Former chairman of the Krasnodar branch of the Just Russia party, former head of Rostekhnadzor

Former chairman of the Krasnodar branch of the Just Russia party, held this position from November 2009 to June 2012. Prior to that, in 2005-2008 he headed the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor), in 2000-2005 he was the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District. In 1998-2000 he worked at the mayor's office of Krasnodar. In 1996-1998 he was Deputy Commander of the North Caucasian Military District. In July-August 1996, he headed the joint grouping of federal forces in Chechnya, in 1994-1996 - the North-West grouping of federal forces. Retired lieutenant general.

Konstantin Borisovich Pulikovsky was born on February 9, 1948 in the city of Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai, into a military family. In 1970 he graduated with honors from the Ulyanovsk Higher Command Tank School, in 1982 - from the Military Academy of Armored Forces named after R.Ya. Malinovsky, in 1992 - the Higher Academy of the General Staff. Since 1970, he served in the Belarusian, Baltic and Turkestan military districts. He was the commander of a regiment, division.

From December 1994 to August 1996 he commanded the grouping of federal forces "North-West" on the territory of the Chechen Republic. From July to August 1996 he headed the joint grouping of federal forces in Chechnya. In August 1996, when the militants managed to capture Grozny, he delivered an ultimatum to the residents of the city - he demanded to leave it before the Russian troops attacked. However, in the end, the assault did not take place, and soon the first Chechen campaign ended. In 1996-1998, Pulikovsky was deputy commander of the North Caucasian Military District. In 1998 he retired with the rank of lieutenant general.

After his resignation, Pulikovsky became an assistant to the mayor of Krasnodar for work with municipal enterprises - the head of the committee for the improvement of the city. In early 2000, he was the head of the Krasnodar regional campaign headquarters of Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Putin. May 18, 2000 was appointed Presidential Plenipotentiary in the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD). In July-August 2001, he accompanied North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during his visit to Russia.

As plenipotentiary, Pulikovsky clashed with the head of the Primorsky Territory, Yevgeny Nazdratenko, who in February 2001 was removed from the post of governor and appointed head of the State Fishery Committee. In the summer of 2001, Pulikovsky announced the need to cancel the election of governors. He positively assessed the activities of Roman Abramovich, elected in December 2000 as the head of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and the activities of Sergei Darkin, elected in June 2001, the head of the Primorsky Territory. He assumed that the businessman Viktor Vekselberg could take the place of the governor of the Kamchatka Territory in 2007. At the same time, the current governor of Kamchatka, Mikhail Mashkovtsev, accused Pulikovsky of "ordering" the initiation of a criminal case against him.

In November 2003, officials of the Ministry of Natural Resources Sergey Krupetsky and Vitaly Sevrin, close to Pulikovsky, were arrested for extorting a bribe. In April 2005, the Khabarovsk Regional Court found the defendants guilty and sentenced them to eight and a half and eight years' imprisonment, respectively.

On November 14, 2005, Pulikovsky was relieved of his post as plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District. This post was taken by the mayor of Kazan Kamil Iskhakov. On December 5, 2005, Pulikovsky was appointed head of the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor). In June 2007, he came into conflict with the governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev. The Rostekhnadzor Commission, which investigated the May methane explosion at the Yubileinaya mine, called the cause of the disaster (which killed 39 miners) the deliberate disablement of the gas emission warning system in order to increase coal production. Tuleev regarded this as an accusation against him and sued Pulikovsky. In addition, the governor blamed Rostekhnadzor and its head for the accident at the mine, which, according to him, ignored the demands of the regional authorities to restore order at coal enterprises. Pulikovsky expressed his intention to wait for the court's decision. However, there was no further information about the trials published. In July 2008, in connection with new accidents at one of the mines in the region, Tuleev sent a letter to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and the regional prosecutor's office with a request to consider the quality of activities carried out by Rostekhnadzor at the coal mining enterprises of Kuzbass.

On September 5, 2008, Putin, who became Prime Minister of the Russian government after the election of the new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, dismissed Pulikovsky from the post of head of Rostekhnadzor (it was reported that this was done at the request of Pulikovsky himself).

Pulikovsky was awarded a number of state orders. Married, the couple had two sons. One of them died in 1995 during the military campaign in Chechnya. After that, Pulikovsky was baptized and has been an Orthodox Christian ever since.

Pulikovsky, Konstantin

Former chairman of the Krasnodar branch of the Just Russia party, former head of Rostekhnadzor

Former chairman of the Krasnodar branch of the Just Russia party, held this position from November 2009 to June 2012. Prior to that, in 2005-2008 he headed the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor), in 2000-2005 he was the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District. In 1998-2000 he worked at the mayor's office of Krasnodar. In 1996-1998 he was Deputy Commander of the North Caucasian Military District. In July-August 1996, he headed the joint grouping of federal forces in Chechnya, in 1994-1996 - the North-West grouping of federal forces. Retired lieutenant general.

Konstantin Borisovich Pulikovsky was born on February 9, 1948 in the city of Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai, into a family of hereditary military men. Pulikovsky's great-grandfather and grandfather were officers, his father also served in the army, ended his career with the rank of colonel,. In 1970, Pulikovsky graduated with honors from the Ulyanovsk Higher Command Tank School, in 1982 - from the Military Academy of Armored Forces named after R.Ya. Malinovsky, in 1992 - the Higher Academy of the General Staff. Since 1970, he served in the Belarusian, Baltic and Turkestan military districts. He was the commander of a tank regiment, then a division,,,.

In 1993, Pulikovsky was sent to serve in Krasnodar. He commanded the troops that took part in resolving the Ossetian-Ingush conflict. From December 1994 to August 1996 he commanded the grouping of federal forces "North-West" on the territory of the Chechen Republic. From July to August 1996 he headed the joint grouping of federal forces in Chechnya. In August 1996, the militants managed to capture Grozny, which by that time was in the rear of the united group. Then Pulikovsky presented an ultimatum to the inhabitants of the city - he demanded to leave it before the attack of the Russian troops. The issuance of an ultimatum caused a wide response in Russian and foreign media and was not supported by the command in Moscow. As a result, the assault on Grozny did not take place. Instead, General Alexander Lebed arrived in Chechnya, who began the negotiation process, which ended with the signing of the peaceful Khasavyurt agreements on August 31, 1996,,.

In 1996-1998, Pulikovsky was deputy commander of the North Caucasian Military District. In 1998 he retired with the rank of lieutenant general. The media noted that Pulikovsky took this step after the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense offered him to take the post of commander of the peacekeeping forces in Tajikistan. Pulikovsky, citing the fact that he "had won back for four years," asked to find another general for this position. In the same year, Pulikovsky was appointed assistant to the mayor of Krasnodar for work with municipal enterprises - the head of the committee for the improvement of the city. Then he ran for deputies of the Krasnodar Legislative Assembly, but was not elected. Actively engaged in social work, headed the Krasnodar regional branch of the public association "Combat Brotherhood". In early 2000, he was the head of the Krasnodar regional campaign headquarters of Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Putin,,.

On May 18, 2000, Pulikovsky was appointed presidential plenipotentiary in the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD),. The institute of embassy was introduced by Putin a month after his election. The President's representatives also became: former Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko in the Volga Federal District (VFD), Army General Viktor Kazantsev in the North Caucasian Federal District (NCFD, since June 2000 - the Southern Federal District, (SFD)), First Deputy Director of the FSB Viktor Cherkesov in the Northwestern Federal District (NWFD), diplomat Leonid Drachevsky in the Siberian Federal District (SFD), ex-tax police general Georgy Poltavchenko - in the Central Federal District (CFD) and ex-police general Pyotr Latyshev - in the Urals Federal District district (UFO).

In December 2000, Pulikovsky came into conflict with the head of the Primorsky Territory, Yevgeny Nazdratenko, stating that the activities of the regional administration, in his opinion, are "classics of robbing the state." In early 2001, when Nazdratenko ended up in the hospital during another energy crisis in Primorye, the plenipotentiary told reporters that "Yevgeny Ivanovich is ill, but his illness is not of a medical nature, its assessment and diagnosis will be given by law enforcement agencies." As a result, in February 2001, Nazdratenko left the post of governor and was appointed head of the State Committee for Fisheries. Pulikovsky was skeptical about this appointment,,.

In March 2001, speaking to journalists in the Primorsky Territory, Pulikovsky announced that he had challenged the mayor of Vladivostok, Yuri Kopylov, to a duel. Pulikovsky called the reason for this step the appearance in December 2000 on the streets of Vladivostok of posters and banners with insulting statements addressed to the plenipotentiary,. In the same month, on the air of the regional radio, Kopylov apologized to Pulikovsky, while stating that the posters were posted without his knowledge,.

In the election of the governor of Primorye in June 2001, Pulikovsky supported the candidacy of his deputy Gennady Apanasenko, but Sergei Darkin was elected governor,. After that, the plenipotentiary proposed to cancel the election of governors altogether, stating that the heads of regions should be appointed by the president,. Subsequently, however, Pulikovsky supported Darkin. Thus, after Putin submitted Darkin's candidacy for approval to the regional parliament in January 2005, the plenipotentiary noted that "in eight years of work he will become a manager of the highest class, and he may be offered to lead a larger region. He has a wide open road ahead" , . In February 2005, the Legislative Assembly of Primorye approved Darkin as governor.

In July-August 2001, Pulikovsky accompanied North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on a long train trip to Russia. The plenipotentiary spoke respectfully about the head of the DPRK, stated that "he is an intelligent and erudite man, a subtle politician" and that during a trip to Russia "we talked with him daily for three to four hours",.

In October 2003, a criminal case was initiated against the governor of Kamchatka, communist Mikhail Mashkovtsev, and his deputy Vladislav Skvortsov. They were accused of misappropriation of 120 million rubles. Mashkovtsev himself considered the case a "political order" received from "the apparatus of the Plenipotentiary of the Far Eastern District and personally from Pulikovsky." In July 2005, the Kamchatka prosecutor's office stopped the criminal prosecution of the governor and his deputy, reclassifying their actions from misuse to negligence and closing the case due to the expiration of the statute of limitations,.

In November 2003, Sergei Krupetsky, head of the state control of the Ministry of Natural Resources for the Far Eastern Federal District, and Vitaly Sevrin, head of the Department of Environmental Resources of the Ministry of Natural Resources for the Khabarovsk Territory, were arrested. According to the investigation, the officials extorted $100,000 from the Amur Mining Artel CJSC for resolving the issue of the rights to the Konder-Worgolan platinum deposit. Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov called the arrested "werewolves in jackets" (by analogy with the start in June of that the same year, the case of "werewolves in uniform" - a group of employees of the MUR and General of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Ganeev, accused of organizing a criminal community). Pulikovsky himself told reporters that the officials of the Ministry of Natural Resources, in his opinion, turned out to be "victims of a set-up. " In April 2005, the Khabarovsk Regional Court found the accused guilty of attempted bribery and sentenced Krupetsky to eight years and six months in prison, and Sevrin to eight years In December of the same year, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the sentence.

Pulikovsky positively assessed the work experience of businessman Roman Abramovich, who was elected in December 2000 as governor of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The plenipotentiary spoke of him like this: “I’m not even interested in how Abramovich got Sibneft. The main thing is that people in Chukotka treat him with great respect, love and idolize him,”. In August 2005, in an interview with the media, Pulikovsky made the assumption that Viktor Vekselberg, a major businessman, chairman of the board of directors of SUAL, could become one of the candidates for the post of governor of the Kamchatka Territory in 2007,.

On November 14, 2005, Pulikovsky was relieved of his post as plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District. This post was taken by the mayor of Kazan Kamil Iskhakov,,. A version appeared in the media that Pulikovsky was fired for promoting Vekselberg's candidacy for the post of head of Kamchatka. According to another version, the reason for the resignation was the negative outcome of the economic and administrative activities of the plenipotentiary,. The decision to remove Pulikovsky was made at a meeting of Russian President Putin with members of the government, at which other important personnel changes were announced: the head of the presidential administration, Dmitry Medvedev, became the first vice-premier of the government and head of the commission responsible for the implementation of national projects; the governor of the Tyumen region, Sergei Sobyanin, was appointed to replace Medvedev; Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, in addition to the ministerial portfolio, received the post of Deputy Prime Minister. In addition, the prosecutor of Bashkiria Alexander Konovalov was appointed to the place of the presidential envoy in the Volga Federal District Kiriyenko,,,.

On December 5, 2005, Pulikovsky was appointed head of the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor). August 1, 2006 was included in the government commission for administrative reform.

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

On May 24, methane exploded at the Yubileynaya mine. This time 39 miners were killed . On June 6, Pulikovsky again cited an interference with the gas emission warning system in order to increase coal production as the cause of the accident. On June 7, Tuleev described Pulikovsky's statement as a provocation. According to the governor, the head of Rostekhnadzor claimed that the leadership of the Kemerovo region knew about the deliberate blocking of the gas protection system at Ulyanovsk, but did not take action. In response, Tuleev told the media that, in his opinion, it was the specialists of Rostekhnadzor and the head of this department who, in the opinion of the governor, had repeatedly ignored the demands of the regional authorities to restore order at coal enterprises, in the recent accidents that occurred at the mines of Kuzbass. The next day, Tuleev told reporters that he had filed a lawsuit against the head of Rostekhnadzor for libel. Pulikovsky did not file a counterclaim against the governor and expressed hope for a fair court decision,. Further information about the trials was not published.

In December 2007, Pulikovsky was included in the organizing committee for preparing and ensuring the chairmanship of the Russian Federation in the Asia-Pacific Cooperation Forum (APEC) in Vladivostok in 2012, and in February 2008, Pulikovsky created the Rostekhnadzor Coordinating Council to prepare for the APEC forum.

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, Tuleev sent a letter to the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia and the regional prosecutor's office with a request to review the quality of activities carried out by Rostekhnadzor at the coal mining enterprises of Kuzbass. According to the governor, "Rostekhnadzor's inspections at coal enterprises in the region were carried out superficially." In addition, Tuleev stated that "in the case of the Lenin Mine, it smacks of bribes in order to put the lava into operation faster," .

On September 3, 2008, President Dmitry Medvedev, who was elected to this position in March of the same year, approved an expanded list of the organizing committee for the preparation of Russia's chairmanship of APEC in 2012 and again included Pulikovsky as the head of Rostekhnadzor. However, already on September 5, Putin, who became the Prime Minister of the Russian government after Medvedev took office, by his order released Pulikovsky from the post of head of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision. Reports about this said that Pulikovsky himself asked for his resignation. Pulikovsky's deputy Nikolai Kutyin became acting head of the department.

In November 2009, Pulikovsky was elected chairman of the Krasnodar branch of the Just Russia party. In December 2011, he headed one of the regional lists of candidates from this party in the elections to the State Duma, but did not enter the parliament (A Just Russia won 13.24 percent in the elections, losing to United Russia and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation),. In June 2012, Pulikovsky voluntarily resigned as chairman of the regional branch of A Just Russia and announced his withdrawal from the party. Pulikovsky explained his decision by disagreeing with the leadership of A Just Russia on the organization of political work,.

Pulikovsky was awarded the orders "For Service to the Motherland in the USSR Armed Forces", "For Personal Courage" and "For Services to the Fatherland" IV degree. Married, wife Vera Pulikovskaya is a nurse. The couple had two sons - Alex and Sergey. Both became officers. Alexei died in December 1995 during a military campaign in Chechnya. Pulikovsky is an Orthodox Christian (according to media reports, he was baptized after the death of his son), before his departure to the Far East in connection with his appointment as plenipotentiary, he asked for the blessing of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Alexy II. He is fond of hunting, fishing and driving a car , , .

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Captain Pulikovsky Alexei Konstantinovich, deputy commander of the tank battalion of the 245th combined regiment. Russian. Born on June 7, 1971 in the family of a professional military man in the city of Borisov, BSSR. During his father's service he changed six schools. He graduated with honors from an eleven-year secondary school in the city of Gusev, Kaliningrad Region, the Ulyanovsk Higher Military Tank School, which his father graduated from. Before the Chechen events, he was the commander of a tank company of the 13th regiment of the Kantemirovskaya tank division. In the Chechen Republic since October 4, 1995. He died on December 14, 1995 in an operation to free an ambushed reconnaissance group of the regiment. Buried in Krasnodar. Awarded the Order of Courage (posthumously).

He wrote the dispatch report three times. Events in Chechnya were brewing like an invisible thundercloud. Among the military, information about upcoming military operations spread much faster. The fact that they would not be easy was well understood by the tank company commander, Senior Lieutenant Alexei Pulikovsky. Therefore, the educational process was built taking into account the upcoming hostilities, without giving concessions to conscripts. The life of each soldier and the unit as a whole depended on the quality of training. He himself wrote three reports with a request to be sent to Chechnya. And only on the third I received the "go-ahead" from the command of the unit. By order, he was appointed deputy commander of the tank battalion of the 245th combined regiment, and on October 4, 1995, the regiment was already stationed near Shatoi.
He was shot three times. Commander of the entire military grouping in Chechnya, Lieutenant General Pulikovsky K.B. in the hustle and bustle of the redeployment of troops, he could not keep track of the movements of his own son in the service, and only twenty days later he learned that Alexei was subordinate to him.
And at the checkpoint, the battalion carried out the assigned task of the younger Pulikovsky. During the next truce, there was no open confrontation between bandit formations and federal troops. But all the inhabitants of Chechnya carried weapons. The teips (kindred clan) were armed to the limit.
Contract soldier of the tank battalion Somov (surname changed) accidentally shot down a Chechen resident. The whole pace of Suleiman Kadanov came out with threats. Aleksei Kon tried to solve it peacefully, according to the law, but the Chechens, warmed up by Wahhabi propaganda, only aggravated the situation. How to get out of this conflict peacefully? Aleksey decided to give himself, along with the signalman, as hostages. For two days they were with the Chechens. Mocking and trying to break the will of the captain, they took him out three times to be shot. Alexey did not give up hope of releasing Somov and persistently negotiated with his command and Kadanov. Colonel Yakovlev and Major General Shamanov arrived to free the fighters.
On December 14, the reconnaissance group of the regiment went on patrol and did not return by the appointed time. The command of the regiment decided to conduct a search operation, led by Alexei. When they moved to a given area, they were ambushed. Aleksey competently and promptly deployed tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in battle formation and organized an attack on the superior forces of the bandits. In order to prevent the defeat of armored vehicles by grenade launchers of the Chechens, the personnel of the detachment, on the orders of Alexei, attacked on foot. Being next to the armored vehicles, the commander of the detachment Alexei Pulikovsky led the battle. A grenade from a hand grenade launcher hit the side of the BMP. Alexei died from her explosion. Buried in the city of Krasnodar. His wife and daughter Sonia also live there.
Time has not dulled the pain of losing a son to his father Konstantin Borisovich and mother Vera Ivanovna Pulikovsky. They live in Khabarovsk and every year, on the days of commemoration of the entry of troops into Chechnya on December 11, they visit the graves of fallen servicemen at the city cemetery, as the grave of their son.
He grew up, like all boys, smart and restless. I played football, came home with abrasions and bruises. Parents brought up in him independence, dedication, a sense of duty. Many decisions and actions were not known to the parents, but they can be proud of the actions of their son.

PULIKOVSKY Konstantin Borisovich

Head of the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision

Konstantin Borisovich Pulikovsky was born on February 9, 1948 in the city of Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai, into the family of an officer.

Graduated from the Military Academy BTV them. R.Ya. Malinovsky, Military Academy of the General Staff.

He went from platoon commander to deputy commander of the North Caucasian Military District.

He spent two years in the zone of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict. During the first Chechen campaign (1994-1996) he commanded the grouping of federal forces "North-West".

From July to August 1996 - Commander of the Joint Grouping of Federal Forces in Chechnya.

Since 1998, he has worked in the executive authorities of the city of Krasnodar.

From May 2000 to November 2005 - Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District.

By Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 2111-r dated December 5, 2005, Pulikovsky Konstantin Borisovich was appointed head of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision.

Married, two sons, eldest son Alexei died while performing military duty in the Chechen Republic.

He graduated from the Ulyanovsk Guards Higher Tank Command School in 1970, the Military Academy of the Armored Forces in 1982, the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 1992.

33 years served in the Armed Forces of the country. He held command positions in units, formations, operational and operational-strategic formations of the Armed Forces. He served in the military in Belarus, Turkmenistan, Estonia, Lithuania and the Caucasus.

In 1996 - commander of the joint grouping of federal forces in the Chechen Republic.

In 1996-1998 - Deputy Commander of the North Caucasian Military District.

In 1998-2000, he worked in the executive authorities of the Krasnodar Territory, was actively involved in social and political activities.

From May 2000 to November 2005 - Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District. Member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

Married, two sons. The eldest son, an officer of the Armed Forces, died during the armed conflict in the Chechen Republic in 1995.

Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District

In 1970 he graduated with honors from the Ulyanovsk Higher Command Tank School, in 1982 he graduated with honors from the Higher Academy of Armored Forces, in 1992 he graduated from the Higher Academy of the General Staff with a gold medal.

In 1970 - 1982 served in the Belarusian military district.

In 1982 - 1992 served in the Baltic Military District: commander of a tank regiment, division.

In 1992 - 1993 served in the Turkestan military district.

In 1993 - 1994 - Deputy Commander of the North Caucasian Military District.

In 1994 - 1996 commanded a grouping of the direction, the Provisional United Grouping of Federal Forces in Chechnya. After the signing of the Khasavyurt Treaty, he resigned.

In 1998 - 2000 after leaving military service, he worked in the executive authorities of Krasnodar.

In May 2000, he was appointed Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District.

Member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

Military rank - lieutenant general.

Awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th class (2003).

Married, has a son. The eldest son, Alexei, died in the Chechen Republic in 1995.