Vladimir Putin was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) on 19521October 7. 1975 After graduating from the Law Department of the National Leningrad University, he worked in the Foreign Intelligence Bureau of the National Security Council of the Soviet Union. From 1985 to 1990, he was sent to work in the GDR. 1990 After returning to China, Putin successively served as foreign affairs assistant to the president of Leningrad University, adviser to the mayor of St. Petersburg and chairman of the St. Petersburg Foreign Liaison Committee. 1994, he served as the first deputy mayor of St. Petersburg. 1In August 1996, Putin began to serve as the Deputy Director of the Presidential Affairs Administration of the Russian Federation. 1In March 1997, he served as Deputy Director of the Office of the Russian President and Director of the Supervision Bureau. 1In May 1998, he served as the first deputy director of the Office of the President. In July of the same year, he served as the director of the Russian Federal Security Service. 1in March, 1999, he served as the secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. On August 9 of the same year, he was appointed as the first deputy prime minister and acting prime minister, and became prime minister on August 16. 19991February 3 1, President Yeltsin announced his resignation as president and Putin became acting president. On March 26, 2000, Putin was elected President of the Russian Federation and was formally sworn in on May 7. In March 2004, Putin won the general election and was re-elected as president, and was sworn in in May of the same year. Putin is proficient in German and loves sports, especially sambo wrestling, judo and alpine skiing. In college, he won the Sambo wrestling champion, 1974 Leningrad judo champion, and was selected as an athlete candidate. He is tough and patient, and seldom shows his feelings. His wife lyudmila 1957 was born in Kaliningrad, on the south bank of the Baltic Sea. She graduated from Kaliningrad No.8 Middle School. She likes drama and sports. After graduating from high school, lyudmila was admitted to Kaliningrad Institute of Technology. He dropped out of school two years later because he didn't like engineering. In the early 1980s, he became a flight attendant of Kaliningrad Air Force. After that, he entered the Language Department of Leningrad State University to study Spanish. He used to be a university teacher in Bryansk, Russia. At the age of 24, he spent a short holiday in Leningrad, where he met Putin at a concert. 1On July 28th, 983, he married Putin on a boat in neva river. They have two daughters: Katja and Martha. Putin led a delegation to visit China as the first deputy mayor of St. Petersburg in 1994. He visited China as president in July 2000, February 2002/KLOC-0 and October 2004/KLOC-0. In March 2006, he paid a state visit to China and attended the opening ceremony of the Russian Year and the Sino-Russian Economic and Trade Summit Forum.