Yury Luzhkov has served as Moscow mayor for 18 years, 3 months and 3 weeks. RIA Novosti presents some of the highs and lows.
Yury Luzhkov has served as Moscow mayor for 18 years, 3 months and 3 weeks. RIA Novosti presents some of the highs and lows.
September 1992. Yury Luzhkov during a football match between the teams of the mayor’s office and Moscow City Council.
September 1994. Yury Luzhkov during the celebration of Moscow Day.
October 1994. Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II and Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov at Red Square.
February 1995. Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and all Russia, Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov attend the foundation stone ceremony of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in 1995.
October 1995. Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin examines a silver chain presented to the Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov.
February 1996. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov attends the traditional Farewell to Winter.
September 1996. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov at the Moscow Day celebration.
July 1997. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov at the consecration ceremony and lifting of a Tom Bell to the bell chamber of the under-construction Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
June 1998. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov on a tennis court.
September 1998. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov greets U.S. President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary.
July 1999. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov heads to a Moscow beer festival in the Luzhniki.
November 1999. Yury Luzhkov and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
October 2000. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov with tennis players Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova at the International tennis tournament Kremlin Cup-2000.
September 2001. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov presents a keg of honey to a Moscow chorale synagogue during the celebration of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah.
July 2002. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, Miss Universe Oksana Fedorova and Nobel Prize in Physics winner Zhores Alferov at the 131st General Assembly of the International bureau of exhibitions in Paris.
September 2004. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov at the ceremony honoring the victims of apartment building bombing on Guryanov Street in 1999.
August 2006. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov (left) at the opening of the new 172nd station of the Moscow metro – Mezhdunarodnaya.
September 2006. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov at the presentation of a book by Yevgeny Primakov.
October 2007. Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov and Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov (from left to right) at a football match between the Russian and English national teams (2:1).
April 2008. UEFA President Michel Platini, left, gave Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov the Champions League cup in a ceremony at the Moscow Central Department Store, or GUM.
October 2008. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov at the fashion show of designer Valentin Yudashkin at Gostiny Dvor, Moscow.
August 2009. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov (center) examines the reconstruction works of the Bolshoi Theater.
March 2010. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov near the Park Kultury metro station which was hit by a terrorist attack earlier that morning.
August 2007. Moscow Region Governor Boris Gromov, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Central Federal District Georgy Poltavchenko, and Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Yury Trutnev at the testing ground of the Mechanic Engineering Design Bureau in Kolomna, where experiments on flooding peat bogs are being carried out.
September 2010. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov at the World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education.
September 28, 2010. Former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov (center) sits down in a car near the mayor’s office after receiving the decree on his dismissal.
