More than 20 years at the helm of the coal region, the nickname “Kuzbassbashi”, the “Tuleevsky” potato variety and universal honor. And now - a loss in court, evidence in a criminal case and criticism from all sides. How do Kemerovo residents now perceive Tuleyev and what does business say about him and the new authorities?

Aman Tuleyev. Photo: Danil Aikin/TASS

Previously, it was impossible to even imagine that someone in Kuzbass would sue Aman Tuleyev and win. Now there is such a person there - the former head of one of the districts, Alexey Shmidt. Three years ago, Tuleyev said that he fired the official for theft, fraud and fraud.

And all this time, Schmidt, as he explained in his lawsuit, was “deeply depressed and morally destroyed” because of the governor’s words. Apparently, the peak of depression occurred at the moment when Tuleyev resigned and the ex-official sued him.

And he agreed with him and ordered the ex-governor to pay 150 thousand rubles. Most likely, this is just the beginning, because there are many dissatisfied with Tuleyev in Kuzbass, suggests Kemerovo resident Natalya.

Natalia resident of Kemerovo region“It’s just that people, maybe, were afraid before, but now they started doing it, that’s all that has changed. And, let’s say, dislike or hatred remains the same. She was. Maybe it wasn’t so obvious.”

Tuleyev was also called to another court, and it could be much more serious for the ex-governor. We are talking about Kuzbass businessman Alexander Shchukin. Tuleyev himself once called him an “authoritative manager.” Shchukin even received the title “Hero of Kuzbass”. Now the hero is on trial for extorting a coal mine worth a billion rubles.

Tuleyev is a witness in this case. This was also impossible to imagine before. Kuzbass public figure Arthur Stash, speaking about Tuleyev, uses a term from blackjack - “bust.” And he cites the example of the former mayor of Kemerovo, Vladimir Mikhailov.

Arthur Stash Kemerovo public figure“He needed to leave, like our mayor of Kemerovo Mikhailov did. He passed away at 70 years old. Honor, respect. He drives a jeep, I saw him recently. There are no complaints against him, but Tuleyev has already reached such a situation, the opposite effect has begun, the effect of debunking, like a lion now kicking a sick person. Everything is natural. I should have left earlier and everything would have been fine.”

Even after a serious operation, Tuleyev led the region in a wheelchair. Only after the tragedy in “Winter Cherry” did it become clear that the governor’s days were numbered. He ruled with an iron fist, and he truly has many merits. Although a significant part of them is due to high coal prices.

But Tuleyev has been truly respected in Kuzbass since the 90s. He also proved himself to be an excellent PR man. Here, for example, is a relatively recent story. A few years ago it was very expensive to fly to Kuzbass. Then Tuleyev went to deal with the airlines, and prices dropped.

True, then they grew again, because they are controlled not by Tuleyev, but by the market. But the governor managed to report with a victorious report. Under Aman Gumirovich, business was having a hard time; Business FM told stories of how companies specifically changed their registration to neighboring Novosibirsk in order to escape the influence of the Kuzbass authorities. What now?

Andrey owner of the Kemerovo sawmill“Under the previous head of the region, there were many production workers in power. They, one way or another, understood what production was, how it all worked, and how to at least let people survive. The current leadership, in my opinion, this is my subjective point of view, has begun such a “march” for construction, improvement, and cultural life, although we have been a production region all our lives, and it is very unclear why it started with this. Therefore, there is a very large outflow of young specialists.”

Andrey himself is selling his sawmill, also due to moving to another city. He is unable to find a common language with the new authorities. If only because they are new, and this always means redistribution. With the old ones everything was clear. They gathered the business and said: we need to do a good deed, in a good way. And a business, for example, bought a bus for an orphanage. Naturally, it bore the inscription: “A gift from the governor.”

And in general, under Aman Gumirovich, whom journalists sometimes called “Kuzbassbashi,” everything good in the region was called “provincial.” Provincial market with low prices, provincial swimming pool, and so on. In early April, when Tuleyev left, all his memorial plaques were quickly removed. And now, as locals say, there is almost nothing in Kuzbass that reminds us of the former governor. It’s as if he hasn’t been in power for more than 20 years. And even the potato variety, which Kuzbass breeders called “Tuleevsky,” they say, has disappeared from stores.

BIOGRAPHY

Amangeldy Tuleyev was born on May 13, 1944 in Krasnovodsk (Turkmen SSR) in the family of Moldagazy Koldybaevich Tuleyev (1914-1943), a Kazakh by nationality from the Balykshy subgenus of the Adai clan, who died at the front. Mother - Munira Fayzovna Vlasova (née Nasyrova; 1921-2001), half Tatar, half Bashkir. He was raised and educated by his stepfather - Innokenty Ivanovich Vlasov (1923-1984). After 1964, for reasons of euphony, Tuleyev began to use the first and patronymic “Aman Gumirovich.”

In 1964 he graduated from the Tikhoretsky Technical School of Railway Transport. In 1973, he graduated in absentia from the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Transport Engineers (now the Siberian State Transport University) with a degree in “transport engineer for the operation of railways.” In 1989, he graduated in absentia from the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee (now the Russian Academy of Public Administration.

In 1964, he began working as a station attendant at the Mundybash railway station of the Novokuznetsk branch of the West Siberian Railway. After serving in the ranks of the Soviet Army (1964-1967) in the engineering units of the ZabVO, he returned to his previous place of work, where he worked as a station duty officer (1967-1968), senior assistant to the station chief (1968-1969) and head of the Mundybash station (1969- 1973). Then - head of the Mezhdurechensk station of the Novokuznetsk branch of the West Siberian Railway (1973-1978), deputy head (1978-1983) and head of the Novokuznetsk branch of the Kemerovo Railway (1983-1985).

In 1985-1988 - head of the transport and communications department of the Kemerovo regional committee of the CPSU.

In 1988-1990 - head of the Kemerovo railway.

Aman Tuleyev while working as the head of the Novokuznetsk branch of the Kemerovo Railway

POLICY

In 1989, he unsuccessfully ran for People's Deputies of the USSR.

In 1991, he nominated himself for the first presidential elections in Russia. He received 7% of the votes and took 4th place (after Yeltsin, Ryzhkov, Zhirinovsky).

In 1990-1993 - People's Deputy of the RSFSR.

In 1990-1993 - Chairman of the Kemerovo Regional Council of People's Deputies. In 1990-1991 - chairman of the executive committee of the regional Council of People's Deputies. In August 1991, the then chairman of the Kemerovo regional executive committee, Tuleyev, promised the head of the State Emergency Committee Gennady Yanaev to “sign to every word” of the State Emergency Committee’s appeal. For this, Boris Yeltsin subsequently appointed Mikhail Kislyuk, one of the leaders of the Kuzbass labor movement, as head of the region.

In 1994-1996 - Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Kemerovo Region, member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

On August 22, 1996, he was appointed Minister of the Russian Federation for Cooperation with Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

On July 1, 1997, he was appointed head of the Administration of the Kemerovo Region. This appointment was accepted by Yeltsin in a situation of increased social tension in Kuzbass.

On January 25, 2001, he resigned from the post of governor of the Kemerovo region. He again stood as a candidate in early elections on April 22, 2001 and won, receiving 93.5% of the vote. On May 4, 2001, he again took office as governor of the Kemerovo region.

Aman Tuleyev as Chairman of the Regional Council of People's Deputies

Three times - in 1991, 1996 and 2000 - he ran for the post of President of Russia. During the presidential elections of the RSFSR on June 12, 1991, he received 6.81% of the votes (the fourth result out of six). In the 1996 presidential elections, he withdrew his candidacy on the eve of the first round of elections and called on his voters to cast their votes in support of the candidate from the “people's patriotic bloc” Gennady Zyuganov. In the 2000 elections he received 2.95% of the votes, almost all the votes were cast in the Kemerovo region, where the level of support exceeded 50% and even the final Russian result of V.V. Putin.

In the 1999 State Duma elections, Tuleyev was still on the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, but in Kuzbass he already supported Unity. In 2000, he was expelled from the NPSR. In December 2003, he headed the regional list of United Russia, which thanks to this gained 52% of the votes in the Kemerovo region. All 35 deputies of the Council of People's Deputies of the Kemerovo Region were elected from the “Serving Kuzbass” bloc, formed with the support of Tuleyev.

Meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation. Minister for Cooperation with CIS Member States A. G. Tuleev and Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation V. S. Chernomyrdin

In July 1999, he refused to accept the Order of Honor from B. Yeltsin, explaining it this way: “I simply cannot, on principle, accept awards from the government, which has plunged the country into poverty.” However, in September 2000, he accepted this award from V. Putin.

In 2005, Putin extended Tuleyev's term of office until 2010. In the same year, Aman Tuleyev joined the United Russia party.

Founder of the regional public charitable foundation "Help" and the public charitable foundation "Semipalatinsk Trail".

In 2013-2014, he was among the ten most effective governors in the Russian Federation according to the Civil Society Development Foundation.

In 2014, he became a member of the advisory commission of the State Council of Russia.

Aman Tuleyev and Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the State Council of the Russian Federation on problems of the Russian coal industry, Mezhdurechensk, 2002

On April 16, 2015, due to the expiration of his term of office, V. Putin appointed Tuleyev as acting governor of the Kemerovo region until the person elected as governor of the region took office. On May 26, 2015, at the United Russia primaries for the post of candidate for governor of the Kemerovo region at the Novokuznetsk Drama Theater, he received the majority of votes. On September 13, 2015, he was again elected head of Kuzbass, gaining 96.69%. On September 22, 2015, he took office as governor of the Kemerovo region.

In the parliamentary elections in the fall of 2016, he headed the United Russia party list in the Altai Republic, Altai Territory, Kemerovo and Tomsk regions.

HEALTH

In 2011 he underwent spinal surgery.

In October 2016, a decision was made about the need for elective surgery, which was postponed until May 2017. In May-June, rumors began to appear about his resignation from office, generated by the politician’s long absence from public view: on May 9, he did not participate in the Victory Day celebrations; on May 22, he went on vacation, which was extended several times.

In May 2017, I paid for spinal surgery at a clinic in Germany from personal funds. During the treatment process, doctors decided to increase and expand the scope of the operation, which ultimately lasted more than nine hours; doctors used metal structures. In the postoperative period, complications arose (pneumonia), which were managed. Since June 11, Tuleyev was in the regional clinical emergency hospital No. 3 named after. M.A. Podgorbunsky in Kemerovo.

On July 1, 2017, Tuleyev was brought on a stretcher to the Kemerovo airfield and taken to Moscow on an Emergency Situations Ministry plane equipped with means for transporting passengers in serious condition. In Moscow, employees of the All-Russian Center for Disaster Medicine “Zashchita” took him to the Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Administration, where almost round-the-clock monitoring was organized over his health and a number of procedures were prescribed that should help him recover from spinal surgery.

On August 12, 2017, he returned to Kemerovo. He immediately started working while in a wheelchair; held a meeting, criticizing a number of high-ranking regional officials who did not refute rumors of his death.

FIGHTING TERRORISM

Aman Tuleyev repeatedly took part in negotiations with terrorists. In 1991, as a people's deputy of the RSFSR, Tuleyev helped free Masha Ponomarenko, who was taken hostage near Red Square, from a bus, offering himself in exchange for the girl.

In 1995, he negotiated with Yevgeny Zherenkov, who captured people at the Kemerovo bus station and threatened to detonate a homemade bomb.

In 2001, Tuleyev took part in the neutralization of Andrei Pangin, who took a taxi driver hostage at Kemerovo airport.

In 2007, after telephone conversations between Tuleyev and police warrant officer Shatalov, who threatened to blow up a residential building and barricaded himself in his apartment, Novokuznetsk security forces managed to neutralize the terrorist and take him alive.

On March 13, 2009, Aman Tuleyev negotiated with a robber who had taken hostage three female cashiers and two security guards at a bank.

RELIGION

In 1999, in Chechnya, Tuleyev was sentenced to death for allegedly accepting Christianity.

TRAGEDY AT THE WINTER CHERRY SEC

Aman Tuleyev at a meeting in connection with the tragedy in Kemerovo, March 27, 2018
On March 25, 2018, a fire broke out in the Zimnyaya Vishnya shopping and entertainment complex in Kemerovo. As of March 30, 64 people died as a result of the fire, including Aman Tuleyev’s young niece. Tuleyev himself did not come to the scene of the tragedy, explaining that he did not want his motorcade to interfere with the rescuers.

On March 27, 2018, a rally was held in the city. More than four thousand protesters in Kemerovo demanded Tuleyev’s resignation. Despite the presence of relatives of the victims at the rally, Tuleyev said that 200 “troublers” were present at the rally, but there were no relatives of the victims. On March 30, he transferred his one-day earnings (5,803 rubles) to the account to help the families of those killed in the fire at the Winter Cherry shopping center.

On April 1, 2018, he made an open appeal to the residents of the Kemerovo region and addressed the President of the Russian Federation with a statement of resignation of his own free will. President Putin accepted his resignation.

FAMILY

Wife - Tuleyeva (nee Solovyova) Elvira Fedorovna (born 1943). The marriage produced sons Dmitry (born 1968) and Andrey (1972-1998; died in a car accident in Tashkent).

Grandchildren - Stanislav Andreevich Tuleyev (born 1992), Andrey Dmitrievich Tuleyev (born 1999) and Tatyana Dmitrievna Tuleyeva (born 2005).

He promised 1 million rubles for the capture of Bigfoot.

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

A.G. Tuleev is actively engaged in scientific work, is the author of more than two dozen books and brochures, hundreds of publications and speeches in foreign, Russian, Kuzbass electronic and print media. He has 2 patents for the invention of modern methods for increasing the efficiency of loading and unloading operations in railway transport. On March 2, 1999, A. G. Tuleev defended his dissertation for the academic degree of Candidate of Political Sciences

Among the brightest political figures, Aman Tuleyev stands out, his biography, whose nationality is of interest to many residents of our country. The life of a politician is filled with happy and tragic moments, as well as the struggle for a just cause. His many years at the helm of the Kemerovo region have proven that Tuleyev is a man of action, not words.

Biography

Aman Tuleyev’s nationality, biography and personal life are of interest to people far from politics. Before the recent tragic events in the city of Kemerovo, Tuleyev served as governor for many years. The famous politician comes from Turkmenistan. Born in the city of Kislovodsk in 1944. Over the years in politics, the governor has proven his professionalism, high level of leadership qualities, and enjoyed the respect of the population of his region.

The post-war period influenced the formation of character and development of little Aman. The boy did not see his own father, since he died at the front. Fate did not leave the future politician without a father - his stepfather became him. The mother married a Russian railway worker, Innokenty Ivanovich Vlasov, for the second time. Sharing his memories, Tuleyev notes that thanks to his stepfather’s upbringing, he was able to reach heights.

The father’s family belongs to ethnic Kazakhs, and the mother’s has Bashkir-Tatar roots, therefore, during his life, Aman Tuleyev, whose nationality is of interest to site visitors, was faced with the problems of ethnic minorities in the country. As was often customary in those days, Aman was given the name of a Kazakh communist. The family moved to Kuzbass in 1951. Finding himself in the Russian environment, the boy felt uncomfortable, because he had a distinctive appearance and name.

Education

The boy was always independent, so when he turned 17 he decided to leave his family. To live, Tuleyev chooses the Krasnodar region, where he enters the railway technical school in Tikhoretsk. The young man chooses his profession in the footsteps of his stepfather. Graduates after three years with honors.

Without stopping there, he decides to get a higher education and enters the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Engineers. In 1973 he graduated from college. Having reached the managerial level, he receives a second higher education degree from the Academy of Social Sciences.

Personal life

The family life of a famous politician is connected with one woman. After the wedding, Elvira Fedorovna Solovyova took her husband’s surname. The eldest son Dmitry was born in 1968. The second son Andrei appeared in the family in 1972. Dmitry has built a successful career in highway construction. One of the serious works was cooperation with the Federal Directorate “Siberia”. The family suffered a tragedy. The youngest son died at a young age. Andrei was in a car accident and died from his injuries at the age of 26. Tuleyev's wife took the blow seriously. The family managed only thanks to joint support. Children and grandchildren have always been the meaning for Haman.

After the death of his younger brother, Dmitry named his second child in honor of his tragically deceased uncle. The Tuleyevs' eldest son is the father of many children. He gave his grandparents two grandchildren - Andrei and Stanislav, and granddaughter Tatyana.

In addition to political activities, Tuleyev is active in social work. The “Help” and “Semipalatinsk Trace” foundations were founded.

In his free time, Aman Tuleyev enjoys spending time with his family, nature and reading.

Health problems

In 2011, Aman Tuleyev needed a planned operation on the spine. Health problems did not go away after surgery. In 2018, the politician again had to go under the surgeon’s knife.

The governor had to leave his post while on sick leave. Treatment was carried out in Germany. Aman underwent rehabilitation in Moscow.

A serious illness knocked the politician out of his chair for a short time. After undergoing short-term rehabilitation, the politician was brought home on a stretcher. I spent my first working days in a wheelchair. During the period of his illness, Tuleyev lost a lot of weight.

Political career

Aman Tuleyev began his journey in politics in 1989 with an unsuccessful run for the post of People's Deputy of the USSR. A year later, his career took a successful turn and until 1993 he held the post of People's Deputy of the RSFSR, Chairman of the Council of People's Deputies of the Kemerovo Region. For his reliability and loyalty to his calling, he enjoyed the support of Boris Yeltsin, the first President of the Russian Federation. Since 1994, for two years he was the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Kemerovo Region, as well as a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

In 1996, he served as Minister of the Russian Federation for Cooperation with the CIS Countries. For his great contribution to the development of the region, he was appointed head of the Administration of the Kemerovo Region. Kuzbass was characterized by an unstable social situation; Yeltsin decided to appoint a person in whom he was confident. After the elections in 1997, he became Governor of the Kemerovo Region.

Before the next elections in 2001, Tuleyev resigned. However, he again submitted his candidacy and was elected by more than 90% of the population of the Kemerovo region.

During his political career, he tried to run for president of the Russian Federation three times - in 1991, 1996 and 2000. For the successful and fruitful management of the region in 2005, Russian President V. Putin decided to extend Tuleyev’s tenure as governor until 2010. D. Medvedev, while serving as president, extended the term until 2015.

The famous and long-term permanent governor of Kuzbass, Aman Tuleyev, whose biography has been on a constant rise for more than seventy years, was born in the city of Krasnovodsk (Turkmenistan) in May 1944. This wonderful governor and big-hearted man deserves the best words and the highest assessment of his activities. The country is unlikely to find a governor with the authority that Aman Gumirovich Tuleyev has.

Biography

Children born during the war are very different from other generations. And always for the better. This is how the hero of this article turned out. His parents were employees. After the death of his father in the war, who was never lucky enough to hold his only son in his arms, Aman-Geldy was raised by his stepfather, with whom the relationship improved immediately and forever. Innokenty Ivanovich Vlasov was a wonderful person and was next to his beloved son all his life - until 1984.

Governor Aman Tuleyev took a lot from his mother, Munira Fayzovna - his biography is filled with actions of true, high kindness. He buried his mother in 2001. Like all people, it was hard to get used to life without parents, thanks to whom I was able to study, make a career and live filled with happiness, despite a very turbulent position.

Job

Aman Tuleyev, whose biography began at the Krasnodar railway station as a simple switchman, was consistent, entering the railway technical school and graduating with honors. As a young specialist, he came to Kuzbass on assignment and got a job as a duty officer at the Mundybash station. From there he was drafted into the army for three years, where he acquired a second profession - military - sapper. His service in Transbaikalia is still often and brightly remembered by him.

Returning to his native Kuzbass, Aman Gumirovich Tuleev, whose biography remained connected with this region, got a job at his previous place of work, entered the Novosibirsk Engineering Institute of Railway Transport in absentia, and in 1969 became the head of the Mundybash station. Things were going well, and my career was also advancing. In 1973, he graduated from the right university, and a new appointment was not long in coming.

Career

For the next five years, Aman Gumirovich Tuleev became the head of the Mezhdurechensk railway station. The biography developed in a career plan clearly in stages: Mezhdurechensk is a small town, but the station there is central and important: this is the region of mines with magnificent ferroalloys and heavy metallurgy. For the next seven years, Aman Gumirovich was fascinated by the same Mayakovsky garden city - Novokuznetsk, where he was first deputy and then head of a department of the Kemerovo Railway.

This economy was simply huge, since the city is entirely industrial, and transport is the most important matter. There it became especially noticeable how good and competent he was as a leader, and the biography of Aman Gumirovich Tuleyev further went along the party-administrative line. In 1985, a skilled business executive was promoted to head of the transport and communications department in the Kemerovo regional party committee. Tuleyev did not want to and could not dwell on his existing knowledge and experience, so in 1988 he very successfully graduated from the Academy of Social Sciences.

The road up

In the same 1988, Aman Tuleyev was appointed head of one of the largest railways in the Soviet Union - Kemerovo. And in 1990, he already sat on the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, where he was elected by residents of the Gorno-Shorsky national-territorial district. At the same time, he had to take on two more difficult responsibilities on his own shoulders - a deputy in the Kemerovo Regional Council (almost immediately - the chairman of this Council) and the position of chairman of the regional executive committee.

Tuleyev was engaged in this enormous work for almost three years - probably the most difficult years that the country experienced. And he managed to keep Kuzbass from that horrific fall that befell almost all industrial regions of Russia.

Struggle

In 1991, unfortunately, the biography did not acquire a new mark (although Aman Tuleyev desperately strived for it). The family that all the residents of Kuzbass became to him demanded that a globally-minded person save his native country. And he was forced to run for president of Russia. However, they managed to take only fourth place among six. And what a wonderful program it was! Criticism of Boris Yeltsin's reform course, recognizing them as criminal, because the state was collapsing and the people were becoming almost completely impoverished. And Tuleyev had something to offer in return.

Since 1993, he has worked in the Federation Council from Kuzbass, and since 1994, he has headed the Legislative Assembly of the region. In 1996, he repeats the attempt of 1991, that is, he participates in the presidential elections of the country. However, he withdraws his candidacy in favor of G. A. Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. In 2000, they brought Tuleyev fourth place out of eleven. And it is always filled with struggle for such purposeful people, as the family gave him so mixed that it is difficult to understand where he got such perseverance in achieving his goal. He did not give up: since 1996 he worked in the government of the Russian Federation, at the same time being the minister for cooperation with the CIS member countries.

Governor

By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, in 1997, Aman Tuleyev was appointed head of the regional administration, and was then elected governor, receiving ninety-five percent of the votes. In 2001 he was re-elected to this position again, with almost the same election result.

In 2005, he received gubernatorial powers from the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin for five years. In 2010, D. A. Medvedev repeated the same thing. In 2015, he was re-elected to the same position with again exceptional results: ninety-seven percent of voters voted for Tuleyev.

Awards from the Fatherland

“For services to the Fatherland” - Aman Tuleyev was awarded this order of the fourth and third degree twice. In 2008, for his enormous personal contribution to the development of civil society and the establishment of a democratic rule-of-law state in Russia, for his fruitful social and educational activities, the governor of Kuzbass was awarded the Diamond Honorary Order of Public Recognition. At the same time, President V.V. Putin awarded him. And he also presents to us more than twenty medals that Aman Tuleyev managed to earn, biography.

His family is humanity. Otherwise, he could not have become a laureate of the Prize. Peter the Great, which is given for the most outstanding contribution to cooperation with foreign countries. And the annual competition of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" has repeatedly recognized him as the most popular - Tuleyev became "Person of the Year" twice, as well as the best governor of Russia, laureate of "For Faith and Loyalty" - the international award of St. Andrew the First-Called. Revival of spirituality, integration, strengthening of the economy - this is his daily work, marked by laureateship of the international program “Leaders of the Twenty-First Century”, “National Pride of Russia”. Many times he received diplomas as “Best Leader of the Year” from various public organizations.

Awards from the Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church rewarded Aman Tuleyev a lot, since few leaders of this rank responded to all sorts of confessional problems. Many believe that this is not enough; the Lord has prepared much more for this wonderful man. And here, on the earthly path, Aman Tuleyev was awarded the Order of Sergius of Radonezh of the second degree, two orders of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow - the second and first degree.

Absolutely rightly, Aman Tuleyev was given the Golden Order Badge “For Sacrificial Service” (in the name of Boris and Gleb, the noble princes). For his attention to the Russian Orthodox Church, for his enormous personal contribution to the revival of Orthodoxy in the country, Alexy II awarded Aman Tuleyev the Order of St. Innocent.

International awards

The governor of Kuzbass, Aman Gumirovich Tuleev, was awarded many times with insignia from different countries. The biography defines the nationality as Kazakh, but in fact it is much richer. Tuleyev truly thoroughly understands every nation in all manifestations of its originality, delves into its problems, and tries to help everyone. Thus, he was awarded the highest award of Mongolia - the Order of the Polar Star, the Belarusian Order of Friendship, the highest order of Ukraine - Yaroslav the Wise, the Order of Kazakhstan - Dostyk (Friendship). And the UN quite rightly recognized his activities with the Order “For Justice”. In 2005, Aman Tuleyev received the award “For Respect for the People” from the International Foundation for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms.

From a grateful people

For personal courage in preventing terrorist acts, the governor was twice awarded personalized firearms - two Makarov pistols were presented to Aman Tuleyev by the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation - in 1997 and 2003. In the first case, thanks to the efforts of the governor, the hostages survived and were freed, and in the second, the anti-terrorist operation was competently organized with his enormous help. From the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Tuleyev received badges, personalized watches and all kinds of gratitude, since he always acted very competently in extreme situations.

And the enterprises of Kuzbass, which survived in these troubled and bad years only thanks to the intelligence, tact and greatest efficiency of the governor, also expressed their deepest respect and gratitude to this man. He was awarded various honorary titles, he is an honorary citizen of almost every city in his native land, to which he devoted so much effort. He is also an “Honorary Miner”, “Honorary Railway Worker”. And this is not only in Kuzbass, where outsiders may consider such an attitude towards the governor to be sycophancy. Although the entire Kemerovo region really loves Tuleyev! He has diplomas about love from different cities and towns. Moreover, he is a laureate of the Book of Honor and Honor of Russia, and at the same time received a golden order and a golden weapon.

Personal life

Aman Tuleyev, whose biography speaks of the height of the personal qualities of the leader of the richest industrial region, can serve as an example to younger generations in his personal life. He is married only once and has raised two wonderful sons. By father - Kazakh, which was recorded in his birth certificate, by mother - with Tatar and Bashkir blood, by upbringing (stepfather) - Russian, by his preferences - Siberian, Aman Tuleyev, in principle, is close to absolutely any citizen of the world. The governor’s wife, Elvira Fedorovna Solovyova, chose this man as her husband in the years when it was not yet clear that he would make a world-class leader. They were very young and worked together on the railroad. And to this day they still love reading books, going outdoors, and skiing.

The eldest son of Aman Tuleyev, Dmitry, was a specialist in highways - he worked in the Federal Directorate "Siberia", which dealt with them. The youngest, Andrei, had a misfortune; in 1998 he died in an accident. It was during this period that the most difficult time for the country began, which Aman Gumirovich Tuleyev tried to overcome along with personal grief. The biography of any leader may contain incriminating evidence, especially if there is a certain desire on the part of the media, but in this case such attacks are simply inappropriate. The governor of Kuzbass is an excellent person and leader.

Journalists and political scientists “dismissed” Tuleyev last year, when it became known about his serious health problems. The 73-year-old politician underwent his first spinal surgery back in 2011. In 2017, German doctors performed a second operation. Afterwards, a complication appeared: pneumonia. Due to his long absence from public view and prolonged vacation, rumors began to spread about his imminent resignation from his position. However, the people's governor of Kuzbass (he received such an honorary title in 2011 “as a sign of many years of dedicated service to people and popular recognition of exceptional services to the Kemerovo region”) was not going to vacate the chair before the end of his term, that is, until 2020.

When the tragedy happened at the Winter Cherry shopping center, Tuleyev did not come to the scene of the fire. His administration hastened to explain this with good intentions: they say that the governor’s motorcade, when approaching the scene of an emergency, would interfere with fire crews. A day later, when the president arrived in Kemerovo and began a meeting on liquidation of the consequences, it became clear that it was not a matter of the motorcade after all. Tuleyev could neither get up nor sit down without outside help: he was held by the hand Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Siberian Federal District Sergei Menyailo.

But he could talk, and in the few days after the tragedy he said a lot. About the opposition, which is profiting “from human grief”, about the fact that it was not the relatives of the victims who took to the streets, but “troublemakers”... He said his truly last “I’m sorry” only in a video message, which he recorded after his resignation. Tuleyev called his decision “correct, conscious, the only correct one.” “Because with such a heavy burden as governor - well, it’s impossible, morally impossible,” he said.

But you can accept benefits from the regional budget that are provided for the title of people's governor. After his resignation, Tuleyev is entitled to a monthly payment of 50 thousand rubles, excluding personal income tax. The governor who has terminated his powers is provided with an assistant to carry out public activities, and in the administration building of the Kemerovo region he will receive a separate office space with furniture, office equipment and a computer connected to the network and to all available legal frameworks and government information systems. Also, Tuleev and his wife will be given a guarded residential property in the village of Mazurovo for free use for life for life.

Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexander Kryazhev

Negotiated with the miners

In parting, Tuleyev recalled: “We have come a long way in life from Kuzbass on strike, sitting on the rails, to Kuzbass creating, the support of our state.” Yes, it was the miners who helped Tuleyev take the governor’s chair.

Formerly the head of the Kemerovo Railway in the late eighties, Tuleyev was nominated as a candidate in the first presidential elections, then supported the State Emergency Committee. This team Yeltsin she did not forgive him, and Tuleyev managed to sit in the governor’s chair against the backdrop of miners’ protests only in 1997. The people then gave him 94.5% of the votes. By the way, in 2015, when he was last elected in a popular election, the figure was even higher: 96% of the vote.

Tuleyev knew how to get along with the miners, and Moscow was ready to forgive him a lot for this. In the summer of 1998, miners from Kuzbass and Vorkuta blocked the railways for several weeks due to months-long delays in wages. Tuleyev introduced an emergency regime, but Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, responsible for unblocking the tracks, he said that the miners' demands were fair and legal. As a result, part of the debts was repaid, and Tuleyev went down in history as the man who ended the “rail war.”

In the late 2000s, it was Tuleyev who extinguished protests due to accidents in mines that claimed the lives of hundreds of miners. And in 2015, he unexpectedly banned any work in the Kuzbass mines during the New Year holidays, because “a drunk in a mine, during mining work, is the same as a terrorist.” A year later, Tuleyev stood up for the interests of the workers of the Raspadskaya Coal Company, who were threatened with mass layoffs. “It turns out that they are simply planning to throw workers out onto the street with mortgages, loans, and all payments, reporting with the beautiful phrase “optimization of non-core structures,” the people’s governor was indignant.

He also personally extorted money from the owners who did not pay wages to the miners. Under the governor, they created a headquarters in which businessmen were convincingly explained the consequences of meetings with the Department of Economic Crimes or promised to take away their licenses. They say that some particularly dull ones actually lost their shares, which went to a holding company created by friends of the governor.

Excellent negotiator

Aman Tuleyev’s ambitions went far beyond the region. He ran for president of Russia three times. In 1991, he received 7% of the votes and took 4th place. In the 1996 elections, he withdrew his candidacy on the eve of the first round in support of Gennady Zyuganov. In January 2000, Tuleyev was nominated, as experts believed, in order to “pull” votes away from the communist leader. He again ended up in 4th place out of 11 candidates, - after Putin, Zyuganov And Yavlinsky- with just over 3% of the votes.

Hand on heart, we can safely call Tuleyev himself a troublemaker. For example, in 1999 he refused to accept the Order of Honor from Yeltsin. “I simply cannot, on principle, accept awards from a government that has plunged the country into poverty,” he explained his demarche then. And in September 2000, Tuleyev calmly accepted this award from Vladimir Putin.

Governor of the Kemerovo Region Aman Tuleyev was awarded the Order of Honor. Photo: RIA Novosti / Vladimir Rodionov

He also staged demarches against the communists. From the ranks of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, without thinking twice, he jumped onto the lists of United Russia. Then, in 2007, he even sued Zyuganov when he declared: “Tuleev organized a ploughshare in the Kemerovo region!”

There are some very heroic episodes in his biography. In 1991, People's Deputy of the RSFSR Aman Tuleyev helped free a seven-year-old woman taken hostage near Red Square. Mashu Ponomarenko, offering himself in exchange for the girl. In 2001, he took part in neutralizing a terrorist who had taken a taxi driver hostage at Kemerovo airport. He is responsible for the release of passengers at the Kemerovo bus station (they were threatened with a bomb), residents of a Novokuznetsk high-rise building that was almost blown up by a police warrant officer, and bank employees taken hostage.

Against this heroic background, the stories of local journalists that Tuleyev once imposed a ban on any publication of negative news from the region look quite plausible. Colleagues, according to them, were explained that the federal media should not publish dirty stories about Kuzbass, even if the authorities had nothing to do with it. Those who disobeyed were allegedly threatened with dismissal.

However, Tuleyev never had problems with positive news stories. For example, in the Kemerovo region, Tuleyev banned the activities of collectors and introduced a curfew for children even when this was not even thought about at the federal level.

“He was the boss here”

But there is another side to the coin. Local businesses have accumulated many complaints against Tuleyev. The authoritarian governor did not stand on ceremony with undesirable entrepreneurs. And the large holdings around him were made clear that they needed to share money with the region and allocate it to the social sphere.

In recent years, Tuleyev’s reputation has been shaken due to corruption scandals in his administration. In July 2016, there was a disruption in the work of the governor’s “headquarters” to resolve problems with businessmen. Two shifts of miners at the Inskoy mine refused to go underground until they were given their wages, which had not been paid since April. Tuleevsky “headquarters” began working with the owner.

In November, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against this very “headquarters” for extorting a billion rubles from the owner of shares. Suspects - Head of the Kemerovo Investigative Committee Sergei Kalinkin and two Deputy Governor, Alexey Ivanov And Alexander Danilchenko.

However, the people's governor himself remained above suspicion. Perhaps because he did not reign as the governors of the new conscription know how to do. “I worked with him for five years. Over the years, everything has happened. But I remember for the rest of my life my first impression of Tuleyev’s house,” I recalled on my Facebook State Duma Deputy Anton Gorelkin. — Aman Gumirovich was on sick leave, recovering from an operation at home, in Mazurovo. And Putin arrived in Kuzbass. The visit program included a couple of meetings, but there was no personal meeting with the governor. But at some point the president said: “To Tuleyev.” We arrived in Mazurovo, and for the first time I saw how Aman Tuleyev lived. Before this, there were many rumors: that he eats black caviar from silver dishes, that he has gold toilets, and jewelry. And the situation in the house turned out to be so spartan that many journalists later captioned photographs from that meeting between Putin and Tuleyev: “The President visited the governor in the hospital ward.” Simple Soviet style furniture. Simple clothes. No gold or other kitsch. I already knew then that Aman Gumirovich eats very simple food, never goes on vacation abroad, that he has no yachts, no palaces, no foreign real estate.”