# Yuri Churbanov

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{{short description|Soviet politician, son-in-law of Leonid Brezhnev}}

{{Family name hatnote|Mikhailovich|Churbanov|lang=Eastern Slavic}}

{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Yuri Churbanov
| native_name         = {{nobold|Юрий Чурбанов}}
| native_name_lang    = ru
| office              = First Deputy [Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union](/source/Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs_(Soviet_Union))
| term_start          = February 1980
| term_end            = November 1984
| predecessor         = Viktor Paputin
| successor           = Vasily Trushin
| premier             = [Alexei Kosygin](/source/Alexei_Kosygin)<br>[Nikolai Tikhonov](/source/Nikolai_Tikhonov)<br>[Nikolai Ryzhkov](/source/Nikolai_Ryzhkov)
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1936|11|11|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [Moscow](/source/Moscow), [Russian SFSR](/source/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic), [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) (now Russia)
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2013|10|7|1936|11|11|df=y}}
| death_place         = [Moscow](/source/Moscow), [Russia](/source/Russia)
| spouse              = [Galina Brezhneva](/source/Galina_Brezhneva) (former)
| party               = [Communist Party of the Soviet Union](/source/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union)
}}
'''Yuri Mikhailovich Churbanov''' ({{langx|ru|Ю́рий Миха́йлович Чурба́нов}}; 11 November 1936 – 7 October 2013) was a Soviet politician and the son-in-law of longtime [General Secretary](/source/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union) [Leonid Brezhnev](/source/Leonid_Brezhnev).

==Life and career==
Churbanov was born on 11 November 1936. As a young boy he was an active member of the [Komsomol](/source/Komsomol). He attended the [Moscow State University](/source/Moscow_State_University) in the 1960s and studied in the [Faculty of Law](/source/Faculty_of_Law). In 1967 he started working as a [police officer](/source/police_officer), and in 1971 before his marriage to [Galina Brezhneva](/source/Galina_Brezhneva), became a [Lieutenant colonel](/source/Lieutenant_colonel) of the Police.<ref name="jail">{{cite news | url = http://www.pseudology.org/people/Churbanov_YM.htm | script-title=ru:Юрий Михайлович Чурбанов | publisher = pseudology.org | access-date = 16 December 2010 |trans-title=Yuri Mikhailovich Churbanov | language = ru }}</ref> His marriage to Galina was arranged by her father, [General Secretary](/source/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union) [Leonid Brezhnev](/source/Leonid_Brezhnev).<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.economist.com/obituary/1998/07/09/galina-brezhneva | title = Galina Brezhneva | newspaper = [The Economist](/source/The_Economist) | date = 9 July 1998 | access-date = 16 December 2010 }}</ref> When marrying Galina Churbanov left his wife and his two children. A friend of Galina has told the Russian media that there was no love between the two, and that they kissed only two times: the first at their wedding and the second when Churbanov was sent to jail. However, Churbanov's marriage to Galina led to him being rapidly promoted. When he married Galina he was working as a police officer, however, four years later he was First Deputy Minister of the [Ministry of Internal Affairs](/source/Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs_(Soviet_Union)) and held the military rank of General.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.rian.ru/society/20080926/151628379.html | script-title=ru:Все мужчины в жизни Галины Брежневой | publisher = [Russian International News Agency](/source/RIA_Novosti) | access-date = 16 December 2010 |trans-title=From the artist to the policeman. All the men in the life of Galina Brezhnev | language = ru }}</ref> Churbanov was arrested on charges of [embezzlement](/source/embezzlement) and [corruption](/source/Political_corruption) along with Galina's brother, [Yuri](/source/Yuri_Brezhnev), for his involvement in the [Uzbek cotton scandal](/source/Uzbek_cotton_scandal).<ref>{{Cite book | author = Nikolaevna Vasilʹeva, Larisa | title = Kremlin wives | publisher = [Arcade Publishing](/source/Arcade_Publishing) | page = 221 | year = 1994 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=cFxBIYW4AMMC | isbn = 1-55970-260-5 }}</ref> In 1990, when Churbanov was still in jail, Galina filed for a [divorce](/source/divorce).<ref name="jail"/>

Churbanov died on 7 October 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mgobb.ru/content/pamyati-yuriya-mihaylovicha-churbanova |title=Памяти Юрия Михайловича Чурбанова... &#124; Всероссийская общественная организация ветеранов |publisher=Mgobb.ru |access-date=2013-10-10 |archive-date=2013-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014184210/http://mgobb.ru/content/pamyati-yuriya-mihaylovicha-churbanova |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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Category:Brezhnev family
Category:Soviet politicians
Category:1936 births
Category:Members of the Central Auditing Commission of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Category:Candidates of the Central Committee of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Category:2013 deaths
Category:Russian politicians convicted of corruption
Category:Corruption in the Soviet Union

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