Tuleyev party. Governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev: biography, nationality

Aman Gumirovich Tuleyev, whose real name is Amangeldy Moldagazyevich Tuleyev, is a political and statesman of Russia. At one time he was Minister for Cooperation with the CIS Countries, and from the summer of 1997 to 2018 he served as governor of the Kemerovo region.

Aman was born in Turkmenistan, in the city of Krasnovodsk, which today is called Turkmenbashi. Moldagazy Tuleyev’s father, a Kazakh by nationality, went to war and died without ever seeing the birth of his son. Munira Fayzovna’s mother, who had Tatar and Bashkir blood, remarried after some time, so his stepfather Innokenty Vlasov was involved in raising the boy.

After school, Tuleyev entered the Tikhoretsky Technical School of Railway Transport, and then the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, where he studied by correspondence to become a railway engineer. Already at this time, the young man began to use a new name and patronymic - Aman Gumirovich, since they are more convenient for pronunciation in Russian.

Later, another higher education will appear in the biography of Aman Tuleyev, which he received in 1988 at the correspondence department of the Academy of Social Sciences. In 2000, Aman Tuleyev will rise one more step, becoming a Doctor of Political Science after defending his dissertation at the Russian State University of Social Sciences.

Career

The future governor Aman Tuleyev began his career as a simple worker on the West Siberian Railway. Gradually, the young man rose to the rank of head of the Mundybash station near Novokuznetsk, and then to the head of the Kemerovo railway. Tuleyev performed these duties until the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Aman Gumirovich Tuleyev planned to enter politics back in 1989, but then did not get the required number of votes in the parliamentary elections. Later, this attempt was crowned with success, and Aman Gumirovich became chairman of the Kemerovo Regional Council.

During the August putsch in 1991, Tuleyev showed confidence in the putschists, so those who came to power did not allow Aman to lead Kuzbass. However, in 1996, Tuleyev was appointed to the post of Minister of the Russian Federation for Cooperation with the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, where he stayed for exactly a year.

Already in the summer of 1997, social tension was increasing in Kuzbass, and Yeltsin was forced to allow Aman Gumirovich Tuleyev to lead the region he knew well, and a few months later the politician was already winning the gubernatorial elections. Since then, not counting the short-term resignation of Aman Tuleyev in January 2001, he has been in constant charge of the Kemerovo region.

Nevertheless, the relationship between Yeltsin and Tuleyev forever remained tense, to put it mildly. The governor of Kuzbass even refused to accept the Order of Honor from the president. The politician motivated this decision by the fact that he could not go against his conscience and receive a reward from the hands of the authorities, who, in Tuleyev’s opinion, had destroyed the country. But a year later, Tuleyev received the same order from.

Three times Aman Gumirovich Tuleyev tried to become the president of Russia and put forward a candidacy in the elections, but the percentage of those who voted for the politician was small, although if we consider only the Kemerovo region, then Tuleyev’s rating in the presidential elections there exceeded even the ultimately winning candidates - Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. It is worth adding that Aman Gumirovich successfully negotiated with terrorists several times, including freeing a little girl from a hostage situation, offering himself in her place.

Over the years of work as governor of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyev made a significant contribution to the development of the industrial sector. Thus, by 2011, trade turnover with Kazakhstan increased 4 times and approached $600 million. Under the agreement, metal and metal products were sent to Kazakhstan, and ferroalloys and raw materials for the aluminum industry were supplied to Kuzbass.

For long-term successful cooperation, the President of Kazakhstan presented Aman Tuleyev with the anniversary medal “20 years of independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan.”

In the last elections, Governor Aman Tuleyev retained his post as head of the Kemerovo region, gaining almost 97% of the votes. In the fall of 2016, Aman Gumirovich Tuleyev headed the United Russia party list in the Kemerovo and Tomsk regions, as well as in the Altai Territory.

Personal life

The family and personal life of Aman Tuleyev is inextricably linked with his wife Elvira Fedorovna Solovyova, who after the wedding took her husband’s surname. The family raised two children. In 1968, a son, Dmitry, was born, and four years later a second child, Andrei. The eldest son became a highway specialist and collaborated with the Siberia Federal Administration. But Andrei suffered a tragedy at a young age. He was only 26 years old when he crashed his car in the city of Tashkent.

By the way, his brother named his second son Andrei in his honor, who was born a year after his uncle’s death. Aman and Elvira Tuleyev also have a grandson Stanislav and granddaughter Tatyana.

As a public figure, Tuleyev founded the charitable foundations “Help” and “Semipalatinsk Trail”. In his free time, the governor of Kuzbass prefers to relax with family and friends in nature or read a book. For his contribution to the development of the region, Tuleyev was named an Honorary Citizen of the Kemerovo Region, as well as specifically the cities of Novokuznetsk, Mezhdurechensk and Tashtagol.

With age, Aman Tuleyev began to have health problems. In 2011, the politician went to Germany to undergo planned spinal surgery. Five years later, the need for surgical intervention arose again, but the next operation took place only in May 2017. The governor was temporarily absent from office, taking a leave of absence.

After surgery, Aman Tuleyev from Germany immediately went to Moscow, where he went for rehabilitation at the Regional Emergency Hospital, and then was transferred to the hospital of the Presidential Administration. The politician returned to his homeland on a stretcher and held his first meetings sitting in a wheelchair. Subordinates noted that Tuleyev had lost a lot of weight. This was confirmed by photographs taken at that time.

Aman Tuleyev now

On March 25, 2018, a goal occurred in Kemerovo. For an unknown reason, a fire started in the Zimnyaya Vishnya shopping center and began to spread at high speed. At the time of the fire, there were visitors in the building, most of whom were children. The fire and acrid smoke from cheap finishing materials spread rapidly and claimed 41 children, among them.

Fire in the Winter Cherry shopping center in Kemerovo

The tragic outcome of events was influenced by a number of other factors, such as a malfunction of the fire alarm and the closed doors of the cinema halls located on the 4th floor of the center. The escape doors were also blocked, and the guards, according to eyewitnesses, did not allow parents to enter the cinema halls, where the bulk of the children were concentrated. Testimonies from parents indicate that schoolchildren called them and said their last words, saying goodbye to their families.

Eyewitnesses were also disheartened by the fire service's unwillingness to provide all possible assistance. Emergency Situations Ministry specialists arrived at the scene of a fire in Kemerovo without inflatable trampolines. As a result, people jumping out of smoke-filled windows were injured. Firefighting continued for 24 hours. Today, many surviving victims are being treated at the regional clinical hospital.

Aman Tuleyev did not arrive at the scene of the fire at the Zimnyaya Vishnya shopping center, not wanting to interfere with rescuers carrying out the necessary work. It became known that the governor also became a victim of a fire; the politician’s niece died in a shopping center.

On March 27, a spontaneous rally took place in Kemerovo, which was attended by 4 thousand citizens. People demanded a meeting with Aman Tuleyev, but the governor did not attend the meeting. The politician called the protesters “troublers.” At the meeting, a demand was put forward to the authorities that the real number of deaths be announced, as people fear that there were much more of them than in the official version.

According to unofficial information that appeared on the Internet in the first hours after the fire started, the number of victims was 300 or more people. As the Investigative Committee established, a wave of disinformation was launched by a Ukrainian prankster, against whom a criminal case has already been initiated.

But an independent committee, created spontaneously during the rally, began collecting information about the missing, and their number reached 84 people. The Ministry of Emergency Situations stated that they do not have information on those missing people who are listed on the independent list.

The newly elected head of state Vladimir Putin arrived in Kemerovo on his own plane. He laid flowers at the spontaneous memorial and met with the leadership of Kuzbass. The meeting was attended by the head of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Minister of Health, the chairman of the Investigative Committee and the governor.

The President promised the victims to understand the situation and punish the perpetrators. Putin called it negligence and sloppiness. Aman Tuleyev asked the head of state for forgiveness for what happened, expressing gratitude with the phrase “Thank you very much.”

Aman Tuleyev fulfilled one of the protesters’ demands for the dismissal of the Kuzbass government leadership and removed his deputy Alexei Zelenin and the head of the region’s internal policy department, Nina Lopatina, from their positions. Instead, the governor appointed Olga Turbaba and Valentina Nazimok.

The manager of the shopping center Nadezhda Suddenok, Alexander Nikitin, who was responsible for security in the shopping center, the general director of System Integrator LLC Igor Polozinenko and one employee of the private security company were taken into custody. The owner of part of the Winter Cherry retail premises, an entrepreneur, is now in Australia.

At the meeting, a video of which appeared on YouTube, Aman Tuleyev addressed his compatriots. The governor thanked those who help the residents of Kemerovo not to lose heart in terrible moments. Tuleyev also stated that there is persecution and speculation on someone else’s grief from all sides. In particular, on March 27 and earlier, a number of anonymous calls were observed about mining at several Kuzbass mines - Polosukhinskaya, Yubileinaya, Antonovskaya. To the victims, Tuleyev promised one-time payments and constant assistance, especially in those families where there were minor children.

April 1, 2018 Aman Tuleyev. The head of the region submitted a request for early resignation and addressed the residents of the region, saying that in the current situation this is the only right decision.

“Aman Gumirovich made a resignation letter; this is not an April Fool’s joke. The decision was made by the governor, this is his right,” commented Sergei Menyailo, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Siberian Federal District, on Aman Tuleyev’s action.

Tuleev Aman Gumirovich (Aman-Geldy Moldagazyevich) was born on May 13, 1944 in Krasnovodsk, Turkmen SSR, into the family of an employee. Father - Moldagazy Koldybaevich - died at the front.

In 1964 he graduated with honors from the Tikhoretsky Railway Technical School, in 1973 - the correspondence department of the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Engineers with a degree in railway communications engineer, in 1988 - the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee. In 2000, he defended his doctoral dissertation in political sciences at the Russian State Social University (topic: “Political leadership: regional specifics and implementation mechanisms”).

He worked as a switchman at the Krasnodar-1 railway station, as a duty officer at the railway station in the village. Mundybash, Kemerovo region.

Then for three years he served in the engineering troops of the Transbaikal Military District.

After the service he returned to his previous place of work. Since 1969, he held the positions of head of the Mundybash railway station of the West Siberian Railway, head of the Mezhdurechensk railway station, deputy head, then head of the Novokuznetsk branch of the Kemerovo Railway.

In 1985-88 - Head of the Department of Transport and Communications of the Kemerovo Regional Committee of the CPSU.

From 1988 to 1990 - head of the Kemerovo railway.

In 1990-93 People's Deputy of the RSFSR. At the same time, in 1990-93. was chairman of the Kemerovo Regional Council of People's Deputies and in 1990-91. - Chairman of the Kemerovo Regional Executive Committee.

In June 1991, he ran for the presidency of Russia, received 6.81% of the votes and took fourth place out of six candidates.

From March 1994 to July 1996 - Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Kemerovo Region.

From 1993 to 1996, simultaneously with his work in the regional parliament, he was a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the Kemerovo region. He was a member of the committee on budget, financial, currency and credit regulation, money issue, tax policy and customs regulation, then the committee on security and defense issues.

In the 1996 presidential elections he was registered as a presidential candidate, but withdrew his candidacy in favor of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov.

From August 22, 1996 to June 30, 1997, he served as Minister of the Russian Federation for Cooperation with Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

On July 1, 1997, by decree of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, he was appointed head of the administration of the Kemerovo region. In October 1997, he was elected governor, with 94.54% of voters voting for him.

In 1997-2001 - Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (at that time the heads of regions were ex officio members of the upper house of parliament), member of the Committee on Security and Defense.

In March 2000, he took part in the early elections of the President of the Russian Federation, received 2.95% of the votes and fourth place out of eleven participants.

In April 2001, he was re-elected as governor of the Kemerovo region, gaining 93.5% of the votes. On April 20, 2005, at the proposal of Russian President Vladimir Putin and on March 18, 2010, at the proposal of Dmitry Medvedev, he was approved for the post of governor by the Council of People's Deputies of the region. In the ranking of heads of regions of the Russian Federation published in April 2014 (compiled by the Civil Society Development Foundation) he ranks fourth.

He was the leader of the socio-political movement "People's Power. A. Tuleyev's Bloc" (since 1994), was a member of the People's Patriotic Union of Russia (since 1996), and headed the "Revival and Unity" movement (since 1999). During the parliamentary elections of 1995 and 1999. was included in the list of candidates for State Duma deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. In the 2003 Duma elections he headed the regional list of United Russia, and has been a member of the party since the same year. Since December 2006 - member of the Bureau of the Supreme Council of the All-Russian political party "United Russia".

Professor, academician of the International Academy of Informatization, International Academy of Engineering. Honorary Professor at Ulaanbaatar University of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences.

Honorary Miner, Honorary Railway Worker. Honorary citizen of the Kemerovo region, the cities of Novokuznetsk, Mezhdurechensk, Tashtagol.

Awarded Orders of Honor, "For Services to the Fatherland" II, III and IV degrees, medals. In 2004 and 2005 Aman Tuleyev received gratitude from Russian President Vladimir Putin, and in 2008 he was awarded a certificate of honor from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

He has foreign awards - the Order of the Polar Star (Mongolia), the Order of Friendship (Belarus), the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, V degree (Ukraine), and the Order of DOSTYK ​​(Friendship; Kazakhstan). Orders of the Russian Orthodox Church - St. Sergius of Radonezh II degree, Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow I and II degrees and St. Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna I degree. Winner of the All-Russian Prize "Russian National Olympus" in the category "Best Governor of 2003". Also among the awards are personalized pistols from the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian government.

He likes to relax in nature, pick mushrooms, and goes skiing in winter.

Married, his wife - Elvira Fedorovna - worked with her husband on the railway, currently retired. Eldest son Dmitry (b. 1968). The youngest son Andrei (born 1972) died in a car accident in May 1998.

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

Family

Father - Tuleev Moldagazy Koldybaevich (1914-1943), Kazakh by nationality, died at the front. Mother - Vlasova (née 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.

Tuleyev began his career 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 college.

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 chief (1968-1969) and station chief (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 is the 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 in modern Russia.” In 2000, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Political Science on the topic: “Political leadership: regional specifics and implementation mechanisms.” 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 of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (January 17, 2008) - for his great contribution to the strengthening of Russian statehood and the 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. To strengthen labor discipline, he proposed introducing temporary restrictions on holding rallies.

In the elections held on June 12, 1991, Tuleyev received 6.81% of the votes. He took fourth place, losing to the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin, who received 57.30% of the votes and became president, the former Chairman of the USSR Government Nikolai Ryzhkov and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (LDPSS, since August 1991 - the 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 of the State Committee for the 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 system of councils and the adoption of a new Constitution of the Russian Federation on December 12.

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 1995 parliamentary elections, Tuleyev, despite the fact that since the ban of the CPSU in 1991, remained non-party, he 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 of the 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 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.

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 of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Aleksey Gordeev, the head of the Oryol region Egor Stroev and the head of the Moscow region Boris Gromov joined the party.

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 Tuleyev, ranked twelfth in Russia and second in Siberia in terms of industrial production. The Kuzbass coal industry was the first and only one in Russia to undergo a full cycle of 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 the level of methane in the 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 described 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 court decision. 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 the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 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 the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia and the regional prosecutor's office with a request to review the quality of Rostechnadzor's activities 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 complying with technical standards, and Volkov’s deputy, who accepted the 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 of the local branch of the 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 Tuleyev’s eighth claim against the Communist Party satisfied by the court.

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 for allegedly converting to 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 management of the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Plant (KMK), and 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 on the trials in cases of attempted assassination, 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.”

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

Aman Tuleyev to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to resign from the post of governor of the Kemerovo region in connection with the fire in the Winter Cherry shopping center in Kemerovo.

Born on May 13, 1944 in Krasnovodsk, Turkmen SSR (now Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan). Father is Kazakh. On his mother's side he has Tatar and Bashkir roots. It received its name in honor of the Kazakh communist revolutionary Aman-Geldy Imanov. His father, Moldagazy Koldybaevich Tuleyev (born 1914), died at the front in 1943, even before his son was born. Mother - Munira Fayzovna (nee Nasyrova; 1921-2001) after the death of her husband married Innokenty Ivanovich Vlasov. According to Aman Tuleyev, he considered his stepfather his own father. In 1951, the family moved to the Kemerovo region. Later, in the 1960s, on the advice of his mother, Tuleyev changed his name from Amangeldy Moldagazyevich to Aman Gumirovich.

In 1964, he graduated with honors from the Tikhoretsky Technical School of Railway Transport, in 1973 – from the correspondence department of the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Transport Engineers (now the Siberian State University of Transport) with a degree in “transport engineer for the operation of railways”, in 1988 – from the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).

Candidate of Political Sciences. In 1999, at the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, he defended his dissertation on the topic “Political leadership in regional conflicts in modern Russia.”

Doctor of Political Sciences. In 2000, he defended his dissertation at the Russian State Social University on the topic “Political leadership in the regions of modern Russia.”

Since 1964, he worked as a switchman at the Krasnodar-1 railway station, and as a duty officer at the Mundybash railway station in the Kemerovo region.

Then for three years he served in the engineering and sapper troops of the Trans-Baikal Military District. After the service he returned to the village. Mundybash to his previous place of work. Since 1969, he held the position of head of the Mundybash railway station of the West Siberian Railway, in 1973-1978. – head of the railway station in Mezhdurechensk. From 1978 to 1985 – deputy head, then head of the Novokuznetsk branch of the Kemerovo Railway (branch of the Ministry of Railways). Kuzbass coal was supplied along this road.

In 1988, Aman Tuleyev was appointed head of the Kemerovo Railway.

Political career

In 1968-1991 – Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).

In 1985-1988. Head of the Department of Transport and Communications of the Kemerovo Regional Committee of the CPSU. In 1989, in Kemerovo, he ran for People's Deputies of the USSR in the Central Electoral District, but lost the election to Yuri Golik, an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at Kemerovo State University.

In March 1990, Aman Tuleyev was elected as a deputy of the Kemerovo Regional Council, then as a deputy of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR for the Gorno-Shorsky national-territorial district No. 46 (he won in the second round with 75% of the votes). He joined the deputy group “Communists of Russia”. After August 1991, he joined the Industrial Union faction, then was a member of the Smena and Fatherland factions.

In 1990-1993 actually concentrated legislative and executive power in the Kemerovo region in his hands: in 1990 he was elected chairman of the regional council of people's deputies and at the same time chairman of the Kemerovo regional executive committee. His main rival, candidate for the post of chairman of the regional council Mikhail Kislyuk, became Tuleyev’s deputy in the regional parliament.

In April 1991, labor collectives of miners and workers of the Kemerovo Railway nominated Aman Tuleyev as a candidate for the post of President of the RSFSR. He ran in tandem with vice-presidential candidate Viktor Bocharov, people's deputy of the RSFSR, head of the Kuzbasshakhtstroy plant. According to the voting results on June 12, 1991, he took fourth place out of six candidates (after Boris Yeltsin, Nikolai Ryzhkov and Vladimir Zhirinovsky), gaining 6.81% of the votes.

On August 19-21, 1991, an attempted coup d'état took place in the USSR, organized by the State Committee for Emergency Situations (GKChP), which included representatives of the highest Soviet leadership led by Vice-President of the Soviet Union Gennady Yanaev. RSFSR President Boris Yeltsin refused to obey the conspirators and declared their actions an “anti-constitutional coup.” Aman Tuleyev spoke out in support of the State Emergency Committee. On August 19, in Moscow, he met with Yanaev, and upon returning to Kemerovo, he called on the members of the presidium of the regional council not to support the call of the Russian leadership to disobey the committee. Subsequently, Aman Tuleyev said that the coup attempt could have been successful if it had received support from the regions.

At the end of August 1991, by decree of Boris Yeltsin, Tuleyev was removed from the post of chairman of the Kemerovo regional executive committee. Mikhail Kislyuk, who supported the Russian leadership during the “August putsch,” was appointed head of the regional administration. Despite this, Aman Tuleyev retained the post of chairman of the Kemerovo Regional Council of People's Deputies.

In 1992, together with members of the factions of the Armed Forces of the RSFSR “Fatherland”, “Communists of Russia”, “Agrarian Union” and others, he joined the opposition parliamentary bloc “Russian Unity”. In the same year, he joined the political council of the National Salvation Front, a coalition of national-patriotic and left-wing political forces (leaders Sergei Baburin, Nikolai Pavlov, Gennady Zyuganov, etc.).

He took part in opposition rallies in Moscow organized by the Russian People's Assembly, spoke out against the policies of President Boris Yeltsin, criticizing the economic program of the Russian government led by Yegor Gaidar and others. In October 1993, during the confrontation between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the Supreme Council, he spoke against the dissolution of parliament. He proposed moving the Congress of People's Deputies from Moscow to Kemerovo.

On December 12, 1993, Aman Tuleyev was elected as a deputy of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation of the first convocation in the Kemerovo two-mandate electoral district No. 42 (80.16%). In January 1994, he joined the Federation Council committee on budget, financial, currency and credit regulation, money issue, tax policy and customs regulation. He served as a deputy of the upper house of parliament until 1996.

From April 1994 to July 1996, Aman Tuleyev was a deputy and chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Kemerovo Region.

In 1995, he ran for the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 2nd convocation from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, was among the top three on the federal list after Gennady Zyuganov and Svetlana Goryacheva. However, he was not a party member. After the elections he resigned from his mandate.

In January - December 1996 and in 1997-2001. was a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation from the Kemerovo region (ex officio). He was a member of the Federation Council Committee on Security and Defense. In 1996, he was registered as a candidate for the presidential elections in the Russian Federation. In June 1996, on the eve of the first round, he withdrew his candidacy in favor of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, a representative of the people's patriotic bloc. Boris Yeltsin won the elections.

On August 7, 1996, at the founding congress of the People's Patriotic Union of Russia (NPSR; an association of parties and organizations that supported Zyuganov in the 1996 elections), Aman Tuleyev was elected one of the two co-chairs of the union, along with Alexander Rutsky (chairman - Gennady Zyuganov). Remained a member of the NPSR until 2000.

In 1999, he signed a statement by the leaders of Russian regions in support of the pro-government electoral bloc “Interregional Movement - Unity” (“Bear”) of Sergei Shoigu in the upcoming parliamentary elections. At the same time, Aman Tuleyev went to the elections on December 19, 1999 as part of the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (number four). After his election, he renounced his deputy mandate.

On March 26, 2000, he participated in the early elections of the President of the Russian Federation. He ran from the initiative group of Kemerovo voters, without the support of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Received 2.95% of the vote and took fourth place out of 11 candidates, losing to Vladimir Putin, Gennady Zyuganov and Grigory Yavlinsky. At the same time, in the Kemerovo region, Tuleyev received 51.57% of the vote, ahead of Vladimir Putin (25.01%; the lowest result in the presidential election since 2000).

Shortly after the elections, Aman Tuleyev was expelled from the NPSR.

Civil service

In August 1996, he accepted an offer to join the new government of Viktor Chernomyrdin. From August 22, 1996 to June 30, 1997, he served as the Russian Federation Minister for Cooperation with CIS member states. At the same time, he was a member of the government commission on operational issues.

Administration of the Kemerovo region

Aman Tuleyev has headed the Kemerovo region for more than 20 years, since 1997. He was elected three times and twice appointed to the post of head of the region. He is one of the governors who enjoy the highest support of the population: in direct elections he received from 94% to 97% of the votes. According to this indicator, Aman Tuleyev is second only to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, for whom almost 98% voted in 2016.

He was first appointed head of the administration of the Kemerovo region on July 1, 1997 by decree of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Replaced Mikhail Kislyuk in his post. On October 19, 1997, he won the election for governor of the Kemerovo region, receiving 94.54% of voters. His closest rival, Russian State Duma deputy Viktor Medikov, received 2.08% of the votes.

On April 22, 2001, Aman Tuleyev was re-elected governor of the Kemerovo region (93.54%) in early elections for the head of the region. Second place was taken by Sergei Neverov (0.71%), a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, now vice-speaker of parliament.

In 2003, 2007 and 2011 participated in the elections of deputies to the State Duma of the Russian Federation on the list of the United Russia party. After his election, he renounced his deputy mandate.

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Kemerovo Region twice - on April 20, 2005 and March 18, 2010 - vested Aman Tuleyev with the powers of the head of the region on the proposal of the President of the Russian Federation.

On April 16, 2015, due to the expiration of his term of office, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Aman Tuleyev as acting governor of the region.

On September 13, 2015, he again won the election for governor of the Kemerovo region, gaining 96.69% of the vote (he ran from United Russia). His closest rival, LDPR candidate Alexey Didenko, received 1.78%. On September 22 of the same year, Aman Tuleyev officially took office.

During his governorship, a complete restructuring of the key coal industry began in the region. Coal production in 1998-2016 increased from 160 million tons to 227 million tons. 15 unpromising and dangerous mines were closed, and another 8 are subject to liquidation. Closed coal mining has been reduced. In 2010, the region was the first in Russia to begin producing methane from coal seams. Coal chemical, biomedical, agro-industrial and tourist-recreational clusters have been created. There are the Kuzbass Technopark, two “economically favored” zones (“Kuznetskaya Sloboda” and “Gornaya Shoria”), as well as two territories of advanced socio-economic development (“Yurga” and “Anzhero-Sudzhensk”). The regional administration has developed social support programs for the population, providing regional payments and the right to free travel to preferential categories of citizens.

In the performance rating of heads of Russian regions published by the Civil Society Development Foundation in June 2016 (a later one was not published - TASS-DOSSIER note), he was in the first group of heads of constituent entities of the Russian Federation (the so-called very high rating). He shared 5th-6th places with the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, with whom he scored the same number of points - 92.

A member of the United Russia party, he is a member of the party’s supreme council.

Income

The total amount of declared income for 2016 was 5 million 420 thousand rubles, spouses - 3 million 759 thousand rubles.

Awards, titles

In 1999, by decree of Boris Yeltsin, he was awarded the Order of Honor, but refused to accept the award, citing the fact that he could not accept it “from the government that plunged the country into poverty.” In September 2000, he received the Order of Honor from Vladimir Putin.

He was also awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV, III and II degrees (2003, 2008 and 2012), and the Order of Alexander Nevsky (2014). He has letters of gratitude (2004, 2005) and a certificate of honor (2008) from the President of the Russian Federation, and certificates of honor from the Russian government (2004, 2005).

Awarded foreign awards - the Order of the Polar Star (Mongolia), Friendship of Peoples (Belarus), Prince Yaroslav the Wise, V degree (Ukraine), Dostyk, II degree (Friendship; Kazakhstan), Dostlug (Friendship, Azerbaijan) ), Friendship of Peoples (Belarus), etc.

Honorary miner, honorary railway worker. Honorary citizen of the Kemerovo region, the cities of Novokuznetsk, Mezhdurechensk, Tashtagol.

Awarded with personalized firearms (Makarov and PSM pistols).

Publications, patents

Author of more than two dozen books and brochures, including “The Long Echo of the Putsch: How to Live Further?” (1992), “Power is in the hands of man and... man is in the hands of power” (1993), “The price of illusions” (1995), “The Fatherland is my pain...” (1995), “Being yourself” (1999), “Communication times and generations" (2009).

He has two patents for the invention of modern methods for increasing the efficiency of loading and unloading operations in railway transport.

Family, religious views

Married, his wife, Elvira Fedorovna, worked with her husband on the railroad, and is currently retired. The eldest son is Dmitry (born 1968), head of the Federal Highway Administration "Siberia" (Sibupravtodor). The youngest son, Andrei (1972-1998), died in a car accident.

Muslim. According to media reports, in 1996 he made a pilgrimage (Hajj) to Mecca.

Participation in the release of hostages

Four times he personally participated in operations to free hostages. In June 1992, he took part in the release of a girl taken hostage by a terrorist on a bus in Moscow, and on August 17, 1995, a hijacked bus with passengers in Kemerovo. On August 27, 2001, at the Kemerovo airport, he convinced a criminal who had seized a taxi with a driver to surrender. On March 13, 2009, he negotiated with a criminal who had taken hostage employees of the URSA Bank branch in Leninsk-Kuznetsky.