A m Tuleyev. Statesman Aman Tuleyev: biography, family and personal life

In the city of Krasnovodsk (now Turkmenbashi), Turkmen SSR, in the family of an employee.

In 1964 he graduated with honors from the Tikhoretsky Railway College. In 1973 he graduated from the Novosibirsk Institute of Engineers railway transport in the specialty "transport engineer for the operation of railways", in 1988 - the Academy of Social Sciences.

He began his career as a switchman at the Krasnodar-1 railway station.

After finishing his studies at the technical school, he moved to Siberia, to the railway village of Mundybash, Kemerovo region, where he worked as a station attendant.

Passed conscript service in the engineering and sapper troops of the Transbaikal Military District. Military profession- sapper.

After service, he returned to Mundybash to his previous place of work. In 1969 he became the head of the Mundybash railway station of the West Siberian railway.

From 1973 to 1978 - head of the railway station in the city of Mezhdurechensk.

From 1978 to 1985 he worked in Novokuznetsk: first as a deputy and then as the head of the Novokuznetsk branch of the Kemerovo Railway.

In 1985, he was appointed head of the transport and communications department of the Kemerovo regional party committee.

In 1988, he was appointed head of the Kemerovo Railway, one of the largest in the Soviet Union.

In 1990, Aman Tuleyev was elected to the Supreme Council of the RSFSR for the Gorno-Shorsky national-territorial district. In March 1990, he was elected as a deputy of the Kemerovo Regional Council people's deputies, then its chairman. At the same time, he was appointed chairman of the Kemerovo Regional Executive Committee. He worked as chairman of the regional Council of People's Deputies until October 1993.

In April 1991, Tuleyev ran for the post of President of Russia and took fourth place out of six.

In 1993 he was elected to the Federation Council Federal Assembly Russian Federation from Kuzbass.

From March 1994 to July 1996, he headed the Legislative Assembly of the Kemerovo Region.

Participated in the presidential elections of the Russian Federation in 1996. Before the first round, he withdrew his candidacy in favor of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov.

In 2000, he came fourth out of 11 candidates in the presidential elections.

From August 22, 1996 to June 30, 1997, Aman Tuleyev was a member of the government Russian Federation, Minister of the Russian Federation for Cooperation with Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

In July 1997, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed head of the administration of the Kemerovo region.

In October 1997, Aman Tuleyev was elected governor of the Kemerovo region, receiving 95% of the vote. In April 2001, he was re-elected governor of the Kemerovo region, receiving 93.5% of the vote.

On April 20, 2005, on the proposal of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he was vested with the powers of governor of the Kemerovo region for a period of five years.

On March 18, 2010, the Council of People's Deputies of the Kemerovo Region, on the recommendation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, unanimously approved the candidacy of the current governor Aman Tuleyev for the post of head of the region for the next term. Took office on April 20.

In connection with the expiration of the term of office of the governor of the Kemerovo region, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Aman Tuleyev was appointed acting governor of the Kemerovo region.

Aman Tuleyev 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 printed media mass media. He has two patents for his invention.

Doctor of Political Science (2000), professor; Honorary Professor at Ulaanbaatar University of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences.

Full member of the International Academy of Informatization and the International Academy of Engineering.

Awarded the Order of Honor (1999), "For Services to the Fatherland" IV (2003) and III (2008) degrees, and the Order of Alexander Nevsky (2014).

He was awarded awards from foreign countries - the highest award of the Mongolian Republic - the Order of the Polar Star, the Order of Friendship (Belarus), the highest award of Ukraine - the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise of the fifth degree, the Order of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Dostyk" ("Friendship"). He has more than 20 medals: “For Labor Valor”, “For Valiant Labor”, the badge “Miner’s Glory” III, II, I degrees, the medal “For Special Contribution to the Development of Kuzbass” II, I degrees, etc.

He has departmental awards, including three personalized pistols from the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Government of the Russian Federation.

In 2008 he was awarded the Order of Russian Orthodox Church— Saint Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1st degree.

Tuleyev was awarded the titles “Honorary Miner” and “Honorary Railway Worker”.

He is an Honorary Citizen of the Kemerovo Region, the cities of Novokuznetsk, Mezhdurechensk, and Tashtagol.

Aman Tuleyev is married and has a son, Dmitry. Tuleyev's youngest son Andrei died tragically in May 1998.

The income of the governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev for 2014 amounted to 4.75 million rubles, including wages, state pension, income from bank deposits and payments for honorary titles.

The governor allocates his personal funds to charitable purposes and to those who need help. All Tuleyev’s funds received for honorary titles are transferred monthly to orphans studying in institutions vocational education for “good” and “excellent” and for large low-income families.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources

Tuleyev began as a simple railway worker at a forgotten station in the Siberian outback, however, he was able to short term become the first person in the region thanks to his high efficiency and perseverance. In Kuzbass he was proclaimed "the people's governor" for long years responsible work at his post.

Family

Father - Tuleev Moldagazy Koldybaevich (1914-1943), Kazakh by nationality, died at the front. Mother - Vlasova (nee Nasyrova) Munira Fayzovna (1921-2001), half Tatar, half Bashkir. Tuleyev 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”.

Wife - Tuleyeva (nee Solovyova) Elvira Fedorovna (born 1943). Two sons - Dmitry (born 1968) and Andrey (1972-1998, died in a car accident in Tashkent). Grandchildren - Andrey Dmitrievich Tuleev (born in 1999), Tatyana Dmitrievna Tuleeva (born in 2005) and Stanislav Andreevich Tuleev (born in 1992).

Biography

In 1964 he graduated from the Tikhoretsky Technical School of Railway Transport with honors.

In 1973, he graduated in absentia from the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Transport Engineers with a degree in “transport engineer for the operation of railways.” He also graduated from the Academy of Social Sciences in absentia in 1989.

Labor activity Tuleyev began in 1964 as a station attendant at the Mundybash railway station of the Novokuznetsk branch of the West Siberian Railway, where he was assigned after graduating from technical school.

Tuleyev would later describe his first job in one of his interviews as “a hole—there’s no bigger hole.” Here, during his first duty, Tuleyev became involved in an emergency, during which a freight train and a locomotive-tractor almost collided. In an effort to prevent a collision, Tuleyev, instead of turning on the emergency signal, ran onto the rails. After this, the prosecutor's office intended to open a criminal case against him. However, as Tuleyev later said, the shift on duty and the team of switchmen stood up for him, saying that they allowed the possibility of an accident and they should be judged. As a result, they did not open a criminal case, but limited themselves to public censure.

In 1966, Tuleyev was drafted into the army and served as a lieutenant in the engineer troops of the Trans-Baikal Military District.

In 1967, he returned to his previous place of work, where he worked as a station attendant, senior assistant to the station manager (1968-1969) and station manager (1969-1973).

In 1973-1978, Tuleev was the head of the Mezhdurechensk station of the Novokuznetsk branch of the West Siberian Railway, in 1978-1983 - deputy head of the Novokuznetsk branch of the Kemerovo Railway, in 1983-1985 - head of the Novokuznetsk branch of the Kemerovo Railway;

In 1985, Tuleyev switched to party work. He became the head of the transport and communications department of the Kemerovo Regional Committee of the CPSU, and entered the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee. He graduated in 1988 and was appointed head of the Kemerovo Railway. Observers noted that he became the youngest leader of this rank in the railway ministry.

In 1988-1990, Tuleyev was the head of the Kemerovo Railway.

Aman Tuleyev - founder of the regional public charitable foundation"Help" and the public charitable foundation "Semipalatinsk Trail".

In March 1999, Tuleyev defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of political sciences on the topic: “Political leadership in regional conflicts modern Russia". In 2000, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Political Science on the topic: “Political leadership: regional specifics and mechanisms of implementation.” He was awarded the academic title of professor.

Aman Tuleyev is a full member of the International Academy of Informatization and the International Academy of Engineering, honorary professor at the Ulaanbaatar University of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences.

Tuleyev has a number of awards:

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree (2012); Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III degree(January 17, 2008) - for his great contribution to strengthening Russian statehood and socio-economic development of the region; Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (March 28, 2003) - for his great contribution to the strengthening of Russian statehood and many years of conscientious work; Order of Honor (July 5, 1999) - for great personal contribution to the socio-economic development of the region; Certificate of Honor from the President of the Russian Federation (December 12, 2008) - for active participation in the preparation of the draft Constitution of the Russian Federation and great contribution to the development of the democratic foundations of the Russian Federation; Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (May 12, 2004) - for his great contribution to the socio-economic development of the region and many years of conscientious work

Policy

Tuleyev's political career began "at the second attempt." In 1989, he ran for People's Deputies of the USSR in the central district of the city of Kemerovo, but lost the election to the famous legal scholar Yuri Golik.

In the spring of 1990, Tuleyev participated in the elections to the Supreme Council of the RSFSR. He was elected from the Gorno-Shorsky national-territorial district, gaining 75% of the votes. At the same time, he was elected as a deputy of the Kemerovo Regional Council, and in March became its chairman. The media noted that Tuleyev was supported by both the Central Committee of the CPSU and the working committees of Prokopyevsk and Kemerovo - independent political organizations of miners and miners who criticized the Soviet leadership.

Since May 1990, Tuleyev began to combine the positions of chairman of the regional council and chairman of the regional executive committee. In 1990-1993 - People's Deputy of the RSFSR, Chairman of the Kemerovo Regional Council of People's Deputies.

In April 1991, Tuleyev was registered as a candidate for President of the RSFSR. He advocated the gradual democratization of the economy and the conversion of enterprises of the military-industrial complex, but at the same time also for the preservation of collective farms. Suggested for strengthening labor discipline introduce temporary restrictions on holding rallies.

In the elections held on June 12, 1991, Tuleyev received 6.81% of the votes. Took fourth place, behind the chairman Supreme Council RSFSR Boris Yeltsin, who received 57.30% of the votes and became president, former chairman of the USSR government Nikolai Ryzhkov and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Soviet Union(LDPSS, since August 1991 - Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, LDPR) to Vladimir Zhirinovsky. In the Kemerovo region, Tuleyev took first place, gaining 44.71% of the votes. According to the media, Tuleyev participated in the elections not in order to become president, but in order to declare himself as a politician on an all-Russian scale.

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 appeal State Committee By state of emergency(GKChP).

In September 1991, Yeltsin removed Tuleyev from the post of chairman of the regional executive committee for supporting the State Emergency Committee, which attempted a coup in August. For this reason, Yeltsin subsequently appointed Mikhail Kislyuk, one of the leaders of the Kuzbass labor movement, as head of the region.

Aman Tuleyev 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 1991-93, Tuleyev criticized the activities of the government of Yegor Gaidar and condemned the sharp liberalization of prices.

In October 1993, Tuleyev supported the Supreme Council during the latter's conflict with Yeltsin. The confrontation ended with the shooting of the White House in Moscow, the dissolution of the entire Soviet system and the adoption of new Constitution RF.

After the liquidation of the Supreme Council, Tuleyev participated in the elections to the new parliament - the Federal Assembly. Initially he stated that “the elections are illegal, this is a dirty game... I will lose my dignity if I go to participate in these elections,” but later reconsidered his decision.

In November 1993, Tuleyev was elected a member of the Federation Council from the Kemerovo region, receiving 75.5% of the votes.

In March 1994, in the elections to the legislative assembly of the Kemerovo region, the "People's Power" bloc he created received 63.3% of the votes. In April, Tuleyev headed the regional legislative assembly. As speaker, he systematically accused the Kemerovo governor Mikhail Kislyuk, appointed by Yeltsin, of corruption and fraud, initiated various kinds of parliamentary audits of the activities of the regional administration, and therefore gained wide popularity in the region

During the parliamentary elections of 1995, Tuleyev, despite the fact that since the ban of the CPSU in 1991 he remained non-party, entered the top three list of candidates for State Duma deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, along with party leader Gennady Zyuganov and former employee prosecutor's office Svetlana Goryacheva. As a result, the Communist Party gained 22.3% of the votes throughout the country, and 63% in the Kemerovo region. After the elections, Tuleyev refused his deputy mandate, saying that “his work in Kuzbass will bring more significant results.”

In 1995, Tuleyev negotiated with terrorist Yevgeny Zherenkov, who captured people at the Kemerovo bus station, threatening to detonate a homemade bomb.

In 1996, Tuleyev again ran for the post of President of Russia. His nomination was considered by the leadership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation as a fallback option in case Zyuganov was removed from participation in the elections. On June 12, 4 days before the first round of elections, Tuleyev withdrew his candidacy in favor of the head of the Communist Party. Zyuganov and Yeltsin advanced to the second round, and on July 3, following the results of the second round, Yeltsin again became the president of the country.

In August 1996, Tuleyev accepted the offer of Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to head the Ministry of Cooperation with CIS member states. According to observers, this proposal was made in order to distract Tuleyev from the elections for governor of the Kemerovo region, scheduled for 1997. However, by the spring-summer of 1997, the situation had changed: a number of mass pickets and rallies took place in the region, and Governor Kislyuk had an extremely low level of popularity.

In July 1997, Tuleyev 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. Under these conditions, the Kremlin itself invited Tuleyev to become the new governor.

In October 1997, 94.5% of voters voted for Tuleyev in the elections for governor of the Kemerovo region.

In the summer of 1998, Tuleyev became a participant in the so-called “rail war,” during which miners of Kuzbass and Vorkuta, dissatisfied with months-long delays in wages, blocked a number of railway routes for several weeks. In the Kemerovo region, where the center of the strike movement was located, Tuleyev ordered the introduction of an emergency regime, but did not use force against the miners. Moreover, he told Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Boris Nemtsov, who was responsible for unblocking the tracks, that the demands of the strikers are legal and fair. As a result, part of the debts was repaid, and the tracks were cleared. Observers noted that as a result of the “rail war,” Tuleyev strengthened his authority both among the population and in the Kremlin.

On January 25, 2001, Tuleyev 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.

In the 1999 State Duma elections, Tuleyev was still on the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, but at the same time in the Kemerovo regional elections he supported the pro-Kremlin Unity bloc, which received 33% of the votes. Since that time, the Kemerovo governor, according to media estimates, has finally ceased to be in opposition to the central government.

In July 1999, he refused to accept the Order of Honor from Boris Yeltsin, citing the following reason: “I simply cannot, on principle, accept awards from a government that has plunged the country into poverty.” However, in September 2000, he accepted this award from Vladimir Putin.

In 2000, Tuleyev was expelled from the NPSR. And in December 2003, the governor topped the regional list" 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 bloc "Serving Kuzbass", formed with the support of Tuleyev.

In March 2000, Tuleyev participated in the presidential elections for the third time. Took fourth place with 2.95% of the votes. He lost to Yeltsin's successor, acting president and prime minister Vladimir Putin, who received 52.9% (and became president in the first round), Zyuganov and the leader of the Yabloko party, Grigory Yavlinsky.

In April 2001, Tuleyev was again elected governor of the Kemerovo region, gaining 93.5% of the votes.

In 2001, Tuleyev took part in the neutralization of Andrei Pangin, who took a taxi driver hostage at Kemerovo airport. The invader demanded money, drugs and a plane.

In the Duma elections in December 2003, he headed the regional list of United Russia, thanks to which the party received 52% of the votes in the Kemerovo region.

In the fall of 2004, Tuleyev supported Putin's proposal to abolish direct gubernatorial elections.

In April 2005, he ahead of schedule raised the question of his credibility with the president. That same month, Putin approved his candidacy. In May, the Kemerovo parliament approved Tuleyev as head of the region, extending his term of office until 2010.

In November 2005, on the eve of the 6th Congress of United Russia, Tuleyev joined the “party in power”. Joined the party's supreme council. At the same time as the head of the Kemerovo region, the minister joined the party Agriculture RF Alexey Gordeev, head of the Oryol region Yegor Stroev and head of the Moscow region Boris Gromov.

In December 2006, the founding conference of the regional branch of United Russia's competitor, A Just Russia, a new contender for the role of the party in power, was held in Kemerovo. At the conference, Nina Nevorotova, adviser to the governor on social issues, was elected chairman of the department. Thus, according to the media, real control over the department was concentrated in the hands of Tuleyev. At the same time, the media noted that the Kemerovo head also controls the regional branch of United Russia.

Experts noted that by 2006, the Kemerovo region, headed by Tuleev, in terms of volume industrial production ranked twelfth in Russia and second in Siberia. The coal industry of Kuzbass was the first and only one in Russia to pass full cycle restructuring: coal is mined only by private and joint-stock companies. The volume of the metallurgical industry during Tuleyev's governorship increased by 41%. At the same time, observers also noted objective difficulties in the socio-economic development of the region, in particular the fact that every third resident of the region is a pensioner.

In the spring of 2007, accidents occurred at two mines owned by the Yuzhkuzbassugol company in the Kemerovo region. On March 19, a methane explosion occurred at the Ulyanovskaya mine, killing 110 miners. On April 18, Tuleyev and the head of Rostechnadzor Konstantin Pulikovsky announced the results of a departmental investigation into the causes of the incident. It was found that 42 mine employees were guilty of the incident, including eight dead, who deliberately interfered with the operation of sensors that recorded methane levels in underground tunnels. Tuleyev especially emphasized that the intervention was dictated by the desire of management to increase coal production, since if the level of methane in the faces exceeded more than 2%, work should have automatically stopped.

On May 24, 2007, methane gas exploded at the Yubileinaya mine. This time 39 miners died. On June 6, Pulikovsky again cited interference in the gas release prevention system to increase coal production as the cause of the accident. On June 7, Tuleyev characterized Pulikovsky’s statement as a provocation. According to the governor, the head of Rostechnadzor claimed that the leadership of the Kemerovo region knew about the deliberate blocking of the gas protection system at Ulyanovskaya, but did not take action. In response to this, Tuleyev told the media that, in his opinion, the specialists of Rostekhnadzor and personally the head of this department were to blame for the latest accidents that occurred in the mines of Kuzbass, who, according to the governor, repeatedly ignored the demands of the regional authorities to restore order at coal enterprises. The next day, Tuleyev told reporters that he had sued the head of Rostekhnadzor for libel. Pulikovsky did not file a counterclaim against the governor and expressed hope for a fair judgment. No further information about the legal proceedings was published.

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.

In October 2007, Tuleyev headed the regional list of United Russia candidates in the Kemerovo region in the elections to State Duma RF fifth convocation. After the party's victory, he, as expected, refused his deputy mandate.

The accidents at the Lenin mine in Mezhdurechensk, which occurred in 2008, became the reason for a new aggravation of relations between the regional and federal authorities. In July 2008, Tuleyev sent a letter to General Prosecutor's Office Russia and the regional prosecutor's office with a request to review the quality of activities carried out by Rostekhnadzor at coal mining enterprises in Kuzbass. According to the governor, “Rostechnadzor’s inspections at coal enterprises in the region were carried out superficially.” In addition, he stated that “in the case of the Lenin Mine, it smacks of bribes in order to quickly put the longwall into operation.” In September 2008, the head of Rostekhnadzor, Pulikovsky, was dismissed (it was reported that this was done at the request of Pulikovsky himself).

Since July 2008, Tuleyev has been fighting to close the Kuznetsk cement plant, which, according to the governor, was harmful to the environment. This conflict turned against Tuleyev himself, when in October of the same year the Federal Antimonopoly Service opened a case against the governor and other regional authorities, accusing them of coordinated actions to eliminate the Kuznetsk cement plant from the market.

On March 13, 2009, Aman Tuleyev negotiated with a robber who had taken three female cashiers and two security guards hostage in the bank city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky. However, the governor and head of the regional police department, Alexander Elin, failed to persuade him to release the hostages - as a result, the bandit was killed by a sniper. The bandit turned out to be a resident of Belovo, Igor Erofeevsky, an entrepreneur entangled in debt.

In March 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev nominated Tuleyev, proposed by the United Russia party that won the local elections, to the parliament of the Kemerovo region for his approval as governor. Meanwhile, in December 2009, the head of state advocated for the “long-living governors” to free up jobs “for young people to work.” Representatives of United Russia explained Medvedev's choice by the fact that Tuleyev "proved himself a good manager during the crisis." However, representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation considered that the Kemerovo governor owed his reappointment to the authorities’ confidence that in Kuzbass, where all opposition organizations were suppressed under Tuleyev, they say, “no one can cope except him.”

That same month, the regional Council of People's Deputies unanimously approved Tuleyev as governor for a fourth term. In April 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev extended Tuleyev's term of office until 2015.

On the night of May 9, 2010, two explosions occurred at the Kuzbass Raspadskaya mine, which killed 91 people. On May 14, in Mezhdurechensk, miners dissatisfied with working conditions gathered for a rally and even blocked the railway, as a result of which there was a clash with riot police, many of the protesters were detained. After the incident, Tuleyev said that the riots involved provocateurs who were members of local criminal groups, but he placed responsibility for both the incident at the mine and the rally on the management of Raspadskaya. Putin criticized mine director Igor Volkov on May 17, after which he resigned. Soon a criminal case was brought against him.

In November 2010, Rostechnadzor published the conclusion of an expert commission, which found that the disaster occurred due to violations of safety requirements and failure to comply with preventive and control measures on the part of mine workers. 24 people, including Volkov, the head of the institute that developed the mine project without compliance technical standards, and Volkov’s deputy, who accepted this project, were named guilty of what happened.

In March 2011, Tuleyev filed lawsuits against Gennady Zyuganov, the Kemerovo regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and his first secretary - State Duma deputy of the fifth convocation from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Nina Ostanina - for the protection of honor and dignity. The reason for the appeal was an article published on the website local branch Communist Party of the Russian Federation. It alleged that the governor allegedly forbade the parents of a 12-year-old schoolgirl, who was raped in Kaltan in the south of Kuzbass (the case received resonance), to go to Moscow to give an interview to the federal channel. Tuleyev estimated his moral damage at 1 million rubles, but the court in May of the same year decided to recover 500 thousand rubles from the regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

In September 2011, the governor won two more lawsuits against the Communist Party of the Russian Federation for publications on the website of the local party branch for a total of 720 thousand rubles. The media noted that since 2007 this was already the eighth lawsuit of Tuleyev against communist party.

In the elections to the State Duma of the sixth convocation, held on December 4, 2011, Tuleyev headed the United Russia list from his region. On average across the country, the party received 49.32% of the votes, and in the Kemerovo region it received significantly more - 64.24% of the votes. After the voting results were summed up, Tuleyev renounced his mandate. In December of the same year, the Council of People's Deputies of the Kemerovo Region awarded Tuleyev the honorary title of "People's Governor".

Income

In the spring of 2011, Aman Tuleyev published an official income statement. In 2010, he earned 2.85 million rubles, of which the salary was about 1.8 million rubles, the pension was slightly less than 185 thousand rubles. In addition, Tuleyev received more than 550 thousand rubles for the titles of honorary citizen of the Kemerovo region, Promyshlennovsky district, as well as the cities of Mezhdurechensk, Tashtagol, Novokuznetsk and Kemerovo. It was especially noted that the governor transferred these funds to the poor and orphan students.

Rumors (scandals)

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

In 1999-2001, the media reported on the conflict between Tuleyev and the financial and industrial group Metallurgical Investment Company (MIK), headed by Mikhail Zhivilo. In 1996, MIC won the competition for external control Kuznetsk Metallurgical Plant (KMK), in May 1999, announced the need for bankruptcy of KMK. After this, according to media reports, the group intended to acquire ownership of the plant. Tuleyev spoke out sharply against this. Using all his connections, including in Moscow, by December 1999 he achieved the departure of MIC from KMK, and later the ousting of the group from all enterprises in the region. The media noted that the management of all major mining companies in the Kemerovo region is loyal to Tuleyev.

On August 10, 2000, in Moscow, FSB officers arrested Alexander Tikhonov, four-time Olympic biathlon champion, president of the Russian Biathlon Union, and his younger brother Viktor. The brothers were accused of preparing an assassination attempt on Tuleyev. According to investigators, the orderer of the failed murder was Zhivilo, who thus wanted to take revenge on the governor for ousting his company from KMK and Kuzbass. In August 2002, the Novosibirsk Regional Court sentenced Viktor Tikhonov to four years in prison under Articles 33 and 277 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“preparation for murder”). In August 2004, after serving his sentence (which included two years of the suspect’s stay in a pre-trial detention center), he was released.

The cases of the elder Tikhonov and Zhivilo were separated into separate proceedings. Tikhonov was partially paralyzed a month after his arrest and underwent treatment for several years, including abroad. His case was brought to court only in December 2006. On July 23, 2007, Tikhonov was found guilty of inciting murder for hire, sentenced to three years in prison and released under an amnesty. However, he did not admit his guilt.

Zhivilo emigrated to France in 2000. In February 2001, he was arrested by the police at the request of the Russian Interpol Bureau, but was released in May. The French court considered the arguments of Russian law enforcement agencies about Zhivilo’s guilt insufficient. Tuleyev, commenting trials in cases of an attempt on his life, he told the media that Zhivilo, in his opinion, used the Tikhonov brothers. In addition, the Kemerovo governor expressed regret that many honored athletes became “mafia gangsters.”

A year ago, residents of the Kemerovo region were left without governor Aman Tuleyev.

For more than 20 years he was responsible for the region and was an indisputable personality. But a long and serious illness and terrible tragedy in the “Winter Cherry” shopping center - they did their job.

Many political scientists have repeatedly talked about the upcoming event, but for many it was still a surprise.

Life after

Tuleyev recorded a video message in which he apologized to the Kuzbass residents for everything and noted that after the tragedy this decision was the only correct one.

Became acting governor.

And after a few days we learned that former governor. They decided to transfer the mandate of his fellow party member Wang Wai-Chen. However, it didn’t work out with being a deputy. According to experts, Moscow was against it.

Then the ex-governor found himself and became the rector at the Kuzbass Regional Institute for the Development of Vocational Education. By the way, he himself founded this university while still the head of Kuzbass.

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 fight 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.

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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 leadership qualities, 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 left no future politician without a father - the 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.

His father’s family belongs to ethnic Kazakhs, and his mother’s has Bashkir-Tatar roots, so throughout 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. Tuleyev chooses for living Krasnodar region, where he entered 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 receive higher education and enters the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Transport 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.

Besides political activity, 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 office for a period 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 career 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 the Russian Federation Minister 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 political career 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 gubernatorial career of Aman Tuleyev, which lasted for more than two decades, burned out in the flames of the Kemerovo fire. On April 1, he submitted his resignation, which was accepted by the head of state. Vice-Governor Sergei Tsivilev will temporarily act as regional leader until the elections on September 9.

Tuleyev called his decision “correct, conscious, the only correct one.”

“Because it is impossible to work as a governor with such a heavy load. It’s morally impossible” - said the governor.

He also said that he did everything he could for his fellow countrymen.

Here he perhaps got excited. Many were shocked by the governor's behavior during and immediately after the fire. He did not deign to come to the scene of the tragedy for some far-fetched reasons. He apologized for the deaths not to their orphaned relatives, but to the president.

In general, he behaved strangely, to say the least.

Especially for the people's governor.

This is not a figure of speech, but honorary title, which regional deputies assigned to Tuleyev seven years ago. Formalized according to the relevant law. It spells out the rights and privileges of Tuleyev in the event of termination of his gubernatorial powers. Aman Tuleyev, for example, will retain his office in the regional administration building. Will receive free use of a residence in the village of Mazurovo. 50 thousand rubles will be transferred to his account monthly (the amount is subject to annual indexation taking into account the level of inflation). If Tuleyev wants to engage in social activities, he will be provided with an assistant.

In a word, Aman Gumirovich’s bitter pill will be sweetened in every possible way. Many are indignant: why are such “chocolate” conditions created for the retired governor at the expense of taxpayers?

There are also many evil tongues that claim that all these offices with assistants and increased pensions are mere trifles compared to the wealth that has stuck to Tuleyev’s hands during more than 20 years of his governorship.

As they say, be near the water, but not get drunk?..

Let's try to figure out what kind of golden parachute Tuleyev built for himself during the years of ruling Kuzbass. What does he and his family own now?

While in office, Aman Gumirovich and his wife, like all officials and their wives, filled out declarations of income and property. In 2016, the income of the governor of the Kemerovo region amounted to 5.42 million rubles. This amount includes salary - about 2.1 million rubles, state pension - 351 thousand rubles, as well as income from bank deposits. The income of his wife Elvira Fedorovna amounted to about 3.76 million rubles.

Together with his wife, Tuleyev owns two apartments with an area of ​​137.8 and 90.9 square meters. meters, as well as a parking garage with an area of ​​18.6 square meters. meters. Vehicle not in their possession. The Tuleyev family owns a residential building of 281.5 square meters with land plot at 1.78 thousand sq. meters. All real estate is located in Russia.

TASS/Grigory Sysoev

Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in Siberian federal district Anatoly Kvashnin, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and Governor of the Kemerovo Region Aman Tuleyev. 2006

For a person with such a position, income and property are more than modest. Especially when you consider that Tuleyev gave the lion’s share of his earnings to charity.

However, many of the ex-governor’s fellow countrymen, including those from his former entourage, are confident that Kuzbass-Bashi (as Tuleyev was often called) is directly related to the coal business.

For example, the Kompromat.ru website reports that Tuleyev allegedly can control 46% of the shares of the Yubileiny mine, which he could get at his disposal using his official powers.

Tuleyev’s participation in offshore coal trading schemes is also not excluded. They say that it was under him that the transfer of income from the production of millions of tons of Kuzbass coal to Cypriot assets began to be widely practiced.

If so, of course, the name of the head of the region (now former) did not appear in any papers - the law prohibits officials from engaging in business.

In the spring of the year before last, a major corruption scandal broke out. Journalist Konstantin Rubakhin published an investigation that reveals illegal and semi-legal schemes for transferring funds abroad by the leaders of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC), who are associated with the Izmailovskaya organized crime group. The investigation contains information about testimony given abroad by a classmate of UMMC owner Iskander Makhmudov, Jalol Khaidarov, who once owned the Kachkanar mining and processing plant. Khaidarov said that the now deceased leader of the Izmailovskaya organized crime group Anton Malevsky and the “aluminum king” Mikhail Chernoy, who controlled the coal region, regularly “unfastened interest” to Tuleyev.

The same Khaidarov spoke about the corrupt connections of Aman Tuleyev with some large businessmen. The kickbacks allegedly amounted to many millions of dollars.

Businessman Mikhail Zhivilo, who fled out of fear for his life in the United States, gave similar testimony. He publicly stated that Tuleyev received $3 million in bribes from the owners of UMMC. Experts note that the testimony of Jalol Khaidarov and Mikhail Zhivilo regarding the $3 million bribe received (according to them) by Aman Tuleyev coincides. This means that the information is most likely reliable.

Evil tongues accuse Tuleyev of always defending the interests of big business in any conflict.

In particular, he is credited with providing protection for the Kuzbassrazrezugol company, which is controlled by the UMMC and Evrazholding corporations close to Tuleyev. This was obviously not done disinterestedly.

If the Tuleyev family has any assets hidden from prying eyes, they are in good hands.

Aman Gumirovich’s eldest son, 50-year-old Dmitry, a major businessman, manages billions ( younger son, Andrey, born in 1972, died in a car accident at the age of 26).

TASS/Alexander Kolbasov

Dmitry Amanovich's main interests are road construction. Truly a goldmine! Dmitry heads the State Institution “Federal Administration of Highways “Siberia”, distributes road budgets.

The younger Tuleyev is also involved in the banking business. According to the Telegram channel “Cello Case”, together with Yuri Glazychev, convicted of fraud, Dmitry Tuleyev created the company “Sibir-Finance-Service” - a “financial intermediary” issuing consumer loans to Siberians. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Dmitry Tuleyev has been one of the founders of Sibir-Finance-Service since April 2004.

Aman Tuleyev has two grandchildren, a granddaughter and two great-great-grandchildren. The eldest grandson, 26-year-old Stanislav, is Andrei’s illegitimate son. Nothing is known about his business interests. Together with his wife Christina and two children, they live happily with their grandparents. Christina used to work as a realtor, but after getting married and having children, she gave up that job. They say he makes money from handicrafts, making beaded brooches to order.

Dmitry Tuleyev's son Andrey, born in 1999, and daughter Tatyana, born in 2005, are still too young to contribute to the family piggy bank.

However, they say that it won’t fit in a ceramic cat or, say, a pig anyway. According to some reports, shares in operating mines and coal mines, land plots for rent, and a number of Moscow assets bring the Tuleyev clan from $100 thousand to $300 thousand a day.

What will ex-governor Tuleyev do? Hardly a business. There is a son, Dmitry, for this. If he decides to shake things up again, he will most likely get a senator's seat. Here he is honored and has a calm routine. And the most important thing is integrity. Who knows what winds will blow. What if someone gets the idea of ​​delving into the past of the ex-governor?

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