Georgy Boos

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Georgy Boos
Георгий Боос
Boos in 2009
4th Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast
In office
12 November 2005 – 27 September 2010
Preceded byVladimir Yegorov
Succeeded byNikolay Tsukanov
Minister of Taxation
In office
28 December 1998 – 24 May 1999
Prime MinisterYevgeny Primakov
Preceded byOffice renamed
Succeeded byAlexander Pochinok
Head of State Taxation Service
In office
29 September 1998 – 28 December 1998
Prime MinisterYevgeny Primakov
Preceded byBoris Fyodorov
Succeeded byOffice renamed
Personal details
Born (1963-01-22) 22 January 1963 (age 62)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyFatherland
United Russia
Alma materMoscow Power Engineering Institute
ProfessionBusinessman, politician

Georgy Valentinovich Boos (Russian: Георгий Валентинович Боос, born 22 January 1963) is a Russian businessman and politician who served as the governor of Kaliningrad Oblast from 2005 to 2010.

Early life and education

Boos was born in Moscow into a Crimean German family on 22 January 1963.[1] His parents were both engineers. He graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1986 with an engineering degree.[1]

In 1995 he received a Technical Sciences Ph.D. His thesis was titled "Improving the efficiency of outdoor lighting installations of cities streets and squares".[2]

Career

Boos performed his military service in the Soviet Air Force between 1986 and 1988 based at Spassk-Dalny.

In 1988, he was hired by the All-Union Technological and Lighting Scientific Research Institute (VNISI) in Moscow, where he remained for three years, holding the positions of Engineer, Senior Engineer and Junior Researcher. During the same time period, he was also a mathematics teacher at School No. 247 in Moscow.

From 1991 to 1995, he served as director of the Moscow Scientific Production Lighting Enterprise Svetoservis, which was founded by him and his father. In 1993 the company became a joint stock company, and Boos became its CEO. Since 1994, the firm is engaged in art-architectural lighting municipal facilities of Moscow as the main contractor.[3] For his work on many enterprise professional exhibitions was medalist and winner of awards.[4][5][6][7] Svetoservis patented a number of lighting solutions, the development of which also involved GV Boos.[8] Among them was the industrially designed lamp, designed for use in doorways, which became known as "vandal-proof".[9][10]

From 1995 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2005, he was a deputy of the State Duma, in which he served as vice-speaker (from 2003 to 2005). Boos became a close ally of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov of Moscow. He was a member of Luzhkov's centrist Fatherland Party. After it merged with the Unity Party, Boos became a member of United Russia.

From 29 September until 23 December 1998, by resolution of Russian Federation Government, was appointed as the Chairman of the State Tax Service of the Russian Federation (from 23 December until 25 May 1999, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation become a Minister of the Russian Federation for Taxes and Levies). In May 1999, he was dismissed with the Primakov cabinet.

On 14 September 2005 he was proposed by President Vladimir Putin to the Kaliningrad Oblast legislature as a governor of Kaliningrad Oblast and was approved soon after this. His tenure as governor ended in September 2010.[1]

On 28 December 2011 G. Boos was appointed chairman of the Board of Directors of VVC (All-Russian Exhibition Centre),[11] but in June 2012 dismissed from the post.[12][13]

On 14 January 2012 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Holding of Interregional Distribution Grid Companies[14] (JSC "Russian network"), and then was its chairman.[15] until 28 June 2013.[16]

He is the owner of the holding "Boos Lighting groups".[17] BL Group Boos Lighting Group is a holding company that combines: a group of companies "Svetoservis", «GALAD» and «OPORA engenering».[18]

Boos' income in 2008 amounted to 122,370,965 rubles, of which 841,572 rubles earned on the main job, were transferred to the accounts of orphanages Kaliningrad region.[19] In 2009, revenue was 86.4 million rubles.[20]

Personal life

Boos married three times. He has eight children.[1]

His father, Valentin Gerbertovich Boos (born 1938), is a Candidate of Technical Sciences, a member of the board of directors of OOO VNISI, and holds a patent for a “Method of measuring road pavement”.[21]

He is married. He has seven daughters and a son, Gleb (born 2017), from three marriages.[22][23][24][25]

His first wife, Valentina Yuryevna Boos, graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. She married Georgy Boos during her student years; after four years of marriage, the couple divorced. She works as a speech therapist-defectologist and in 2008 released the video course “Home Speech Therapist”.

Their daughter from the first marriage, Ekaterina, was born in 1986. In 2007, she graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. In 2007–2008, she worked as a test engineer at the Moscow Experimental Lighting Plant, part of the Svetoservis holding; in 2008–2009, she served as chief specialist at OOO Svetoservis. Since September 2009, she has been the General Director of OOO Svetoproekt and a member of the board of directors of the All-Russian Lighting Research Institute named after S. I. Vavilov. On 23 January 2009, she gave birth to a son, a grandson of Georgy Boos.[26]

His second wife, Elena Vladimirovna Lirina-Boos (born 1966), married Boos in 1996; they met at the Lianozovo Tennis Club. She initially worked as the financial director of the parent company of Boos’s holding, ZAO NPSP Svetoservis, and after her husband’s election to the State Duma in 1999, she became head of the company. Several years later, she divorced Boos but remained General Director of the Svetosistema holding until 2006. According to SPARK, Elena Lirina owns 11.04% of the shares of ZAO NPSP Svetoservis. Since 2005, she has served as General Director of OOO Management Company BL GROUP. From 2008, she chaired the board of directors of Vneshprombank.[27] Their daughter Elena was born on 16 November 1996; her godfather is Yuri Luzhkov.

His third wife, Anna Vyacheslavovna Boos, is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University and worked at a bank. She is an affiliated person of OAO Moscow Experimental Lighting Plant.[97] In this marriage were born Nadezhda (2002), Maria (2004), Lyubov (2006), Vera (16 August 2009), Gleb (2017), and Irina (18 August 2020).[23][24][25]

During his tenure as governor, he preferred to travel outside Kaliningrad Oblast by private jet which, judging by his income declaration, was not owned by him but was decorated with the coat of arms of Kaliningrad Oblast.[28]

He also owns a yacht.[29]

In Kaliningrad, he resided in his private home with a total area of 691.6 m², located in an elite neighborhood on Demyan Bedny Street in the Leningradsky District.

His income for 2008 amounted to 122,370,965 rubles, of which 841,572 rubles earned at his primary place of employment were transferred to the accounts of children’s homes in Kaliningrad Oblast[30] (link unavailable). In 2009, his income amounted to 86.4 million rubles.[31]

Georgy Boos is fond of singing with a guitar[32] and riding motorcycles.[33]

Honours and award

  • Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class (21 January 2008) – for outstanding contribution to the socio-economic development of the region and many years of fruitful work[1][34]
  • Order of Honour (28 January 2004) – for active participation in legislative activities and many years of diligent work[1][35]
  • Medal "For Services in the Conduct of the Population Census"[1]
  • Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"[1]
  • Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"[1]
  • Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art in 1996 (29 May 1997) – for the formation of light-color Moscow environment[36]
  • Diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation (6 July 1999) – for services to the state and years of diligent work[37]
  • Medal "Federation Council. 15 years "(2008) – for many years of hard work, great contribution to the interaction of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and state bodies, organizations in the development and improvement of the federal legislation of the Russian Federation, and the strengthening of the Russian state in connection with the 15th anniversary Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation[38]
  • Commander of the Order "For Merit" (Gabon, 2000)[39]
  • Order of Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow II degree (ROC, 2006)[40]
  • Higher Law Award "Themis" (17 February 2007) in the category "Russia and Europe" – For the development of civil society in the process of integration of the Russian Federation and the European Union[41]
  • Honorary Doctor of BFU. Kant (2012)[42]

Publications

  • Reference Book on Lighting Engineering. Edited by G. V. Boos and Yu. B. Aizenberg. 4th ed.[43]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Georgy Valentinovich Boos". Russian Grids. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  2. ↑ Коммерсантъ.ru. Боос Георгий Валентинович
  3. ↑ Досье губернатора Бооса.
  4. ↑ ООО "СВЕТОСЕРВИС" Archived 12 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine (Russian Union of Designers)
  5. ↑ Interlight Moscow 2013 – results of the exhibition Archived 3 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Interlight Moscow 2012 — the first lighting up exhibition of Russia Archived 3 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ Дизайн 2005 (Design Review)
  8. ↑ "Lamps for gardens". Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  9. ↑ "Boos lamp illuminate entrances". Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  10. ↑ Wizards bring light
  11. ↑ Russian Exhibition Center for Boos and Nisanova
  12. ↑ Deputy Sobyanin will do the Reconstruction of Russian Exhibition Center
  13. ↑ Georgy Boos removed from the reconstruction project of the Russian Exhibition Center
  14. ↑ Georgy Boos elected to the Board of Directors of IDGC
  15. ↑ Georgy Boos headed Energy Holding IDGC
  16. ↑ "Georgy Boos resigned as chairman of the board of directors "Rosseti"". Archived from the original on 20 March 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  17. ↑ Georgy Boos on Lenta.ru
  18. ↑ Sites of holding BL GROUP
  19. ↑ Houses, cars, ATVs and 21 lighting company
  20. ↑ VEDOMOSTI – A salary – to give a salary to children
  21. ↑ "Высокопоставленные наследники".
  22. ↑ "У калининградского губернатора Георгия Бооса родилась шестая дочка".
  23. 1 2 "Георгий Боос: «Моя жена могла родить и на Северном полюсе»".
  24. 1 2 "Георгий Боос: Стратег Света". Деловой мир (in Russian). 1 August 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  25. 1 2 "У Георгия Бооса сегодня родилась дочь — Балтик Плюс".
  26. ↑ "У калининградского губернатора Георгия Бооса родилась шестая дочка".
  27. ↑ "Высокопоставленные наследники — 2" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 11 September 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  28. ↑ "СМИ России прошлись по полету Ушацкаса с Боосом". Delfi RU (in Russian). Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  29. ↑ "archive.md". archive.md. Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  30. ↑ "Губернатор, от которого исходит свет. Георгий Боос. Особняки, автомобили, квадроциклы и 21 светотехническое предприятие". Новая газета (in Russian). 21 July 2009. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  31. ↑ "http://www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/article/2010/05/04/233214". {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  32. ↑ "- YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  33. ↑ "Сумасшедший Боос".
  34. ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 21 января 2008 года № 53 Archived 3 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  35. ↑ Собрание законодательства Российской Федерации 2 февраля 2004, № 5, ст. 356
  36. ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 29 мая 1997 года № 532 «О присуждении Государственных премий Российской Федерации в области литературы и искусства 1996 года» Archived 3 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  37. ↑ Распоряжение Правительства Российской Федерации от 6 июля 1999 года № 1069-р «О награждении Почётной грамотой Правительства Российской Федерации Бооса Г. В.»
  38. ↑ Георгий Боос награждён медалью Совета Федерации Archived 20 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  39. ↑ Георгий Боос. Поездка в Габон и Камерун.
  40. ↑ Святейший Патриарх Алексий совершил всенощное бдение в Крестовоздвиженском соборе Калининграда. Archived 14 September 2012 at archive.today
  41. ↑ Георгий Боос был удостоен Высшей юридической премии
  42. ↑ "Боос. Перезагрузка". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  43. ↑ "Юлиан Айзенберг и Георгий Боос представили «Справочную книгу по светотехнике»".