Gromov, Alexey Alekseevich

In 1982 he graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov , Department of History of the Southern and Western Slavs .

During his studies at the university during the year he was the commissar of the Komsomol opera detachment of Moscow State University. He speaks Czech , Slovak and English .

Foreign Service

In 1982-1996 he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation :

1982-1985 - Secretary of the Consulate General of the USSR in Karlovy Vary , Czechoslovakia ;

1985 - 1988 - Attache of the USSR Embassy in Prague , Czechoslovakia. At that time, he met with Vladimir Putin .

1988-1991 - Third, Second Secretary of the Secretariat of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR;

1991-1992 - First Secretary of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

1992-1993 - Consul of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Bratislava , Slovakia ;

1993-1996 - Advisor to the Russian Embassy in Bratislava , Slovakia .

Presidential Press and Information Office

On November 22, 1996, by order of the President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin, he was appointed head of the press service of the President of the Russian Federation, replacing Igor Ignatiev.

March 4, 1998 by decree of the President of the Russian Federation was appointed head of the press service of the Presidential Administration.

Presidential Press Secretary

On December 31, 1999, due to the early resignation of President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin was appointed acting president. On January 4, 2000, Putin appointed Gromov as his spokesman for the post of acting president of the Russian Federation.

In the March 2000 presidential election, Vladimir Putin was elected President, and Alexei Gromov took the post of spokesman for the President of the Russian Federation , replacing Dmitry Yakushkin , who remained to act as spokesman for Yeltsin after his resignation ^[1] .

In 2000, he became the winner of the prize of the magazine "Spark" "for ensuring the information transparency of the Kremlin" ^[2] .

In 2001, Gromov became a member of the Board of Directors of ORT OJSC.

On March 26, 2004, after Putin was re-elected for a second term, Gromov was reapproved in his post.

In 2004, he became a member of the Board of Directors of Channel One OJSC, which replaced ORT OJSC.

Since 2012, Dmitry Peskov was replaced by the post of President Gromov’s press secretary ^[3] .

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration

On May 12, 2008, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation .

May 21, 2012 was appointed First Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation . A similar and equal position is occupied by Sergey Kiriyenko .

In January 2019, the publication Project, where independent investigative journalists collaborate, published an analysis of Gromov’s professional activities ^[4] . The main directions of Gromov’s work, according to the authors of the investigation, are censorship and propaganda , directives for leading media, management and financial support of the presidential pool of journalists. The publication notes that Gromov has been working in the Presidential Administration of Russia for 23 years, and that longer than any of his colleagues, he enjoys the unlimited confidence of the president, only Gromov is allowed to enter Putin’s office as necessary at almost any time ^[5] .

Alexey Gromov is married, his wife’s name is Anna, and together with Oleg Deripaska she is the founder of the Elizabeth-Sergius Enlightenment Society ^[5] .

The official owns two service apartments of 121.5 and 225 square meters. meters, as well as a country house with an area of ​​961 square meters. meters on Rublevka , near the presidential residence of Novo-Ogaryovo , in the cottage village for the elite "Ilyinsky dachas". The area of ​​land received in 2002 by Gromov from the state is about 3,000 square meters. m, the estimated cost of the house is 850 million rubles ^[5] .

According to the data posted in the declaration, which contains information on income, expenses, property and property liabilities of persons filling public positions of the Russian Federation, Alexey Gromov earned 10 529 329 rubles in 2018. The income of his wife for the same period amounted to 689,641 rubles ^[6] .

Two sons: Alex and Danila. The eldest son is Deripaska's partner in a project for the production of aluminum rims ^[5] .

• Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation ( January 18, 2010 ) - for active participation in the preparation of the message of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation ^[7]
• Order of Honor ( South Ossetia , January 14, 2009 ) - for a great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between South Ossetia and the Russian Federation, for timely and highly professional assistance in breaking through the information blockade during the days of armed aggression of Georgia against the Republic of South Ossetia in August 2008 ^{[ eight]}
• Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov (ROC) III degree, 2010 ^[9]

• Gromov, Alexey - an article in the Lentapedia . year 2012.
• The owner of the Kremlin pool , Stringer, 04/08/2003.
• List of press secretaries of the President of the Russian Federation.