Gennady Zyuganov

MP
Gennady Zyuganov
MP Gennady Zyuganov
Геннадий Зюганов
	Zyuganov in 2025
Chair of the Union of Communist Parties
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 22 January 2001
Preceded by	Oleg Shenin
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 14 February 1993
Preceded by	Valentin Kuptsov
Member of the State Duma
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 11 January 1994
Personal details
Born	Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov; 26 June 1944; Mymrino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Party	CPRF (from 1993); CPSU (until 1991);
Spouse	Nadezhda Vitalyevna
Children	Andrey; Tatiana;
Relatives	Leonid Zyuganov (grandson)
Education	Oryol State Pedagogical Institute; CPSU Central Committee Academy of Social Sciences;
Awards	Order of Alexander Nevsky; Order of the Badge of Honour; Order of Friendship of Peoples (Belarus); Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation;
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Branch/service	Soviet Army
Years of service	1963–1966
Rank	Colonel

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Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (Russian: Генна́дий Андре́евич Зюга́нов; born 26 June 1944) is a Russian politician who has been the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation since 1993 and a member of the State Duma since 1994. He is also the chair of the Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) since 2001. Zyuganov ran for President of Russia four times, most controversially in 1996, when he lost in the second round to Boris Yeltsin.