Zuma Press has just published a series of photos of Mr. Putin's childhood and the days before he became president.
According to Sputnik, Mr. Vladimir Putin was born on October 7, 1952, into a working-class family in Leningrad (now Saint-Peterburg). Since childhood, he loved to practice sports and watch movies about intelligence soldiers.
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| Young Putin poses with his mother, Maria Putina, in 1958. |
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| Photo of Putin taken in 1960. |
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| Putin as a teenager. |
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| Putin (circled) and classmates. |
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| Putin began studying judo and sambo at the age of 18. |
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| In 1970, he studied International Law at Leningrad State University. |
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| After graduating from university in 1975, he was recruited into the KGB intelligence agency. This photo was taken in 1980, when he had been in the KGB for 5 years. |
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| It was in the early 1980s that Putin began dating his future wife, Lyudmila, a former flight attendant. |
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| After several years of dating, Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila married in 1984. |
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| Putin with his parents in the summer of 1985, shortly before being sent to work in East Germany. |
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| In 1985, Lyudmila gave birth to her first daughter, named Maria. |
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| Putin plays with Maria after the family moved to Dresden, East Germany, where their second daughter (Katya) was born in 1986. |
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| Putin and his two lovely daughters. |
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| A photo of Putin's family in the 1990s before he returned to Leningrad and began holding important government positions. |
According to Vietnamnet
