Russian politician Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky served as the head of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia and was a member of the Russian parliament. A “showman of Russian politics, merging populist and nationalist rhetoric, anti-Western venom, and a boisterous, aggressive attitude” is how he has been described by critics.

Yuri Zhirinovsky was born in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic’s capital city of Almaty, which is now Kazakhstan. A native of Kostopil in western Ukraine, Volf Isaakovich Eidelshtein’s father was a Ukrainian Jew.

Russian-Mordovian-born Alexandra Pavlovna was his mother. It is said that Zhirinovsky’s father fled to Israel in 1949 and was tragically killed by a passing bus in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1983.

Who Killed Vladimir Zhirinovsky? When Did Vladimir Zhirinovsky Die?

Zhirinovsky was hospitalized in critical condition in Moscow in February of 2022 with COVID-19, a bacterial infection. In the month that followed, reports surfaced that he had been hospitalized with the virus and put into a medically induced coma.

Complications of COVID-19, such as sepsis and respiratory failure, were discovered in March of this year.  Zhirinovsky died on March 25, 2022, according to reports from the hospital. Family members were eager to deny the reports despite their being confirmed by many sources, including his own political party.  A protracted illness was declared by the speaker of the Duma on April 6th, announcing Zhirinovsky’s death.