Tuleyev asked about resignation

The governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev asked the president to retire. The 73-year-old official has led the region since 1997. The official website of the Kemerovo region reports about the decision of Tuleyev.

“I consider it a right, conscious, only right decision, because with such a difficult load [after a fire in the shopping center“ Winter Cherry ”in Kemerovo] as the governor’s post, well, it’s impossible,” Tuleyev noted.

The fire in the TRK “Winter Cherry”, which was built several years ago on the basis of the former confectionery factory, occurred on March 25 . During the incident, according to official figures, 64 people were killed. Most of them are children. More than 70 people were injured.

The focus of the fire was on the upper, fourth, floor, where there were children's game zones and cinema halls. The investigation considers two versions of the occurrence of a fire - a short circuit and arson, while leaning to the first.

On March 27, thousands of Kemerovo residents reached a spontaneous rally . People, among whom were relatives and acquaintances of the dead, came to the regional administration. They did not believe the statements of the authorities about the real number of dead, demanded to explain why they took a non -disclosure subscription from families and doctors, and talked about corruption in Kuzbass. The building was surrounded by hundreds of riot police and police officers. Instead of answering the questions of residents, officials, in particular Governor Aman Tuleyev, began to blame them for PR and Facularity.

Taiga.info wrote that the presidential administration plans to hold Tuleyev, who received the nickname of Kuzbassbashi, to retire after the March elections. In 2017, the head of the Kemerovo region since spring did not participate in events. He first appeared in public on August 22 - three months after the official departure to the sick leave and on a wheelchair. The official was restored after surgery on the spine. According to the media, the Kremlin was waiting for a resignation from him and selected candidates for the post of head of Kuzbass.

It was assumed that the issue of departure and determining the successor will be resolved with the participation of Tuleyev himself and the FIG, the enterprises of which are represented in the region. In Kuzbass is the largest coal mine in Russia "Gorpadskaya", which belongs to Evraz Alexander Abramov, Alexander Frolov and Roman Abramovich. Coal in the region is also carried out by Mechel (South Kuzbass), Kuzbass Ruzrazugol (UMMC), SUEK Andrei Melnichenko and the Kuzbass fuel company (KTK, controlled by Igor Prokudin).

Among the potential successors of Tuleyev, the sources of taiga.info called the mayor of Nizhny Tagil Sergey Nosov, the first vice-governor and the former head of the Anzero-Sujzhensk Vladimir Chernov, the State Duma deputy from the Prokopyevsky district (and the former deputy Tuleyev for economics and regional development) Dmitry Islamov, as well as the mayor of Novokuznetsk Sergey Sergey. Kuznetsova.

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In March 2018, after a meeting with Vladimir Putin, Deputy Head of Kuzbass for Industry, Transport and Entrepreneurship, the CEO of the Kolmar Yakut Coal Company Sergey Tsivilev was appointed . Experts regarded this transition as the first step towards changing power. “It is clear that the position of the deputy governor for the general director of the coal company is temporarily. It is clear that if he is being made there, then with an sight to a more significant position, ”said Taiga.info political analyst Yevgeny Mintchenko.

The budget of the Kemerovo region for 2018–2020 lies 215.5 million rubles for organizing the elections of the governor, municipal deputies, mayors and regional parliamentarians. But the money is provided only for 2018, but the funds are not indicated for the 2020 year, when the authority of Tuleyev expire.

UPD (09:48 Moscow time): The president accepted the resignation of Aman Tuleyev. The acting head of Kuzbass became Sergey Tsivilev

The biography of Aman Tuleyev, close to the official:

Aman (Amangeldy) Tuleyev was born in May 1944 in Krasnovodsk, the Turkmen SSR, now it is the city of Turkmenbashi of the Balkan Vlayat of Turkmenistan.

In 1964 he graduated with honors from Tikhoretsky Railway College, in the direction he arrived in Siberia, to the village of Mundybash, Kemerovo Region, where he worked at the station on duty. Then he served in the engineering and surgical troops of the Trans-Baikal Military District. The military profession is a sapper.

After the service, Tuleyev returned to his previous place of work, became the head of the Mundybash station of the West Siberian Railway. In 1973 he graduated from the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Engineers with a degree in the Railway Railway Engineer, in 1988 - the Academy of Public Sciences.

He worked in various positions on the railway in Kuzbass, then in the regional committee of the CPSU. In 1988, he was appointed head of the Kemerovo railway, and two years later he was elected to the regional council of people's deputies. He became his chairman and - at the same time - the head of the Kemerovo Oblast Executive Committee. In 1994-1996 he headed the regional parliament.

Tuleyev ran three times to the post of president of Russia. In 1991, he gained 6.81% of the vote (fourth out of six), in 1996 he shot his candidacy in favor of the leader of the Communist Party of Gennady Zyuganov on the eve of the first round. In the 2000 elections, Tuleyev scored 2.95% of the vote, and almost all the voices were cast in the Kemerovo region, where he overtook Vladimir Putin and took first place.

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In 1996-1997, Aman Tuleyev was less than a year minister of the Russian Federation for cooperation with the CIS. On July 1, 1997, President Boris Yeltsin appointed him the head of the Kemerovo region. In September of the same year, Tuleyev won the governor's elections with a result of 94.5%.

In the summer of 1998, the miners of Kuzbass and Vorkuta, dissatisfied with many months of salary delays, blocked railways for several weeks. In the Kemerovo region, where the center of the strike movement was located, Tuleyev ordered an emergency regime, but did not use force actions against miners and told Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov that the requirements are legal and fair. As a result, some of the debts were repaid, the paths were released, and Tuleyev completed the so -called “rail war”.

In 2001, he re -elected prematurely and won with a result of 93.5% of the vote. After that, to the zero Tuleevs, they reassigned to this post twice, and in 2015 he again took part in the governor’s elections and scored 96.6%.