Olga Yurievna Golodets is one of the few Russian women who have managed to take a significant place in the political arena of the Russian Federation. She was quite successful in supervising various areas - from sociology to culture, education and science.
In 2014, Olga Yurievna Golodets took 4th place among the 100 most influential women in the Russian Federation. Few Russian representatives of the beautiful half of humanity can boast of such successes. Who is she and where is she from? How could you achieve such a dizzying career success? Who is her husband and does she have children?
Olga Golodets - origin and biography
Olga Yurievna was born in Moscow, on the first day of the summer of 1962. The girl's parents were far from politics, but held high positions - her father taught at one of the capital's universities, her mother ran a restaurant. Another relative of little Olya was no less famous - her uncle was Adamas Golodets, a footballer, Honored coach, one of the best strikers of the Soviet period.
After graduating from secondary school (with a gold medal), Olga Yurievna entered the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, after receiving a diploma of professional education, she defended her thesis and received a scientific degree.
Golodets stubbornly pursued her career, pushing her personal life into the background. Her colleagues from the Research Institute of Labor and the Institute of Employment of the Russian Academy of Sciences spoke about this later. Having switched to politics, Olga Yurievna generally “closed” this side of her life from journalists and the public. She never answers questions not only about her husband and children, but even about her parents, and this is her right.
Olga Golodets in business
Olga Yurievna Golodets has been connected with the social sphere practically throughout her professional career. The “business layer” in her career is work in the joint stock company “Norilsk Nickel”. There, Golodets was in charge of the company's social development department. And it was this position that became a kind of ticket to the world of politics.
In addition, Olga Golodets has experience in managing the ReformUgol social fund in her professional piggy bank. The organization was engaged in the development and implementation of entire social programs. Former colleagues of Olga Yuryevna say that it was she who created, initiated and implemented most of them within the framework of the fund's work.
The merits and achievements of Golodets, her experience and initiative were noted and highly appreciated by the government of the Russian Federation. She received an invitation to do her favorite thing, but already on the political field. Olga Yuryevna could not refuse such a proposal, and in 2010 she entered politics.
Olga Golodets and her role in Russian politics
In 2010, Golodets took the position of vice-mayor for economic and educational issues at the city level - in Moscow. Two years later, she received a promotion and became a member of the Russian government. She was entrusted with the supervision of the health sector, more precisely, Olga Yuryevna regulated the circulation of medicines, monitored the functioning of the pharmaceutical industry as a whole, was engaged in youth and social policy, demography and many others.
Colleagues of Olga Golodets in the State Duma highly appreciate her efficiency and effectiveness in everything she undertakes. She is proactive, ready for compromises, but does not tolerate the outright stupidity and irresponsibility of the country's political elite. Olga Yuryevna has repeatedly delivered open letters to the President of Russia, thereby drawing attention to laws that violate the rights of citizens of the country. Thus, she managed, for example, to achieve fundamental changes in the field of medical care, to bring the largest Russian universities to the top of the best at the international level.
Achievements and awards of Olga Golodets
Olga Yurievna is open to the public, but within certain limits. She does not like to talk about her personal life, but willingly discloses data on her income. During the period when she was engaged in social policy in business, her annual income often exceeded 50 million rubles, but after switching to politics, it dropped almost 5 times - to 11 million rubles.
According to the results of her professional activity, Olga Yurievna Golodets has become the best more than once, for example, among the top managers of the Russian Association of Managers, in the nomination “Best HR Director”. Golodets has been noted many times with industry awards, entered the list of the most influential women in the Russian Federation.
In December 2015, Olga Yurievna received the title of Commander and the corresponding Order in the Principality of Monaco. This award is given only to the best managers and politicians, and Golodets received it quite deservedly, according to colleagues from Europe.
Personal life of Olga Golodets
This woman has never been the hero of gossip or press scandals. Nothing is known about her husband, her children are not mentioned in publications about the "golden youth".
According to official data, Olga Golodets has two twin daughters - Tatiana and Anna. They are already adults, earn money themselves, move up the career ladder without the help of their eminent politician mother.
Olga Golodets' daughter Tatyana holds the post of Deputy Director of the Tretyakov Gallery. Anna works as an ordinary teacher in one of the capital's schools. The girls have the surname Mrdulyash. Are they married, do they have children - Olga Yuryevna never talks about this. She tries to protect her daughters from the undue attention of the press.
