Valery Zubov was born on 9 May 1953 to a family of
geologists. In 1970, he graduated from high school in
Lermontov, in
Stavropol Krai. In 1978 to 1979, he served in the Air Defense Forces. From 1986 to 1987, he did an internship in the
United States at the
University of Oklahoma, where he studied the peculiarities of the organization of labor in the US. Then in April, he was elected the 2nd governor (head) of Krasnoyarsk Krai. On 17 May 1998, Zubov was defeated in the gubernatorial election by
Alexander Lebed. He was again elected to the State Duma the same year. Zubov was one of eight members of parliament who voted against the so-called law of Dima Yakovlev, which prohibits the adoption of Russian orphans by foreign citizens. He was also one of three deputies who abstained during the vote on the annexation of
Crimea. Valery Mikhailovich Zubov died on 27 April 2016 in Moscow after a long illness. He was buried in Moscow at the Troekurovsky cemetery. On 9 June 2018, in Krasnoyarsk, in memory of Zubov, a memorial plaque was opened on the house number 12 "B" on Menzhinsky Street. It was there that Zubov had lived and worked from 1984 to 2016. ==Family==