Oleg Morozov

Oleg Viktorovich Morozov is a Russian and former Soviet politician. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. He was a deputy in the State Duma between 1993 and 2012 and again since 2020. He served as a member of the Federation Council between September 2015 and September 2020. From May 2012 till March 2015, he worked as head of the presidential office for domestic policy. He supports the United Russia party. During the early 1980s, before entering mainstream politics, he was himself employed in the universities sector. He is fluent in German. Early years Morozov was born at Kazan. His father, Victor Stepanivich Morozov, came originally from a farming community in Izmaylovo, a village in the Baryshsky District. Victor Stepanivich was a red army veteran of the Great Patriotic War, which he survived with medals and the rank of colonel, despite being twice wounded. Ninella Georgievna, his mother, came originally from the Kursk region, but had studied in Kazan and was a graduate of "Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov University" (as it was known after 1925 during the Soviet era). She worked throughout her life for the local Defence Industries Enterprise. Morozov's parents were determined that the boy should go through the rest of his life equipped for "a real profession", and when, in 1971, the opportunity arose to move on to university his father urged him to obtain a practical degree, in a subject such as Engineering, Physics or Mathematics, but Morozov enrolled to study at the History-Philology faculty of the Kazan Federal University In 1976 Morozov graduated from the university with a so-called "red diploma" degree (indicating consistently high marks).