Yulia Shoygu

Yulia Shoygu
Юлия Шойгу
 Russia Director of the Center of Emergency Psychological Aid EMERCOM of Russia
Assumed office
2002–present
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
Personal details
Born Yulia Sergeevna Shoygu
1977
Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union
(now Russia)
Spouse(s) Alexey Zakharov
Children Daria
Kirill
Alma mater Moscow State University
Awards (with swords)

Yulia Sergeevna Shoygu (Russian: Юлия Сергеевна Шойгу́; born 1977) is a Russian politician, director of the Center of Emergency Psychological Aid of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters in 2002, Vice-President of the Russian Psychological Society[1] (RPO), deputy chairman of the Ethics RPO Committee. She is the eldest daughter of the Minister of Defence Russian Federation Sergei Shoygu.[2]

Biography

Yulia Shoygu was born in 1977[3] in the city of Krasnoyarsk into the family of Sergei Shoygu, Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation. Due to the nature of the work of her father, the family often changed residence. Yulia graduated from a secondary school in Moscow in 1994, and was admitted to the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University.[4]

In 1999, after graduating from university she came to work in the Center for Emergency Psychological Aid EMERCOM of Russia and started to work as a psychologist.

In 2001 Yulia Shoygu was appointed Deputy Director, and a year later the director of the Center.[5]

At various times, Yulia S. Shoygu participated in the provision of psychological assistance to the victims of the terrorist attacks, hostage-taking, after man-made disasters in Moscow, the earthquake on Sakhalin, a plane crash in Irkutsk, "Kursk" death of the submarine and other emergency situations in Russia and abroad.[6]

She gained her PhD as the author of scientific works on the psychology of extreme situations.[7]

She was awarded state and departmental awards.[8]

A family

Yulia Shoygu married prosecutor of the Moscow region Alexey Zakharov,[9] and has two children - daughter, named Daria, and a son named Kirill.

Awards[10]

References

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