ABSTRACT
Russian politician. Sergey Baburin was born on January 31, 1959, in the city of Semipalatinsk in the Kazakh So viet Socialist Republic. After graduating from the faculty of law of Omsk State University, Baburin served in the Soviet army (1981-83) and took part in military actions in Afghanistan. Following his military service, he earned a Ph.D. in law in 1986 at Leningrad (St. Petersburg) State University. He was a member of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1987 to 1991. Baburin then taught at the Faculty of Law at Omsk State University, where he became the dean in 1988.
