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    • SMIRNOV Vitaly

    SMIRNOV Vitaly GeorgievichDate of birth

    February 14, 1935

    Education

    Graduated from the State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Education (1958)

    Place of employment and position held

    • Member of the International Olympic Committee
    • Honorary President of the Russian Olympic Committee and a member of the Creative Academy
    • Member of the Russian Union of Journalists

    Work experience in the field of sport

    • Instructor, Head of the Department for Physical Culture and Sports, Second and then First Secretary of the AULYCL MC (1958-1968)
    • First Secretary of the Pushkin party committee (1968-1970)
    • Deputy, First Deputy Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Sports (1970-1975)
    • Chairman of the USSR Water Polo Federation (1962-1972)
    • First Deputy Chairman of the 1980 Olympics Organizing Committee (1975-1981)
    • Chairman of the State Committee of the RSFSR for Physical Culture and Sports (1981-1990)
    • Chairman of the USSR Olympic Committee (1990-1992)
    • Chairman of the Russian Olympic Committee (1992-2001)
    • Member of the International Olympic Committee (since 1971), Member of the IOC Executive Committee (1974-1978, 1986-1990), Vice-President of the IOC (1978-1982, 1990-1994, 2001 till present), Chairman of the IOC Admission Commission (1992-1998) and of the Olympic Program Commission (1983-1991)
    • Member of the Presidential Council for Physical Culture and Sports
    • Honorary President of the Russian Olympic Committee (since 2001)

    Honours

    • Order of the Badge of Honour (1966, 1970, 1976)
    • Order of Friendship of Peoples (1980)
    • Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1985)
    • Order of Honour (1994)
    • Order For Merits Before Fatherland, Degree III (1996), Degree II (2001) and Degree IV (2010)
    • He has many foreign State Awards and International Sports Organizations Awards