Born on September 19, 1965 in Moscow, in the family of an employee of the State Security Committee (KGB) under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Anatoly Matovnikov. In the 1980s his father served as deputy head of the secretariat of the 7th department of the KGB of the USSR, which was engaged in organizing surveillance of Soviet and foreign citizens. Also subordinate to the department was the anti-terrorist unit "A" (now - Directorate "A" of the Central Security Service of the FSB of Russia, special unit "Alpha").

In 1986, Alexander Matovnikov graduated from the Higher Border Military-Political Order October revolution Red Banner School of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the USSR named after K. E. Voroshilov (now - the Golitsyn Border Institute of the FSB of Russia), in 1992 - the Higher School of the Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation (now - the Academy of the FSB of the Russian Federation).

Since the summer of 1986, he served in the anti-terrorist unit "A" of the KGB of the USSR. In 1986-1987 was part of a motorized maneuver group in northern Afghanistan, near the border with Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. According to Alexander Matovnikov's own recollections, the employees of unit "A" worked there "under the auspices of the operational units of the border troops, solved specific tasks in the interests of the KGB" (in particular, they met Soviet intelligence officers, intercepted caravans with weapons and drugs, etc.).
In 1987 and 1988 along with other Alpha fighters who were involved in strengthening the security of the first person, he accompanied Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on his trips to the United States. In December 1988, he participated in ensuring the security of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during her visit to the earthquake-affected regions of Armenia.
He held the posts of the head of the 2nd department of the 1st department of Directorate "A", since 2007 - the first deputy head of Alpha. Member of a number of special operations in the North Caucasus, including the assault on a hospital occupied by terrorists in the city of Budennovsk (1995). Since 2000, he provided personal protection for the supreme mufti of Chechnya (in 2003-2004 - the president of Chechnya) Akhmat Kadyrov, who went over to the side of the federal forces. In September 2004, he participated in the release of hostages in the city of Beslan (North Ossetia) - led the control group, created an operational headquarters, established interaction with local authorities, police and military.
In 2014, he was transferred to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and appointed to the position of Deputy Commander of the Special Operations Forces (SSO) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (in 2014-2015, Major General was the commander of the SSO, since 2015 - Lieutenant General Alexei Dyumin. From 2016 to present Dyumin holds the post of governor of the Tula region).
From April 2015 to June 2018 - commanded the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Participated in the military operation of the RF Armed Forces against international terrorist organizations on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic.
On June 26, 2018, by decree of the head of state, Alexander Matovnikov was appointed Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus Federal District (NCFD). He replaced Oleg Belaventsev as plenipotentiary, who had been in charge of the North Caucasus Federal District since 2016.
Since July 3, 2018 - Member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

Member of the Presidential Council for Strategic Development and National Projects (since July 2018).

The total amount of declared income for 2018 amounted to 7 million 710 thousand rubles, spouses - 280 thousand rubles.

Lieutenant General (2018).

By decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin in December 2017, Alexander Matovnikov was awarded the title Hero of Russia ("for courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty"). He was also awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree with swords, Alexander Nevsky, two Orders of Courage, the Order of Military Merit, and medals.

He is married for the second time and has three children. His wife Svetlana, an entrepreneur, owns a studio for designing and sewing curtains. The daughter of Alexei Matovnikov from his first marriage, Anna, graduated from the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov. Children from the second marriage - daughter Alexander (born 2006) and son Alexei (born 2009).

Alexander Matovnikov - presidential envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District since June 26, 2018, Lieutenant General, Hero Russian Federation.

Biography

Alexander Matovnikov was born on September 19, 1965 in Moscow, in the family of an employee of the State Security Committee (KGB) Anatoly Matovnikov. In the 1980s, my father worked as deputy head of the secretariat of the 7th department of the KGB of the USSR, which was engaged in organizing surveillance of Soviet and foreign citizens. Also subordinate to the department was the anti-terrorist unit "A" (now - Directorate "A" of the Central Security Service of the FSB, special unit "Alpha"). He graduated from the Higher Border Military-Political School of the KGB named after K.E. Voroshilov.

Data on marital status and income are not available in open sources, the first "available" photo was taken in December 2017 during the presentation of the Golden Star in the Kremlin.

Career

In 1986, he entered the service in group "A" ("Alpha") of the 7th Directorate of the USSR State Security Committee (now - the anti-terrorist special unit "Alpha" / Directorate "A" of the Center special purpose Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation).

Matovnikov served under the command of Major General Viktor Karpukhin, and according to Colonel Yuri Torshin about Karpukhin and other commanders: "we looked with envy at the participants in the assault on Amin's palace - holders of military orders" (a special operation code-named "Storm-333", preceding the start participation Soviet troops in afghan war 1979-1989, during which the special forces of the KGB of the USSR and Soviet army Afghan President Hafizullah Amin was assassinated. Viktor Karpukhin and three other officers were awarded the title of Hero Soviet Union).

He held the positions of the head of the 2nd department of the 1st department of the Department "A" and the first deputy head of the Department "A". took part in both Chechen wars and several special operations, including in the North Caucasus.

He was one of the leaders of the storming of the hospital in Budyonnovsk, participated in the anti-terrorist operation in Nord-Ost on Dubrovka (deputy head of Alpha), investigated the circumstances of the storming of the school in Beslan (member of the expert commission).

After serving for more than 30 years in Alfa, in 2013 he was transferred to work in the Ministry of Defense, and then appointed to the post of Deputy Commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Main (Intelligence) Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces.

In 2015, after the departure of Alexei Dyumin to the post of Deputy Minister of Defense, Matovnikov became the commander of the MTR and the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

According to media reports, he was a special assignment officer under Russian President Vladimir Putin and was one of the leaders of secret military operations abroad, including in Ukraine, where he coordinated the actions of personnel during the Crimean crisis.

He also took part in the Russian military operation in Syria (commander of the MTR). In 2017, with the rank of major general, he was awarded the title "Hero of the Russian Federation". Awarded with orders"For Services to the Fatherland" IV degree with swords, Alexander Nevsky, two Orders of Courage, the Order of Military Merit, medals. On February 22, 2018, he was promoted to lieutenant general.

Peer ratings

Sergey Goncharov, veteran of the Alpha special forces unit, former commander of Matovnikov: “As my subordinate, he was and is a very high man, such, so to speak, even tactical treatment, then, when he became a commander, with subordinates, this is the second. executive officer. And most importantly, he always knew how to act in any situation. "

There is information about working and even friendly relations with the leaders of the republics of the North Caucasus Federal District. For example, about friendship with Ramzan Kadyrov.

"This position ( plenipotentiary in the NCFD. - Approx. "Caucasian Knot") cannot be called completely civil - two Chechen campaigns were not in vain, several generations of natives of the Caucasus grew up without schools with a machine gun in their hands, and it is easy to find targets for recruiting terrorists there," said Alexei Filatov, Vice President of the International Association of Alpha Veterans.

In his opinion, the Caucasus is "still a smoldering dot on the map of Russia, and after the end of the main phase of the war in Syria, many militants return there." "And Matovnikov knows all the leaders of the Caucasian republics personally, he is an ideal figure to represent the president's interests in the region," Filatov said.

At the same time, Alexander Matovnikov is "very close to the head of state, Vladimir Putin." Veterans of department "A" (known as "Alpha") of the Special Purpose Center of the FSB of Russia told about this, and also confirmed by a source close to the embassy in the North Caucasus Federal District.

Notes

Oath of allegiance to the motherland // Newspaper "Special Forces of Russia", October 1, 2005
Putin signed decrees on the appointment of his authorized representatives in the districts // Komsomolskaya Pravda, June 26, 2018
"Thirty" in touch! // Newspaper "Spetsnaz Rossii", November 1, 2010
Biography of Alexander Matovnikov//RIA Novosti, June 26, 2018
The Corps of Plenipotentiaries is promised an update // Kommersant, June 18, 2018
Biography of the Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus Federal District Alexander Matovnikov // TASS, June 26, 2018
"Mowgli", "fighting man" and just " handsome man". What is known about Putin's most mysterious appointee in the Caucasus // Rain, June 26, 2018
Appointee from "Alpha": why the veteran of the special forces became the plenipotentiary in the North Caucasus Federal District // RBC, June 26, 2018

Photo: “A very even person in relations with his comrades and with his colleagues. Never raise your voice. Restrained, tactful. Assembled. Knows how to listen and hear "(Hero of the Soviet Union, General G.N. Zaitsev)

On behalf of not only Alfa, but the entire Russian special forces, I would like to congratulate our comrade-in-arms, Hero of Russia, Lieutenant General Alexander Matovnikov, on his appointment as a member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation and Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus Federal District.

Immediately after the promulgation of the presidential decree, Alexander Anatolyevich was congratulated by all the leaders of the regions of the North Caucasus Federal District, including Ramzan Kadyrov (Chechnya), Yunus-Bek Evkurov (Ingushetia), Rashid Temrezov (Karachay-Cherkessia), Vyacheslav Bitarov (North Ossetia-Alania) and Vladimir Vladimirov ( Stavropol region).

In addition to the respect shown, there is something else: when Matovnikov served in Alfa and was its first deputy commander, he had very good relations with almost all the leaders of the regions of the North Caucasus District. In general, generals are loved in the Caucasus - this is one thing, heroes - these are two, and the third - people who can find a compromise with any leader of any region. So the candidacy is the best that could be.

Everyone involved in the subject of anti-terror and special forces knew Alexander Anatolyevich well long before his appointment as plenipotentiary in the North Caucasus Federal District, and we, in the Alpha special unit, have known him for a lifetime, one might say so. However, we did not have the right to speak and write about him publicly.

On New Year's Eve 2018, President Vladimir Putin lifted our "vow of silence" when, in the Georgievsky Hall of the Moscow Kremlin, he presented General Matovnikov, among a group of other recipients, with the Gold Star of the Hero of Russia.

"YOUR SON WILL BE A GENERAL!"

Already in January 2018, on the pages of the Russian Special Forces, Hero of the Soviet Union Zaitsev Gennady Nikolaevich spoke about Matovnikov in the article General from the MTR. In the context of the new appointment, I will recall the main points of that publication.

“Those who began their service in our unit,” notes G. N. Zaitsev, “were not only anti-terror fighters, “militants”, but operational officers. This is a very important combination! Accordingly, we selected those who, by their moral-volitional, psychological and physical qualities, were suitable for this kind of complex and specific service.

I must say that Matovnikov Sr. at that time was in the position of deputy head of the secretariat of the Seventh Directorate of the KGB of the USSR and could directly apply with this request to the head of this department, General E.M. Rasshchepov, so that his son was enrolled in Group "A". But Anatoly Mikhailovich decided otherwise: “You tell him, it will be better…” Which I did.

“Evgeny Mikhailovich,” I said to E.M. Rasshchepov, “Matovnikov’s son graduated from the border school, the reviews are very good. We know him, controlled him during his studies. He deserves to be enrolled in our unit." “Okay, look. If it fits, then take it.

From this, in fact, it all began. I talked with Matovnikov - the impression was positive. In 1986 he was enrolled in the Group. Alexander worked for a year in the unit, proved himself and began to grow on this spetsnaz path. And then I said to his father: "Your son will be a general!"

When this happened in 2017, I immediately called Anatoly Mikhailovich Matovnikov and said: “Do you remember my words?” - "I remember, but how!" “Did it work out with your son, as I told you?” “Yes, Gennady Nikolaevich, you turned out to be a visionary.” And he became a general, and a Hero of Russia, ”writes G. N. Zaitsev.

GROUP "A" KGB-FSB

Matovnikov Jr. served in Alfa for more than thirty years. He became the second "Alfa" who exchanged his fourth decade of service in Group "A". He went from an ordinary employee to the first deputy head of Department "A" of the Special Purpose Center of the FSB of Russia.

Born September 19, 1965 in Moscow. In 1986 he graduated from the Higher Border Military-Political Red Banner School of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the USSR named after K. E. Voroshilov (now the Golitsyn Border Institute of the FSB). Also behind him graduate School Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation (1992).

In the same 1986, he was enrolled in Group A of the Seventh Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. He took part in many iconic special operations to free hostages and neutralize terrorists, including in Budyonnovsk, on Dubrovka (“Nord-Ost”) and Beslan. As part of the unit, he went through two full-scale campaigns in the North Caucasus.

In addition, Matovnikov participated in various events jointly held by the International Association "Alpha" and the combat unit - these are various sports tournaments, championships, visits to nominal and sponsored "alpha" secondary educational institutions. For one term (from 2002 to 2005) he was a member of the Council of the International Association of Veterans of the Alpha anti-terror unit, being delegated there by the Directorate "A" of the Central Security Service of the FSB of Russia.

SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCE

In 2014, Alexander Matovnikov was transferred to work in the Ministry of Defense, and then appointed to the post of Deputy Commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Main (Intelligence) Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.

In 2015, after the departure of the Hero of Russia Alexei Dyumin to the post of Deputy Minister of Defense (now he is a very active, successful governor of the Tula Region), Matovnikov became commander of the MTR and deputy head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.

In this capacity, he took part in the military operation in the Syrian Arab Republic against international and regional terrorism.

The MTR are troops created to protect the interests of Russia and its citizens anywhere in the world, and they have honorably demonstrated this to the whole world in Syria. Their emblem is a bow with an arrow on a bowstring pointing upwards. On the plumage of the arrow are two spread wings.

And in military biography Matovnikov, figuratively speaking, also has two wings - the state security special forces ("Alpha") and the special forces of the Armed Forces (SOF).

On February 22, 2018, Alexander Anatolyevich was awarded the military rank of Lieutenant General. Obviously, even then the head of state decided to further service Matovnikova is already in a new capacity.

The long-term contribution of General Matovnikov to ensuring the security of our country was awarded five orders - "For Merit to the Fatherland" 4th degree (with the image of swords), Alexander Nevsky, Courage (twice), "For Military Merit", medals of Suvorov, Zhukov, departmental medals and insignia.

"WAR BONE"

“We have long been no longer a boss and a subordinate, but I always have an extremely positive attitude towards him,” emphasizes G. N. Zaitsev, Hero of the Soviet Union. - Firstly, a very even person in relations with his comrades and with his colleagues. Never raise your voice. Restrained, tactful. Assembled. Able to listen and hear.

Secondly, Alexander Anatolyevich knows the special forces specialty very well, which is backed up by a military education. Has a broad outlook. Good analyst. At the same time, he can always show by personal example what and how to do. Well prepared physically. A team man, a team player, but at the same time he has his own bright personality.

Thirdly, Matovnikov is very persistent in achieving the goals - those set by the command, leadership, and those that he personally determined for himself.

As a leader, as a commando, this is a person who is in his place.

I began by saying that General Matovnikov is a representative of a galaxy of young generals who can rightly be called Putin's cohort. In a harsh time of trials, they advanced not due to their family ties or, say, financial situation, but they paved the way and earned respect with their intellect, hard work, high professional and personal qualities,” sums up Gennady Nikolayevich.

For my part, as a former commander of Matovnikov, I can only add to Gennady Nikolayevich's assessment that Matovnikov is a real "military bone"; a person of very high, tactful treatment of subordinates. Executive, responsible. The one with whom you go on reconnaissance. And most importantly, he always knew how to act in any situation.

MAIN GOALS

On June 28, the plenipotentiary was presented in Pyatigorsk. Alexander Matovnikov noted that the region is not new to him, he is personally acquainted with many heads of the subjects, and stressed that he is counting on fruitful interaction and cooperation in solving the tasks set by the President of the country.

- We will try not to deviate from the course that was pursued by our predecessors, we will certainly improve our work. The main tasks are the implementation by the state authorities of the North Caucasus Federal District of the directions of internal and foreign policy, determined by the President of Russia, observance of the constitutional rights of citizens, and, of course, improving the standard of living of the population ... In July, I will travel to all regions, meet with the leadership of the republics and the region, heads of federal executive authorities and, of course, with citizens, - Matovnikov told reporters after your presentation.

Plenipotentiary Matovnikov's first study trips were to Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia-Alania and Kabardino-Balkaria. And on July 14, under his chairmanship, a meeting of the heads of the regional departments of the Federal Assembly of the VNG, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB and other departments was held, who reported on the operational situation in the North Caucasus.

It is clear that President Vladimir Putin is recruiting high-ranking officers into the civil service, whom he personally trusts and offers them the opportunity to gain experience in civilian administration. These are the people who will bring Russia to a new level of its domestic and foreign policy.

We wish success to our comrade-in-arms in one of the strategically important areas of our Motherland!

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Photo: After President Vladimir Putin presented Major General Alexander Matovnikov with the Gold Star of the Hero of Russia. Georgievsky Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. December 28, 2017. Photo: kremlin.ru website

ALPHA VETERAN IS A HERO OF RUSSIA

around everyone statesman, leading his country out of a peak in a time of military trials, a cohort of commanders and generals is formed, whose names will forever remain in national and world history. This fully applies to President Putin.

"YOUR SON WILL BE A GENERAL"

Putin has three full-scale wars to his credit. The first one began in the summer of 1999, when the gangs of the "black Arab" Khattab and Shamil Basayev invaded peaceful Dagestan. And then, after their defeat, fighting were transferred to the territory of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI).

It is worth recalling that after the Khasavyurt agreements signed by the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, General Alexander Lebed, Ichkeria gained de facto independence from Russia. However, she failed to use her unique historical chance, turning into an offshore zone of international and regional terrorism, banditry, slave trade and organized crime.

The second war is the Five-Day War, with militaristic Georgia, which Mikheil Saakashvili unleashed in August 2008 against South Ossetia and Russian peacekeepers. As you know, it ended with the defeat of the demoniac Mishiko's warriors, trained by American and other foreign instructors, and with a shameful flight in front of our military. If there had been an order, Tbilisi would have been taken immediately without any military complications.

The third war is the current one, in Syria, against savagery and barbarism, against everything that is a monstrous mixture of ISIS and Al-Qaeda, as well as "moderate" thugs, tremulously patronized by the United States and its allies.

Those who are now commanders and generals of Putin, naturally, did not immediately become such. During the second Chechen campaign they were colonels, and now, having shown themselves in the army and special services, they have reached their current heights.

One of them was my colleague in Group A, my spetsnaz "godson" Alexander Anatolyevich Matovnikov, major general. On New Year's Eve 2018, he, along with a group of other award recipients, received the Gold Star of the Hero of Russia from the president's hands.

Since this landmark event, which took place on December 28 in the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, was covered by the leading Russian and world media, I have every right to tell about this wonderful person and officer. But at the same time, to report just enough so as not to violate state, official secrets.

The time will come, I really count on it, and retired Alexander Anatolyevich will write a book of his memoirs full of events, thoughtful assessments and personal experiences. No, not for the sake of glory ... He already has it, and what a one! And so that our grandchildren and great-grandchildren know what it was like to serve the Motherland in an era of drastic changes and what Group A and the Special Operations Forces were and became for the country. In any case, this is my commander's order to him!

By the way, on that day, December 28, the President of Russia presented the Star of the Hero to Corporal SSO Denis Portnyagin, a subordinate of General Matovnikov. At the same time, the feat that the corporal accomplished in Syria has not yet been made public.

Those who started their service in our unit were not only anti-terror fighters, "militants", but operational officers. This is a very important combination! Accordingly, we selected those who, by their moral-volitional, psychological and physical qualities, were suitable for this kind of complex and specific service.

“Evgeny Mikhailovich,” I said to E.M. Raschepov, - the son of Matovnikov graduated from the border school, the reviews are very good. We know him, controlled him during his studies. He deserves to be enrolled in our unit." “Okay, look. If it fits, then take it.

And he became a general, and a Hero of Russia.

FROM A PRIVATE FIGHTER TO A GENERAL OF SPECIAL FORCES

Now the little that can be said about Alexander Anatolyevich Matovnikov, who served in Alfa for more than thirty years. He became the second employee to exchange his fourth decade of service in Group A.

He graduated from the Higher Border Military-Political Red Banner School of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the USSR named after K. E. Voroshilov.

In 1986 he was enrolled in Group A of the Seventh Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. He took part in many iconic special operations to free hostages and neutralize terrorists, including in Budyonnovsk, on Dubrovka (“Nord-Ost”) and Beslan.

I especially want to emphasize that Alexander Anatolyevich has two wars behind him - two full-scale campaigns in the North Caucasus.

In our unit, Matovnikov Jr. went from an ordinary employee to the first deputy head of Directorate "A" of the Special Purpose Center of the FSB of Russia.

In addition, Alexander Anatolyevich actively participated in various events jointly held by the International Association "Alpha" and the combat unit - these are various sports tournaments, championships, visits to registered and sponsored "alpha" secondary educational institutions. If you look through our newspaper "Special Forces of Russia", then information about this is interspersed in separate articles, essays and reports.

So, for example, in the summer of 2007, Alexander Matovnikov visited the field training of the Military Patriotic Youth Association "Warrior" named after Hero of Russia Alexander Perov, which took place on Southern Urals. I know that the pupils of the Chelyabinsk "Warrior" remember this!

For one term (from 2002 to 2005), Alexander Matovnikov was a member of the Council of the International Association of Veterans of the Alpha anti-terror unit, being delegated there by Directorate "A" of the Central Security Service of the FSB of Russia.

After many years of combat work in the FSB, he joined the Ministry of Defense, where he took the position of Deputy Chief of the Special Operations Forces of the Russian Armed Forces. As one of the leaders of the MTR, he took part in a military operation in the Syrian Arab Republic against ISIS, Al-Qaeda and other evil spirits.

It remains to add that the long-term contribution of Major General Alexander Matovnikov to ensuring the security of our country was awarded five orders - "For Merit to the Fatherland" 4th degree with swords, Alexander Nevsky, Courage (twice), "For Military Merit", and as well as many state and departmental medals and insignia.

PUTIN'S COHORT

We have long been no longer the boss and subordinate, but I always treat him extremely positively. Firstly, a person who is very even in relations with his comrades-in-arms and with his colleagues. Never raise your voice. Restrained, tactful. Assembled. Able to listen and hear.

Thirdly, Matovnikov is very persistent in achieving the goals - those set by the command, leadership, and those that he personally determined for himself.

As a leader, as a commando, this is a person who is in his place.

I began by saying that General Matovnikov is a representative of a galaxy of young generals who can rightly be called Putin's cohort. In a harsh time of trials, they advanced not due to their family ties or, say, financial situation, but paved the way and earned respect for their intellect, hard work, high professional and personal qualities.

Another such leader of the new formation is the governor of the Tula region, Hero of Russia, Aleksey Gennadievich Dyumin, who headed the Special Operations Forces during the return of Crimea "to its native harbor." In the summer of 2017, I had a chance to communicate with him (in Tula we visited him together with the president of the International Association "Alpha" Sergey Alekseevich Goncharov), and I made a very positive impression of him.

In the film "Crimea. The Way Home" by Andrey Kondrashov, which caused a worldwide outcry, also tells about the Special Operations Forces, which played one of the key roles in the operation to annex Crimea to Russia. The commander of the MTR at that time was just Alexei Dyumin.

For me, Alexei Dyumin, Alexander Matovnikov and a number of other young generals and commanders are an example of the fact that President Putin is testing and training military and government personnel who will solve problems in the near future increased complexity. And there is no doubt that Russia still has a lot to overcome and accomplish.

In fact, the question is point-blank: either Russia, having radically changed itself, will be able to become the strategic leader of a multipolar world, or civilization will perish in the chaos of the decaying former world order that has drowned the world in blood and violence.

They, the young leaders of the Putin Appeal, combine the positive that they received in Soviet period, as well as a new one, acquired later. Many such cannot be by definition. Whether it's good or bad, it's a fact! However, I am sure that the future of our country belongs to such leaders.

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State and military figure. Member of the Russian Security Council.
Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in the North Caucasus Federal District.

Alexander Matovnikov was born on September 19, 1965 in Moscow. The boy grew up in the family of a military officer, a staff member of the State Security Committee Anatoly Matovnikov, who in the 1980s held the position of deputy head of the secretariat of the 7th department of the KGB, which was subordinate to the anti-terrorist unit Alpha.

In 1986 he graduated from the Golitsyn Border Institute of the FSB of Russia, after which he entered the service in Group A, Alpha. Matovnikov served under Major General Viktor Karpukhin. He held the positions of the head of the 2nd department of the 1st department of the Department "A" and the first deputy head of the Department "A". He took part in both Chechen wars, several special operations, including in the North Caucasus. He was one of the leaders of the storming of the hospital in Budennovsk, participated in the anti-terrorist operation in the "Nord-Ost" on Dubrovka, investigated the circumstances of the storming of the school in Beslan.

After serving for more than 30 years in Alpha, in 2013 Alexander Anatolyevich was transferred to work in the Ministry of Defense, and then appointed to the post of Deputy Commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces.

In 2015, after the departure of Alexei Dyumin to the post of Deputy Minister of Defense, Matovnikov became Commander of the Special Operations Forces and Deputy Chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

He also took part in the Russian military operation in Syria. In 2017, with the rank of Major General, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation. Due to the closed nature of the service, he first appeared in public and in front of cameras only during the awards, despite the fact that the names of most of the Syrian "Heroes of Russia" are classified. Military rank"Lieutenant General" was assigned on February 22, 2018.

On June 26, 2018, Alexander Matovnikov was appointed Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in the North Caucasus Federal District, replacing Oleg Belaventsev. This decision was supported by the leadership of the Caucasian regions, including the heads of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, Karachay-Cherkessia Rashid Temrezov, Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, North Ossetia Vyacheslav Bitarov, Stavropol Territory Vladimir Vladimirov. On June 28, in Pyatigorsk, Belaventsev introduced Matovnikov to the heads of the subjects, representatives of the clergy, law enforcement agencies, and employees of the embassy apparatus.

Alexander Matovnikov's awards

The title of "Hero of the Russian Federation" with the award of the medal "Gold Star" (2017, by decree of the President of Russia) - "for heroism and courage shown in the performance of military duty." The award was presented by Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 28, 2017 at a solemn ceremony in the Georgievsky Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 4th class with swords

Order of Alexander Nevsky

Order of Military Merit

Suvorov medal

Departmental medals

Order named after Akhmat Kadyrov (December 20, 2006, by decree of the President of Chechnya Ali Alkhanova) - "for merits associated with the development of statehood, personal contribution to the defense of the Fatherland, in maintaining law and order and public safety on the territory of the Chechen Republic."