
Governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev. Photo: Maksim Konstantinov / Sopa Images / Lightroket / Getty Images
On the evening of June 26, two days after the end of the so -called rebellion of the PMC Wagner and Evgenia Prigozhin, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a statement in which he thanked the population "for endurance, cohesion and patriotism." “The highest consolidation of society, executive and legislative power at all levels was shown,” the head of state believes. All united and rallied the main thing - responsibility for the fate of the Fatherland. "
The words about the excerpt and cohesion of representatives of the legislative and executive branch caused special grinning among the inhabitants of Rostov-on-Don, who saw how these very representatives actually behaved after the “Wagnerians” armed invasion of the region.
It disappeared until six in the evening of Saturday not shown on Blue Screens Governor of the Rostov Region Vasily Golubev. However, he does not make a trick with the disappearance in historical watches for the region for the first time.
In the Rostov region, Vasily Golubev, a professional suburbs, appeared in 2010. In just four years of his presidency, Dmitry Medvedev managed to appoint 40 people, among which Golubev turned out to be appointed to the heads of regions. Most of these appointments, however,, after Putin’s return to the president’s chair, lost their posts. But some, for example, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin or the head of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, on the contrary, turned into real political heavyweights.
In contrast, Vasily Golubev retained his position not due to the growth of influence or exceptional efficiency, but due to phenomenal resourcefulness and a combination of circumstances tragic for the country.
"Lucky!" - They say about Vasily Golubev his former subordinates and political opponents.
The change of governor in 2010 in the Rostov region was an event predictable and unexpected at the same time. The former head of the region Vladimir Chub, who has for almost 19 years, who lasted almost 19 years, has long been the eyes of the “young St. Petersburg team”. However, the only explanation of why this rather inconspicuous submissive official was appointed to the post of governor of one of the most dynamically developing regions, it may be the origin of Golubev - he was born in the Tatsinsky district, in the Don, in the Shakhtar family, in 1957. He says that he tried to enter the Kharkov Aviation Institute, but did not go through the points and returned home - to work in the mine. He was not called into the army, but the next year he successfully entered the Moscow Institute of Management. Ordzhonikidze. He did not work for a long engineer for long: in 1983, as a member of the CPSU, he began his career as a party functionary in the suburbs. By the time of the collapse of the USSR, Golubev was the chairman of the Council of People's Deputies of Vidnoye, and then became the head of the district. In this position, he worked until transfer to the Rostov region. The most striking event in the professional life of Vasily Yuryevich can be called 1999, when he was briefly appointed vice-governor of the Moscow region and even actually managed it during the election. But his then chef Anatoly Zhelov lost the election, and Golubev had to return to the prominent.

It is believed that in this post from 2000 to 2002, Golubev began friendly relations with the then chairman of the Board of Directors of Gazprom, Dmitry Medvedev and other influential actors of the Russian politicum, who first helped him get to the Rostov Region and then kept afloat.
Vasily Golubev, Vasily Golubev, did not reach any outstanding results in the first four years of work as governor. He brought with him a rather motley team, most representatives of which had no intelligible biography. One of these people, a retired military colonel Sergei Gorban, he first made his vice-governor, and then the city manager of the regional center. In 2016, “wrapping” Rostov-on-Don for two years, a former colonel ... disappeared: after a two-year contract, he did not report to the deputies about the work done, claim a new contract, but went on vacation and, without explaining the reasons, did not return. In the public field, Sergei Gorban no longer appeared. About the same thing happened with the other former military man from the Golubev team - Sergey Trifonov, who oversee the construction sphere as deputy governor. In 2019, another “biography”, 56-year-old Yuri Molodchenko, quietly escaped from the government of the government. According to the results of the construction of the stadium, the Minister of Construction Sergey Sidash fell for the World Cup for Radia.
For abuses for three and a half years, the colony was received by the Minister of Housing and Public Utilities Andrei Mayer. Now there is a trial of the Minister of Health Tatyana Bykovskaya.
But all these events did not affect the fate of a person who appointed these positions to these positions and had to control their work.
In 2014, when the irritation caused by the work of the Golubev team reached the maximum of the security forces, the local elite and the population, the war in Ukraine began.
Vasily Golubev showed the first miracles of the “military” resourcefulness on February 28, 2014, when the escaped President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych appointed his press conference in Rostov-on-Don.
While the bewildered Yanukovych explained why he fled and blamed Vladimir Putin for a demonstrative unwillingness to provide him with political support, Vasily Golubev, according to the press service, went to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea with a friendly visit.

The second press conference of Yanukovych in Rostov-on-Don Vasily Golubev “walked” for no less good reason: Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev suddenly flew to the region to inspect the new conveyor of Rostselmash and discuss the prospects for export of domestic agricultural equipment with responsible persons.
Golubev never met Yanukovych, and further events are firmly and, it seems, forever pushed the Rostov governor into the "Galer of the Russian authorities".
In the summer of 2014, a stream of refugees from the Donbass poured into the region. The authorities made serious efforts to miss hundreds of thousands of people through the region. Refugees camps were organized, as well as work on their further transportation deep into the country.
Also, the authorities of the region under the direction of Vasily Golubev carried out work on the evacuation of orphanages from the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. This work continued in 2022, when on February 18, the authorities of the unrecognized republics of Donbass declared the evacuation of the population. Novy-Europe is reliably known about the orphanage from the Donetsk region, whose pupils were in the pioneer camp "Chamomile" near Taganrog. Their further fate is unknown, as well as the fate of hundreds of other Ukrainian orphans, which have been in Russia since 2014.
Vasily Golubev repeatedly received awards and words of gratitude from President Putin and was successfully re -elected in 2015 and 2020. Since 2015, it has been included in most western sanctions lists.
Moreover, in 2020, when one after another, his ministers found themselves in the field of view of law enforcement officers, Golubev again “spell”:
Kovid raged in the country, and in such a situation no one wanted to change the boring former party functionary.
Golubev received the next “label to reign” and continued to get away from fate. He stubbornly does not respond to any major stimuli, whether it is the criminal prosecution of the entire judicial elite of the region, including the chairman of the regional court, or the death of civilians as a result of ordinary rainfalls.
According to investigations (not refuted by anyone) local media, the wife and daughter of Golubev own a pharmacy network in the city of Vidnoye, as well as elite real estate in Moscow and the Moscow Region. The governor himself lives in the village of Voddadnaya near Rostov, often walks in the vicinity with his dog and has the same hobby as his friend Dmitry Medvedev: several years ago a collection of copyright photographs of the governor, which he made with the help of a professional camera during trips in the region, was published in Rostov.
The tragic events of Saturday June 24 threaten to put a bold point in the career of Golubev. On Friday, when all - without exaggeration - the country watched whether the Wagner PMC would go to Rostov, Vasily Golubev was expected ... disappeared. In his telegram channel for June 23, one patriotic record.
While his colleagues from other regions had already exploded roads to prevent the rebellion of the rebels to Moscow, Golubev asked the townspeople to remain calm at two in the morning through Telegram. Only by noon, when armed people had already blocked the headquarters of the Yuvo, police departments and the FSB department, he published his recognition of fidelity to the president - two hours after Putin’s official speech.
“In the history of Russia, there were times when our society wanted to split and light the flame of the civil war,” said Vasily Golubev’s official telegram channel. - The president in his appeal recalled: once it was already in our country, and this led to a disaster. Don remembers that bitter time well. This cannot be allowed again. Rostov region with the president! ”
A video message of the governor to fellow countrymen appeared only by six o’clock in the evening. There was nothing sensational in it - all the same calls to remain calm.
The main goal of the appearance of a reddened governor in the frame was a demonstration of the governor himself, living and healthy.
There were still no police officers, the FSB and the Russian Guard on the streets of Rostov. None of the representatives of the regional government, deputies and employees of the city administration went to armed people to at least clarify their plans and find out if the residents of the region are dangerous. Hundreds of Rostovites on Budyonnovsky Prospekt were photographed with invaders, brought them food and wished them success in the “campaign in Moscow”.
After the departure of the Wagnerians, the region healed the former life. Vasily Golubev initiated the adoption of the law on an increase in regional payments for contractors. The city administration took up the repair of 10 thousand square meters of the roadway, which was damaged by tanks and military equipment during the rebellion.
On July 1, the 66-year-old governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev has a meeting with youth.