10 richest wives of governors
Larisa Belobrova is an actress by profession. Her husband Sergei Darkin, before his election as governor, was known as a successful businessman; now he lives virtually on one salary (income - 3.49 million rubles) without a single piece of land and a dacha only for use. But the wife can boast of both land (a plot of 50 acres) and real estate (529 sq. m.), as well as 52.6% of the Primorye Bank and a stake in the Roliz group (this includes the fishing companies CJSC Intraros and "Nakhodka active marine fishing base"). By the way, in 2009 she took part in the selection of the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Kira Turchak Spouse: Andrey Turchak Region: Pskov region |
The 35-year-old blonde met her future husband in an unusual but politically correct place - the judo section. Then the young master of this sport was engaged in creating the future Leninets holding, fighting for the enterprises of the St. Petersburg defense industry, and did not even think about it. Now it is his wife who represents his interests in business: she heads the board of directors of the Leninets Management Company, is on the boards of directors of a number of holding companies, and directly manages as the general director of Labyrinth OJSC (the three-star Obuhoff Hotel). And recently she appeared in the glamor magazine Tatler.
Galina Karlina Spouse: Alexander Karlin Region: Altai region |
Alexander Karlin reported income for 2010 of 2.37 million rubles. And his wife earned almost six times more. There were some dark spots in her biography: in 2004, Galina Karlina received a notary license in Moscow, which, as it turned out later, was with violations. According to the MK newspaper, instead of the mandatory year, she only trained for six months. At the beginning of 2008, the court even removed Karlina from the position of a notary, but already in 2009 she was working in this profession in the Orekhovo-Borisovo region.
Olga Golubeva Spouse: Vasily Golubev Region: Rostov region Income in 2010: RUB 12.98 million |
The Rostov governor told the Vedomosti newspaper that his wife Olga is engaged in a business concentrated in Moscow and the region, not specifying exactly what kind. And now Golubeva does not actively manage her business, but is raising her grandchildren in Rostov-on-Don. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Olga Golubeva owns 0.0005% of the shares of Stroytransgaz ( controlling interest- from Gennady Timchenko), left over from his time working in this organization in the 90s. In addition, she is the founder of two companies - OTsKV-3 (real estate agency) and RNS LLC ( wholesale universal range of products).
Svetlana Fedorova Spouse: Igor Fedorov Region: Nenets Autonomous Okrug |
According to SPARK, until recently, Svetlana Fedorova was one of the largest co-owners of Arkhangelsk Energy Enterprise LLC, which, with revenue of 257.1 million rubles. in 2010 is the second largest network company Arkhangelsk region(this region includes the Nenets Autonomous Okrug). So the former executive director of Arkhenergo, Igor Fedorov, “insured” himself twice against the crusade against energy workers recently announced by Vladimir Putin: he left the business and convinced his wife to sell her stake in the company.
Elena Nalimova Spouse: Mikhail Men Region: Ivanovo region Income in 2010: RUB 8.89 million |
Lawyer with honors diploma Russian Academy civil service under the President of the Russian Federation, she managed to work in the apparatus of the Moscow City Duma, the State Duma and the Federation Council, then in commercial structures. But now he is only involved in charity work. In 2008, Elena Nalimova created the public organization "Women's Initiative" in the Ivanovo region, which provides assistance to children's departments of clinics, orphanages and participates in educational programs. Where does the money come from? What Mikhail Men earned before starting his bureaucratic career in the 90s is enough for both the “Women’s Initiative” and the “Fund named after. What about me ".
Gulsina Minnikhanova Spouse: Rustam Minnikhanov Region: Tatarstan Income in 2010: RUB 8.1 million |
Gulsina Minnikhanova owns an elite beauty salon in Kazan, Luciano Beauty Studio, named after the Italian hairdresser Luciano De Aloia (flies from Geneva to Kazan once a month). The cost of one cosmetic service in a salon starts from $200 and can reach several thousand dollars. Among the regular visitors are the wives of top managers of such pillars of the Tatar economy as Kazanorgsintez, Tatneft, TAIF. A funny situation: the current “first lady” of Tatarstan owns a beauty salon, which is visited by the wives of the leaders of TAIF, a holding company at least a quarter owned by the sons of the ex-president of the republic, Mintimer Shaimiev.
Inga Kuznetsova Spouse: Lev Kuznetsov Region: Krasnoyarsk region Income in 2010: RUB 8.08 million |
Housewife raising five children. On vacation he can go to France, where the family owns a house with an area of 360 square meters. m on a plot of 66 acres (Inga Kuznetsova personally owns half of this property). The personal fleet consists of a Porsche Cabriolet Boxter, a Mercedes-Benz CL600, and there is also a Sea-Doo Bombardier Speedster boat. According to the governor's press service Krasnoyarsk Territory, Inga Kuznetsova received her main income in 2009 from the securities she owned. After all, the husband is a former top manager of Norilsk Nickel.
Olga Tkacheva Spouse: Alexander Tkachev Region: Krasnodar region |
In the family of the Krasnodar governor, Olga Tkacheva is not the most advanced businesswoman. According to the declaration, she owned (except for cars and real estate) only 100% of the LLC (according to SPARK - “Chateau de Talus” with a capital of 23.3 million rubles and revenue of 1 million rubles for 2009) and 0.44% authorized capital a certain JSC. Or maybe it’s her niece Alexandra Tkacheva. The girl is not yet 25 years old, but she is already a successful businesswoman (10% shares in two pipe factories, 30% in a large regional developer, 22.5% in a local poultry complex).
Elena Morozova Spouse: Sergey Morozov Region: Ulyanovsk region |
In August 2010, the measured life of the Ulyanovsk region was slightly shaken up: Elena Morozova was appointed by decree of the governor general director one of the largest enterprises in the region, State Unitary Enterprise "Teplichnoe" (RUB 483 million in revenue). The main asset of the company is 25 hectares of land almost within the city of Ulyanovsk. Now the state unitary enterprise is in line for corporatization and, possibly, will be privatized. In the region, Elena Morozova already owns (according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities) Dimitrovgrad-based Itarus Service (installation, maintenance, repair and restoration services for aircraft and engines), as well as 34% of Stary Simbirsk LLC (restaurants and cafes).
p.s. There is no corruption in GORF! =)))
The governor's wife, Elena Nalimova, created and headed the Ivanovo regional public organization"Women's Initiative". Her work changed the attitude towards charity of many Ivanovo entrepreneurs and their wives. As it turned out, Elena Olegovna’s interests are not limited to the sphere of charity.
- You, a native Muscovite, came from the capital to Ivanovo. Your impressions immediately after arrival and from life here.
- The first thing I felt was how different people’s mentality and the rhythm of their lives are. Muscovites may be less emotional, but they are accustomed to living at a high pace, while Ivanovo residents live at a slower and more measured pace. But it seemed to me that people in Ivanovo are more sincere. We settled here not without incident, but now everything has improved, and I am quite comfortable here. The fact that my husband is the first person in the region and a public person also creates some inconvenience for me. For example, our children are forced to visit various institutions under my name. And when recently they took a blood test from my daughter, and the nanny thought of telling her at the clinic real name, the child had two punctures in his finger and a sea of tears - apparently the nurse was worried... I once again I realized that for the sake of the children I would hide their real last name as long as possible.
Is the father's name on the children's birth certificate?
Yes. Until they go to school, there is an opportunity not to particularly advertise the fact that they are the governor’s children.
- And in your passport?
I didn't change my last name. In fact, my husband and I already have the same surnames: men and burbot. different names the same fish (more precisely, less - the old Russian name for the fish burbot). Therefore, I don’t see any point in changing my last name.
Why do you live here and not in Moscow, Europe or somewhere else?
If you live separately from your husband, I don’t understand the point of starting a family. As for living abroad, I graduated from a magnet school French and had the opportunity to live abroad. Even then I clearly understood that we have a different mentality. For example, I cannot serve exactly “three pieces of sausage” according to the number of people present at the table; I also don’t understand why a man invites you to a restaurant, but everyone pays for themselves. You probably need to get used to this, but I don’t want to - I like it in Russia.
- Is it even easy to be the governor’s wife?
I never thought about it. I know one thing: it’s easy for me to be the wife of the man I love, and everything else is trifles. Yes, sometimes you have to go where you don’t want to, do what you don’t want to do, and a protest arises inside. But if I chose such a person, and he chose such a path, then I have no choice but to follow him. It’s a tradition in our family that even if I disagree with my husband on something, I will still support his point of view in public, and I will express and defend my opinion at home.
Any local person here has connections, including family, friends, and an established social circle. It seems to me that about anyone who approaches closer than a kilometer, you think: what does he want from me?
We have been living here for 6 years, and all this time I have been limited in communication with old friends, with my parents, I have to be wary of people and, of course, I experience psychological discomfort from all this. I understand perfectly well that in the region they treat us differently: some are good, some are bad, some are neutral. I also understand that all the negativity, which is generally directed at the authorities, accumulates primarily on my husband and, accordingly, on our family, and no matter what I do, no matter what I say, this negativity will still exist.
But I am a very energetic person and cannot sit idle. I worked all my life, starting from school (my mother got sick and to help feed the family, I did translations). But here I can’t afford it, because I understand: if I go to Good work, they will say, they took me through connections, and no matter what I do, they will look for some kind of protectionism for the company in which I work. Therefore, I prefer to continue the implementation of some Moscow projects, which I began to work on when we were still living in Moscow, and for this I am sometimes forced to travel to the capital. But this has nothing to do with public activities, and in particular, with the work of the public organization “Women’s Initiative”.
Have you considered the option of going into politics? There were rumors that you would either be elected to the State Duma or become a member of the Federation Council...
Such rumors are nonsense. I think that one politician in a family is enough. In addition, I am very emotional for a politician and can easily say something that could put an end to political career. I see people very well. If a person is a thief, I cannot help but tell him about it, although I try to restrain myself. Many conflicts arise because I say what I think, and not everyone likes it. My husband also says: “My biggest flaw is your emotionality.”
- In this sense, didn’t your experience working in the State Duma temper you?
Probably not, although he gave a lot. I started as an assistant to a deputy of the Moscow City Duma, from there I was invited to join the staff of the State Duma. Moreover, it was a completely different State Duma than it is now: deputies had much more opportunities to influence the situation in the country.
In the Federation Council, where I was later invited from the State Duma, I participated in the work of the Federation parliamentary group.
- They say you also took part in the elections.
Participated. During the elections for governor of the Moscow region, I worked in the headquarters of Boris Gromov and Mikhail Men in the Podolsk region. It was difficult, but very interesting, I gained a unique experience. These were truly democratic elections.
- Now there is no desire to take up elections again?
To be honest, I like politics. But I am still a man of action, and in the form in which politics exists now, I would not really want to engage in it. After the actual cancellation of the elections, this is a thankless task. I don’t like collective farms and marching in formation; I prefer to work not with a list, but with a specific candidate who wins or loses because it’s him, with a candidate who knows who elects him and what his voters need. I think this is more correct. Therefore, I am very glad that single-mandate constituencies returned in the elections to the Ivanovo Regional Duma.
- Are you a member of the United Russia party?
No.
- And why?
I think one party member is enough for our family...
But as a political strategist, do you advise your husband?No. He is the one who advises me, and not only in politics. My husband is one of those rare people who can answer any question. It’s always interesting to be with him, it’s impossible to confuse him - this is due to his good upbringing, education and life experience.
Then how do you feel about the party in power?The party in power (as in any party) has both what I like and what I don’t like. I don’t like (but there’s no getting away from this) that sometimes, due to mass participation, unpleasant individuals end up in the party.
If you always speak your mind, please tell me what you think about the local political and business elite with whom you interact.
As the chairman of the public organization "Women's Initiative", I communicated with many Ivanovo businessmen. Some have provided and are providing real help, others flatly refuse to help. But there are many more socially responsible people.
That is, you evaluate everyone from the position of who responds to your initiatives?
You don’t have to respond to our initiatives, but show your own.
But by organizing a business, an entrepreneur creates jobs and pays taxes to the state. You often ask to finance something that the state should take care of (for example, major renovation regional hospital, equipment at the Research Institute of Maternity and Childhood, activities of orphanages, correctional schools, etc.). Do you think this is normal?
More than. We do not live in a vacuum. And if there is such an opportunity, why not do something that will improve the conditions in the medical institutions where our children are periodically forced to stay? For example, sell at cost plastic windows, mattresses, pillows and bed linen, if you produce them. There is no point in waiting for the state to give something to someone because it has to - we need to look for ways to make life around us at least a little better here and now.
- And let the budget money that should be spent on this be stolen and spent ineffectively?
You know, we have a subsidized region and budgetary possibilities are limited. In addition, everyone has their own idea of what the state should be like. I believe that the state includes you and me. And a lot, if not everything, depends on how we treat everything. We sometimes observed not at all careful attitude to the repairs we made from the mothers in the hospital - simply because it is not theirs, but “state”. It was a shame. Unfortunately, this happens in most cases when a person does not put any effort into something.
There is an opinion that many businessmen give money to Women’s Initiative projects only because you, the governor’s wife, head this organization and personally ask them to do so.
I think that the absolute majority does this from the bottom of their hearts. But there are other examples when businessmen fundamentally do not help, well, this is their civic position, which I consider wrong. Of course, it’s not easy to ask, I experience internal discomfort. There was a case: an entrepreneur reluctantly provided help, and when their child ended up in the renovated department, he saw what had been done there and began to help us regularly.
You understand, the work of the Women's Initiative is not based on “give us money.” We strive to find different variants cooperation: we ask some to sell what they need at cost or at a discount, and others to pay their invoices. Believe me, for many businessmen who work in our region, this is a drop in the ocean: if they sell something at cost, it will not hurt their pockets.
We are looking for non-standard moves and solutions. Recently, for example, we wrote a letter to the Tigi Knauff company and they sent us almost fifteen hundred square meters drywall and building mixtures. It turns out that no one approached them with such requests, but they were ready to help. Recently, one bank went bankrupt, we wrote a letter, and they gave us all the furniture with which we equipped the residents’ rooms in the children’s departments of the regional hospital...
We are trying to make money ourselves: we have published a cookbook, we hold charity events. By participating in them, many people think about how they can help us. For example, Tatyana Smirnova (Luch company) not only bought sweets at our “Sweet Fair”, which we organized on June 3 at the Pelegrino cafe, but also promised to provide the Sunflower rehabilitation center with plumbing fixtures and faucets.
There are actually a lot of caring people. But if you don’t set an example, nothing will ever move. Although I must say that many Ivanovo businessmen were actively involved in charity work even before the advent of the “Women’s Initiative” (for example, Natalya Kiryushkina, Olga Maslova, Larisa Pimenova and many others), they simply did not take on any large-scale projects, and their activities are not so was actively covered by the media.
An organization uniting women, “Business Woman,” has been operating in Ivanovo for a long time. Why didn't you start working within its framework?
- We are completely different organizations, we cannot even be compared. Firstly, “Business Woman” exists on contributions; its leaders pay themselves a salary. With us, only the secretary and accountant receive a salary. We do good deeds with our quarterly contributions. We do not organize public events that work only for the image. The main social event, the Governor's Ball, is not entertainment for us, but work.
A direct path emerges - to participate in the work of the “Women’s Initiative” in order to reach the governor through you. Can you influence your husband in solving work issues?I have never done this and I don’t intend to do this. In addition, I immediately see such “approaches”, I begin to have a negative attitude towards the people who make them, and automatically turn them off from my social circle. We don’t have conflicts in our family, but if I tried to do what you’re talking about, the first one, and a big one, would happen. Many people say that my husband sometimes swears rudely, I have not yet witnessed this, perhaps I would have heard it for the first time.
By the way, those who really help us already have direct access to the governor...
But there are situations that outrage you to the core, and you tell your husband: well, do something...It happens, and I definitely share my indignation with my husband, but not because someone asks me to. And I will certainly try to do something myself to fix it. I can't pass by. I believe that our consciousness has been greatly distorted, one might say, mutilated. Why do we think that we owe nothing to anyone? When we are born, we already owe it to our parents, then we give birth to children - and we owe it to our children. I care which clinic they will be treated in, which kindergarten and which school to go to. You can, of course, live and hope that the state will want and be able to fulfill all its obligations, but this is not my position, not my idea of what I should do and how my children will grow up. I don't want them to walk past an elderly man lying on the ground, hoping that the state in the form of a patrol car will drive by and take him away. I don't want to pass by. I don't want to, I can't and I won't. This is my life principle.
Everything is clear with business. But many ordinary people will refer to the fact that there are no opportunities to help, primarily material ones.I don’t believe it when they say “there’s no way.” This is an excuse. I am aware that the money we are currently collecting is not enough to bring the Sunflower children’s rehabilitation center to normal condition. But not everything comes down to money: you can pick up a brush and paint something. Recently we went to Kholui, to a boarding school of the eighth type, where it was necessary to tidy up the playground. Do you think there were many people who would get on the bus with us and go do this? When we went for a cleanup day to the Children's Home on Lyubimova Street, we ourselves unloaded four eight-ton KAMAZ trucks of soil (thanks to the paratroopers and cadets of the fire-fighting institute of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, who dug up the soil for planting).
To help or not to help (with money or not, it doesn’t matter) is a personal choice. I have already said that before us, many entrepreneurs were involved in charity. The Women's Initiative began to ensure that donations were spent effectively. We don't just give money - we buy what is really needed. To decide what is needed, we stamp everything with our feet. I can tell you in detail what has been done and needs to be done in each institution that I supervise. I know this first hand.
For example. Arkady Zlatkin has been donating money to the eighth type school in Reshma for a long time. I went there and met the director. Yes, it is clear that they are helping the school: the director’s office is renovated and cozy. I ask the director how to help, and she answers that she needs a car - it’s inconvenient to travel by bus to Ivanovo... For me, it’s better not to give money at all than to give uncontrollably. We agreed with Arkady that he would transfer the amount allocated to this school specifically - for what the children really need. Otherwise, it turns out that the director spends money at his own discretion, but the entrepreneur sincerely believes that he is helping children.
- Why did you become the president of the Ivanovo basketball club “Energia”?
The team itself came to me with this request. There are two professional sports teams in the Ivanovo region - football (Textilshchik) and basketball (Energia). It so happened that Tekstilshchik had a very strong curator - the chairman of the regional Duma Sergei Pakhomov, while Energia did not have a curator at all, so the main financial support was distributed in favor of football. My presidency has allowed this to be balanced.
They say your interest in the team is related to the construction of a sports complex, which will cost a lot of money.
The agreement on the construction of a sports complex with the Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko was reached long before I joined the club. I want to believe that my arrival influenced the sporting results: last year the team took second (and in fact first) place, this year they took first place and moved to the super league. If this had not happened, we would have lost it: strong players would have been bought up by other clubs.
Attention works wonders. How Energia played a charity match with a strong team from Cherepovets! The girls scored the winning goal in the last seconds, the stands went wild...
Basketball is a very entertaining sport. The hall in which Energia is currently playing matches is depriving the team of spectators. Something needs to be done about this.
I consider it a great achievement that the club’s board of trustees was created, which included everyone who wanted to join. With his help, we have already bought a bus for the team. This will reduce budget expenses for short-distance trips, and most importantly, it has already set the team in a positive mood. The girls' heads should be occupied with the game, and not with organizational problems. A organizational problems for some reason, they are resolved much better when the club is headed by a well-known person in the region. Then no one forgets to accept the quotes submitted by the teams and allocate the money on time... When I headed the club, the director’s car was pawned: the team used this money to go to competitions, although it should have come from the budget.
In general, everything depends on personal initiative...-...and mostly female.
- Is one “Women’s Initiative” enough for your professional and personal fulfillment?
No, it's more for the soul. I wanted to stir up Ivanovo society, using our example to show that we need to act on our own, and not wait for outside help. There are things that are done without money at all - with one’s own labor, one’s own attention. We can say that for now I am sacrificing my own realization for the sake of my husband’s realization.
So you can wait another 5 years? How did you feel when you learned that your husband had been retained as governor for another term?
I can't say that I tolerate anything. This word doesn't fit. I feel comfortable here, although at heart I remain a Muscovite.
Honestly, I knew (felt) that we were staying for another 5 years, so I didn’t experience any special emotions. I took the reassignment for granted: it seemed to me that it couldn’t be any other way. Maybe because we were initially preparing for the fact that we were going to Ivanovo for more than one period.
- In what area would you like to be realized when such an opportunity arises?
I have many different interests, but I believe that the main thing is to set a goal and organize processes correctly, and I love and know how to do this.
text Elena Novgorodova, photo Marina Burova
Who is Mikhail Men? What is remarkable about his biography? Let's figure it out together.
Father
Mikhail Alexandrovich Men was born in 1960. His father, Alexander Vladimirovich Men, was an outstanding minister of religious worship, the author of books on theology, and a unique preacher. Served as rector of the local parish. People came from all over the area, including Moscow, to listen to his sermons. His life was tragically cut short at the hands of a still unknown killer at the end of 1990.
Before this, he had repeatedly received threats, but no one could have imagined that it would come to this. The investigation into the murder was taken under the control of senior officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the progress of the investigation was immediately reported to Yeltsin, who at that time was the chairman of the government of the RSFSR. Camber single state was ahead. Patriarch Alexy II had a high opinion of Alexander Mena. Among representatives of some church circles, the views of Father Alexander were considered “heretical.” In any case, the personality of the deceased was extraordinary.
First independent solutions
The father thought that his son would follow his path. However, Misha was not interested in this. He dreamed of cinema, wanted to become an actor. Miracles happen; at the age of ten he starred in the film “Deniska's Stories” in the title role. The father was furious; he did not want to have a son who was an actor. He promised to curse his son if he entered a specialized educational institution. The threat had an effect, Mikhail Men submitted documents to the Moscow Institute of Petrochemistry and entered. However, it soon became clear that the profile of this institute was not for him. I studied poorly, and after another failed session I was expelled due to poor academic performance.
After serving in the army, he entered the directing department of the Institute of Culture in Moscow by correspondence. Studying was easy, there was enough time to study music, which is what Mikhail Men did. The biography is typical for those years. After graduation, he worked according to his profile: first he headed the House of Culture, then he was the chief director of the Filevsky PKiO. At the same time, he organized a cooperative at the club of the Forestry Institute in Mytishchi.
That's where the truth is
The guy had good commercial skills even at that time. The death of his father for Misha became “ finest hour" In his cooperative, he organized the publication of the collected works of Archpriest Alexander Men. The books were in demand, and I managed to earn good initial capital. The cooperative began to be called a publishing house. The grateful descendant created a foundation named after his father and became its director.
Then many printed publications appeared, incomes fell, and Mikhail Aleksandrovich Men abruptly changed his field of activity. The time has come to “go to the people.” Men is running for the regional Duma from the district. It’s still fresh in people’s memories, his father’s name is well-known, and therefore trust in Mikhail is great, he manages to pass this stage with a bang. According to the same scenario, he will be elected to the State Duma. There Men will join the Yabloko party.
Occupying the position of deputy chairman of the Culture Committee, he did not appear anywhere. Compared to the famous representatives of culture, his colleagues, he was a nobody. Fortunately, Mikhail Alexandrovich was noticed by the candidate for the post of governor of the Moscow region, General Boris Gromov.
Like a fish in water
He was a stranger, he needed the support of voters of the liberal stratum, which was then represented by Mikhail Men. In addition, extensive connections with church representatives (again in memory of his father!) will help ensure Gromov’s support. Everything turned out just fine - in 2000, Gromov was elected governor of the region, and Men became vice-governor and first deputy.
He is a good opportunist and has a keen sense of the current moment. He urgently leaves Yabloko (this is no longer necessary) and goes into the shadows, not showing himself in any way. During this time, he managed to privatize two plots of a relict grove near the Arkhangelskoye estate.
After working for a short time, Men asked Boris Gromov to relieve him of his position “due to fatigue,” and he did not hold him back. Imagine Gromov’s amazement when it turned out that Men “ran over” to the mayor of Moscow Luzhkov and was appointed his assistant. However, he did not stay in this post.
Unenviable legacy
In 2005, by Decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Men was approved as governor of the Ivanovo region. All that was left to him from the previous head was “ruins”.
The region, which existed due to subsidies, was without funds. The basis of the industry was the textile sector, which worked exclusively on imported raw materials supplied from the “liberated” Central Asian republics. After the collapse of the country, they stopped supplying raw materials, and the entire industry was at a standstill. But textile workers provided the region with funds. The shadow economy is developed, and criminal groups operate. Mikhail Alexandrovich looked at everything carefully and came to the conclusion that he could not change anything. But to attach the right people and he will be able to control cash flows.
First of all new governor I created a team of the right people for myself. Dissatisfied deputies had their mouths shut and gradually squeezed out, replacing them with loyal people.
Godfather
Budget money was directed in the right direction. For ordinary people life became even worse; funds intended for discounted travel and construction of social facilities were used for other purposes. The heating season failed twice, chronic delays in wages became the norm, and the gasification program was not implemented.
Mikhail Men was the absolute “master” of the region. No one complained about him, but only the complainers suffered from it. The governor was unsinkable. Mikhail Men ruled the region for eight years and left, writing a letter of resignation from his gubernatorial duties. The President “released” him, giving him a new appointment. Now he is the Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of Russia. Mikhail Men is back at work.
It is doubtful that Mikhail Alexandrovich will stay in this post for a long time. Although it is unlikely to remain unclaimed in Russia. Dad's voice can still be heard, but it's getting dimmer and dimmer.
Family
Mikhail Alexandrovich is a father of many children, this is not only responsible, but also pleasant. According to Mikhail Men, a family with 3-4 children should become the standard in the country, because it will change demographic situation. Favorite holidays - Christmas, New Year, Easter, Victory Day. Loves listening and writing music. Collects electric guitars. Married for the second time.
The first wife, Inna Petrova, is a rock performer performing under the pseudonym Daria Menshikova. She had fame and success. Mikhail met her when he studied in absentia at the institute. Inna was an entrepreneur. Now he is involved in show business, but as an organizer and manager. Raises two children.
Second wife - Elena Nalimova. At one time she worked in the Moscow City Duma and the Federation Council, then went into business. While serving as vice-governor of the region, Mikhail Men met her. She made a wonderful wife and mother. E. Nalimova is a wealthy woman, her income allows her to compete with other wives of governors (they have their own rating there). Actively involved in charity work. She runs the Women's Initiative organization. Remained in my last name. She and her husband are raising four children.
Mikhail Men was appointed Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services. This ministry looks like a temporary structure formed solely to calm public opinion and create the appearance of solving problems in these areas. But be that as it may, Men, who managed to squeeze everything possible out of the memory of his father and felt when he should change his political color and allies, is unlikely to remain unclaimed in the future.Mikhail Alexandrovich Men, born November 12, 1960, native of the village. Semkhoz Zagorsky (now Sergiev Posad) district of the Moscow region. Graduated from the directing department of the Moscow state institute culture. It has academic degree Candidate of Philosophical Sciences.
In the period from 1977 to 1980 he studied at the Moscow State Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry named after. I. M. Gubkina. From 1980 to 1982 he served in the ranks of the USSR Armed Forces. After graduating from university, he worked in cultural institutions of the Moscow region, and at the same time performed as a bass guitarist in the rock group “Most”. He also headed the Alexander Men Foundation. In 1993, he was elected as a deputy of the Moscow regional group from the Sergiev Posad district.
In 1995 he was elected deputy State Duma Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the Sergiev Posad electoral district of the Moscow region. He was a member of the Yabloko faction. In 1999, he was elected vice-governor of the Moscow region (together with Governor B.V. Gromov). In 2002 at will resigned as vice governor. Soon he was invited by Mayor Yu. M. Luzhkov to the Moscow government, where he took the post of vice-mayor in charge of issues of interregional cooperation and sports.
In 2005, I was nominated by the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin for the post of head of the administration of the Ivanovo region and approved by the legislative assembly of the region. In 2010, his gubernatorial powers were extended.
On October 16, 2013, Men M. A. was relieved of his post as governor of the Ivanovo region at his own request. On November 1 of the same year, he was appointed to the post of Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services.
Men has orders St. Sergius Radonezh II and III degrees (award of the Russian Orthodox Church), honorary title“Honored Worker of Culture of the Moscow Region”, as well as departmental awards.
Married, has six children.
Closest relatives:
Mother: Grigorenko Natalya Fedorovna, born November 29, 1933, head of the parish of the Moscow Church of the Holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian in Shubin.
Sister: Men Elena Aleksandrovna, born 09/08/1957, icon painter. Currently lives permanently in Bologna (Italy). Author of icons Orthodox Church in Modena (Italy).
Wife (ex): Men ( maiden name Petrova) Inna Georgievna, born on August 24, 1962, former vocalist of a number of rock groups (including the country’s first female group “Primadonna”). Currently heads the recording studio InnaRecords. WITH ex-husband maintained friendly relations.
Wife: Elena Olegovna Nalimova, born November 9, 1975, entrepreneur, chairman of the board of the Ivanovo regional public organization “Women’s Initiative”. She was one of the ten richest wives of governors.
Contacts:
Bocharov Konstantin Vasilievich, born October 29, 1960, former deputy head of the administration of the city of Sergiev Posad, is now under investigation. An old acquaintance of Me and his former business partner. Men invited him to Ivanovo for the post of Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Ivanovo Region. Then he was engaged in business in the Ivanovo region and was deputy head of the administration of the city of Ivanovo. When Bocharov had problems with the law, Men did not help him.
Vladimir Sergeevich Grishin, born July 5, 1956, deputy of the Ivanovo Regional Duma, was its speaker from 2000 to 2003 and from 2004 to 2005. In fact, he was openly at odds with Men and led the anti-governor front in the regional Duma. On my initiative, a criminal case was initiated against him on a far-fetched pretext.
Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov, born November 7, 1943, deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the United Russia party, former governor of the Moscow region. He believes that Men betrayed him when he moved to Luzhkov. Currently they are not communicating with each other.
Zhukovskaya Yulia Oskarovna, born November 4, 1968, executive director of the Ivanovo regional public organization “Women’s Initiative”. In the period from 2006 to 2010, she was the governor's plenipotentiary representative in the Ivanovo Regional Duma. A close friend of my wife. Through it, various “gray” schemes for withdrawing budget funds were implemented, the final beneficiary of which was Governor Men.
Luzhkov Yuri Mikhailovich, born September 21, 1936, former mayor of Moscow. Men, having joined his team from Gromov, demonstrated his loyalty to him in every possible way, showing signs of attention bordering on servility. When Luzhkov was fired due to “loss of trust,” Men broke off all contacts with him.
Smirnov Viktor Vladimirovich, born on September 09, 1968, Chairman of the Ivanovo Regional Duma. He was one of My most trusted persons. For a long time served as chairman of the Ivanovo Regional Election Commission. Through him, work was carried out with “undesirable” deputies.
Yuvenaly (Poyarkov Vladimir Kirillovich), born on September 22, 1935, Metropolitan of Krutitsky and Kolomna. Knew Archpriest Alexander Men well. He provided patronage to Mikhail Menu at the initial stage of his political career.
Food for thought:
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Men was born into the family of a priest, which in itself is unique for people of his year of birth. After all, at that time (1960) the peak of the fight against “religious obscurantism” occurred, and the then first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev promised that very soon “the last priest in the country” would be shown on TV. But be that as it may, they soon stopped showing Khrushchev himself on TV, but the “priests” remained in the USSR and even existed safely until the collapse of the Union. However, Mikhail Men’s father, Archpriest Alexander Men, did not live to see August 1991, as he was killed on September 9, 1990 near the Semkhoz platform in the Yaroslavl direction of Moscow railway, when he was hurrying to catch the morning train to Pushkino, where he served as rector of the Church of the Presentation of the Lord.
Father Alexander Men was an interesting person. Being a Jew by nationality, he became not just an Orthodox priest, but also a theologian. “Fronting” intellectuals from Moscow specially came to listen to his sermons. He was repeatedly threatened, and his murder remained unsolved, despite the fact that the case was taken under personal control by the then Minister of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR, Viktor Barannikov, and the results of the investigation were regularly reported to both the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, Boris Yeltsin, and the President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev. . Alexander I was highly regarded by Patriarch Alexy II, while a number of representatives of church circles, including the famous theologian Deacon Andrei Kuraev, consider the views of Father Alexander “close to Catholicism” and even “heretical.” If you don’t delve into the abyss of theological controversy surrounding My legacy, then you can only say one thing: Father Alexander was an extraordinary person and that’s the end of the debate about his role in Orthodox theology will not be delivered soon.
Alexander Men wanted his son Mikhail to follow in his footsteps. But Misha had no desire to become a priest. He wanted to be an actor. At the age of ten he even performed main role in the film "Deniska's Stories" based on the works of children's writer Viktor Dragunsky. But the parents didn’t want to hear about their son becoming a “actor”; it got to the point that Father Alexander even intended to curse Mikhail if he went to a theater university. This threat had an effect on Misha, and after the end high school in the village of Semkhoz, he submitted documents to the Moscow State Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry named after. I. M. Gubkina.
It soon became clear, however, that for creative nature This university is not suitable for Mikhail. He studied carelessly and, after Once again“failed” the session and was expelled from the institute. He served in the Far Eastern Military District, in a construction battalion in the city of Sovetskaya Gavan. After being transferred to the reserve in 1982, Mikhail entered the correspondence department of the directing department of the Moscow State Institute of Culture. It was much easier to study here than at the gas and oil field faculty of the Gubkin Institute, so I still had time to participate in the rock group “Most”.
In 1987, Mikhail Alexandrovich graduated from the institute. At the same time, he left the rock group “Most”, which, after a bright debut, gradually lost its popularity. Men worked as director of the House of Culture of the Mosoblstroy No. 20 trust in the city of Pushkino, chief director of the Filevsky Culture and Recreation Park and director of the Lublin Culture and Recreation Park. At the same time, he organized a cooperative at the club of the Moscow Forestry Institute in Mytishchi. After the death of his father, Mikhail “hurried up” in time, organizing through his cooperative the publication of the collected works of Archpriest Alexander Men. The name was, as they say, well known at that time, so the cooperative earned serious money and turned into a publishing house. At the same time, Mikhail Alexandrovich headed the Alexander Men Foundation, which he created.
However, in the early 1990s, Me's business was no longer as profitable as before due to the emergence of many private publishing houses. Mikhail Alexandrovich did not want to go broke, so he hastened to change his field of activity. In 1993, he decided to run for the Moscow Regional Duma from the Sergiev Posad district. Since his father was still very well remembered, Men won a convincing victory against them. Two years later, he was elected to the State Duma in the Sergiev Posad single-mandate constituency.
In parliament, Men joined the Yabloko party. Despite the fact that he was deputy chairman of the Culture Committee, he was not remembered for anything special, since he was in the shadow of such masters as Stanislav Govorukhin and Nikolai Gubenko. However, in 1999, Mikhail Alexandrovich was noticed by General Boris Gromov, who put forward his candidacy for the post of governor of the Moscow region. Boris Vsevolodovich, who competed in the elections with such a “heavyweight” as State Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznev, needed the support of the liberal spectrum of society, which at that time was represented by Mikhail Men. In addition, Mikhail Alexandrovich had connections in church circles, which means he could attract them to Gromov’s side. And so it happened. Gromov won in the second round, becoming governor of the Moscow region in 2000, and Men became vice-governor and first deputy chairman of the government of the Moscow region.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich immediately grasped the “political conjuncture of the moment,” therefore, before he had time to take office, he left Yabloko. At his post, he was in the shadow of Gromov and, again, did not show himself in any particular way, except that he privatized a plot of a relict grove near the former estate of the Yusupov princes “Arkhangelskoye”, on which he soon erected his own dacha. In 2002, Men resigned early. In a conversation with Governor Gromov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich noted that work in the executive authorities was “not his,” so he would like to “rest a little.” Boris Vsevolodovich did not restrain his deputy, and easily signed a decree releasing him from office “in connection with changes in regional legislation,” and a week later I was surprised to learn that Men had been appointed vice-mayor of Moscow. As a result, Gromov was mortally offended by such treachery of Mikhail Alexandrovich, who “ran over” to Luzhkov. It even got to the point that they stopped noticing each other at official events.
But Men’s tenure as vice-mayor of Moscow did not last long. In 2005, he was appointed by decree of President Vladimir Putin as head of the administration of the Ivanovo region. Mikhail Alexandrovich received a heavy inheritance after the former governor Vladimir Tikhonov, who was fired under the threat of criminal prosecution. The region was a subsidized region with an empty treasury. Textile enterprises in the region, the main suppliers of funds, actually died because they did not receive raw materials from the republics Central Asia, which overnight became independent states. The shadow economy flourished in the region, in which various criminal groups took to the waters. Having looked more closely, the new governor, being far from a stupid man, realized that he was unlikely to be able to change anything, but no one would protest against putting the right people in the right place and taking control of the momentum.
First of all, Mikhail Alexandrovich put together a team around himself, inviting his old friends Oleg Vavilov and Konstantin Bocharov to the regional government. The deputy corps was gradually replaced by people loyal to the governor. At the same time, Men redirected budget flows in a direction beneficial to himself. Funds for the organization of preferential travel for citizens, the construction of social facilities, and the development of sports ultimately ended up in the accounts of companies, the final beneficiary of which was Mikhail Alexandrovich. The region's public sector employees suffered from chronic wage delays, heating seasons failed time after time, the gasification program in the Ivanovo region was never completed, but Governor Men managed to gain a foothold in the region, effectively becoming its “master.”
Representatives of various strata of society constantly complained about Mikhail Alexandrovich: from deputies of the regional Duma from the United Russia party to Ivan Khrenov, a cardiologist at the Ivanovo Regional Hospital, who told Putin during a live television broadcast about the outrages happening in the healthcare sector of the region. But Menu got away with everything. The deputies who complained about him lost their mandates, Dr. Khrenov was publicly defamed, and the governor still sat in his chair. Dmitry Medvedev, according to some information, tried to get rid of Me, but was unable to agree with Vladimir Putin on the candidacy of Mikhail Alexandrovich’s successor. Thus, Men remained in his position until November 2013, when President Putin appointed him Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services.
It seems that Mikhail Aleksandrovich Men will not remain in his post for long. This position looks too “execution”, and he managed to accumulate too many ill-wishers for himself during the time he ruled the Ivanovo region.
"Biography"
Education
Lawyer by training
Activity
She worked in the apparatus of the Moscow City Duma, the State Duma and the Federation Council, in commercial structures, and is involved in charity work.
In 2008, she created the public organization “Women’s Initiative” in the Ivanovo region, which helps orphanages, homeless and low-income families, as well as children’s departments of hospitals and clinics.
"Themes"
"News"
Dvorkovich's wife earned more than other wives of government members
Third place was taken by the wife of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, Olga; at the end of 2015, her income amounted to 92.46 million rubles. against 42.91 million rubles. a year earlier. In fourth place is the wife of the head of the Ministry of Construction, Mikhail Men, Elena Nalimova, whose income amounted to 42.14 million rubles. In 2014, her income was 23.59 million rubles.
Mikhail Men explained his resignation as governor by the birth of his sixth child
At the same time, Mikhail Men indicated another reason for his resignation - his desire to raise children together with his wife. According to the ex-governor, after the birth of her sixth child, Alexander, Elena Nalimova and her children “for objective reasons” moved to Moscow.
Mikhail Me's wife entered the top ten richest wives of governors
The wife of the governor of the Ivanovo region, Mikhail Men, Elena Nalimova, was included in the top ten richest wives of governors of Russian regions, just published by the portal. With an income of 8.89 million rubles in 2010, it is in 6th place.
The governor entrusted Kineshma with the most precious thing - his wife
Starting next week, Elena Nalimova will work in our city.
Elena Olegovna Nalimova, the wife of the governor of the Ivanovo region, Mikhail Men, heads the Ivanovo regional public organization “Women’s Initiative,” created in November 2008. The members of this organization are women who are not indifferent to the problems of children and women in our region.
The governor’s wife “stomps” Kineshma up and down
Let us recall that representatives of public organizations of the city approached the Governor of the Ivanovo Region, Mikhail Menu, with a request to assist in closer cooperation between the “Women’s Initiative” and Kineshma. Mikhail Men promised that he would ask the head of the public organization (and also his wife - approx. Kineshemec.RU) Elena Nalimova to consider issues of interaction between the “Women’s Initiative” and the social facilities of our city.
Astakhov was introduced to the Ivanovo rehabilitation center for disabled children “Sunflower”
The head of the “Women’s Initiative”, the wife of the governor of the Ivanovo region, Elena Nalimova, told Interfax that the “Sunflower” center, which includes a gymnastics hall and Gym, offices for a speech pathologist, psychologist, massage and sensory room, built with funds from sponsors.
“The cost of construction and equipment, including the Kinesis simulator, which makes it possible to conduct classes in 200 rehabilitation programs, amounts to more than 3 million rubles,” she emphasized.
The governor's wife is being deceived.
The charitable organization "Women's Initiative", led by Elena Nalimova, the wife of the governor of the Ivanovo region, Mikhail Men, intends to open a permanent representative office in Kineshma. And, in connection with this, I visited the city on a fact-finding visit. “Of course, officials tell us about problems and tell us what we need to pay attention to. But we always go out and look for ourselves, because in reality the information is often not entirely true,” Kineshemets.ru quotes Nalimova.
"Women's Initiative" came to Kineshma
Last week, journalists met the head of the public organization “Women’s Initiative” Elena Nalimova and executive director Yulia Zhukovskaya.
They don't promise - they deliver
I am an aspiring journalist, and I unexpectedly had the opportunity to attend a meeting charitable organization“Women's Initiative”, led by Elena Nalimova, wife of the governor of the Ivanovo region, Mikhail Men. I was pleasantly surprised by the warm welcome, and sat waiting for an answer to the question that piqued my interest: after all, what would be the idea of this meeting? After all, we all already know what the “Women’s Initiative” does and does. We know that it helps those people who need help and support, those who sometimes have no one else to turn to. Their goal is mainly to improve the lives of mothers and their children. As Yulia Zhukovskaya said, “the essence of this meeting is not for us to convince you or for you to convince us, but for dialogue, which should also take place among people of different views.”
The “Women’s Initiative” did not abandon Shuya
On this day, doctors received warm words of congratulations and gifts from the public organization “Women’s Initiative”. Elena Nalimova and Yulia Zhukovskaya were brought to Shuya the right gift– an ultrasound machine for children’s clinic No. 1 and monetary rewards for the best employees. Creative gifts were given by famous artists and creative groups of the city.
One day with the Women's Initiative
The Ivanovo regional public organization “Women’s Initiative” is opening its first branch, and it will work in Shuya. Therefore, since the beginning of November, its leaders - the wife of the Ivanovo governor Elena Nalimova and ex-deputy governor Yulia Zhukovskaya - have been going to Shuya as if they were going to work, and doing what they know well: finding out who needs help and trying to help. November 17 was no exception.
Elena Nalimova and Yulia Zhukovskaya “stomp” all over Kineshma
The public organization "Women's Initiative" began close cooperation with institutions social sphere Kineshma. Representatives of public organizations of the city approached the Governor of the Ivanovo region, Mikhail Menu, with a request to assist in closer cooperation between the “Women’s Initiative” and Kineshma. Mikhail Men promised that he would ask the head of the public organization (and also his wife) Elena Nalimova to consider issues of interaction between the “Women’s Initiative” and the social facilities of our city. And he kept his word - this week members of the public organization “Women’s Initiative” began work in Kineshma.
Elena Nalimova: “I don’t want to pass by”
The governor’s wife, Elena Nalimova, created and headed the Ivanovo regional public organization “Women’s Initiative”. Her work changed the attitude towards charity of many Ivanovo entrepreneurs and their wives. As it turned out, Elena Olegovna’s interests are not limited to the sphere of charity.
Shuya may have its own “Women’s Initiative”
As Shuiskiye Izvestia writes, the head of the Women's Initiative, Elena Nalimova, proposed creating her own public organization in Shuya, similar to the regional one, and promised to help with this.
“Women’s initiative” in Shuya seriously and for a long time?
As life has shown, these predictions did not come true. The modesty of the event was more than compensated for by those who took part in it. Representatives of the city administration came to congratulate the chairman of the “Women’s Initiative” Elena Nalimova and the executive director Yulia Zhukovskaya on their housewarming, preschool institutions cities, ShGPU and many others. Each guest had many warm words and wishes for the new residents.
Thus, the deputy head physician of the Central District Hospital, Ekaterina Kuzmina, conveyed to the heroes of the occasion the most heartfelt words of gratitude from the medical staff and patients of the clinic. Representative of the Public Chamber Evgenia Kosnikova - low bow from the Frunze Museum and the victims political repression. And the heads of the city’s preschool institutions not only thanked the “Women’s Initiative”, but also expressed their readiness to provide a reciprocal service.