He ordered the long to live

The new representative of the Moscow Mayor in the Federation Council will be the elder of the State Duma, ex-secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU in the mid-1980s, the chairman of the Moscow Council of Veterans, 88-year-old Vladimir Dolgikh, was reported by Vedomosti, citing a source in the metropolitan city hall and another source close to the presidential administration.

In addition to long-long candidates for senators, which the mayor candidate Sergei Sobyanin formed at the nomination stage, the State Duma vice speaker Lyudmila Shvetsova, who led Sobyanin’s election headquarters, and the co-chairman of the Central Staff, Alexander Galushka, are presented. The interlocutor in the administration explained that it was Galushka who was planned to delegate to the Federation Council, but on Tuesday President Vladimir Putin appointed him the Minister of Development of the Far East.

Shvetsova, on the other hand, would not want to leave the State Duma, the source explained: her hardware and powers as the vice-speaker of the State Duma are much more significant than senatorships, the transition to the Federation Council would be reduced for her. The metropolitan authorities, as an influential conductor of Moscow politics, is also more necessary in the State Duma, the source added.

Sobyanin’s press service did not comment on the candidacy, saying that the name of the senator would be named after the inauguration.

Long 88 years old. During the war, he was a company political instructor, and after the end of the war and study at the Irkutsk Mining and Metallurgical Institute, he worked in non-ferrous metallurgy for many years: first at the Krasnoyarsk Factory of non-ferrous metals, and then at the Norilsk State Medical University-the chief engineer and director, for which he was awarded the first star of the Hero of the socialist tour, and in the 2000s he was appointed by the decision of the shareholders. to the Board of Directors of Norilsk Nickel. He entered the CPSU long during the war, in 1969-1972. He was the first secretary of the Krasnoyarsk regional committee of the CPSU, in 1971 he became a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and from 1982 to 1988 (before he retired in the status of a personal pensioner of allied significance), Long candidate for members of the Politburo. For party work, in 1985 he received another star of the hero of social labor.

In the 2000s, long -term work was engaged in public work in the capital: since 2002, he has been heading the city council of veterans, and since 2008 - the Public Council of Moscow. In 2005, at his proposal, as the head of the veteran organization, the Izmailovsky Park metro station was renamed - it became “partisan” at the place of meetings of veterans of the movement, and in 2008 he, as the head of the Council of Veterans, demanded to rename the “anti -Soviet” barrier, so named due to the location of the Sovetskaya Hotel, since this name insults veterans. The State Duma deputy in 2011 was elected by the ONF quota, becoming the oldest parliamentarian of the sixth convocation, and on the rights of the elder opened the first meeting of the session.

A source close to the surroundings of Sobyanin draws attention to the ill -conceived list of candidates for senators: the entire calculation was made to Galushka, Shvetsov and long, were purely technical candidates. To insure the list in case of refusal or the inability to nominate Galushka, including another real candidate for senators in it, Sobyanin’s entourage did not guess, the interlocutor of Vedomosti said. Long is an elderly person, but to admit that after being left from the list of candidates of Galushka, Moscow does not have a senator, Sobyanin cannot, the source said.