Sergey Baburin

Sergey Nikolayevich Baburin (, born 31 January 1959) is a Russian nationalist politician, member of the State Duma of the first, second and fourth convocations where he served in the Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitral and Procedural Law, leader of the Russian All-People's Union and an ex-leader of the Rodina political party. He also served as a rector of the Russian State University of Trade and Economics (RGTEU) from 2002 to 2012. In 2018, Baburin was a presidential candidate from the Russian All-People's Union. Life and career Baburin was born in Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, where his parents were studying at the time. His father, Nikolai Naumovich Baburin, was a teacher who came from a long line of Sibiryaks (ethnically Russian natives of Siberia), and moved to Semipalatinsk from Tara, Omsk Oblast where Sergey later spent his childhood. His paternal grandfather, Naum Mikheevich Baburin, was a woodworker who built houses; during the Russian Civil War he expressed support for the White Army and was nearly shot by the Bolsheviks after they came to power. His paternal grandmother, Irina Sergeevna Baburina (née Koroleva), was a housewife. Sergey's mother, Valentina Nikolaevna Baburina (née Kulbedina), was a surgeon. Her father, Nikolai Petrovich Kulbedin (Kulbeda), came from a Belarusian family and moved to Semipalatinsk from Motol, a village in the Ivanava District of the Brest Region in search of work. According to Baburin, some sources indicate that Nikolai belonged to a family of priests; he actively participated in the civil war fighting the Basmachi, made a political career, was arrested during the Great Purge, but was released and then died on his way home. His wife, Anna Maksimovna Kulbedina (née Volkova), came from exiled Cossacks, and spent all her life working as a children's nurse in a hospital.