Aman left

The governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev resigned. A link to a video message from the official is published on the website of the regional administration.

Tuleyev connected his decision with the fire on March 25 in the shopping and entertainment center "Winter Cherry". 64 people became victims of disaster, including 41 children.

As reported on the Kremlin website, Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of Tuleyev. I.O. The head of the region was appointed vice-governor Sergei Tsivilev.

Tsivilev is 56 years old. By education, he is a naval sailor; In the 1990s, he took up a business in St. Petersburg. In 2012-2013, the deputy chairman of the board of directors, since 2014, the general director of the Kolmar coal mining company, associated with the oligarch Gennady Timchenko, a friend of Putin.

The post of vice -governor Tsivilev was appointed less than a month ago - March 2 of this year. After appointing, he stated that he transferred the shares of Kolmar to his wife. RBC already wrote on March 2 that after the presidential election, Tyleev would change Tuleyev as the governor.

On March 27, after a fire in the Winter Cherry, Tsivilev went to the participants of the rally gathered at the regional administration for the resignation of Tuleyev and knelt before them.

73-year-old Tuleyev headed Kuzbass since 1997. It was considered one of the unsinkable governors. Three years ago, information about the upcoming resignation of the official had already appeared in the media , but then Tuleyev managed to keep his post.