The Legislative Duma of Tomsk Oblast

Lev Pichurin

Elected in Tsentralny single member constituency No. 4

Member of the Russian Communist Party. Member of the Tomsk Regional Branch of the Russian Communist Party

Faction of the Legislative Duma of Tomsk Oblast: the Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Professor of the Cultural Studies and Sociology Department, Tomsk University of Control Systems and Electronics.

Date of birth: December 18, 1927

Brief biography: Born in Leningrad

1948 ¬– graduated with distinction from the Tomsk Artillery School as officer of field artillery
1956 – graduated with distinction from the Tomsk Pedagogical Institute as school teacher of mathematics and physics
1963 – completed his postgraduate course in mathematics teaching methods at the Gertsen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute. In the same year was granted the title Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences
Since 1985 – professor
1945-1952 – service in the Soviet Army
1952-1953 – teacher of pre-service training and physical education, Tomsk Oblast School of Music
1953-1957 – teacher of mathematics, secondary school No. 9
1957-2003 – instructor (assistant, associate professor, professor) at the Tomsk Pedagogical Institute, head of the Physics and Mathematics Department, secretary of the party association at the Institute. Created the Mathematics Methods Department and headed it for 25 years. At the same time worked as a mathematics teacher at schools No. 43 and 48.
1981-1984 – consultant at the Ministry of Education of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Since 2003 – professor of the Cultural Studies Department, Tomsk University of Control Systems and Electronics

Freelancer for newspapers such as Izvestiya, Uchitelskaya Gazeta (Teachers’ Newspaper), Sovetskaya Rossiya (Soviet Russia); local newspapers, radio and television. Author of a number of articles and over 60 books and booklets

Since 1960 – member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), then member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF)
1965-1972 – member of the Kirovsky District Committee of the CPSU Since 1989 – member of the Tomsk City and Oblast Committees of the CPRF
1989-1991 – chairman of the Tomsk Branch of the Memorial Association

Awards: Public Education Expert of the USSR, Public Education Expert of the RSFSR. Konstantin Ushinsky Medal. Eight USSR medals

Additional information:
Full member of the Municipal Academy of the Russian Federation. Associate member of the Academy of the Humanities of the Russian Federation. Member of the Russian Union of Journalists. Honorary member of the Russian Theater Union and the Russian Writers Union. Honorary member of the Tomsk Oblast Writers Organization

Deputy of the Tomsk City Duma of the first to fourth convocations

Married, has two children, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Hobbies: journalism, tourism, mushroom hunting, gardening