A quiet performer

With "cold head and clean hands" - to the governors of St. Petersburg

A quiet performer. A few hours after the resignation of Valentina Matvienko from the post of Governor of St. Petersburg, President Dmitry Medvedev appointed the acting of the St. Petersburg mayor in the Central Federal District Georgy Poltavchenko. About a man who is 11 years old - a record - was a plenipotentiary, it is known to a ridiculous one: a native of the KGB, Putin’s man, respects the work of the Mumiy Troll group, the Orthodox, not without a sense of humor, the active user of Twitter, 13 years ago, unsuccessfully ran for the St. Petersburg Zavrosty. It is also known that on August 31, the Legislative Assembly should approve Poltavchenko as the head of the city. Who is hiding behind these mean and brief characteristics - learned The New Times
“No one ever knows what he is doing. He will sneake in his office and sits, as if he was not there. He has the only one among the envoy on the door of the reception room installed a lock with a digital code. Even people from the administration who do not know the code, not only to Poltavchenko - will not get to his secretaries, - the employees of the plenipotentiary apparatus, his neighbors in the Old Square say about George Poltavchenko. - In general, a cool man. But never determines its position. More precisely, it always coincides with the "party line."

Employees of the Presidential Administration, working in the same place, on the Old Square, also note Poltavchenko’s unique ability to be inconspicuous and remain with all in even relations. Will he be able to stay the same at the post of St. Petersburg mayor?

The desired figure is a meeting of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg on August 31, according to the speaker of ZakSA Vadim Tulpanov, will be devoted to one issue - the approval of the new governor and his inauguration. The future mayor (there will be no doubt that it will be approved), answering Twitter to the eternal question about the “vessels”, said that in winter he would “look”, he had already managed to appear before journalists and chat with St. Petersburg followers

* * Twitter users. . He said that he rolled in the St. Petersburg metro, admitted that he was rooting for Zenit since childhood, was fond of basketball, noticed that he could not “sit down”, spoke for an “overly” inauguration and promised that “he would try not to turn on (flashing light. - The New Times).

Stanislav Belkovsky, director of the Institute of National Strategy, in an interview with The New Times noted that Poltavchenko is “the weakest and most dim figure of all possible, namely such a figure is needed today as the governor of St. Petersburg. As in the case of the replacement of Yuri Luzhkov with Sobyanin, in St. Petersburg the governor should not be a master, but a person through whom federal financial and industrial groups will solve their issues and realize their interests. And the team of such a person should be patchwork, that is, consisting of representatives of various federal groups of influence. Unlike three of his predecessors - Sobchak, Yakovlev, Matvienko - as if not to relate to them, Poltavchenko will not be an independent player. And in this sense, it is perfect. ”

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This is a policy of “soft power”. Yes, influential people are behind him, but he himself is not inclined to work for his personal image. He was never seen in active public activity and remained in the shade, even in such a high post

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Olga Krystanovskaya, the head of the study sector of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, also considers Poltavchenko non-conflict, thanks to which he was chosen from the final short list of applicants for the post of governor of St. Petersburg. In an interview with The New Times, the expert noted: “This post is almost as important as the post of mayor of Moscow. A person must be experienced, and proven, and trusted. I think Poltavchenko answers all these criteria. Plus, he is not the one who could cause a wave of protest in St. Petersburg. ”

At the same time, Olga Krystanovskaya is not inclined to consider Poltavchenko a mild and spineless person: “This is a policy of“ soft power ”. Yes, influential people are behind him, but he himself is not inclined to work for his personal image. He was never seen in active public activity and remained in the shade, even in such a high post. Although the audience could see him on the days of religious holidays-he always stood somewhere next to Putin and Medvedev. ”

Poltavchenko - one of the close Putin shadows

An old friend with the current Russian political elite Poltavchenko is familiar, in the literal sense of the word, from childhood. In 1971, he graduated from the Leningrad Physics and Mathematical School No. 211, notable for the fact that among its graduates is the Secretary of the Council of Security, ex-director of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev, the State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov (according to some reports, the surname of Gryzlov was listed next to the names of Poltavchenko and the deputy prime minister Dmitri Kozak in the Shert Last Liste candidates for the post of St. Petersburg mayor) and the former head of the Ministry of Communications Leonid Reiman. Having already arrived at the KGB, he had grown from the operative to the head of the Vyborg city department of the OSGB in 10 years, in this position he met Vladimir Putin. When Putin worked at the city hall under the leadership of Anatoly Sobchak, Poltavchenko went to politics and even elected a deputy of the Leningrad Regional Council in 1990. Without losing the deputy mandate, in October 1992 he became the first head of the St. Petersburg Tax Police Department and stayed at this post until 1999. Already in 2000, he moved to Moscow and transported his family with him. The only son of the future governor, 26-year-old Alexei, began his studies at the elite St. Petersburg gymnasium No. 631 of the Primorsky district, but he received a diploma of secondary education in Moscow. After the appointment of his father, he graduated from the Envoy in 2000-2002, the elite gymnasium "Zhukovka" on Rublevka. (The gymnasium’s website states that a lump -sum fee for development is 600 thousand rubles, and further training is 65 thousand rubles a month.) He was issued a diploma of higher education at the Moscow State Law Academy (MGUA). By the way, now, after the appointment, the Poltavchenko family can return to the legendary Komarovo, where they lived since 1994. The new governor can take a summer house on which Valentina Matvienko rested in recent years.

Almost all the experts surveyed by The New Times, characterizing Poltavchenko, speak of his extreme piety, emphasize that the acting governor was awarded five orders of the Russian Orthodox Church, and recall that he sponsored restoration work in the Novodevichy Monastery and the Church of the Kazan Mother of God. In addition, Poltavchenko is one of the members of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Andrei Pervoznan, which includes the First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov and the Presidential Administration Vladimir Kozhin. The head of the fund is the president of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin.

“As an Orthodox person, he is most likely moral and acts according to conscience,” said Elena Babich, deputy of the City Parliament from the LDPR. - I think that with him with tax fees, everything will be in order. Well, the fact that he at one time did not go to the SKS ... This, in my opinion, is not the worst indicator: the 90s is a period of dirty technology and money. ”

In 1998 , Georgy Poltavchenko, together with Boris Gryzlov, ran for the 43rd district (17 candidates nominated there in total). The future envoy lost to Valery Nazarov in the first round. However, local old -timers recall, Poltavchenko received noticeably more votes than the current Speaker of the State Duma. “Then many, of those who are now on a horse, suffered a fiasco: Gryzlov, Alexander Bespalov

* In 2001–2003 - Chairman of the Central Executive Committee and General Council of United Russia, since 2003 - the head of the Department of Information Policy of Gazprom OJSC. , Poltavchenko, - recalls the source of The New Times. “But the winning Nazarov is now instead of a girl with a voice recorder - a representative of Zaks in Smolny.”

According to Mikhail Amosov, one of the leaders of the St. Petersburg Yabloko, he was then warned that a “very serious person” was running for the city parliament, but, the politician claims, Poltavchenko then “showed nothing”. “Gryzlov’s leaflet was preserved, but Poltavchenko - no. Although what difference does it make, the same faceless and toothless, probably, ”says ex-deputy Zaksa.

Colonel of the central apparatus of the FSB Vladimir G., who for a long time worked with Poltavchenko when he was pleading, so commented on The New Times of the expert assessment: “Charisma for a counterintelligence - a quality bordering professional unsuitability. Sergeyich was set to look after the Earth and report to anyone. And he knows how to watch professionally - in vain, or something, has worked for so many years in the tax? Yes, even at what time! Yes, even in St. Petersburg! He is not for women with prosecutors in a bathhouse, but he monitors financial flows. So he will never be just a blank with the right to sign. Sergeyich - a man is very systemic, devoted, tough in work. Will perform any team from above. We had one federal inspector. It seems to work normally, but I crossed the road to someone. Sergeyich called him to himself, gave a pen and, without explaining, forced him to write "of his own free will." The same situation with Rutsky: they said to remove from the governor - and where did he go, this Rutskoy? ”

The list of Poltavchenko is the main and almost the only compromising evidence for Poltavchenko (for 11 years of work as an embassy in the Central Federal District) published in 2002 APN

* The site "Agency of Political News" of Stanislav Belkovsky. . Say, in the summer of 2001, “any worthy Muscovite for only $ 100–120 thousand could acquire the post of head of the Presidential Public Administration, General George Poltavchenko, in one of the administrative districts of Moscow and get into the so-called“ List of Poltavchenko ”, like guaranteeing success in the Moscow City Duma ... in November 2001, about a month before the election in the election in the election in the election in the election in the election in the election in the election in the elections It turned out to the Moscow City Duma that the "list of Poltavchenko" is quite virtual and does not give it subjects of intelligible grounds to count on electoral success. " Stanislav Belkovsky does not refuse his words today. In an interview with The New Times, he confirmed that, according to his information, "when in 2001 there were elections to the Moscow City Duma, there was a certain" List of Poltavchenko ", places where $ 3-5 million were sold."

The main thing in the game is to wait for the moment the source of The New Times in the central apparatus of the FSB commented on this statement: “The topic is too small and unprovable. You can always write off the abuse of the environment. Say, in the State Duma there are a lot of dealers, which are inhibited by certificates of assistants to deputies without the knowledge of the deputies themselves. This is quite real, since a person’s deputy can be recommended, and if everything works out, take money for the service provided. But knowing Poltavchenko, it can be assumed that he could order such a “compare” himself - there will be no absolutely clean and incorruptible large road in this power. ”

Regarding the possibility of selling the posts of deputy governors in the Central Federal District, Colonel Vladimir G. noted that “Poltavchenko had the opportunity to place the deputies he needed in the regional administrations. But not at all in commercial interests. The vice-governors recommended by Poltavchenko were attached to the governors in places with a completely different purpose: to monitor the situation from the inside and, if necessary, fulfill the scrupulous requests of the service. One of these "attached" recently reached the wrong business and flew out of his post with a bang

* We are talking about Sergey Karnaukhov, the former vice-governor of the Kaliningrad and previously Kirov regions. In an interview with the Russian Reporter, Karnukhov said that it was he who initiated a criminal case against Alexei Navalny. . It should also be borne in mind that most heads of the Internal Affairs Directorate and the Federal Security Service in the Central Federal District are its proteges. A beautiful scheme is obtained. But this is not about commerce. This is about working on the task. ”

Who poses the tasks of the most straightforward answer to The New Times, why Dmitry Medvedev decided to appoint Poltavchenko Acting Governor of St. Petersburg, gave the deputy director of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis Alexander Khramchikhin: “It is obvious that this decision was made not by the formal, but the actual head of state. After all, Poltavchenko is a person of Putin. ”

Olga Krystanovskaya agrees with this opinion: “There is a category of people that for myself I call“ people of balance ”. For example, it can be attributed to this category of Alexander Khloponin, to some extent Sobyanin ... such people who have good relations with Putin and Medvedev, and experience, and there is some trust in them. And Poltavchenko I would not attribute to this type. It does not seem to me that he is a "person of balance." It seems to me that this is a person out of the Putin team. In this sense, this purpose is atypical for the last time. ”

“However, Medvedev himself is a member of the Putin team,” Krystanovskaya summarizes. “And since he did not create another strong team that could withstand the Putin team, it is impossible to say that he has some kind of elite.”

Georgy Poltavchenko was born on February 23, 1953 in the family of a naval sailor in Baku. In 1971 he graduated from the Leningrad Physical and Mathematics School No. 211.

In 1976, he received a diploma of a mechanical engineer on aviation-space medicine devices at the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation and got a job at the defense enterprise of the Leninets NGO.

In 1978, Poltavchenko transferred to the post of liberated functionary of the city Komsomol organization and until 1979 works as an instructor in the Nevsky district committee of the Komsomol of Leningrad. From this Komsomol post he is invited to the KGB and sent to study at the Minsk School of the KGB of the USSR. After the “Minka” is graduated (the so-called its graduates call this institution) Poltavchenko is distributed to the 4th Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, which is responsible for ensuring security in transport, where he serves as a detective at Pulkovo Airport.

In the KGB system, over 10 years, Poltavchenko grew from a detective to the head of the Vyborg city department of the UKGB. Poltavchenko’s career rise begins after his departure to politics in connection with the election in 1990 by a deputy of the Leningrad Regional Council. Without losing the deputy mandate, in October 1992 he became the first head of the St. Petersburg Tax Police Department, where he serves until 1999 and rapidly grows up to the lieutenant of the tax police.

In July 1999, from the submission of Yeltsin, he was appointed to the position of plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Leningrad Region, which is a clear decrease in status. A year later, it becomes clear that the decrease was a temporary, but necessary step for appointing a new, much more respectable position: from May 2000 to August 2011, Poltavchenko sets a record for his office of the Plenipotentiary of the President of Russia in the Central Federal District.