There is little information about childhood and youth. According to her official biography, she studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in population economics. Graduated from it in 1984. Six years later, she completed her postgraduate studies at the Labor Research Institute of the USSR State Committee for Labor.
From the moment of graduation and before 1997 worked at the Central Research Laboratory of Human Resources, Research Institute of Labor, Institute of Employment Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Since 1997 worked for the Reformugol Foundation for two years. This non-profit organization was created as a result of an agreement between the Russian government, Rosugleprofsoyuz and the World Bank. Olga Golodets' activities were related to social policy. She supervised the employment of miners after the closure of those mines whose work began to generate losses.
In 1999 she began her career at Norilsk Nickel. In this company, she also dealt with personnel issues and was the head of the social policy and personnel department.
She decided to leave Norilsk Nickel in 2001 in connection with the appointment to the post of Deputy Governor of the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug for social issues. The head of the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug, Alexander Khloponin, was previously the general director of this company.
In the civil service under the jurisdiction of Olga Yurievna Golodets, there were issues of adaptation of children from traditional national families to non-nomadic life.
However, in the end 2001, in December, Olga Golodets returned to Norilsk Nickel to a higher position. She became Mikhail Prokhorov's deputy general director for personnel and social policy. She headed the company’s pension fund and was involved in the resettlement of Norilsk residents to the mainland.
For her successful work in this position, she was repeatedly awarded with professional awards. Also in 2004, she was named the Best HR Professional by the Management Association, and in 2007 she received the Association's Best HR Director Award.
Subsequently, the media will call her the “right hand” of Mikhail Prokhorov. The reason for this was her active work not only in Norilsk Nickel, but also in other structures owned by the businessman.
So, after Vladimir Potanin and Mikhail Prokhorov divided their joint assets, Olga Golodets did not remain at Norilsk Nickel, but went to the ONEXIM group to the position of executive director. At this time, she still remained at the head of the board of the Norilsk Nickel pension fund, since it was included in the assets of ONEXIM. But soon he went to Potanin, and she left this company completely.
Olga Golodets also became the head of the board of directors of the Soglasie insurance company, which belonged to ONEXIM.
In 2009 she became a member of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP).
In 2010 she returned to government service. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin appointed her as his deputy for health and education. In 2011 she became deputy mayor for social issues. During her work as deputy head of the city in Moscow, electronic queues for schools and clinics were actively introduced, queues for kindergartens were reduced, and educational institutions were reconstructed.
Olga Golodets joined the Russian government in May 2012. She took the post of Deputy Prime Minister and began to oversee the social block. As the media noted, this position includes supervision of many issues: issues of demographic policy, health care, education, youth policy, culture and others. The official herself noted in an interview with one publication that the function of the Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs is leading; it sets the pace of economic development, because all wealth is created by human labor.
Colleagues describe Olga Golodets as a tough, strong and demanding leader who can keep a lot of issues under control.
In 2011, she was named the wealthiest woman in the Moscow government. Her income in 2010 amounted to 57 million rubles.
She is married and has two daughters and three grandchildren with whom she enjoys spending time. The Deputy Prime Minister also loves opera and ballet. He also finds time to play sports: tennis, swimming. Likes to plunge into ice holes and go to choreography classes.
Publications with mentions on fedpress.ru
MOSCOW, March 24, RIA FederalPress. The government is discussing limiting the salaries of top managers of Russian state-owned companies. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister Olga...
MOSCOW, March 24, RIA FederalPress. Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexey Ulyukaev today denied the statement of Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets that members...
The issue of pension provision for elderly citizens of our country, whatever one may say, is extremely painful. Therefore, the words of Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets that the funded part...
STAVROPOL, March 28, RIA FederalPress. Governor of the Stavropol Territory Vladimir Vladimirov held a working meeting with the Minister of Education and...
To resolve operational issues, the president of the country approved the presidium of the Economic Council under the head of state. Its composition is published on the Kremlin website. In the decree entitled...
Sverdlovsk Region At 10:00 at the residence of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region (Gorky St. 21/23), Governor Evgeny Kuyvashev will hold a series of meetings with the heads of municipal...
Olga Yurievna Golodets- Russian statesman. Olga Yuryevna - Deputy Prime Minister for Social Issues. Also, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets is responsible for the implementation of programs in the fields of healthcare, education, pensions, demography, science and culture.
Childhood and education of Olga Golodets
Olga's father - Yuri Solomonovich Golodets- Lecturer at the Institute of National Economy named after. G.V. Plekhanov.
Olga Golodets's mother - Valentina Grigorievna Golodets- was in charge of the Cheryomushki restaurant, according to Olga Yuryevna’s biography.
Olga Yuryevna’s uncle is a famous football player and former coach of Dynamo Moscow. Adamas Solomonovich Golodets. Under his leadership, Dynamo became bronze medalists of the Russian Championship and finalists of the Russian Cup.
Olga did well at school and became a gold medalist. Olga Golodets’ biography on Wikipedia says that in 1984 she entered the Faculty of Economics at Moscow State University. I studied with ease and graduated from a prestigious university with honors.
After receiving higher education at Moscow State University, Olga Golodets entered graduate school at the USSR Labor Research Institute, and in 1990 defended her Ph.D. thesis.
Work and career of Olga Golodets
After defending her dissertation, Olga Yuryevna Golodets worked at the Institute of Employment Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences until 1997.
In 1997, she took up the problems of miners, moving to the Reformugol Foundation, where she took up the post of director of social programs.
In 2001, Olga Yuryevna’s biography saw a career leap. During this period, she went to work at OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel. Here Olga headed the department of social policy and personnel in the company. In this position, Olga Yuryevna Golodets achieved significant success and received the Aristos Award in the category “Best HR Director”.
When in 2001 Alexander Khloponin became the governor of the Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) Autonomous Okrug, Olga Yuryevna Golodets became his deputy for social issues, but after 10 months she returned to a more comfortable corporate environment as the deputy for personnel and social policy of the new general director of Norilsk Nickel Mikhail Prokhorov.
In 2008, Olga Golodets left the company and took the post of executive director of ONEXIM, which was also Prokhorov’s investment fund, according to Wikipedia.
Since 2009, Olga Golodets has been mentioned in the news as a member of the board of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) - together with Mikhail Prokhorov, and in 2010, Golodets was talked about as Prokhorov’s deputy as chairman of the Committee on Labor Market and Personnel Strategies of the RSPP.
The biography of Olga Golodets on the government website says that 2008−2010. she was president of the All-Russian Inter-Industry Association of Employers - Manufacturers of Nickel and Precious Metals. Olga Yuryevna was also the chairman of the board of directors of the Soglasie insurance company from 2008 to 2010.
Olga Golodets’ successes were noticed, and at the end of December 2010 a new stage in her career was marked. Olga Yuryevna was appointed Deputy Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin in the Moscow government on education and health issues.
From the biography of Olga Golodets on Wikipedia, you can find out that from December 30, 2011, Olga Yuryevna’s powers in the Moscow government were expanded due to her resignation Lyudmila Shvetsova. Olga Golodets became Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Issues.
Very soon, Olga Yuryevna Golodets’s career saw an increase again: in 2012, she was introduced into the Russian government. Olga Golodets became Russia's Deputy Prime Minister for Social Issues.
There was a lot of work. Olga Golodets’ sphere of influence includes such sectors as healthcare, science, culture, tourism, pension policy, education, as well as the activities of religious and public organizations.
The achievements of Olga Yuryevna Golodets in the Russian government include: financing the promotion of Russian universities in world rankings, launching the process of reforming the Academy of Sciences and restoring the indexation of pensions in Russia according to inflation.
There is also criticism from Olga Golodets. So in 2013, when Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Olga Golodets told reporters that the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko leaves the post of head of Rospotrebnadzor due to the expiration of his term of office. Onishchenko himself called Olga Yuryevna a “strange character” who “is not one of the people making decisions.” True, the next day Gennady Onishchenko was officially dismissed from his post as head of Rospotrebnadzor and appointed Assistant to the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.
Statements by Olga Golodets
In the fall of 2014, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets announced that the topic of “maternity capital” was included in the budget until 2017. “We managed to defend this topic, although we constantly have discussions about finding money,” Olga Yuryevna was quoted in the news. She added that the topic of “maternity capital” remains the most important priority for the government’s social block and “we will not move from this point.”
In 2015, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets denied discussions about raising the retirement age for women.
When Anatoly Chubais During a New Year's corporate party in the capital's Duran Bar club, he said that Rusnano has “a lot of money,” Deputy Prime Minister for Social Policy Olga Golodets invited him to donate funds to those who need them.
“It seems to me that this is the wrong behavior, because they must somehow measure their capabilities. If you have a lot of money, donate it to those who need it,” RIA Novosti quoted the official as saying.
At the beginning of July 2016, the Russian Tripartite Commission approved the draft budget of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for 2017–2019, which was drawn up on the basis that the entire volume of the insurance premium rate will be allocated to the insurance part of pensions. Olga Golodets then reported that the freezing of the funded part of the pension is planned for three years.
In December 2016, Golodets admitted that the real level of poverty in the Russian Federation is higher than the statistical one.
“The main factor ensuring an increase in average life expectancy is systematic work to reduce mortality,” Olga Yuryevna was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti. “Based on the results of the first half of 2017, mortality decreased to 12.9 per 1000 people (13.2 for the same period last year).”
Olga Yurievna Golodets noted that the average salary in the country in 2016 was 36.7 thousand rubles, however, 4.9 million people work in Russia at the level of the minimum wage (7 thousand 500 rubles). In March 2017, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Yuryevna asked the president Vladimir Putin give instructions to increase the minimum wage (minimum wage).
“Increasing the minimum wage will immediately allow us to remove the lowest-productivity jobs from our system,” Golodets said at a meeting of the Russian Presidential Council for Strategic Development and Priority Projects.
Olga Golodets noted that the living wage established in Russia is “a minimum on which it is difficult to survive.” “Today this is a calculated indicator, and we must understand how we can move forward,” she noted, adding that “if we tell a person: ‘you are not poor,’ but he is poor, this is a very difficult situation.”
From January 1, 2018, doctors’ salaries, in accordance with the May presidential decrees, will be 200% of the national average. This was announced on December 7 by Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets.
According to Olga Yurievna Golodets, the working time fund in the Russian Federation is very small, if we talk about official working days. “If you subtract all the days that we spend on vacations and holidays, it turns out that we rest more than we work,” the media quoted Olga Golodets’ opinion about the holidays. Earlier, Olga Yuryevna Golodets called a four-day working week in the Russian Federation a “dream”.
Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets noted that it is probably time to change the traditional “rectangular” model of school classes. According to Olga Yuryevna, in order to develop work in a group and develop skills to achieve goals, work with schoolchildren should be structured differently, so that the teacher is not a mentor, but a mentor who can help in discovering talents.
According to Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government Olga Golodets, teaching the Russian language should be carried out entirely in schools, and not in higher educational institutions.
Income of Olga Golodets
According to Sobesednik, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets was called “Prokhorov’s man” in the government from the very beginning. Indeed, for many years she worked for a businessman, and later in the Moscow government she was considered the richest official of the mayor's office.
The official’s income in 2010 was about 57 million rubles, according to Olga Golodets’ biography on the Find Out Everything website.
As reported in the news, the income of the Deputy Prime Minister, according to the official declaration for 2014, increased to 14 million 936 thousand rubles (according to the declaration in 2013, Olga Golodets’ income amounted to 8 million 423 thousand rubles).
Olga Yurievna Golodets owns three apartments with a total area of 238 square meters. m, half of a dacha in Switzerland with an area of 220 sq. m and a third of a 250-meter apartment in Italy. At the same time, civil servants do not own cars or other vehicles.
The Declarator website states that in the anti-corruption declaration for 2016, Olga Golodets’ income amounted to 15,626,857.33 rubles. Olga Yuryevna’s real estate has not undergone any changes.
Personal life of Olga Golodets
Olga Yuryevna Golodets does not advertise the events of her personal life. There are no family photos in the media or on the Internet. It is known that she was married to Pavel Brunovich Mrdulyash— Director of the Federal Resource Center for the Organization of Management Training under the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation. In 2003, Olga Golodets divorced her husband.
In the biography of Olga Golodets on Wikipedia, it is reported that the Deputy Prime Minister has two twin daughters - Anna Mrdulyash and Tatyana Mrdulyash (born in 1986). Both graduated from Moscow State University. Anna is an orientalist by training. Tatyana received a law degree and lived in Switzerland.
Tatyana Mrdulyash is deputy general director of the State Tretyakov Gallery, according to Wikipedia.
In the biography of Olga Golodets on “Find out everything” it is reported that her daughters adhere to opposition views, in particular, Anna was allegedly a participant in the protest “white ribbon movement” for fair elections.
Olga Yuryevna's hobbies include opera and ballet. In addition, Golodets continues to engage in scientific activities. She has 30 works to her credit, which have received recognition both in Russia and abroad.
Russian statesman, holds the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation since May 21, 2012, well-known politician, Candidate of Economic Sciences.
Childhood and family
Olga Yuryevna Golodets was born on June 1, 1962 in the capital of Russia, in a family of people quite famous in Moscow. So, her father, Yuri Solomonovich, took tests from more than one generation of students at the Plekhanov Institute of National Economy, and her mother, Valentina Grigorievna, was in charge of the Cheryomushki restaurant for a long time. Finally, her uncle Adamas Solomonovich Golodets was a striker and coach of the Dynamo Moscow football team. Under his leadership, Dynamo became bronze medalists of the Russian Championship and finalists of the Russian Cup.
The future Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation became the first and eldest child of her parents - Olga has a sister, Tatyana, born in 1969. An economist by training. Previously, she held the positions of head of the press service of Vnesheconombank, head of the public relations department of VTB Bank and senior vice president of Novikombank. Now he is vice president of OJSC Bank of Moscow.
Olga Yuryevna was an exemplary student at school. Upon completion, she received a gold medal and entered the Faculty of Economics at Moscow State University. Studying was not difficult; she graduated from Golodets University in 1984 with honors.
Having received higher education at the most prestigious university in the country, Olga Golodets entered the graduate school of the USSR Labor Research Institute, and in 1990 defended her dissertation, as a result of which she received the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences. Golodets worked on her dissertation on the topic of labor efficiency of specialists in production for three years and repeatedly visited KAMAZ, taking it as an example, and also conducted numerous special studies at the plant.
From coal to Norilsk Nickel
After graduating from university in 1994, Golodets went to work at the Central Research Laboratory of Human Resources of the Labor Research Institute, then at the Institute of Employment Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In 1997, Golodets moved from theory to practice, heading the social programs department at the Reformugol non-profit foundation, which operated on the basis of an agreement concluded by the Russian government and the World Bank.
“We were engaged in retraining miners, business development, microcredit in extremely depressed industrial cities. She devoted a lot to her work, delved into all the details and brought everything to the end. Although before that I was a researcher, I never dabbled in any theories, I always traveled actively, met the mayors of mining towns, met with Tuleyev,” said Vladimir Tregubov, who oversaw economic programs at the foundation.
Perhaps on these trips she met representatives of another, more profitable industry. And after the closure of the fund in 1999, she went to work at Norilsk Nickel as head of the personnel and social policy department under the then general director of the company, Alexander Khloponin.
But at the beginning of 2001, Olga Golodets decided to become an official and followed the future Deputy Prime Minister Khloponin, who was “transferred” by the Kremlin to Taimyr. There Golodets spent almost a year as his deputy, also on social issues.
“We built schools, hospitals, laid the foundation for the creation of a serious social infrastructure - and I am not ashamed of it,” - this is how Golodets herself characterized that “amazing period in her biography.”
In December 2001, Golodets returned to Norilsk Nickel, becoming Mikhail Prokhorov’s deputy general director for personnel and social policy. According to her, she was “sorry to leave” back to Norilsk Nickel, but “couldn’t refuse.” Golodets was the businessman’s “right hand” until 2008.
As Deputy General Director of Norilsk Nickel, Golodets has been repeatedly awarded with professional awards. Thus, in November 2004, the Association of Managers named her the best Russian HR director, and in November 2007, Golodets received the Aristos Award, established by the Association of Managers and the Kommersant publishing house, in the category “Best HR Director.”
ONEXIM
In 2008, Prokhorov, having divided the assets of Norilsk Nickel with Potanin, left the company. Most top managers, including Golodets, quit following Mikhail Prokhorov. After this, Olga Golodets took the post of executive director of ONEXIM, which was also Prokhorov’s investment fund
In July of the same year, Olga Yuryevna Golodets headed the board of directors of IC Soglasie, also owned by Prokhorov. In 2009, Olga Golodets, like her immediate boss, joined the board of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSSP). In addition, until 2010, she headed the All-Russian Inter-Industry Association of Employers - Manufacturers of Nickel and Precious Metals.
Civil service
Some media outlets express the opinion that Golodets got to the capital’s mayor’s office thanks to the influence of her leader Prokhorov. As Deputy Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin, she again oversaw social issues - healthcare and education.
In 2012, Olga Yuryevna was promoted and joined the government of the Russian Federation, receiving the portfolio of Deputy Prime Minister of Russia for Social Issues. From this moment on, Golodets has been in charge of healthcare, drug circulation, pharmaceutical activities, social development, demography, employment, labor relations, and social partnership. According to rumors, this happened after Prokhorov refused to become Deputy Prime Minister for Industries. Deciding to strengthen his position, he lobbied for the introduction of Golodets into the government.
In December 2013, Golodets headed the Russian Language Council, which is engaged in the development, protection and support of the Russian language in the Russian Federation and abroad. Under this auspices, the Education in Russian portal was created in September 2014.
It is known that she led the process of reorganization of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences, the purpose of which was to separate the economic and scientific directions and transfer the economic and property complex to a specially created Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations.
Income
Having taken the post of vice-mayor of Moscow, she had to declare her income, and at the end of 2010 she became the richest official of the mayor's office with an annual income of more than 57 million rubles.
True, in 2011 the figure dropped sharply to 11.2 million rubles. In 2013, Olga Yuryevna declared a third (250 sq. m.) of an apartment in Italy and half (220 sq. m.) of a dacha in Switzerland, three apartments (one of them in shared use) and a Lexus RX 500 car.
At the end of 2016, Golodets earned 15.6 million rubles. Her property includes three apartments (one of them in shared use), a third (250 sq. m.) of an apartment in Italy and half (220 sq. m.) of a dacha in Switzerland.
Personal life
Olga Golodets met her future husband while studying at Moscow State University. Later, the official’s husband took up the post of head of the Personnel Training Center at the Ministry of Economic Development, is considered one of the strongest mathematicians and best gaming engineers in the country, and an expert in the field of mathematical modeling. In 2003, the couple divorced.
In 1986, Olga Golodets became the mother of two twin daughters, Tatyana Mrdulyash and Anna Vlasova-Mrdulyash.
Anna Vlasova-Mrdulyash is a graduate of the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University, a specialist in Japan. According to available information, he holds opposition views.
Mrdulyash Tatyana Pavlovna is a graduate of the Faculty of Management of Moscow State University. He holds the post of Deputy General Director for Development of the Tretyakov Gallery.
Today, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets is the grandmother of three grandchildren. He loves opera and ballet, and in his free time he engages in active sports. Prefers tennis, swimming and swimming in ice holes. He is interested in choreographic art.
Olga Yuryevna Golodets – Deputy Prime Minister (until May 2018, she was responsible for social issues, was responsible for implementing decisions in the field of healthcare, education, pensions, labor, health insurance, demography, science, culture. Since May 2018, she has been responsible for issues of culture and sports ). Previously, she held the posts of vice-mayor of the Russian capital, deputy general director of Norilsk Nickel, deputy governor of the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug, and head of the Soglasie Insurance Company.In the list of the most influential ladies in Russia, according to the Echo of Moscow station, in 2015 she took 3rd place, behind only the Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko and the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina.
Being the author of about three dozen scientific studies, the Deputy Prime Minister has earned high praise for her professional activities in the field of personnel management among colleagues, representatives of academic, business, public and political circles. She was a laureate of the Aristos Award, was among the best members of the domestic Association of Managers, and received other industry awards. She was one of the initiators of a large-scale campaign to fight the state against alcoholism and smoking.
She is considered an excellent performer, always perfectly coping with assigned tasks, surprisingly energetic and purposeful. However, they note that she is supposedly an overly firm and strict leader who views her subordinates as a faceless category, a kind of instrument with which to achieve results with maximum efficiency. It is absolutely uncomfortable to work under her leadership.
Childhood and family of Olga Golodets
Olga Golodets was born in Moscow on June 1, 1962 and became the first-born in the family of a teacher at the Institute of National Economy. G. Plekhanov Yuri Solomonovich and the head of the Cheryomushki restaurant near the Profsoyuznaya metro station Valentina Grigorievna. Her father's brother, Adamas, was also a public figure and was a famous football player and coach of the Dynamo football club at one time. 7 years later, in 1969, she had a younger sister, Tatyana, who later became vice-president of the Bank of Moscow. 
At school, Olya studied well, was an excellent student, so she was able to independently enter the economics department of Moscow State University immediately after graduation. The girl’s performance at university was also high.
Business career
In 1984, Olga graduated from the university with honors and became a certified specialist in the field of population economics. Then, for about 10 years, she studied various areas of economic science and in 1990 completed her postgraduate studies at the USSR Labor Research Institute. Her dissertation was devoted to labor efficiency in production using the example of the KAMAZ plant. After successful defense, the woman received a PhD in economic sciences. 
In 1997, she became the director of social programs of the Reformugol Foundation, which was called upon to resolve issues related to the employment of miners who lost their jobs after the closure of mines, reorientation, and the organization of new places of work for them. Having previously been an “office worker”, the woman actively traveled around mining towns, talked with ordinary workers and management, met with the head of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev, trying to meticulously delve into every detail.
In 1999, the fund was liquidated, and Olga Yuryevna was hired as head of personnel management and social policy at Norilsk Nickel, headed at that time by Alexander Khloponin. After his appointment as head of the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug in 2001, Golodets worked as his deputy for about a year.
Then, from the official’s chair, she returned to Norilsk Nickel, but already to the position of deputy to Mikhail Prokhorov, the new general director, supervising personnel issues. She was his “right hand” until they left the company in 2008.
Later, Golodets became the executive head of the ONEXIM group and remained in charge of the Norilsk Nickel pension fund. Moreover, according to the accepted conditions in this non-governmental organization, she and its other managers had the right to lifelong pension contributions every month in the amount of 200,000 rubles. In addition, she headed the collective management of the Soglasie insurance company, until 2010 she was a member of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), as well as the head of the Association of Precious Metals and Nickel Producers.
Political activity
At the end of 2010, thanks to Prokhorov’s influence, his “right hand” became deputy mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin and was responsible for social affairs. The Chairman of the Moscow Duma, Vladimir Platonov, called her an energetic and productive professional with whom it was interesting to work.Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets about pensions in 2015
The official's income in 2010 was about 57 million rubles, which made her the leader among the wealthiest female civil servants in the Moscow executive branch. In addition, according to published data, she owned real estate abroad. But the next year she declared a five-fold decrease in income, namely, a little more than 11 million rubles.
In the spring of 2012, the successful civil servant took a higher position - she received the portfolio of Deputy Prime Minister. Her area of responsibility included a wide range of key social tasks. She led the implementation of measures to ensure the reliability of the pension system, the protection of orphans, the reorganization of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the introduction of high-tech medical equipment, labor relations issues, and so on. In 2013, she became the head of the advisory body “Russian Language Council”, and a year later she created the Internet resource “Education in Russian”.
Olga Golodets about the refusal of the funded part of the pension
In 2014, the deputy chairman earned 14.9 million rubles. She still uses one and is the owner of two apartments (114 and 155 square meters) in Russia, a house in Italy and part of a dacha (1/2) in Switzerland, the area of which in square meters is 250 and 220, respectively.
In the spring of 2016, Olga Golodets announced that the government does not intend to raise the retirement age of Russian citizens in the near future. The politician also oversaw the Unified State Exam for high school graduates.
Personal life of Olga Golodets
While studying at Moscow State University, Olga met her future husband, Mrdulyash Pavel Brunovich. He is the head of the Center for Personnel Training under the Ministry of Economic Development, a graduate of Moscow State University, a mathematician, one of the best gaming engineers in the country, specialists in the field of mathematical modeling, and has held various leadership positions in Commercial Banks (Imperial, International Financial Club). In 2003, the couple divorced. 
The couple raised two twin daughters, Anna and Tatyana, who were born on January 2, 1986. Anna studies issues of Oriental and African studies. Like her parents, she graduated from Moscow State University. It is known that the girl was a participant in the protest “white ribbon movement” for fair elections and was a supporter of opposition views.
Tatyana is also a graduate of Moscow State University, but from the Faculty of Management. She is a lawyer, lives permanently in Geneva and shares Anya’s views on the existing regime. Tatyana is the founder of MFK-Capital LLC.
Olga Golodets enjoys spending time with her three grandchildren and enjoys ballet and opera. Despite his busy schedule, the Deputy Prime Minister pays attention to sports - he prefers swimming, swimming in an ice hole, tennis, and attends choreographic classes.
Olga Golodets today
In the new government formed in May 2018, Olga Golodets retained the position of Deputy Prime Minister. From this moment on, the official is responsible for cultural and sports issues.Olga Golodets is a famous Russian politician and statesman. Today it plays an important role in the country's social policy. At various times she oversaw issues of health, education, demography, culture and science. Since 2018, she has held the post of Deputy Prime Minister, in her sphere of influence issues of sports and culture.
Childhood and youth
Olga Yurievna Golodets is Russian by nationality. She was born in Moscow in 1962. Her father was a teacher at the Plekhanov Institute of National Economy, his name was Yuri Solomonovich. Mother Valentina Grigorievna worked in the restaurant business.
Olga Golodets was the first child of her parents; seven years later her sister Tatyana was born. Now she is an employee of the management staff of the Bank of Moscow, which was merged with VTB a couple of years ago. The uncle of the heroine of our article, her father’s brother, is also known: Adamas Golodets was a famous striker, played for Dynamo Moscow and Kiev, as well as for the team from Baku “Neftyanik”. Then, for several decades, intermittently, he coached the capital's Dynamo.
In the biography of Olga Yuryevna Golodets, successful studies at school, from which she graduated with a gold medal, play an important role. Then she entered the Faculty of Economics. There she also became one of the best students, passing almost every session with straight A's.
After university
Having received a diploma from Moscow State University, Olga Golodets entered graduate school at the Labor Research Institute. Here she continued to follow her image, soon defending her dissertation. In 1990, in the biography of Olga Golodets, an entry appeared about the awarding of the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.
Over the next seven years, she has been working at the Institute of Employment Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Then he goes to work for the Reformugol company, which seeks to solve the problems of miners that have accumulated as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Professional activity
Olga Golodets’ significant career growth followed after she began to specialize in social policy. This happened in 2001, after she went to work at the open joint-stock company Norilsk Nickel, which at that time was already headed by Mikhail Prokhorov. Position Olga Golodets - Head of the Personnel and Social Policy Department. Here she gains serious work experience, as over time she becomes deputy general director of Norilsk Nickel.
In this position, Olga Yuryevna Golodets achieves significant results; she is often awarded various awards, including “Aristos” in the category “Best HR Director.”
Investment fund
Golodets left Norilsk Nickel in 2008, but continued to work in Prokhorov’s structures. She holds the post of executive director of ONEXIM, which is essentially an investment fund. The main field of activity of ONEXIM is related to energy, metallurgy, nanotechnology and media.
At the same time, the heroine of our article takes on the leadership of the board of directors of an insurance company called “Consent”. In a short time, she takes it to a fundamentally new level, which impresses its owners.
Political activity
Golodets entered the public service in 2010. Her experience in government structures begins with the position of Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Health and Education.
In 2012, along with other politicians, Olga Yuryevna Golodets joined the government of the Russian Federation. She gets the portfolio of Deputy Prime Minister for Social Policy. The range of responsibilities in this position is quite wide. These are healthcare, culture, science, pension policy, education, tourism, and the activities of public and religious organizations.
In its sphere of direct influence are the ministries of labor and health, which traditionally remain among the most significant in the apparatus system.
Over the years that she has been working in the government of the Russian Federation, Olga Yuryevna Golodets has managed to achieve certain results. In particular, funding has begun for the promotion of domestic universities in world rankings, which has a positive impact on the prestige of Russian education abroad. The process of reforming the Academy of Sciences has begun actively. Work is underway to index pensions to the level of inflation.
Reorganization of the Russian Academy of Sciences
It was Golodets who led the process of reforming the Russian Academy of Sciences. The main goal was to separate scientific and economic directions, transferring the economic and property complex to an agency specially created for these purposes.
Some experts perceived these changes as an attempt to completely eliminate scientific institutions in Russia. However, the process of work of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations was nevertheless launched.
Golodets is also known for advocating the provision of high-tech medical care to children in Russia, and not in foreign countries.
Public performance
In 2016, Olga Golodets made a well-known report at Russian Business Week, which was dedicated to the state of income of the population. The event took place in Moscow.
As part of her speech, Golodets emphasized that everywhere there is a decline in the purchasing power of money, and therefore in the well-being of Russians. At the same time, the number of our compatriots with incomes that fall below the subsistence level is increasing at an alarming rate. In her opinion, it is necessary to draw up a special agreement with trade unions and employers, which will allow the government to directly regulate the level of wages.
A few months later, Olga Yuryevna Golodets made an important statement to the government. At a board meeting at the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, she spoke about the launch of a fundamentally new management principle in the medical care system. With its help, it is planned to increase the life expectancy of Russians to an average of 75 years. Currently, this figure is about 71 and a half years. Olga Golodets’s main work in the government has recently been devoted to this.
Personal life
Golodets is among the number. At the same time, she tries in every possible way not to advertise her private life. From the little information that is in official sources, you can find out that the heroine of our article was married. Her chosen one's name is Pavel Brunovich Mrdulyash. He heads the Federal Resource Center for organizing management training. This structure is part of the Ministry of Trade and Economic Development of the Russian Federation. Mrdulyash is a fairly well-known specialist in his circles, considered one of the most authoritative experts on game theory in Russia.
Golodets does not talk about the peculiarities of her personal life; there are no photos of her with her husband anywhere. They divorced in 2003; we can only guess about the reasons for the dissolution of the marriage.
The heroine of our article has two twin daughters. Their names are Tatyana and Anna. It is known that they graduated from Moscow State University. Anna is an orientalist by profession, she works in Moscow. Tatyana received a law degree, interned for some time in Geneva, Switzerland, and then returned to Russia. She works as deputy general director of the Tretyakov Gallery and bears her father's surname.
In his free time from work, Golodets enjoys ballet and also writes scientific works on social and labor relations. At the moment, the civil servant has already published about thirty articles and monographs, which were highly appreciated by foreign and domestic experts.
Financial position
On average, Golodets’ income is about 15 million rubles per year. In 2016, it amounted to 15.6 million, which allowed her to become the richest official in Russia.
At the end of 2017, Golodets officially declared 11.4 million rubles. She owns:
- Three apartments with a total area of more than two hundred square meters.
- Half of a dacha in Switzerland is 220 square meters.
- And also a third of the apartment in Italy, the area of which is 250 square meters.
It is noteworthy that the income statement does not contain any information about cars and other vehicles that belong to the official.
Recent political activity
In 2017, Golodets’ main activity was aimed at indexing pensions. Moreover, the task was to maintain one-time payments. So, at that time, the average pension in the country was 13,620 rubles, which was twice the minimum subsistence level. For 2018, she predicted an increase in the salaries of medical workers by 200 percent.
At the coordination council, which was dedicated to the implementation of the National Strategy for Action for Women, she stated the existing gender inequality in the salaries of women and men. She emphasized that this difference persists for quite a long time, reaching 60-70 percent. Some equality is observed only in certain areas, for example, in education and science.
Also in 2018, Golodets advocated the abolition of the regulation issued by the Ministry of Labor. It removed the requirements for the service life of buses that are used in children's tourism. She noted that this will inevitably lead first to a rise in prices and then to the disappearance of the very concept of “children’s tourism.” Experts stated that the age of buses does not have a significant impact on the quality of transportation, because regular maintenance of the vehicle itself and its careful operation are more important.
After the elections
After the completion of the presidential elections in 2018, in which Vladimir Putin won a landslide victory, Golodets retained the post of deputy chairman during the formation of a new government. True, the range of her responsibilities has changed somewhat: now the heroine of our article is entrusted with overseeing sports and culture. And her portfolio of Deputy Prime Minister for Social Policy went to Tatyana Golikova.
Almost immediately after this appointment, Golodets met with the head of the Ministry of Culture under her supervision, Vladimir Medinsky. Communicating with the team, she emphasized that Russia now occupies one of the leading places in the field of culture in the world, and it is important to preserve it. In response, Medinsky spoke about the phased implementation of government programs that are aimed at increasing the share of domestic cinema in the box office to 30%.
At a meeting with the Minister of Sports Pavel Kolobkov, Golodets said that the main task that the department’s employees must accomplish is to improve the development and popularization of mass sports. The goal is to involve 55 percent of the population in active life. National elite sport also faces an important task. It is necessary to restore trust in domestic athletes in the world community, as it was lost after a number of doping scandals.
