
As is usually the case in the environment of political animals, right there, without waiting for the funeral on October 16 (in the city - the day of mourning), there were versions about the incliction of the accident and about those benefits that the young “red” governor Valentin Konovalov will extract.
A year ago, when a multi -way epic with the elections of the head of Khakassia finally entered a dead end for the Kremlin, the presidential administration invited Bulakin to head the region. He would have succeeded. And, appointed by the I.O., he could easily win the elections - even with the Communist Konovalov, at least any other opponent: he was chosen six times by the mayor, he was in this post a quarter of a century, but despite such a (record for mayors of the capital of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation), both in Abakan and in the republic, he was respected, or even loved. However, Bulakin refused the Kremlin’s proposal (even having withstood Putin Kiriyenko’s call about the Khakassky impasse, he took place just at the time of the conversation of the first deputy leader of the presidential administration with an urgently called mayor of Abakan).
But it’s not even interesting that Bulakin refused the Kremlin in his games, leaving the right to choose the right to choose (including Konovalov), and the fact that Bulakin was openly openly about all the people and told.
Including in detail about scenarios scheduled outside the folk will. In the program "Hour of the mayor" of Abakan TV, he said:
“I refused, and my argument is irresistible: the elections are still going. In order for the president to appoint me the acting, I must resign from the post of head of the city, and this does not suit me. I just chose, and the townspeople reached me confidence. My arguments were perceived, perhaps not with very great pleasure. ”

And now the local segment of the network space is full of reasoning that Bulakin was disturbed by Konovalov, that the mayor of the city of the city from communist “encroachments”, 10 days ago “gave the hands of the garbage collar, who, with the support of the deputy chairman of the Khakassia government, wanted to build a sorting point of waste right in the city of the city”, “easily turned the head of the republic into a laughinghouse during his Direct broadcasts ”that“ the young man always zealously treated Bulakin and had long dreamed of moving him for a long time, ”that“ there was no competitor - there is no problem ”, that the mayor of Abakan was a figure“ around which the heads of other municipalities of Khakassia could be consolidated with Konovalov’s attempts to climb into the pocket of local self -government. ” And now the region has completely moved away "red."
The details from the scene of the accident were shared by a colleague Mikhail Afanasyev:
“The incredible power of impact on the rather massive“ Ford - Explorer ”is striking about two poplars. The car, as if right through the air, flew 3-4 meters above a small ravine and, turning over, hit the trees. There is no brake route at all. Interestingly, I just can’t find the source of the version that Nikolai Bulakin became ill with his heart at the wheel and that, they say, this is the cause of a deadly accident. The tragedy occurred territorially in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and where would the local police know that Nikolai Bulakin had bad hearts. Although - if only as a version? "
However, Afanasyev found out that the mayor really felt bad in the morning, the city hall employees also report. After lunch, he went to the country. There was no ice, the weather was clear. On this segment where everything happened (on the 433rd kilometer of the R-257 federal highway, in the area of the village of Topolka, the Minusinsky district), it is difficult to accelerate more than 120 km/h, the movement here is usually dense. At the same time, the car looks like flying from a cliff - the speed was very large. Probably, a heart attack could make the gas pedal to stop or confuse it with the brake.
Bulakin was 66 years old. He was born in Tomsk, a graduate of the MECHMATE of Moscow State University, the head of the audience of computer science and computing equipment in the Abakan pedagogue, went into politics in the late 80s as a democrat. In recent years - a member of the "EP". In 1992, he was elected the first vice speaker of the Supreme Council of Khakassia. Then, since 1995,-the permanent mayor of Abakan.