. Fradkov personally.
In 2006 D. Kozak, together with the owner of Russian Aluminum Oleg Deripaska, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative in the Southern Federal District Alexander Pochinok and ex-Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov were nominated for governor of the Krasnodar Territory, but Alexander Tkachev retained his post.
In 2006 D. Kozak criticized the work of the prosecutor's office in the Southern Federal District, demanding a more thorough investigation of high-profile criminal cases, thereby making enemies both in the prosecutor's office and in the leadership of the republics of the North Caucasus.
Most of the leaders of Olympstroy were unable to work well with D. Kozak. The first president of Olympstroy, Semyon Vainshtok, resigned in 2008, citing retirement age. The next one, Sochi Mayor Viktor Kolodyazhny, left in June 2009. for family reasons. In 2011 difficult relations with D. Kozak and health problems cost the position of the president of Olympstroy, the founder of the Baltika brewing company, Taimuraz Bolloev, who resigned amid 27 criminal cases on corruption in preparation for the Olympics.
In February 2013 V. Putin came with an inspection to Sochi, where, in the presence of D. Kozak, he scolded the head of the North Caucasus Resorts OJSC and the vice-president of the Olympic Committee, Oleg Bilalov.
The media called D. Kozak a lobbyist for the interests of the timber company Ilip Pulp and a number of other companies.
Dmitry Kozak is a well-known Russian politician who is currently one of the most important figures in the team of Russian President V. Putin. However, few know his biography.
Childhood
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak was born in 1958 in the village of Bandurovo, Ukrainian USSR (Kirovograd region). His parents were simple village workers. My father was a member of the collective farm board and headed the audit commission for several years. According to the recollections of neighbors, his father was quite strict with his son, and the boy had to perform many responsibilities around the house and household. Despite this, Mitya only got straight A's, and at the end of the 8th grade he received a certificate of excellent academic performance. At the same time, he was distinguished by his integrity and stubbornness, which is why he did not receive a gold medal in the 10th grade.
By the way, according to family legend, when Mitya had just started school, a random fellow traveler told his father that his first-born would become a famous person. As time has shown, the stranger’s words turned out to be prophetic.
Studying at universities
After graduating from school, Dmitry Kozak served in the special forces of the GRU of the USSR General Staff. Returning from the army, in 1978, at the insistence of his parents and the advice of his teachers, he left his native Bandurovo and successfully passed all the entrance exams to the Vinnitsa Polytechnic Institute.
Although even in elementary school he was discovered to have great abilities for the exact sciences, in his second year at university he realized that he had made a big mistake. Kozak took the documents from the VPI and went to Leningrad. There he entered the law faculty of Leningrad State University.
During his years of study in the city on the Neva, Dmitry Kozak met his first wife Lyudmila, who gave birth to his son in 1984. The young man, despite the numerous problems that he had to solve as the head of the family, managed to graduate from the university in 1985 with honors and receive a degree in jurisprudence.
Carier start
In 1985-1989, Dmitry Kozak was first an intern and then a prosecutor at the Leningrad Prosecutor's Office. At this post, his first professional conflict awaited him. According to the recollections of his colleagues, Dmitry, being the chairman of the party committee, did not find a common language with the city prosecutor A. Vasilyev on the issue of distributing apartments among employees. The conflict escalated, and Kozak was forced to look for another job.
Further career
In 1989-1990, Dmitry Nikolaevich worked as the head of the legal department of the Monolit-Kirovstroy company and, at the same time, was the chief legal adviser of the Association of Commercial Sea Ports.
Later, he was invited to take the post of deputy head of the legal department of the Leningrad City Executive Committee, and then the head of the same division of the City Council of People's Deputies.
In the 1990s
In December 1993, Dmitry Nikolaevich Kozak, together with Yu. Kravtsov, became a co-founder of the Convent company, which provides legal services.
In April 1994, together with M. Antonov, A. Prytkov, N. Gusko, A. Lavrentiev and the capital LLP “Yust” headed by V. Pligin, the law firm “Neva-Yust” was established.”
In the same year, Kozak ran for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, but the elections in “his” district were declared invalid.
In 1998, the politician became vice-governor of the northern capital, but soon resigned due to irreconcilable differences with the current governor of the Leningrad region, V. A. Yakovlev.
Starting a career at the federal level
In 1999, Dmitry Kozak moved to the capital, where he was appointed deputy head of the presidential administration for legal issues.
In the summer of the same year, he was appointed chief of staff of the Russian government.
In November-December 1999, he was assigned the duties of head of the headquarters of V.V. Putin’s presidential election campaign. However, at the beginning of 2000, he gave up this place to D. Medvedev.
In the 2000s
In July 2000, D. Kozak took over the post of deputy head of the presidential administration.
In 2003, he took part in attempts to reconcile the opposing sides of the Transnistrian conflict. It was he who proposed the plan, which later became known as the “Kozak Memorandum”. According to this document, it was proposed to create an “asymmetric federation” consisting of Moldova, Transnistria and Gagauzia.
However, President M. Voronin refused to put his signature on the “Kozak Memorandum” on the eve of its signing.
In 2004, the President of the Russian Federation appointed the politician to the post of head of the Russian government apparatus in the government of M. Fradkov.
Dmitry Kozak (biography in his youth is presented above) has repeatedly shown himself to be an experienced negotiator. In particular, in 2004 he agreed to vacate the government building of Karachay-Cherkessia.
A few months later, he managed to unblock the Caucasus federal highway by phone, which was blocked by relatives of children and adults who died in Beslan.
In the summer of 2005, Kozak again liberated the Karachay-Cherkess Government House from ethnic Abaza people, who demanded to create the Abaza region within the republic and resolve the issue with the selected lands.
In the fall of 2005, the politician submitted to the government a package of bills to stabilize the situation in the North Caucasus region. According to one of them, it was proposed to introduce crisis management from the outside in subsidized entities.
Activities in the last decade
In the fall of 2007, D. Kozak was appointed Minister of Regional Development. In parallel with this, he took the post of chairman of the supervisory board of the state corporation for the construction of Sochi Olympics facilities.
In 2008, Dmitry Nikolaevich was appointed deputy chairman of the government of the Russian Federation, overseeing the preparation and holding of the Sochi Olympics in 2014.
Since 2014, the politician has been in charge of issues related to Crimea and Sevastopol in the Russian government.
Family life
As already mentioned, Dmitry Kozak got married while a student, and in 1984 his first child was born. After another 4 years, another boy appeared in the family. However, the marriage, which seemed exemplary to others, broke up in 2008. At that time, Kozak’s sons had already grown up and both managed to graduate from the Higher School of Economics. After several months, D. Kozak entered into a second marriage with successful lawyer Natalya Kvacheva, who, according to rumors, had been his unofficial girlfriend for many years.
Brother and parents
Having achieved success, Dmitry Kozak (Deputy Prime Minister) did not forget about his parents. He took them from their native village to the capital and does everything for their well-being. His tutelage greatly helped brother Vasily’s career take off.
Some interesting facts
- Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak is the developer of the Leningrad Charter.
- According to the majority of colleagues and V.V. Putin personally, Dmitry Nikolaevich is an extremely decent person and a real workaholic.
- Dmitry Kozak calls his hobbies driving a car at high speeds and reading Russian classical literature.
- Dmitry Kozak rarely gives interviews.
- The politician has repeatedly stated that he considers himself a fatalist, and therefore takes any career ups and downs calmly.
Now you know what positions Dmitry Nikolaevich Kozak has held and holds. The biography of this politician is a vivid example of how you can achieve success with very modest starting opportunities.
Dmitry Kozak has served as Deputy Prime Minister since October 2008. In the renewed government of Dmitry Medvedev, he will oversee industry and energy issues.
Born on the day of the revolution
Dmitry Nikolaevich Kozak was born in Ukraine, in the village of Bandurovo, Kirovograd region. This happened on November 7, 1958, the main national holiday of the Soviet Union. On this day the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution was celebrated. So on his birthday, Mitya, as his fellow countrymen called him, always had a day off.
Nikolai Kozak was on the board of the collective farm and was the head of the audit commission. Dmitry was the firstborn. He has a younger brother, Vasily. The media write that Vasily was always under the supervision of an elder who helped him make a career.
Dmitry was responsible, disciplined and a very good student. So good that the teachers had no doubt: Kozak was destined to go to university. However, the first attempt to storm the Vinnitsa Polytechnic Institute failed - with graduates of rural schools. The young man was drafted into the army.
Service in special forces
Until recently, the period of military service in the army in the biography of Dmitry Kozak was of little interest to anyone. They were limited to years - from 1976 to 1978. Only in 2006, the then Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov told the audience that Dmitry Kozak did not end up in a construction battalion, not in tank crews, or even in the Airborne Forces, but in the special forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the USSR General Staff. Kozak served in the Pskov and Kirovograd regions and made several dozen parachute jumps.
To get into special forces, it is not enough to have good health. The height of the potential fighter had to exceed 170 centimeters. Discharge athletes were taken into the troops. The special forces were taught, among other things, to get their own food and prepare shelter from improvised means.
In an interview, Kozak admitted that his impressions of the army were only positive, including because there was no hazing. And he added with a laugh that this service did not affect his future life in any way.
From engineers to lawyers
After the army, Dmitry Kozak successfully passed the exams and became a student at the Vinnitsa Polytechnic Institute. It would seem that his future career is determined. And then there was a sharp turn in his biography. Deciding that his calling was not technology, but jurisprudence, Dmitry decided to storm the Zhdanov Leningrad State University. He didn't tell anyone, not even his parents. He was presented with a fait accompli when he was accepted into the university.
In 1985, Dmitry Kozak was awarded a university diploma with a degree in jurisprudence. As it turned out later, Kozak’s bold choice of “pie in the sky” turned out to be fateful: he studied at the university where Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev graduated.
In and out of the prosecutor's office
Dmitry Kozak was assigned to the Leningrad City Prosecutor's Office. First he was a trainee, then a prosecutor and a senior prosecutor. However, the career did not work out. In 1989, the young lawyer left the prosecutor's office.
They write that the reason was his rejection of the “through pull” principle, which was actually generally accepted in the 1980s. Kozak was not afraid to criticize the leadership and enter into conflicts. One of them, concerning the distribution of housing according to acquaintances, cost him his job.
Kozak went into civilian life. He headed the legal department of the Monolit-Kirovstroy concern and worked as a legal consultant at the Association of Commercial Sea Ports. But this did not last long. A year later, in 1990, Kozak was called to civil service. Dmitry was offered to become deputy head of the legal department of the Leningrad City Executive Committee by Anatoly Sobchak, who at that time was the chairman of the Leningrad City Council.
In the team of Sobchak and Putin
It was in 1990 that the political career of the future Deputy Prime Minister began. In September 1994, Dmitry Kozak became chairman of the legal committee of the St. Petersburg mayor's office, joining the city government.
He retained his post after Anatoly Sobchak’s defeat in the mayoral elections in 1996, although the rest of the team retired and had already moved to Moscow. Including one of Kozak’s acquaintances from work, whose name was Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
Kozak was in no hurry to leave the city on the Neva. In 1998, he even became vice-governor, but in December of the same year he resigned due to disagreements with the then governor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Yakovlev.
An experienced lawyer has returned to private business. But this period did not last long. Vladimir Putin's career developed rapidly in Moscow.
In August 1999, he invited his former colleague to become the first deputy chief of staff of the Russian government. Later that year, Kozak received the position of Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation - Minister of the Russian Federation. And in June 2000, after Vladimir Putin won the presidential election, he became deputy head of his administration. In 2004, he again headed the government apparatus, and then received the post of presidential envoy in the Southern Federal District.
For the President
The reason for the change in Kozak’s career was the monstrous terrorist attack in Beslan. It was after this that Kozak received the post of plenipotentiary and extremely broad powers. In fact, direct presidential rule was introduced in the district. Kozak remained in this post for three years. At the same time, Kozak became the head of the commission for coordinating the actions of federal executive authorities in the Southern Federal District, which included many ministers.
One of his main tasks was the fight against the clans in power in the southern republics, against corruption, and the elimination of the basis for the emergence of terrorism. Under Kozak’s leadership, a plan was developed to eliminate the consequences of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict, but it was not possible to implement it.
As Nezavisimaya Gazeta wrote a year after Kozak’s appointment, no strategic line is visible in the activities of the southern embassy. “So far, the presidential envoy is acting in firefighter mode: extinguishing hotbeds of tension that flare up in one or another subject of the district. He succeeds in this quite well: the plenipotentiary unblocks federal highways, liberates seized buildings of regional governments, returns refugees, calms down the “Mothers of Beslan,” etc.,” the journalists noted.
As a result, the leaders of the southern regions assessed the results of his activities highly, but he himself did not appreciate it very much. I did what I could.
On September 24, 2007, Kozak was appointed head of the Ministry of Regional Development, and after President Dmitry Medvedev took office, he remained in the same post in the government headed by Vladimir Putin.
Sochi, Crimea and Sevastopol
In November 2007, Minister of Regional Development Dmitry Kozak headed the supervisory board of the State Corporation for the construction of Olympic facilities and the development of the city of Sochi as a mountain climatic resort. A year later, he became deputy prime minister in charge of hosting the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The event went well, and Kozak was transferred to a new responsible “front” - since 2014, among other things, he oversaw the development of new Russian subjects - Crimea and Sevastopol.
Since the same year, Kozak has been under personal US sanctions. He took this calmly - as he explained to reporters, he has no assets abroad and he also does not plan to travel to America.
Will remain Deputy Prime Minister
In May 2018, after Putin's inauguration, the government resigned according to the law. Putin proposed to the State Duma to reappoint Dmitry Medvedev to the post of prime minister; deputies approved this decision.
The composition of the new government is now being formed. The head of the cabinet will present the candidates to the president on May 18. It is already known that Dmitry Kozak will remain one of the ten deputy prime ministers. However, now he will have to oversee another block - industry and energy.
The media write that Dmitry Kozak is one of the key members of Vladimir Putin’s team.
Personal life
Dmitry Nikolaevich was married twice. The first time he tied the knot was during his student years. His chosen one was a girl named Lyudmila.
Dmitry Nikolaevich and Lyudmila Vladimirovna have two sons. Alexey was born on January 12, 1984, Alexander on June 7, 1988. Both became managers. The eldest works in the construction business, the youngest preferred the banking sector. Lyudmila Vladimirovna Kozak now heads the “Family for Every Child” charity foundation, but she and Dmitry Nikolaevich have been divorced since 2008.
The politician’s second wife was Natalya Evgenievna Kvacheva, who works at the Yust law firm. In the mid-2000s, she served as deputy chief of staff of the State Duma Committee on Credit Institutions and Financial Markets.
Income
In 2017, Dmitry Kozak declared income of more than 21.4 million rubles. There is no real estate listed on him. His wife earned almost 25 million rubles. She owns a plot of land with an area of 7 thousand square meters, a residential building, two apartments and two parking spaces.
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation since October 2008. In this position, in particular, he oversees preparations for the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. Previously, Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation (2007-2008), Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District (2004-2007). He started as a prosecutor in the Leningrad Prosecutor's Office. He was chairman of the legal committee of the St. Petersburg mayor's office, vice-governor of St. Petersburg, deputy head of the presidential administration for legal issues, head of the government apparatus as a minister, and after Vladimir Putin's victory in the 2000 presidential elections, he was deputy head of his administration. Acting State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 1st class.
Dmitry Nikolaevich Kozak born on November 7, 1958 in the Kirovograd region. In 1985, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Law of Leningrad State University and until 1989 he worked in the Leningrad Prosecutor's Office. In 1989, while serving as a senior prosecutor, Kozak left the civil service and went to work at the Monolit-Kirovstroy concern. Around the same time, he became legal counsel to the Commercial Seaports Association.
In 1990, he created his own law firm "Neva-Yust", then worked as deputy head of the legal department of the Leningrad City Executive Committee and head of the legal department of the City Council, and became one of the co-founders of the law firm "Convent".
Actually political career Kozak started in 1994. Then he put forward his candidacy for elections to the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly (the elections were declared invalid), and then began working as chairman of the legal committee in the mayor's office of Anatoly Sobchak, where he became close to Vladimir Putin. Developed the city charter of St. Petersburg. In 1998 he became vice-mayor of St. Petersburg. At the end of 1998 - beginning of 1999, he quit and returned to Neva-Yust, and also joined the board of directors of the St. Petersburg Banking House.
In May 1999 Kozak was invited to work in the presidential administration for the position of deputy head for legal issues. After Putin was appointed prime minister on August 19, 1999, he became a minister, head of the government apparatus, and served in this position until May 2000.
In the spring of 2000, Putin became president of Russia. It was assumed that Kozak would be appointed prosecutor general in 2000, but the appointment did not take place. Instead, Kozak was appointed deputy chief of staff of President Putin. He also became a member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation on issues of improving justice, oversaw the development of a project for the strategic development of Russia until 2010, and was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO Sovcomflot.
In January 2001 Kozak presented the concept of judicial reform, in June 2001 he headed the commission on the division of powers between federal, regional and local levels of government (in 2003 it was transformed into a commission on federal relations and local self-government). In 2003, Kozak became deputy chairman of the government commission for administrative reform, and in April 2004 he headed the commission. Also in 2003, he first came up with the idea of introducing temporary external management in subsidized regions of Russia. Another important initiative of Kozak in 2003 was a project to resolve the Transnistrian conflict (the “Kozak Memorandum”), which envisaged the unification of Moldova and Transnistria into the so-called “asymmetric federation” (at the last moment the project was rejected by the Moldovan side).
In 2003 Kozak headed Putin's election headquarters. In October 2003, Dmitry Kozak was appointed first deputy head of the presidential administration, and in March 2004 - chief of staff of the Russian government with the rank of minister in the government of Mikhail Fradkov. However, already in September 2004, Dmitry Kozak was relieved of this position and appointed plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District.
In the position of Plenipotentiary Representative of the Southern Federal District Kozak did not achieve significant results in improving life in the region and developing effective levers for managing it from the center. Kozak was mainly involved in quelling individual hotbeds of tension - unblocking highways, returning refugees, negotiating with the “Mothers of Beslan”, and resolving the conflict between the Chechen authorities and a Danish humanitarian organization after the “caricature scandal.” In September-October 2005 (after several publications in the Southern Federal publication), rumors appeared about Kozak’s planned resignation from this post, but he remained in power. Despite the unfavorable period for his career (2005-2006), his name, although less and less often, was still mentioned among candidates to succeed Vladimir Putin in the presidential post.
After the resignation of the Fradkov government in September 2007, Kozak joined the new cabinet headed by Viktor Zubkov. On September 24, he was appointed successor to Vladimir Yakovlev as Minister of Regional Development.
In December 2007 Kozak was appointed deputy chairman of the organizing committee for the preparation of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum Sergei Prikhodko.
In March 2008, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev won the presidential elections. On May 7, 2008, he took office as President of Russia, after which the government resigned. On May 8, 2008, at a meeting of the State Duma, Putin was approved as prime minister. On May 12, 2008, Putin made appointments to the government of the Russian Federation. Kozak retained his post as head of the Ministry of Regional Development.
In October 2008, Kozak was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. In May 2012, Kozak retained his post in the new cabinet of ministers, headed by Medvedev.
Kozak is an active state councilor of the Russian Federation, 1st class. He is married and has two sons.
Dmitry Nikolaevich Kozak is a Russian politician, Deputy Prime Minister for the Industrial Sector, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Actual State Advisor of the first class.
Dmitry Kozak spent his childhood in the Ukrainian village of Bandurov. Kozak’s parents are simple rural workers, Ukrainians by nationality. My father was on the collective farm board and headed the audit commission. Dmitry, or as he was called in his native village, Mitya, was the eldest of the children. Father Nikolai kept Dmitry strictly and instructed him to do housework.
From early childhood, the future politician grew up as a responsible, thoughtful, serious, disciplined boy. At a time when rural boys were playing on the street and going fishing, the future politician was sitting over his books.
Dmitry Nikolaevich’s younger brother, Vasily, his complete opposite in character, was always under the supervision of his older brother. As an adult, Vasily made a career thanks to Dmitry Kozak. He moved to Moscow, was the director of gas stations, headed a bank, and later became the director of an industrial enterprise in St. Petersburg.
Dmitry Kozak was an excellent student at school. Until the eighth grade, he was an excellent student and loved the exact sciences: mathematics, physics, chemistry. After graduating from school, at the insistence of teachers and parents, he entered the Vinnitsa Polytechnic Institute. He studied there for a short time, realizing that his calling was legal science.
Kozak entered Leningrad University, from which he graduated with honors with a degree in jurisprudence. We also studied at Leningrad State University. Between his studies at the institute and university, the future politician served in the ranks of the Soviet army in the GRU special forces landing forces.
Career
After graduating from Leningrad State University at the age of 27, Dmitry Nikolaevich became a prosecutor in Leningrad and worked in this field for 4 years. Since 1989, Dmitry Kozak worked as the head of the legal department of the Leningrad concern "Monolit-Kirovstroy", deputy, and then head of the legal department in the Leningrad City Executive Committee.
At the age of 36, Dmitry Nikolaevich was appointed to the position of chairman of the legal committee of the St. Petersburg mayor's office, and became a member of the government of the city on the Neva at the time when he ruled there. This period in Kozak’s biography determined the direction of his future career. After the lost gubernatorial elections, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev left the regional administration in 1996, along with Anatoly Alexandrovich. But Dmitry Kozak remained in Vladimir Yakovlev’s new team.
At the age of 40, Dmitry Kozak becomes vice-governor. He served in this position for less than a year and was soon forced to resign due to disagreements with the new governor. Following Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Kozak moved to Moscow.
Significant stages in his career were marked by Dmitry Kozak’s assumption of the post of Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation, Minister of the Russian Federation in 1999. Kozak was involved in the settlement of legal issues, administrative and judicial reforms. During the period from 2000 to 2007, Dmitry Nikolaevich went from deputy head of the Presidential Administration, chief of staff of the Government of the Russian Federation to the plenipotentiary representative of the President in the Southern Federal District.
The year 2003 was marked by Kozak joining the board of directors of RAO Russian Railways.
In 2005, Dmitry Nikolayevich was predicted to be nominated as a presidential candidate in 2008, but he denied all rumors about nomination to an important post, explaining this as impossibility for objective and subjective reasons.
In the fall of 2007, Dmitry Kozak received a new position as Minister of Regional Development, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the state corporation for the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi, restructuring the architectural appearance of the city, its housing and communal services system.
In 2008, Dmitry Nikolaevich became Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, overseeing the preparation and holding of the Olympics in Sochi in 2014.
In the spring of 2014, due to the emergence of new entities within the Russian Federation (Crimea, Sevastopol), Dmitry Kozak was appointed responsible in the Russian Government for the functioning and development of these territories.
Personal life
Little is known about the politician’s personal life. Dmitry Kozak is married for the second time to Natalia Evgenievna Kvacheva. She is a lawyer by training, a candidate of legal sciences since 1996. She worked as deputy head of the staff of a State Duma committee. She is considered one of the richest wives of the Kremlin. So, in 2016, her income amounted to 46.4 million rubles, despite the fact that in 2015 Natalya earned only 29 million rubles. The condition of Dmitry Kozak himself was assessed more modestly. In 2016, he earned 21.6 million rubles, while a year earlier his income was only 6.67 million rubles. In 2017, this amount amounted to 21.4 million rubles.
Dmitry Nikolaevich has two children - sons Alexander and Alexei - from his first wife Lyudmila Vladimirovna. The sons received higher economic education and work as managers. The eldest Alexey is involved in the construction business, the younger Alexander is in the banking sector. We got married to Lyudmila Vladimirovna when Dmitry Kozak was a 3rd year university student. The ex-wife is a member of the management team of the charity organization “Family for Every Child.”
In the early 2000s, rumors circulated in the media about the birth of a daughter from Dmitry Kozak, a Moscow journalist and columnist for the weekly Profile, Inna Lukyanova. According to some information, the girl settled with her child in the village of Knyazhichi in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region in her own house, the cost of which is close to $200 thousand. This news acquired the status of compromising evidence, thanks to which opponents of Dmitry Kozak’s political decisions wanted to disqualify the politician developing judicial reform.
- In an interview, Dmitry Nikolaevich noted that he leads an active lifestyle and loves sports. His favorite sports are football, alpine skiing, fitness, boxing. The politician’s height is 178 cm, weight – 72 kg.
- After a hard day at work, he loves to drive a car at speed.
- Dmitry Nikolaevich has a habit of smoking, which he acquired during his student years. No bans in the Government or in the Presidential Administration stopped the politician from his addiction to smoking.
- Dmitry Kozak is the developer of the Charter of Leningrad, for which he was awarded a prize from St. Petersburg University.
- Dmitry Kozak was awarded government awards for services to the Fatherland.
Dmitry Kozak now
On March 18, 2018, they took place, in which Vladimir Putin won again. After taking office, Putin offered the position of prime minister to Dmitry Medvedev. On May 18, he was announced to journalists. Dmitry Kozak was appointed by presidential decree to the post of Deputy Prime Minister for Industry. The scope of his competence also included issues related to the fuel and energy complex.
At the end of the year, Dmitry Kozak held a conference call on the implementation of the 2017 budget. The Deputy Prime Minister pointed out to the heads of the country's regions the need, first of all, to monitor the financing of social obligations, control the payment and increase of wages, and strive to reduce the debt burden to the federal budget. Kozak called to account the head of Mordovia, Vladimir Dmitrievich Volkov, whose region’s debt to the state turned out to be high.
In the spring, Dmitry Kozak was developing an important bill for those with cancer - a law regulating the activities of hostels. Also at this time, the question arose of who would replace Surkov in the upcoming negotiations with the United States to resolve the crisis in eastern Ukraine. Dmitry Kozak was nominated.
Now, being in the position of Deputy Prime Minister for Industry and Fuel and Energy Complex, Dmitry Kozak made a statement that the state will resolve the issue of increasing gasoline prices and will not allow its cost to rise. All news related to the activities of members of the Russian government are posted on government accounts on Facebook, “