Head of the DPR Pushilin Biography

Mother - Khasanova Valentina Ergashevna - was born and raised in Khmelnitsky, in Ukraine, although her father - Ergash Hasanovich Khasanov - originally from Uzbekistan, participated in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded numerous medals and orders. Parents divorced early, and Raisted Denis Mom, who worked at a metallurgical plant. The education of the boy was mainly engaged in grandmother.

Since Denis was the only man in the family, he matured early, performed various male duties on the household. He studied perfectly at school so as not to upset his mother. Despite heart problems, Pushilin was playing a lot of sports: Greco-Roman wrestling, football, rode a bicycle. In the year, Denis graduated from the Makeevsky city lyceum. And then he went to the army: he served in the special purpose of the National Guard of Ukraine in the Crimea.

After the army, Pushilin entered the Donbass National Academy of Construction and Architecture at the Faculty of Economics of the Enterprise, but did not graduate from the university. He received higher education already in the year at the Donetsk Academy of Management and Public Administration under the head of the DPR with a degree in state and municipal administration.

The time of studying at the university since the year Denis worked in the distribution company "Sweet Life", which was engaged in the sale of confectionery. It was connected with this company up to a year. Further in the year, Pushilin became the functionary of the well -known MMM movement, and after that on its base he created the party "We have a goal." Even before the start of Euromaidan and Russian spring in the Donbass, he openly expressed his pro -Russian position.

He actively proved himself during the protest movement of the Russian -speaking population in the Donbass. He took part in the proclamation of the Donetsk People’s Republic on April 7, became the co -chair of its Provisional Government. Further, Pushilin received the post of chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the DPR, on which he stayed from May 15 to July 18. Denis acted as the co -chair of the People’s Front of Novorossia, in the framework of which the first humanitarian convoys from Russia to the Donbass were organized.

Pushilin also became one of the organizers of the Public Movement "Donetsk Republic", in which he was the head of the executive committee up to a year. From Denis, he was a deputy of the People’s Council of the Donetsk People's Republic, since November he held the post of deputy chairman there, and from September 11 - the chairman. At the negotiations of the contact group in Minsk, Pushilin was a permanent authorized representative of the DPR from November 9 to September 11.

Since the end of the year, Denis was the head of the Russian Center, who helped in the integration of Donbass with Russia in social, cultural and humanitarian issues. Since September 25, he was elected chairman of the Public Movement "Donetsk Republic". In the same year, a referendum took place, as a result of which most citizens of the DPR expressed a desire for the republic to join the Russian Federation.

And on September 23, Denis took a post after the deputies of the People’s Assembly of the region on the proposal of the President of Russia. Pushilin is the secretary of the regional branch of the United Russia party in the DPR since October 21, a member of the Denis party since December. It also consists in the presidential council for the development of local self -government since April.

Denis met the relationship and children of his first work with his future wife Irina, with whom he built a strong family. Three daughters were born in marriage. It is known that younger daughters are engaged in rhythmic gymnastics. Irina is an honorary president of the DPR rhythmic gymnastics Federation. Interesting facts on Pushilin at least twice were attempted. First, on June 7, his car was fired near the Millennium restaurant, then his assistant died.

A week later, a minibus was blown up near the regional administration, where two more assistants were killed.