Early Life
Chubais was born on June 16, 1955 in the town of Borisov, then part of the Soviet Union. His father Boris Matveyevich Chubais, a retired colonel, veteran of the World War II worked as a lecturer of Philosophy and Marxist Theory and Scientific Communism. His mother, Raisa Efimovna Sagal, was a university-educated economist but never had a job as she mostly lived at military bases with her husband. Instead she stayed home caring for her children and never putting her profession to use. Anatoly Chubais has an older brother Igor Chubais (born 1947), who is also an economist.
In 1977, Chubais graduated from the Leningrad Economic Engineering Institute and joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He continued to work at Leningrad Economic Engineering Institute. While attending Leningrad, Chubias started a club called Reforma, which helped turn Leningrad into a model of reform that helped construct platforms for both local and national elections. Reforma also helped with drafting legislation, which eventually helped lead its government. In 1982 he became an Associate Professor (доцент) there. In 1983 he got his Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D.) degree in economics for the dissertation "Исследование и разработка методов планирования совершенствования управления в отраслевых научно-технических организациях" (Research and development of methods for planning improvement of management in the industrial research and development organizations).
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