Anatoly Sobchak

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First Mayor of Saint Petersburg and co-author of the Constitution of the Russian Federation

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Net Worth ▲: Undisclosed — estimated significant wealth
Reach ▲: 5.0M people
Power ▲: Sobchak exercised executive authority as Mayor of Saint Petersburg from 1991 to 1996 and chaired the Constitutional Assembly that drafted the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation.
Influence ▲: He impacted Russian national political development by co-founding the Inter-Regional Deputies Group with Boris Yeltsin and Andrei Sakharov, and leading the Parliamentary Commission that investigated and condemned military force used during the 9 April 1989 events in Tbilisi.
Network ▲: His network spanned major Soviet and Russian leaders, including Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and his deputy mayor Vladimir Putin.
Legacy ▲: Sobchak left a lasting institutional legacy by shaping the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation and securing the passage of the constitutional amendment that restored the historical name of Saint Petersburg on 12 September 1991.
Trajectory ▲: Rising ↑ — first assessment on record.

About

Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak was a Russian politician, legal scholar, and the first democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg, serving from 1991 to 1996. He chaired the Constitutional Assembly that prepared the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation and held key positions in the Soviet and Russian legislatures. During his academic career at Leningrad State University, he mentored Vladimir Putin, who later served as his deputy mayor.