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Vladimir Putin

ACTOR · BORN 1952

Vladimir Putin

Born
7 October 1952

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Vladimir Putin (born 7 October 1952) is an actor.

11 Interesting Facts About Vladimir Putin

Interesting Facts (8)

  1. #001

    During Putin's visit to Chechnya on the night of January 1, 2000, the presidential helicopter came under fire from militants.

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  2. #002

    As a young man, Putin worked as a stuntman at Lenfilm alongside other Leningrad athletes, appearing in the war dramas Izhorskiy batalon (1972) and Blokada: Luzhskiy rubezh, Pulkovskiy meredian (1974).

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  3. #003

    Putin has an unusual habit: when he takes over an office, he never rearranges it. Most officials clear out their predecessor's belongings and adapt the space to themselves, but Putin has not even changed the furniture.

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  4. #004

    Anatoliy Rakhlin coached Putin in judo for 11 years and later recalled that Putin "as a kid could endure pain" and "took in competitions not with physics, but with resourcefulness." The coach also said Putin's moves were hard to predict, making him a dangerous opponent.

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  5. #005

    Ahead of the 2014 Russian Grand Prix Formula 1 race in Sochi, Vladimir Putin personally took the team's Renault R29 race car for a test drive.

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  6. #006

    The first postage stamp bearing Putin's image was not issued in Russia. In 2000, North Korea's postal service released a stamp marking the Russian leader's visit to Pyongyang, showing Putin meeting Kim Jong-il.

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  7. #007

    In December 2010, Putin found another occasion to address the Russian public: he sang Blueberry Hill before a star-studded audience at a charity event in St. Petersburg. Among those present were actors Kevin Costner, Gérard Depardieu and Sharon Stone.

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  8. #008

    As a schoolboy, Putin was set on becoming a spy. He went to the KGB reception office to ask how to go about it. There he was told that first he would have to serve in the army or earn a higher education, preferably by graduating from a law faculty.

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Life & Family (3)

  1. #009

    Among his favorite films is The Shield and the Sword (1968), a war/action movie about a Soviet military intelligence officer who infiltrated the Abwehr, Germany's military intelligence, during World War II. Watching it convinced Putin to become an intelligence officer.

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  2. #010

    Among his favorite songs is "Where Does the Motherland Begin?" by Venyamin Basner and Mikhail Matusovsky. Putin performs the melody himself, singing and accompanying on piano.

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  3. #011

    Putin's paternal grandfather left for St. Petersburg at 15 to train as a cook. Under Soviet rule, Spiridon Putin worked in Gorki as Vladimir Lenin's personal chef and, after the leader's death, at one of Stalin's dachas.

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