Biography of Chernomyrdin

Do you want to see only good news? Return to ordinary tape? Lentapedia Chernomyrdin, Victor Prime Minister of Russia in the years, adviser to the President of the Russian Federation and special representative of the Russian President on Economic Cooperation with the CIS participants earlier - Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, State Duma deputy, member of the Unity faction, chairman of the Board of Directors of Gazprom OJSC, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin to resolve the situation around Yugoslavia, Russian Prime Minister is one of the initiators of the creation and the first head of the Gazprom State Gas Concern in years - Minister of the gas industry of the USSR.

He died on November 3. Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin was born on April 9 in the Cossack village of the Black Spirog of the Saraktash district of the Orenburg region in a large family [19], [42]. In the year, Chernomyrdin began working as a locksmith at the Orsk oil refinery in the Orenburg region.

In the year, having served in the army, he returned to the same plant: he worked as a driver, operator, and the head of the technological installation [19]. In the year, Chernomyrdin joined the ranks of the CPSU member of the party remained before her prohibition in August [42], [20]. In the year, Chernomyrdin became a graduate of the Kuibyshev Polytechnic Institute, receiving a diploma of a technologist.

However, he did not work in his specialty, starting his career on the party line [19], [42]. In the years, Chernomyrdin held the positions of an instructor, deputy head, head of the industrial transport department of the Orsk city committee of the CPSU. In parallel with the party work, Chernomyrdin continued his studies. In the year, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the All -Union Correspondence Polytechnic Institute [19], [42] with a degree in economics and organization of the oil and gas industry [20].

In the year, Chernomyrdin was appointed deputy chief engineer of the gas processing plant in Orenburg, and later became its director. In the year, he returned to work in the party bodies, becoming an instructor in the industry department of the CPSU Central Committee, who oversees the country's gas industry [19]. In the year, Chernomyrdin took the post of deputy minister of gas industry in the USSR, from a year at the same time heading the All -Union Industrial Association Tyumengazprom.

In the year [67], as a result of the transformation of the USSR Ministry of gas industry, the first state gas concern "Gazprom" arose in the country. Chernomyrdin of the media was initiated by its creation, he also headed the new concern [68], [55]. In October, shortly before the Soviet Union was officially liquidated, the “independent newspaper” wrote that, against the backdrop of the general crisis, “gas is still supplied to apartments uninterruptedly”.

At that time, Chernomyrdin would also become the Minister of Fuel and Energy, and Kommersant even published an article that stated that such an appointment had already occurred [60] In the future, information was not confirmed about this. In December, at the VII Congress of People's Deputies of Russia, President Yeltsin proposed the candidacy of Chernomyrdin to the post of chairman of the Government of the Council of Ministers of Russia - it was approved by a majority vote [42], [55], [58], [59].

The press wrote that the appointment of Chernomyrdin "was approved later by the Chernomyrdin government, managed to become" the center of stabilization in the pumped -by -the -aid political atmosphere of that time "without refusing the reforms begun by the government [29]. President Yeltsin’s loyalty to President Yeltsin was never called into question [42] - despite the fact that Chernomyrdin failed to organically enter the near circle of Yeltsin associates [29].

In May, Chernomyrdin was included in the working commission for refinement of the presidential project of the Russian Constitution [57]. Just at that time, the conflict was unfolding between the legislative and executive branches of the authorities, which in the fall of the year passed into the phase of an open confrontation. Deputies of the Armed Forces, in turn, announced the presidential powers of Yeltsin terminated and adopted a decision on the appointment of Vice President Alexander Rutsky by acting president.

In response to this, Yeltsin issued a decree abolishing the position of vice president [26]. The same decree noted that in the event of the resignation, death of the president or the inability to fulfill his powers, the functions of the head of state are moving to the chairman of the Council of Ministers, that is, to Chernomyrdin. Chernomyrdin personally headed the election list of NDR [54].

Chernomyrdin was elected State Duma deputy, but refused the deputy mandate [53]. In the summer of the year, Yeltsin was elected President of Russia for a second term [64]. In August of the same year, the first government of Chernomyrdin resigned its powers, after which Yeltsin again introduced the candidacy of Chernomyrdin to the State Duma for approval to the post of prime minister.

The deputies in the same month gave their consent, after which Yeltsin issued a corresponding decree on the appointment of Chernomyrdin as the head of the Government of the Russian Federation [66].In November, Yeltsin for several hours - during the operation of the aorto -coronary bypass - transferred the Presidential powers to Chernomyrdin. The media noted that at the same time the president demanded simultaneously preparing two decree - on the transfer of power and its return.

Yeltsin signed the second decree immediately after he came into consciousness after anesthesia [23], [51]. In March, Yeltsin sent the Government of Chernomyrdin to resign. It was noted that it was a complete surprise for everyone, since it was during this period that the Chernomyrdin predicted the status of the “Yeltsin political heir” and called him the most likely contender for the post of head of state [49], [42].

However, after a few months, in August, after the financial crisis that erupted in the country and the subsequent resignation of the government, Sergei Kirienko, Chernomyrdin, was appointed acting chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation [47]. However, his candidacy was not approved by the deputies of the State Duma. The Profile magazine wrote that if the left majority were sure that after the approval of the candidacy proposed by Yeltsin, the president would voluntarily resign, Chernomyrdin would have passed the Duma without difficulty.

But since the president said that he was not going to leave, the deputies were adamant [48]. In the spring of the year, during the crisis in the Balkans, Chernomyrdin was appointed special representative of the President of the Russian Federation to resolve the situation around Yugoslavia. In this status, Chernomyrdin took an active part in negotiations on the political resolution of the Kosovo crisis, the cessation of hostilities and the peaceful settlement of the conflict.

As a result, he convinced the Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevich of the need to capitulate, as a result of which Kosovo was transferred to the Office of the NATO peacekeeping contingent [27]. It was noted that Chernomyrdin’s contribution to the political solution of the Kosovo problem was highly appreciated by politicians in the West by the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation was awarded the Kran-Montan Foundation Award [46], and his efforts in the Balkans were called “constructive and creative” [42], [43].

However, other opinions sounded: in particular, it was indicated that the ceasefire agreement was signed on conditions extremely disadvantageous for Yugoslavia, after which "Russian patriots of the left and right orientation stuck Chernomyrdin with disgrace" [29], [43]. Subsequently, Chernomyrdin wrote the book "Call" published in Kyiv in the year [25].

In December, he was elected as a deputy of the lower house of the Russian parliament [40], [38] at the same time as an independent electoral association of NDR did not gain 2 percent of votes [35]. In January, he, together with another member of the NDR, deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov, having received an offer from the movement of "unity" [39], joined his faction [37], [32]. In March, Chernomyrdin headed the Association of Deputies of Energia of Russia, whose activities were aimed at supporting the country's fuel and energy complex [36].

In May of that year, the NDR members at their congress unanimously approved the idea of ​​creating a single party with “unity” and “all of Russia” [33], [34] later, in December of the year, after combining the “Unity” and the socio -political organization “Fatherland - All of Russia”, the Party “Unity and the Fatherland - United Russia” was created [62]. In May, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Chernomyrdin an extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, a special representative of the President for the Development of Russian-Ukrainian Trade and Economic Relations [29].

After this appointment, it was suggested that Chernomyrdin, “with its huge lobbying capabilities and the ability to negotiate,” in particular, was instructed to solve the issue of privatizing the Ukrainian gas transmission system of the GTS and the problem of Ukraine’s debts for the transportation of Russian gas [31]. In September, evaluating the events in Ukraine, Chernomyrdin criticized the position of the country's leadership regarding the war in South Ossetia [16].

He rejected the approval of the camp of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on the existence of "shadow agreements" [17] between the Russian leadership and Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. And who is our hearts and who below the heart is outside this audience, ”the ambassador said [16], [15]. In April of the year, on the eve of the summer anniversary of Chernomyrdin, for great contribution to the development of Russian -Ukrainian relations, the Order received“ For merits ”of the III degree [18] for merits to the Fatherland, he received in the year.

And in the March of the year, president of the year president. Russia Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the awarding of Chernomyrdin by the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I degree - "for great contribution to strengthening the authority of the Russian Federation."The newspaper Kommersant, who told about this, emphasized that the official was awarded the rewards soon after the Russian-Ukrainian diplomatic scandal related to the publication of his interview with the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.

In it, the Russian Ambassador allowed himself “in extremely unfriendly expressions responded about the leadership of Ukraine”, after which the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry even proposed to declare Chernomyrdin Persona non grata in Ukraine. Nevertheless, this did not happen [13], [14], [12]. The award was awarded to Chernomyrdin in May of the same year. In his speech, the head of state called the head of state one of the most popular politicians in the country [11].

According to press reports, he was very ill, it was noted that the death of his wife Valentina Fedorovna, she died in March of the same year [8], [2], [3]. According to the public conclusion of doctors, the cause of the death of the politician was myocardial infarction, which occurred "against the background of a serious oncological disease and acute renal failure." Chernomyrdin was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery on November 5 of the year [1].

Chernomyrdin owned a solid state. In the year, he, as the winner of 1.1 billion dollars, among 8 representatives of Russia, entered into the rating of the richest people of the FORBES magazine [30], [28]. According to the data of the Chernomyrdin income published in May of the year, he received an income of 9 million rubles in the year of the Presidential Administration, was called the owner of several Bentley Continental cars, Mercedes, BMW and Lexus and the largest landowner among all the “inhabitants of the Kremlin”, the host of the area of ​​almost 60 thousand squares meters [4], [5], [6].

Chernomyrdin - candidate of technical sciences. It was awarded many state awards, including the orders of the October Revolution, the Red Banner of Labor, the "Badge of Honor" and Friendship [19]. In April, the politician "For many years of fruitful state activity" was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the VI degree and became its full gentleman [7]. In the press, Chernomyrdin was mentioned not only as “Viktor Stepanovich”, but also as simply “Stepanych” [42].

Talking about how Chernomyrdin spends his free time from work, the media noted that over many years of staying in the "old" nomenclature, the politician has gained quite nomenclature habits and addictions, "in particular, he loved the bath and hunt [29]. They wrote that the environment of Chernomyrdin "with a pet" was "to his drinking abilities" it is known that, being the prime minister, the politician preferred vodka [42], [41].

The media have repeatedly published materials about the Black Sea Rurator [25] and about the “speech alologisms” present in his statements, giving the public speeches of the “specific coloring” politician [29]. It was noted that the phrases of the politician who have become winged "we will live so that our children and grandchildren will begin to envy! In the year, the" peculiar gift "of Chernomyrdin for his birthday became the book" wanted as better than nine evenings with Viktor Chernomyrdin, or how the winged words of the era of "journalist Alexander Gamov [20], [21].

Chernomyrdin was endowed with "rare psychological stability", which allowed him to successfully work with a variety of people [29], [42], [29]. Stroytransgazprom, subsequently took the post of deputy head of the department for working with the regions. In August, he appeared in Vedomosti as a businessman that controls the Slavyanka grain company Orenburg region. At the same time, information was published that in the Orenburg region the Chernomyrdins "more GA of arable land, pig farm, dairy farm" [9].

The youngest son of Chernomyrdin, Alexey, according to the press, "for a long time earned the fact that he exported gas abroad" [24] - in the year was mentioned in the media as an honorary president of the "United Neftegas Company of Ukraine" [22]. Used materials [1] Natalya Bashlykova. Viktor Chernomyrdin was held on the last journey. Ru, up pockets. Each penny on the account.

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