Biography
Anatoliy Vasserman was born on December 9, 1952 in Odessa. At school, he was a member of the Komsomol committee, enjoyed it. He graduated from the Odessa Technological Institute of Refrigeration Industry, Faculty of Thermal Physics, with a degree in Thermal Physics. After graduating from the institute from August 1, 1974 to September 30, 1977, he worked as a programmer in the research sector of the Odessa NGO Kholodmash. From October 3, 1977 to August 23, 1995 - programmer (since 1980 - system programmer) of the Odessa All-Union Scientific Research Institute "Pishepromavtomatika". From November 23, 1991 to the present - journalist (in particular, in 1996-1999 - in computer magazines). From September 6, 1995 - political consultant in a team with Nurali Latypov. In 1994 he ran for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; ranked second in the district. Since 2008 - chief editor of the popular science magazine "Idea X" (the magazine ceased publication in 2010). During the election campaign to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in 2012, he was a fiduciary of the candidate for people's deputies, Igor Markov. Wasserman argues that in his youth he gave a vow of chastity, which he still observes. He regrets this vow, but believes that at his age it is very difficult to change anything. In addition to Russian, he also speaks Ukrainian, English and Esperanto with a dictionary. In 2015, he filed an application for admission to the citizenship of the Russian Federation, satisfied by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated January 27, 2016. In the elections to the State Duma of the VII convocation in 2016, he was nominated as a candidate for deputy on the regional list (Moscow) from the party "Fair Russia". In his district, he took second place, losing to the representative of "United Russia" Anton Zharkov.
