Anatoly Sobchak
Mayor of Saint Petersburg
In office 12 June 1991 ? 5 June 1996
Preceded by	Boris Gidaspov
Succeeded by	Vladimir Yakovlev
Personal details
Born	Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak ( 1937-08-10 ) 10 August 1937 Chita , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
Died	19 February 2000 (2000-02-19) (aged 62) Svetlogorsk , Russia
Resting place	Nikolskoe Cemetery Saint Petersburg , Russia
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1988?1991) Independent (1991?1996) Our Home ? Russia (1996?2000)
Spouse(s)	Nonna Gandzyuk ( m.  1958, divorced) Lyudmila Narusova ( m.  1980)
Children	Maria, Ksenia
Alma mater	Leningrad State University
Profession	Legal scholar , educator

Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak ( Russian : Анатолий Александрович Собчак , IPA:  [?n??tol??j ?l???ksandr?v??t? s?p?t?ak] ; 10 August 1937 ? 19 February 2000) was a Soviet and Russian politician. He was a co-author of the Constitution of the Russian Federation . He was the first democratically elected mayor of Saint Petersburg . He was a mentor and teacher of both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev . ^[1]

Sobchak died on 19 February 2000 in Svetlogorsk , Russia from a heart attack , aged 62. ^{[2] [3] [4]} However, some believe that he was poisoned and murdered. ^{[5] [6]}

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