Anatoly Sobchak

Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak (; 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.Newsweek, "Russia's Mighty Mouse", 25 February 2008.

Sobchak died on 19 February 2000 in Svetlogorsk, Russia from a heart attack, aged 62.Анатолий Собчак был убит // СМИ.ru However, some believe that he was poisoned and murdered.Arkadi Vaksberg and Paul McGregor Toxic Politics: The Secret History of the Kremlin's Poison Laboratory from the Special Cabinet to the Death of Litvinenko, pages 175-186, 2011, 978-0-313-38746-3

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