Vladimir Shumeyko

1st Chairman of the Federation CouncilIn office
13 January 1994 – 23 January 1996Preceded byOffice establishedSucceeded byYegor StroyevFirst Deputy Prime MinisterIn office
2 June 1992 – 12 December 1993Prime MinisterBoris Yeltsin (extraordinary)
Yegor Gaidar (acting)
Viktor ChernomyrdinPreceded byGennady BurbulisSucceeded byOleg LobovMinister of Press and Mass MediaIn office
5 October 1993 – 22 December 1993PresidentBoris YeltsinPrime MinisterViktor ChernomyrdinPreceded byMikhail FedotovSucceeded byOffice disestablishedDeputy Chairman of the Supreme SovietIn office
1 November 1991 – 1 July 1992ChairmanRuslan KhasbulatovPreceded bySvetlana GoryachevaSucceeded byNikolay Ryabov Personal detailsBorn (1945-02-10) February 10, 1945 (age 79)
Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet UnionPolitical partyCPSUEducationKuban Polytechnic Institute

Vladimir Filippovich Shumeyko (also spelled Shumeiko) (Russian: Влади́мир Фили́ппович Шуме́йко; born 10 February 1945) is a Russian political figure.

In November 1991, Vladimir Shumeyko was appointed deputy chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation. In May 1992, Shumeyko, leading a parliamentary delegation, visited Damascus.^[1] In June 1992, he became a first deputy prime minister of the Russian government and held that office during the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993. In August 1992, Shumeyko announced that $1 billion of foreign investment was obtained for Russia.^[2] Shumeyko held the post of the chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia between January 1994 and January 1996.

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