Anatoly Sobchak

Anatoly Sobchak
Анатолий Собчак
Sobchak in 1990
Mayor of Saint Petersburg
In office
12 June 1991 – 5 June 1996
Preceded byBoris Gidaspov
Succeeded byVladimir Yakovlev
Member of the Congress of People's Deputies
In office
25 May 1989 – 12 June 1991
Personal details
Born(1937-08-10)10 August 1937
Chita, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died19 February 2000(2000-02-19) (aged 62)
Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia
Resting placeNikolskoe Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Political party
Spouses
Nonna Gandzyuk
(m. 1958, divorced)
(m. 1980)
ChildrenMaria, Ksenia
Alma materLeningrad State University Faculty of Law
ProfessionLegal 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, and the first democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg.