In 1940, Vitaly Vorotnikov entered the engine-building department of the Voronezh Aviation Technical School, but without completing his studies, in February 1942 he got a job as a locksmith's apprentice at the Voronezh Steam Locomotive Repair Plant. In the summer of 1942, he was evacuated to the city of Kuibyshev, where he began working at the Kuibyshev Aviation Plant No. 18. In the fall of 1944, Vorotnikov was enrolled in the second year of the Kuibyshev Aviation Technical School and graduated with honors in 1947. In the same year he was admitted to the ranks of the CPSU (b). In 1948, V. Vorotnikov was appointed head of the technical-standardization bureau in the mechanical shop No. 34, in the same year he entered the evening department of the aircraft-building faculty of the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute, from which he graduated in 1954.
In April 1951, he was appointed deputy head of workshop No. 34 and was elected to the post of secretary of the workshop party organization, in 1954 he was appointed head of mechanical workshop No. 9, and in 1959 - head of the technical control department of the Kuibyshev Aviation Plant. In January 1960 V.I. Vorotnikov was appointed head of the industrial and transport department of the Kuibyshev regional committee of the CPSU, in September of the same year he was transferred to the post of head of the defense industry department of the Kuibyshev regional committee of the CPSU. In September 1961, he was elected secretary of the Kuibyshev regional committee of the CPSU for industry, at the beginning of 1963 - the second secretary of the Kuibyshev industrial regional committee of the CPSU. In the same year, he was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of the sixth convocation in the Soviet electoral district of the city of Kuibyshev.
In March 1967 V.I. Vorotnikov was elected chairman of the Kuibyshev regional executive committee of the Soviets of Deputies. In 1970 he was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, while remaining a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. In February 1971 V.I. Vorotnikov took over as first secretary of the Voronezh Regional Committee of the CPSU. In July 1975, he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, and in 1979 - Ambassador of the USSR to the Republic of Cuba.
In July 1982 V.I. Vorotnikov returned to the USSR and replaced S.F. Medunova as First Secretary of the Krasnodar Regional Committee of the CPSU. At the session of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR on June 24, 1983, he was appointed chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR. In October 1988, he was appointed chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. After leaving this post in May 1990, V.I. Vorotnikov until December 1991 was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, in April 1991 he officially resigned from his powers as a people's deputy of the RSFSR. Since 1992, he has been a member of the Presidium of the Council of the All-Russian public organization veterans (pensioners) of war, labor, armed forces and law enforcement agencies. IN AND. Vorotnikov was a delegate to the 23-27th congresses of the CPSU, was elected a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU at the 24th-27th congresses of the CPSU, was a deputy of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 8th-12th convocations from the Voronezh region; Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR 6, 7, 10-12-th convocations. He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow.
Machine-building plant named after V.I. Lenin.
1973.05.01 Voronezh, tribune at the demonstration, in the center - the 1st secretary of the regional committee V. Vorotnikov
- During the reign of Vorotnikov, an increase in gross output agriculture In the Voronezh region, the average for the year was about 115%, the fourth and fifth power units of the Novovoronezh NPP, a mineral fertilizer plant in the Rossosh district, and Pavlovsky GOK were put into operation. Supply was established, housing was built, problems were solved in the activities of many factories, design bureaus and research institutes, Pavlovsky GOK, the development of the city economy was carried out.
- In 1973 ... - per achieved results Voronezh Oblast was awarded the Order of Lenin in its work, and Vorotnikov received the Order of Lenin.
- July 1975-1979 - First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR.
- 1979 - July 1982 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the Republic of Cuba, appointed thanks to his personal acquaintance with Fidel Castro, who visited Voronezh in the summer of 1973. In his post, Vitaly Vorotnikov took part in the construction of a nuclear power plant in the province of Cienfuegos (remained unfinished), in the design and construction of a nickel plant in Punta Gorda, in reconstruction metallurgical plant in Havana, in the development of oil fields in the provinces of Matanzas and Pinar del Rio, and in many other projects. Since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US government has again increased pressure on Cuba before the 6th Conference of Non-Aligned Countries, held in 1979. In early 1980, due to a new information attack carried out by the US special services, a new wave of emigration sentiment flared up in Cuba, and thanks to the efforts of the Soviet embassy in Havana and Vorotnikov personally, the incident around the "training center No. 12" was resolved.
- July 1982 - June 1983 - First Secretary of the Krasnodar Regional Committee of the CPSU.
- June 1983 - October 1988 - Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR.
- October 1988 - May 1990 - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.
- Until December 1991, he continued to work as a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
- Since 1992 - member of the Presidium of the Council of the All-Russian public organization of veterans (pensioners) of war, labor, the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies.
- He died on February 19, 2012. Buried on February 22, 2012 at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow.
Wife - Vorotnikova Nina Fedorovna. Daughters: Olga, Elena.
From June 1983 he lived in Moscow.
Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 8-12th convocations.
Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of the 6th, 7th, 10th, 11th and 12th convocations.
People's Deputy of the RSFSR (elected in March 1990, resigned in April 1991)
Member of the CPSU (b) -KPSS from 1947 to August 1991. Delegate of the XXIII-XXVII Congress of the CPSU, a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU since the XXIV Congress. Since the 1980s. - candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, then a member of the Politburo.
Honorary Citizen of Voronezh (1996)
The president community "Voronezh residents in Moscow".
Hero of Socialist Labor (January 17, 1986) - " for great services to the CPSU and the USSR and in connection with the sixtieth anniversary of his birth "
State awards:
- Hammer and Sickle Medal of the Hero of Socialist Labor (January 17, 1986)
- order of Lenin (1971) - for work in the Kuibyshev (Samara) region
- order of Lenin (1973) - for work in the Voronezh region
- order of Lenin (1982?) - for diplomatic services in Cuba
- order of Lenin (January 17, 1986) - in the appendix to the Star of the Hero of Socialist Labor
- 3 Orders of the Red Banner of Labor
- order Patriotic War I degree (1985, received in violation of the statute of the order, because he did not fight, but in 1985 he was a major official and really wanted a military order)
- order of the Badge of Honor
- order of Honor
- medals
Awards of foreign countries:
- order of Solidarity (1982), Cuba - the first holder of the order
- other foreign orders and medals
Other awards:
- three Great Gold Medals of the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements
Works:
- Vorotnikov V.I., Korotkov M.F. NOT and party work. - Kuibyshev book publishing house, 1968
- Vorotnikov VI And it was like this ... From the diary of a member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. - M.,: Council of Veterans of Book Publishing, SI-MAR, 1995
- Vorotnikov V.I. Such is the generation ...: Memories. - M.,: ZAO Print-Service, 1999
- Vorotnikov VI And it was like this ... From the diary of a member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. - 2nd ed. - M.,: Book and Business, 2003
- Vorotnikov V.I. Havana-Moscow: memorable years. - M.,: I.D. Sytina, 2001
- Vorotnikov V.I. - M.,: ITRK, 2007
- Vorotnikov V. I. Memorable meetings on the way: (pages from diary entries). - M.,: Childhood. Adolescence. Youth, 2009
- Vorotnikov V.I.Revelations. About time, about power, about yourself: a collection of interviews. - M.,: Modern Economics and Law, 2010
IvanShabanov about Vorotnikov (2012):
“It was a phenomenon, even, I would say, at that time - a turn in all affairs of the Voronezh region. Each plenum of the regional committee of the CPSU, each session of the regional council - it was an event. I still remember that the second plenum of the regional committee of the CPSU made a decision on specialization And after that, grandiose (livestock) facilities were immediately built, which began to give effect. Also: Vitaly Ivanovich was distinguished by his statesmanship. The arrival of Fidel Castro in Voronezh in 1972 together with Kosygin was no coincidence. "
Heroes of Socialist Labor of the Voronezh Territory
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The first secretaries of the Voronezh Provincial Committee-Regional Committee of the RCP (B) -VKP (B) -KPSS, the actual owners of the region (October 1917-August 1991):
- Kardashev Nikolai Nikolaevich. October 1917-October 1919
- Smirnov Petr Dmitrievich. March - June 1919
- Sergushev Mikhail Sergeevich. October 1919 - October 1920
- Sulkovsky Fyodor Vladimirovich. October 1920 - January 1921
- Baklaev Georgy Pavlovich (acting). January - February 1921
- Nosov Ivan Petrovich. March - June 1921
- Ageev Sergey Petrovich. September 1921 - October 1922
- Bykin (Berkovich) Yakov Borisovich. October 1922 - January 1925
- Kryukov Pyotr Vasilievich. January 1925 - July 1926
- Okhlopkov. July 1926 - January 1927
- Byrne Johann Genrikhovich. February 1927 - July 1928
- Vareikis Iosif Mikhailovich. August 1928 - March 1935
Vorotnikov Vitaly Ivanovich - Russian Soviet statesman and party leader, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
Born January 20, 1926 in the city of Voronezh in the family of turner Ivan Tikhonovich Vorotnikov (1897-1937) and housewife Olga Zakharovna Vorotnikova (1900-1979). Russian. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1947. Graduated from school in Voronezh. In 1940 he entered the Voronezh Aviation College, the department of engine building.
The Great Patriotic War interrupted his studies. In February 1942, Vorotnikov got a job as a locksmith's apprentice at the Voronezh Locomotive Repair Plant named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky, in the tool workshop of the boiler shop. In the summer of 1942, on the eve of the occupation of Voronezh by the Nazi troops, Vorotnikov left the city, and for some time was in the front line in the village of Krasny Liman, working on a collective farm. In September 1942, with a train of refugees, mainly from the families of workers at the Voronezh Aviation Plant No. 18, together with his mother, he was evacuated to the city of Kuibyshev (since 1991 - Samara), to the Bezymyanka station, where the plant itself was relocated in the fall of 1941.
In October 1942, Vorotnikov became the controller of the Technical Control Department (OTK) of the mechanical shop No. 1 of the Kuibyshev plant No. 18 and for many years connected his fate with the aviation industry. In the spring of 1943, along with the production of Il-2 aircraft, preparations for the production of a new all-metal Il-10 attack aircraft began at the plant. Soon Vorotnikov was transferred to the pattern group of the main tool shop No. 20. According to the staff schedule, his position was part of the control and measuring laboratory (KIL) of the Quality Control Department, which checked all the means of metrological control at the plant. Things were going well at Vorotnikov's plant: he gradually got used to the job, then began to carry out complex control of high-precision instruments, received the 7th grade.
In the fall of 1944, Vorotnikov was enrolled in the second year of the Kuibyshev Aviation Technical School, where he studied as a technician-technologist for cold metal cutting, which was closest to him in his work at the plant. In 1947 he graduated from the technical school with honors and was assigned to work as a technologist in the Department of the Chief Technologist (OGT) at his native Kuibyshev Aviation Plant No. 18. At this time, the plant began production of the Tu-4 strategic heavy bomber. In 1948, Vorotnikov went to work as the head of the technology and standardization bureau in the mechanical workshop No. 34, which was preparing to release the main frame structures of Tu-4 units.
In 1948, Vorotnikov entered the evening department of the aircraft engineering faculty of the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute. In April 1951, he was appointed deputy head of workshop No. 34, which was already working at full capacity. In the same year he was elected secretary of the shop party organization.
After graduating from the institute in 1954, Vorotnikov became the head of mechanical workshop No. 9 - one of the main at the plant, which produced units, assemblies and parts of the main life support systems for the Tu-95 intercontinental strategic bomber. In September 1955, the plant's communists elected Vorotnikov as the plant's party committee secretary. In 1959 he was appointed head of the plant's technical control department.
In January 1960, at the Plenum of the Kuibyshev Regional Committee of the CPSU, Vorotnikov was elected to the post of head of the industrial and transport department of the Kuibyshev Regional Committee of the CPSU.
Vorotnikov's transition to work in the regional party committee coincided in time with a serious restructuring of the country's national economy, associated with the transition from the sectoral to the territorial principle of managing industry and construction - through the Soviets of the National Economy (Economic Councils), and then a change in the structure of the party leadership. In September 1960, Vorotnikov was offered the post of head of the defense industry department of the Kuibyshev regional committee of the CPSU. He enthusiastically joined the work, especially since the time was hot. Several Kuibyshev plants were directly involved in the space program, it was already about the preparation of the first manned flight into space. So fate brought him together with S.P. Korolev, the first meeting with whom took place in January 1961. Most of the time Vorotnikov spent at the factories: meetings, discussion of technical and organizational problems, disputes about the supply of components, the timing of the delivery of missiles, analysis with representatives of OKB-1 of the next launches and identified comments.
In September 1961, Vorotnikov was elected secretary of the Kuibyshev regional committee of the CPSU for industry. In 1962, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, a decision was made to restructure the party organs according to the so-called production principle (in the regions and territories of the country, party organizations were divided into two: industrial and rural). In early 1963, Vorotnikov was elected second secretary of the Kuibyshev Industrial Regional Committee of the CPSU. Soon, deputy duties were added to his main work - he became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of the 6th convocation, in the Soviet electoral district of the city of Kuibyshev.
In March 1967 Vorotnikov was elected chairman of the Kuibyshev regional executive committee. This period was marked by the rapid development of the region's industry, the commissioning of the Volga Automobile Plant in the city of Togliatti. In November 1970, Kuibyshev oblast was awarded the Order of Lenin for successes in the development of the national economy in the 8th five-year plan. In August of the following year, Vorotnikov was awarded the order Lenin. In 1970, at the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Vorotnikov became a deputy of the country's highest legislative body, while remaining a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. Work in the regional executive committee was a good school of management.
Vorotnikov's successes in the leadership of the Kuibyshev region did not go unnoticed. In February 1971, he was elected first secretary of the Voronezh regional committee of the CPSU. He is tasked with overcoming the serious lag of the Voronezh region from other regions of Central Russia in the development of agriculture. He devoted the entire first year of work in his new position to acquaintance with all 29 districts of the region: it was necessary to thoroughly understand the situation in the village. These trips were aimed not so much at solving momentary problems as preparing proposals for developing a comprehensive program for raising the region's agriculture in the future. The regional party committee, headed by Vorotnikov, attracted a group of scientists and specialists for this, which, step by step, worked out recommendations on various areas of the industry's development. The program also provided for the solution of social problems of the village. For four years (1971-1974), compared with the previous five years, the increase in gross agricultural output averaged about 115% per year. The region achieved the highest indicators in 1973, when plans for all indicators of agricultural production were overfulfilled. The region was awarded the Order of Lenin for the high results achieved in its work. In 1973, Vorotnikov was again awarded the Order of Lenin.
In addition to the problems of agriculture under the leadership of Vorotnikov, the problems of industry were also successfully solved in the region. These are the Novovoronezh NPP, the commissioning of the 4th and 5th units, the activities of many other plants, design bureaus and research institutes, the construction of a nitrogen fertilizer plant in the Rossoshsky district, the Pavlovsky GOK, housing construction, and the development of urban facilities.
In the summer of 1972, an event took place that played an important role in fate. Leader of Cuba visited Voronezh Fidel Castro ... In July 1975, Vorotnikov received a high appointment, he became First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR.
In 1979, Vorotnikov was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the Republic of Cuba. When selecting a candidate for this job, it was taken into account, along with other factors, and the fact that he was personally familiar with Fidel Castro ... After completing a three-month internship, on April 18, 1979, Vorotnikov arrived in Havana. In those years, the directions and volumes of cooperation between the USSR and Cuba were very wide and varied. The Ambassador's greatest attention was demanded by the issues of economic cooperation between the two countries. This is the construction of a nuclear power plant in the province of Cienfuegos, the design and construction of a nickel plant in Punta Gorda, the reconstruction of a metallurgical plant in Havana, and the development of oil fields in the provinces of Matanzas and Pinar del Rio. All these and many other projects were in the immediate competence of the Ambassador. The decision on their fate, control over the progress of implementation were made by Vorotnikov, the leaders of Cuba, and the ministers of the Union Government. Under After there was a permanent Economic Council, in 1981 the State Planning Committee of the USSR opened its representative office in Havana. A special place in Vorotnikov's activities was occupied by issues of inter-party ties, contacts through numerous public organizations, tasks of strengthening the defense, and specific problems of the military.
The time of Vorotnikov's stay as USSR Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Cuba was characterized by a difficult political situation around Cuba. Since the "Cuban Missile Crisis" in 1962, the United States has not stopped putting pressure on Cuba. Another volley of attacks hit Cuba in 1979, on the eve of the VI Conference of Non-Aligned Countries in Havana. The Soviet embassy carefully watched the preparations for the conference and regularly informed the Center about all the nuances of this company. A powerful information surge about the Soviet military presence on the island caused a new surge in emigration sentiment in early 1980, incited by the US intelligence services. The situation became even more aggravated as a result of direct confrontation with the USSR after the Afghan events. Thanks to the efforts of the Soviet embassy and Vorotnikov personally, the crisis around the so-called incident with the "training center No. 12" was resolved.
Vorotnikov's diplomatic services were awarded the Order of Lenin, and in August 1982 he became the first holder of the Cuban Order of Solidarity.
After completing his powers in Cuba, in July 1982 Vorotnikov was elected first secretary of the Krasnodar Regional Committee of the CPSU. Based on the experience of working in Kuibyshev and Voronezh, he began with an acquaintance with affairs and people not only in Krasnodar, but also in the periphery, in cities and districts of the region, at enterprises and farms. With the direct participation of Vorotnikov, the master plan for the development of the city of Krasnodar, its part of the Kuban, was revised.
On June 24, 1983, at a session of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, Vorotnikov was appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR. For five years (1983-1988) Vorotnikov headed the Government of the RSFSR, was elected a candidate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, a member of the Politburo, which means that he belonged to that group of top Soviet leaders who formed and implemented the internal and foreign policy countries. At the first stages of perestroika, Vorotnikov, like many other party and state leaders of that time, considered the reforms that had begun to be vital. But he had sharp disagreements with the first leaders of the country regarding the strategy and tactics of economic and political transformations.
By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 17, 1986 for great services to the Communist Party and the Soviet state and in connection with the sixtieth anniversary of his birth to a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR Vorotnikov Vitaly Ivanovich awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle gold medal.
In October 1988, Vorotnikov was appointed Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. After resigning from this post in May 1990, he continued to work as a member of the Supreme Council until December 1991. In April 1991, he officially resigned from his post as People's Deputy of the RSFSR.
In November 1988, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, a decision was made on political reform state system... Vorotnikov expressed disagreement with its principles, during the period of aggravation of interethnic relations in the USSR, he spoke of the need to strengthen the unity of the multinational USSR. In October 1989, a large meeting was held in the Central Committee of the CPSU on the question of the political structure in the RSFSR, at which Vorotnikov spoke out against the formation of an independent Communist Party in the RSFSR. On these and many other fundamental issues, Vorotnikov took positions different from the line of M.S. Gorbachev.
Since 1992, Vorotnikov has been a member of the Presidium of the Council of the All-Russian public organization of veterans (pensioners) of war, labor, the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies.
Vorotnikov was a delegate to the XXIII-XXVII CPSU congresses, was elected a member of the CPSU Central Committee at the XXIV and subsequent party congresses. Since June 1983, a candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, and from December 1983 to July 1990, a member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. He was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 8-12th convocations; Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of the 6th, 7th, 10th, 11th and 12th convocations.
Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov belongs to that cohort of the highest state and party leaders Soviet Union Twentieth century, who went through a difficult life school, worked in various fields and left a positive, tangible mark on the national economy of the country, in the development of specific regions and, perhaps most importantly, in the lives and souls of people. Vorotnikov had to pass the test of power, almost absolute, to make decisions on which the course of the history of a huge state and its citizens depended.
He lived in the hero city of Moscow. Died on February 19, 2012. He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow.
He was awarded 4 Soviet Orders of Lenin (08/27/1971, 12/11/1973, 02/25/1982, 01/17/1986), the Order of the October Revolution (01/19/1976), 3 Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (07/12/1957, 05/28/1966, 05/20/1981) , Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (04/23/1985), "Badge of Honor" (06/17/1961), russian order Honor (2001), medals, including 3 Great Gold Medals of the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements, as well as orders and medals of foreign states, including the Order of Solidarity (1982, Cuba).
Honorary Citizen of Voronezh (1996).
In the city of Voronezh, on the house where the Hero lived (street Dzerzhinsky, 3), a memorial plaque was installed.
Vorotnikov Vitaly Ivanovich
1926–2012
January 18, 2016 marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the state, political and public figure Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov (01/18/1926 - 02/19/2012). V. I. Vorotnikov - Hero of Socialist Labor (1986), honorary citizen of Voronezh (1996) and the Voronezh region (2000). Was born in Voronezh.
In 1954 he graduated from the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute. In 1960-1971. He served as head of the defense industry department, secretary, second secretary of the Kuibyshev regional committee of the CPSU, chairman of the Kuibyshev regional executive committee.
In 1971-1975. - First Secretary of the Voronezh Regional Committee of the CPSU.
In 1975-1979. - First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR. 1979 to 1983 was the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the USSR to the Republic of Cuba. In 1983-1988. - Chairman of the Councils of Ministers of the RSFSR. 1988-1990 - Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.
Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1969-1988) (in 1974-1988 - from the Voronezh region). For seven years he was a member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee.
Vitaly Ivanovich Vorotnikov was awarded state awards of the USSR: Hero of Socialist Labor (1986), four Orders of Lenin (1971, 1973, 1982, 1986), Order of the October Revolution (1976), three Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (1957, 1966, 1981), Order World War I degree (1985), Order of the Badge of Honor (1961) and state awards Russian Federation: Order of Honor (2001).
From 1992 until his death, Vitaly Ivanovich headed the "Voronezh community" in Moscow. He was one of the first to receive the status of “Honorary Citizen” of the city of Voronezh and the Voronezh Region ”.
In December 2012 in Voronezh on the street. Dzerzhinsky on the house number 3, where Vitaly Ivanovich lived while working as the first secretary of the Voronezh regional committee of the CPSU, a memorial plaque was installed.
V.I.Vorotnikov is the author of many books that are stored in the Voronezh Regional Universal scientific library named after I. Nikitin. His memories and reflections reproduce the era of the second half of the 20th century. Vorotnikov's books are largely based on documents from the archives of the Politburo and the Supreme Soviet of Russia, the party archive of Voronezh. He also kept a business diary for many years, in which he recorded the facts and content of business meetings, conversations and telephone conversations. Archives and diary entries help to understand the chronicle of life in those years: the collapse of the USSR, the events of perestroika and other political situations that took place in our country. Many of Vorotnikov's books are autobiographical.
His books - “And it was so. From the diary of a member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee "(1995); "Havana - Moscow: memorable years" (2001), "Whom the memory keeps" (2007), "Memorable meetings on the way: (pages from diary entries)" (2009), "Such a generation ..." (1999, 2011), "Chronicle of the absurd: the separation of Russia from the USSR" (2011) - are valuable historical sources for all those who are interested in the times our country experienced.
V. Vorotnikov's books "Revelations: about time, about power, about oneself" (2010) and "About the past and the present: questions, answers, reflections" (2011) published interviews with correspondents of foreign and Soviet media, as well as conversations with Voronezh journalists P. Lependin and P. Popov, who were also published in the newspaper "Voronezh Courier" (2006, 2007, 2011, 2012). Articles and reviews about V. I. Vorotnikov's books were published in Voronezh newspapers, magazines Koltsovskiy Square (2004, No. 2), and "Rise" (2011, No. 9).
In the book “The Age of a Person: By the 70th comprehensive school No. 5 named after KP Feoktistov ”(Voronezh, 2002), an article was published by an employee of the regional studies department of the VOUNB im. I. Nikitina