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Dmitry Anatoliyevich Medvedev was born in Leningrad on September 14, 1965, the only child of a family from the ranks of the Soviet intelligentsia. His father, Anatoly Afanasiyevich Medvedev, was a professor at the Leningrad Technological Institute. His mother, Yulia Veniyaminovna Shaposhnikova, was first a teacher at the Hertzen Leningrad Pedagogical Institute and then a guide at a city museum. There has been widespread speculation that his mother is Jewish.
　
However, after his selection the Russian Orthodox Church strongly endorsed Medvedev's candidacy and declared that it knows him as a "believer." In an interview with "Itogi" on February 19, 2008, Medvedev admitted that he was baptized at a "mature age." He also implicitly denied rumors that he was Jewish by saying that his maternal grandparents originated from Belgorod Oblast and had the Russian-sounding surnames Shaposhnikov and Kovalyov.