Heading to Chechnya, Boris Berezovsky (at that moment the official representative of the federal center) first went to Maskhadov, and only then flew to Khankala, to the headquarters of the UGV.

After listening to the convicted high power Berezovsky, Pulikovsky turned pale, but immediately, having gathered himself, began to mint the words:

I, as the commander of the group, do not agree with this position and believe that you should first of all meet with the leadership of the United Group of Forces. We have gathered here for a long time and are waiting for you. We have something to say. Before meeting with Maskhadov, were you really not interested in our opinion, our assessment of the situation?

You say without thinking about those people who are now in Grozny, completely surrounded by blood, - Pulikovsky "boiled". “They are waiting for my help. I promised…

I will buy you and resell you, General, together with your people, together with your entire dead group! Do you understand what your promises and ultimatums are worth? ..

The officers, unwitting witnesses to the conversation, bowed their heads. Pulikovsky could hardly restrain himself. He clenched his fists, turned abruptly and walked away, feeling Boris Abramovich's "firing squad" gaze on his back ...

On the same day, the Supreme Commander was reported to Moscow that the commander's tough position was explained not by military necessity, but by personal motives: they say, in Chechnya, the general's son-officer died, and now he is driven by a thirst for revenge, that in order to satisfy ambitions he is ready to wipe the city off the face of the earth. Rumors about the general who had contracted the Chechen "bacillus of blood feud" spread through the corridors of power in Moscow. Pulikovsky, to put it mildly, was pushed aside from the leadership of the group of troops. All this happened a few days before the signing in Khasavyurt of the "end of the war" agreement.

After the incident, Konstantin Borisovich held out in the army for a little more than six months. The last time I saw him in military uniform was in March 1997, on my 50th birthday. And in April, being already the deputy commander of the North Caucasus Military District for emergency situations, he wrote a letter of resignation from the ranks of the Armed Forces. His immediate superior, Colonel-General A. Kvashnin, gave his consent. Konstantin Borisovich became a civilian and went to Krasnodar, but he could not stay at home. I went to work in the regional administration. He practically did not maintain any contacts with the military leadership. However, he sometimes called me on the phone, we even met with families, but tried not to talk about Chechnya.

“They broke the man,” the headquarters said sympathetically when his name was mentioned. Evil tongues even claimed that the retired general began to drink. I knew it wasn't true ...

We met back in the winter of 1985 in Moscow, at the advanced training courses for the command staff at the Academy of Armored Forces. Trained as commander and chief of staff of a division. We managed to make friends in a short time. Even after leaving, they tried to keep in touch, occasionally called up.

Fate brought us together again in February 1995, after the capture of Grozny. Pulikovsky was in command of the Eastern Group, and I was in command of the South. Together with Kvashnin, we arrived in Khankala to see the base for the headquarters of the UGV on the spot, the state of the airfield - how suitable it is for our aviation. There we met with Kostya. They hugged each other tightly and kissed. All around impassable dirt, piercing wind. We ourselves are grimy, chilled, but our souls are warm, joyful, as happens when meeting with a loved one.

A little later, I became the commander of the 58th Army, and he became the commander of the 67th Army Corps. Everyone has their own worries and problems, their own area of \u200b\u200bresponsibility ... We rarely saw each other.

After a while, I learned that Kostya's son had died: an officer, captain, deputy battalion commander. He served in the Moscow Military District and came to Chechnya to replace him. I spent only a week in my regiment, just accepted the post. In April 1996, under Yaryshmardy, Khattab with his thugs shot our column, almost a hundred people died. His son was also walking in the column. The general was shocked by the terrible news.

It was not too much trouble for him to save his son from a business trip to Chechnya. I know people (there are, unfortunately, a lot of them) who willingly went to any lengths to "grease" their children, nephews, brothers from serving in the "hot spot". General Pulikovsky was of a different kind: he served his homeland honestly, never looked for "warm places", he demanded the same from others, including his own son.

From the same cohort, by the way, is General G. Shpak ( airborne commander) and General A. Sergeev (commander of the Volga Military District), who also lost their sons to chechen war... The children of the dead generals A. Otrakovsky and A. Rogov fought. The children passed through Chechnya (thank God, they survived) of generals A. Kulikov, M. Labunets and many others.

When sometimes the mothers of the children who died in the war reproach the military leaders for their heartlessness, or even cruelty towards their subordinates, I understand their emotional state and do not blame them for it. I just ask you to remember that the children of many generals did not hide behind the broad backs of their fathers, on the contrary - the honor of the surname obliged them to go on the attack first. It is a pity that our society does not know anything about this. But you must know. Otherwise, people will believe Berezovsky more than Pulikovsky ...

The bereavement crippled the general, but did not defeat him. Finished off the fact that so hastily reconciled with the separatists, having swallowed his plan for the destruction of militants in Grozny - carefully thought out, literate from a military point of view. Many of his plans were implemented in the January-February 2000 operation. Then the city was completely blocked - the mouse would not slip through. A "corridor" was envisaged for the exit of the population, the detention of those bandits who smeared themselves with the blood of innocent people. For those who refused to surrender - fire from all means. The operation would confirm the determination and consistency of the federal authorities in the fight against banditry and terrorism. I am sure that if Pulikovsky's ultimatum had been carried out, the Basayevs and the Khattabs would not have gotten loose, there would have been no criminal lawlessness in Chechnya, no terrorist attacks in Buinaksk, Moscow, Volgodonsk, Vladikavkaz, no aggression in Dagestan, or a second war in the Caucasus.

One of the greats said: “The East loves a quick judgment. Even if he is wrong, but fast. " There is something here ...

Feeling that the federal center was "stalling," the bandits became insolent: the endless "negotiations" were perceived not as Moscow's desire for peace, but as a weakness of the state. And in some ways, apparently, they were right. One of the indicators of this is a deliberately formed false public opinion... Let's take the same collection of signatures (in the spring of 1996) in Nizhny Novgorod and the region "against the war in Chechnya." I do not want to blame its initiator Boris Nemtsov, and even more so the people who put their autographs on signature lists, but I dare to assume with confidence that if even politicians who were much more popular than Nemtsov decided to organize such actions in the Kuban or Stavropol Territories, they would have been given turn from the gate. In the South of Russia, people, as they say, have experienced firsthand what criminal Chechnya is. They did not have to look at the TV screen or in the newspapers, clarifying certain nuances of the conflict in the Caucasus. Their firm position has been gained through life. And on the Middle Volga, many believed in the biased (sometimes sincerely mistaken) press and responded to the dubious appeals of politicians far from the problems of Chechnya.

Pulikovsky knew the Caucasus, knew how to deal with the "abreks" who were stupefied with impunity, knew how to come to real peace - through the destruction of those who, by and large, do not need peace. It was difficult to deceive him with the signatures of Nizhniy Novgorod, which Boris Yeltsin willingly “pecked at”. And it was absolutely impossible to buy, as B. Berezovsky boastfully threatened.

In that bad period russian history combat experience, decency, soldier's loyalty to the oath were not at a special price. His fatherly feelings were dirtyly perverted, used for selfish purposes, his general's honor was tarnished, forcing him to break his word, not to fulfill his promise. What normal combat officer can handle this? Of course, Konstantin Borisovich broke down internally, closed in on himself, left the army, to which he gave the best three decades of his life. It seemed to me that he lost everything in this war. I confess I was afraid that he would not rise again. But, thank God, other times have come.

The idea of \u200b\u200bappointing Pulikovsky as his plenipotentiary in the Far Eastern Federal District was suggested to V. Putin by A. Kvashnin, since he could vouch for a military general, a high-ranking man with a clear conscience, who also possessed enormous organizational experience.

We met with Konstantin before his departure to Khabarovsk, to the place of his new "service". It was June of the year 2000. The main forces of the bandits in Grozny have already been defeated, the huge gang of R. Gelayev has been destroyed in Komsomolskoye, the president again firmly declared: “A self-respecting government does not negotiate with the bandits. It either isolates them from society, or destroys them ... "

Pulikovsky was on an emotional upsurge, did not hide his joy. We didn’t talk about bad things, we recalled only pleasant moments from the past. They joked about how they confused us. We are somewhat similar to Kostya, first of all, apparently, in the timbre of our voice and the manner of speaking ... Once even my wife, having seen a short interview by Pulikovsky on the TV screen, at first took him for me.

We laughed heartily then, probably for the first time in the last four years.

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Russian statesman. Lieutenant General of the Russian Armed Forces.
Vice-rector for educational work Krasnodar Institute of Culture.
Active State Counselor Russian Federation first class.
Advisor to the Speaker of the Federation Council (2008-2012). Leader Federal Service on environmental and nuclear supervision (2005-2008). Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in the Far Eastern Federal District (2000-2005). Commander of the military group of troops in the Chechen Republic, Deputy Commander of the North Caucasian Military District (1996-1998). Until 1996 he held command positions in operational units of the Armed Forces on the territory of Turkmenistan, Estonia, Lithuania, the Caucasus.

Konstantin Pulikovsky was born on February 9, 1948 in the city of Ussuriysk, Primorsky Territory. The boy grew up in the family of a military man. After school, in 1970 he graduated with honors from the Ulyanovsk Higher Command Tank School, then Military academy Armored Forces named after Rodion Malinovsky and the Higher Academy General Staff... Since 1970, he served in the Belarusian, Baltic and Turkestan military districts.

From December 1994 to August 1996, he commanded the North-West grouping of federal forces in the Chechen Republic. From July to August 1996, he headed the united grouping of federal forces in Chechnya.

His eldest son, Captain Aleksey Pulikovsky, served in Chechnya as deputy commander of a tank battalion of the 245th combined regiment stationed near the village of Shatoi. In the hustle and bustle of the redeployment of troops, Konstantin Borisovich could not keep track of the movements in the service of his own son, he did not even immediately find out that he was subordinate to Alexei, who heroically died on December 14, 1995 in the operation to free the ambushed reconnaissance group of the regiment. The father buried his eldest son in the city of Krasnodar.

In August 1996, when the militants managed to capture the city of Grozny, Konstantin Borisovich presented an ultimatum to the residents of the city, demanding to leave it before the attack began. russian troops... But General Alexander Lebed and Boris Berezovsky who arrived at that time big influence, revised Pulikovsky's ultimatum, and the assault did not take place.

At the end of the first Chechen campaign, Konstantin Pulikovsky from 1996 to 1998 was the deputy commander of the North Caucasian Military District. In 1998 he retired with the rank of lieutenant general.

After his resignation, Pulikovsky took the post of assistant to the mayor of Krasnodar for work with municipal enterprises and head of the city improvement committee. In early 2000, he was the head of the Krasnodar regional campaign headquarters of the presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.

On May 18, 2000, Konstantin Pulikovsky was appointed Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the Far Eastern Federal District. From July to August 2001, he accompanied the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during his visit to the Russian Federation, with whom he held many hours of talks.

At the post plenipotentiary Pulikovsky clashed with the head of the Primorsky Territory, Yevgeny Nazdratenko, due to which in February 2001 the latter was removed from his post of governor and appointed head of the State Fisheries Committee. In parallel, the presidential representative was also involved in economics. For example, in Khabarovsk, they began to use a mortgage to replenish the regional budget. They built multi-storey buildings at the expense of budget funds and successfully sold them.

By the decree of the President of Russia dated November 14, 2005, Pulikovsky was relieved of the post of Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District. A month later, Konstantin Borisovich was appointed head of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision. He held this post for three years.

From 2008 to 2012, Pulikovsky was an adviser to the speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament, first with Sergei Mironov, and then with Valentina Matvienko.

Later, Konstantin Borisovich moved to Krasnodar, where he took the position of vice-rector for educational work in Krasnodar Institute culture. In addition, he is engaged social activities in the regional department of the military-historical society.

Konstantin Pulikovsky has written several books “The Orient Express. Across Russia with Kim Jong Il ”,“ Stolen Retribution ”and“ From Here Russia Begins ”.

Konstantin Pulikovsky's awards

Order of Merit to the Fatherland, IV degree (February 1, 2003) - for a great contribution to the strengthening of Russian statehood and many years of conscientious work

Order of Honor (December 12, 2005) - for services in strengthening Russian statehood and many years of conscientious work

Order of Friendship (August 21, 2018) - for active efforts to preserve, enhance and popularize the cultural and historical heritage of Russia

Pulikovsky, Konstantin

Former chairman of the Krasnodar branch of the Fair Russia party, former head of Rostekhnadzor

Former chairman of the Krasnodar branch of the Fair Russia party, he held this position from November 2009 to June 2012. Prior to that, in 2005-2008 he headed the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor), in 2000-2005 he was the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District. In 1998-2000 he worked at the Krasnodar City Hall. In 1996-1998, he was deputy commander of the North Caucasian Military District. In July-August 1996, he headed the united grouping of federal forces in Chechnya, in 1994-1996 - the grouping of federal forces "North-West". Retired Lieutenant General.

Konstantin Borisovich Pulikovsky was born on February 9, 1948 in the city of Ussuriysk, Primorsky Territory, into a family of hereditary military men. The officers were Pulikovsky's great-grandfather and grandfather, his father also served in the army, ended his career with the rank of colonel,. In 1970, Pulikovsky graduated with honors from the Ulyanovsk Higher Command Tank School, in 1982 - from the Military Academy of Armored Forces named after R. Ya. Malinovsky, in 1992 - the Higher Academy of the General Staff. Since 1970, he served in the Belarusian, Baltic and Turkestan military districts. Was the commander of a tank regiment, then a division,,,.

In 1993 Pulikovsky was sent to serve in Krasnodar. He commanded the troops that took part in the resolution of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict. From December 1994 to August 1996, he commanded the North-West grouping of federal forces on the territory of the Chechen Republic. From July to August 1996, he headed the united grouping of federal forces in Chechnya. In August 1996, the militants managed to capture Grozny, which by that time was in the rear of the united group. Then Pulikovsky presented an ultimatum to the residents of the city - he demanded to leave it before the start of the attack by Russian troops. The issuance of the ultimatum caused a wide resonance in the Russian and foreign media and was not supported by the command in Moscow. As a result, the storming of Grozny did not take place. Instead, General Alexander Lebed arrived in Chechnya, who began the negotiation process, which culminated in the signing of the Khasavyurt peace agreements on August 31, 1996.

In 1996-1998 Pulikovsky was the deputy commander of the North Caucasian Military District. In 1998 he retired with the rank of lieutenant general. The media noted that Pulikovsky took this step after the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation invited him to take the post of commander of the peacekeeping forces in Tajikistan. Pulikovsky, referring to the fact that "he had already won four years," asked to find another general in this place. In the same year, Pulikovsky was appointed assistant to the mayor of Krasnodar for work with municipal enterprises - the head of the city improvement committee. Then he ran for deputies of the Krasnodar Legislative Assembly, but was not elected. He was actively involved in social work, headed the Krasnodar regional branch of a public association " The Brotherhood of War". At the beginning of 2000, he was the head of the Krasnodar regional campaign headquarters of the presidential candidate of Russia Vladimir Putin,,.

On May 18, 2000, Pulikovsky was appointed the President's Plenipotentiary in the Far Eastern Federal District (DFO),. The institution of the embassy was introduced by Putin a month after his election. The president's representatives also became: former Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko in the Volga Federal District (Volga Federal District), Army General Viktor Kazantsev in the North Caucasian Federal District (NCFD, since June 2000 - the Southern Federal District, (SFD)), First Deputy Director of the FSB Viktor Cherkesov in the Northwestern Federal District (NWFD), diplomat Leonid Drachevsky in the Siberian Federal District (SFD), ex-general of the tax police Georgy Poltavchenko in the Central Federal District (CFD) and ex-militia general Pyotr Latyshev in the Urals Federal district (UFO).

In December 2000, Pulikovsky came into conflict with the head of the Primorsky Territory, Yevgeny Nazdratenko, stating that the activities of the regional administration, in his opinion, are "a classic robbery of the state." In early 2001, when Nazdratenko was in the hospital during the next energy crisis in Primorye, the plenipotentiary told reporters that "Yevgeny Ivanovich is sick, but his illness is not of a medical nature, its assessment and diagnosis will be given by law enforcement agencies." As a result, in February 2001, Nazdratenko left the post of governor and was appointed head of the State Fisheries Committee. Pulikovsky was skeptical about this appointment,,.

In March 2001, speaking to the journalists of the Primorsky Territory, Pulikovsky announced that he had challenged the mayor of Vladivostok, Yuri Kopylov, to a duel. Pulikovsky said that the reason for this step was the appearance in December 2000 on the streets of Vladivostok of posters and banners with offensive remarks about the plenipotentiary. In the same month, on the air of the regional radio, Kopylov apologized to Pulikovsky, stating that the posters were posted without his knowledge.

In the elections for the governor of Primorye in June 2001, Pulikovsky supported the candidacy of his deputy Gennady Apanasenko, but Sergei Darkin was elected governor. After that, the plenipotentiary proposed to abolish the elections of governors altogether, stating that the heads of the regions should be appointed by the president. Subsequently, however, Pulikovsky supported Darkin. So, after in January 2005, Putin presented Darkin's candidacy for approval to the regional parliament, the plenipotentiary noted that "in eight years of work he will become a top-class manager, and he may be offered to lead a larger region. He has a wide open road ahead." ,. In February 2005, the legislative assembly of Primorye approved Darkin as governor.

In July-August 2001, Pulikovsky accompanied North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on a trip to Russia in the form of a lengthy train ride. The plenipotentiary spoke respectfully of the head of the DPRK, stated that "he is an intelligent and erudite man, a subtle politician" and that during a trip to Russia "we talked with him every day for three to four hours,"

In October 2003, a criminal case was opened against the governor of Kamchatka, the communist Mikhail Mashkovtsev and his deputy Vladislav Skvortsov. They were accused of misuse of 120 million rubles. Mashkovtsev himself considered the case to be a "political order" that came from "the office of the plenipotentiary of the Far Eastern District and personally from Pulikovsky." In July 2005, the Kamchatka prosecutor's office terminated criminal prosecution the governor and his deputy, re-qualifying their actions from misuse to negligence and closing the case due to the expiration of the statute of limitations,.

In November 2003, Sergei Krupetsky, head of state control of the Ministry of Natural Resources for the Far Eastern Federal District, and Vitaly Sevrin, head of the environmental resources department of the Ministry of Natural Resources for the Khabarovsk Territory, were arrested. According to the investigation, officials extorted $ 100,000 from the Amur Prospectors Artel CJSC for resolving the issue of the rights to the Konder-Worgolan platinum deposit. Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov called the arrested "werewolves in jackets" (by analogy with the the same year, the case of "werewolves in uniform" - a group of employees of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department and the general of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Ganeev, accused of organizing a criminal community). According to media reports, Krupetsky was "Pulikovsky's man." Pulikovsky himself told reporters that the officials of the Ministry of Natural Resources, in his opinion, were “victims of a set-up.” In April 2005, the Khabarovsk regional court found the accused guilty of attempted bribery and sentenced Krupetsky to eight years and six months in prison, and Sevrin by age 8. In December of the same year, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the verdict.

Pulikovsky positively assessed the work experience of the entrepreneur Roman Abramovich, who was elected governor of Chukotka in December 2000 autonomous region... The plenipotentiary spoke about him like this: "I am not even interested in how Abramovich got Sibneft. The main thing is that people in Chukotka treat him with great respect, love and adore him." In August 2005, in an interview with the media, Pulikovsky made an assumption that a large businessman, chairman of the board of directors of SUAL Viktor Vekselberg could become one of the candidates for the post of governor of the Kamchatka Territory in 2007.

On November 14, 2005, Pulikovsky was relieved of his post as Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District. This post was taken by the mayor of Kazan Kamil Iskhakov,,. A version appeared in the media that Pulikovsky was fired for promoting Vekselberg's candidacy to the place of the head of Kamchatka. According to another version, the reason for the resignation was the negative result of the economic and administrative activities of the plenipotentiary. The decision to remove Pulikovsky was made at a meeting between Russian President Putin and members of the government, at which other important personnel changes were announced: the head of the presidential administration, Dmitry Medvedev, became the first deputy prime minister of the government and head of the commission responsible for the implementation of national projects; Governor of the Tyumen Region Sergei Sobyanin was appointed to replace Medvedev; Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, in addition to the ministerial portfolio, received the post of Deputy Prime Minister. In addition, the Prosecutor of Bashkiria Alexander Konovalov was appointed to the place of the presidential envoy in the Volga Federal District Kiriyenko,,,.

On December 5, 2005, Pulikovsky was appointed head of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor). On August 1, 2006, he was included in the government commission for administrative reform.

In the spring of 2007, accidents occurred at two mines belonging to the Yuzhkuzbassugol company in the Kemerovo Region. On March 19, a methane explosion occurred at the Ulyanovskaya mine, killing 110 miners. On April 18, Pulikovsky and the governor of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyev, announced the results of a departmental investigation into the causes of the incident. It was found that 42 employees of the mine were guilty of the incident, including eight dead who deliberately interfered with the work of sensors that recorded the level of methane in underground tunnels. It was especially emphasized that the intervention was dictated by the desire of the management to increase coal production, since if the level of methane in the faces was exceeded by more than 2 percent, the work should have been automatically stopped,,,.

On May 24, methane exploded at the Yubileinaya mine. This time, 39 miners were killed. On June 6, Pulikovsky again called the cause of the accident the interference in the gas emission prevention system in order to increase coal production. On June 7, Tuleyev characterized Pulikovsky's statement as a provocation. According to the governor, the head of Rostekhnadzor asserted that the leadership of the Kemerovo region knew about the deliberate blocking of the gas protection system at Ulyanovskaya, but did not take action. In response, Tuleyev told the media that, in his opinion, Rostekhnadzor specialists and personally the head of this department were to blame for the latest accidents that occurred at the mines of Kuzbass, who, according to the governor, repeatedly ignored the demands of the regional authorities to bring order to coal enterprises. The next day, Tuleyev told reporters that he had sued the head of Rostekhnadzor for libel. Pulikovsky did not file a counterclaim against the governor and expressed hope for a fair court decision. Further information on the court proceedings was not published.

In December 2007, Pulikovsky was included in the organizing committee for the preparation and provision of the RF chairmanship in the Asia-Pacific Cooperation (APEC) forum in Vladivostok in 2012, and in February 2008 Pulikovsky created the Rostechnadzor Coordination Council to prepare for the APEC forum.

The accidents at the Lenin mine in Mezhdurechensk, which occurred in 2008, became the reason for a new aggravation of relations between the regional and federal authorities. In July 2008 Tuleyev sent a letter to the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia and the Prosecutor's Office of the region with a request to consider the quality of the activities carried out by Rostekhnadzor at the coal mining enterprises of Kuzbass. According to the governor, "Rostekhnadzor's inspections at coal enterprises in the region were superficial." In addition, Tuleyev said that "in the case of the Lenin Mine" smacks of bribes in order to quickly put the longwall into operation ",.

On September 3, 2008, President Dmitry Medvedev, who was elected to this position in March of the same year, approved an expanded list of the organizing committee for the preparation of Russia's chairmanship in APEC in 2012 and again included Pulikovsky as head of Rostekhnadzor. However, on September 5, Putin, who became the prime minister of the Russian government after Medvedev took office, by his order dismissed Pulikovsky from his post as head of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision. Reports about this said that Pulikovsky himself asked to resign. The deputy head of the department was Nikolai Kutin, Pulikovsky's deputy.

In November 2009, Pulikovsky was elected chairman of the Krasnodar branch of the Fair Russia party. In December 2011, he headed one of the regional lists of candidates from this party in the elections to the State Duma, but did not make it to parliament (A Just Russia won 13.24 percent in the elections, losing to United Russia and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation). In June 2012, Pulikovsky voluntarily resigned from his duties as chairman regional office "Fair Russia" and announced his withdrawal from the party. Pulikovsky explained his decision by disagreement with the leadership of "Fair Russia" on the organization of political work.

Pulikovsky awarded with orders "For Service to the Motherland in the USSR Armed Forces", "For Personal Courage" and "For Services to the Fatherland" IV degree. He is married, his wife Vera Pulikovskaya is a nurse. The couple had two sons - Alexey and Sergey. Both became officers. Alexei died in December 1995 during the military campaign in Chechnya. Pulikovsky is an Orthodox Christian (according to media reports, he was baptized after the death of his son), before leaving for Far East in connection with the appointment, he asked for the blessing of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Alexy II. He is fond of hunting, fishing and driving,,,.

Used materials

Anna Perova... General Pulikovsky passed his post. - Kommersant Rostov, 19.06.2012. - № 109 (4891)

Tatiana Pavlovskaya... The general returned the party card. - Russian newspaper (rg.ru), 17.06.2012

The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation announced the official results of the elections to the State Duma. - RBK, 09.12.2011

Federal list of candidates, candidates for deputies State Duma Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the sixth convocation, nominated by the political party "Political Party Fair Russia". - Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation (www.cikrf.ru), 17.10.2011

General Pulikovsky headed the "Fair Russia" in the Kuban. - South, 28.11.2009

Sergey Subbotin... Pulikovsky was relieved of his post as head of Rostekhnadzor. - RIA News, 05.09.2008

Konstantin Pulikovsky left the post of head of the department, his duties will be performed by Nikolai Kutyin. - Russian newspaper, 05.09.2008

Medvedev expanded the composition of the organizing committee for the preparation of the Russian chairmanship in APEC in 2012. - RIA Novosti Real Estate, 03.09.2008

Aman Tuleyev asks the prosecutor's office to check the quality of Rostekhnazor's work. - Express News Bureau, 31.07.2008

Maxim Gladky, Alexey Grishin... After the collapse. - News time, 30.07.2008. - №136

The State Duma approved Putin as the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. - RIA News, 08.05.2008

Captain Pulikovsky Alexey Konstantinovich, deputy commander of a tank battalion of the 245th combined regiment. Russian. Born June 7, 1971 in the family of a professional military man in the city of Borisov, BSSR. During the service of his father, he changed six schools. Graduated with honors from eleven comprehensive school in the town of Gusev, Kaliningrad region, the Ulyanovsk Higher Military Tank School, which his father graduated from.

Before the Chechen events, he was the commander of a tank company of the 13th Kantemirovskaya regiment tank division... In the Chechen Republic since October 4, 1995. He died on December 14, 1995 in an operation against an ambushed reconnaissance group of the regiment. Buried in Krasnodar.

Awarded the Order of Courage (posthumously).

He wrote the dispatch report three times. Events in Chechnya were brewing with an invisible thundercloud. Among the military, information about upcoming military operations spread much faster. The commander of a tank company, Senior Lieutenant Alexei Pulikovsky, well understood that they would not be easy. That's why studying proccess built taking into account the upcoming hostilities, not giving concessions to conscripts. The life of each soldier and the unit as a whole depended on the quality of training.

He himself wrote three reports with a request to be sent to Chechnya. And only on the third did he receive a "go-ahead" from the command of the unit. By order, he was appointed deputy commander of the tank battalion of the 245th combined regiment, and on October 4, 1995, the regiment was already deployed near Shatoi.

He was shot three times. The commander of the entire military group in Chechnya, Lieutenant General Pulikovsky K.B. in the hustle and bustle of the redeployment of troops, he could not keep track of the movements of his own son in the service, and only twenty days later did he learn that Alexey was subordinate to him.

And at the checkpoint, the battalion performed the assigned task of the younger Pulikovsky. During the next truce, there was no open confrontation between the bandit formations and federal troops. But all the inhabitants of Chechnya went about with weapons. The Teips (kindred clan) were armed to the limit.
A contract soldier of the tank battalion Somov (surname has been changed) accidentally shot down a Chechen resident. The entire pace of Suleiman Kadanov came out with threats. Aleksey Kon tried to solve it peacefully, according to the law, but the Chechens, fueled by the Wahhabi propaganda, only went to aggravate the situation.

How to get out of this conflict peacefully? Alexei decided to give himself up with the signalman as hostages. For two days they were with the Chechens.

Mocking and trying to break the will of the captain, they took him out three times to be shot. Alexei did not give up hope of freeing Somov and persistently negotiated with his command and Kadanov. Colonel Yakovlev and Major General Shamanov arrived to free the soldiers.

On December 14, the regiment's reconnaissance group went on patrol and did not return by the appointed time. The command of the regiment decided to conduct a search operation, led by Alexei. When we moved to a given area, we were ambushed. Alexey competently and promptly deployed tanks and APMs into battle formation and organized an attack on superior forces bandits. To prevent the defeat of armored vehicles by grenade launchers of the Chechens, the personnel of the detachment, by order of Alexei, attacked on foot. Being next to the armored vehicles, the commander of the detachment, Alexei Pulikovsky, led the battle. A hand grenade grenade hit the side of the BMP. Alexey died from its explosion.

Buried in the city of Krasnodar. His wife and daughter Sonya also live there.

FROM THE BOOK OF GENNADY TROSHEV:

“… After a while I learned that Kostya's son had died: an officer, a senior lieutenant, a deputy battalion commander. He served in the Moscow military district and came to Chechnya to replace him. I spent only a week in the regiment, just accepted the post. In April 1996, under () our thugs, almost a hundred people died. His son was also walking in the column. The general was shocked by the terrible news.

It was not too much trouble for him to save his son from a business trip to Chechnya. I know people (there are, unfortunately, a lot of them) who willingly went to any lengths to "grease" their children, nephews, brothers from serving in the "hot spot". General Pulikovsky was of a different kind: he served his homeland honestly, never looked for "warm places", he demanded the same from others, including his own son.

From the same cohort, by the way, Georgy Ivanovich Shpak (formerly commander of the Airborne Forces) and Anatoly Ipatovich Sergeev (formerly commander of the Volga Military District), who also lost their sons in the Chechen war. The children of the dead generals A. Otrakovsky and A. Rogov fought. Children passed through Chechnya (thank God, they survived) of generals A. Kulikov, M. Labunets and many others ... "

February 9, 1948 in the city of Ussuriisk, Primorsky Territory, in the family of a serviceman. The middle of three sons. Grandfather and great-grandfather were officers. Grandfather died on the First world war... My father was a colonel. ("Century", No. 48, 2001).

Before leaving school, he moved with his family 8 times from one place of service of his father to another. Graduated from school in Kuznetsk, Penza region.

After graduation, he entered the Ulyanovsk Higher Command Tank School, which he graduated with honors in 1970. In 1982 he graduated with honors from the Higher Academy of Armored Forces, the Military Academy. M.V. Frunze, in 1992 with a gold medal - the Higher Academy of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense.

Since 1970, he served in the Belarusian Military District.

After graduating from the military academy in 1982, he continued his service in the Baltic Military District as the commander of a tank regiment, then a division.

In 1992, after graduating from the General Staff Academy, he was sent to serve in the Turkestan Military District.

In 1993, due to the independence of Turkmenistan, he was sent to Krasnodar for further service. He commanded the troops participating in the resolution of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict.

He was the deputy commander of the North Caucasus Military District.

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From December 1994 to August 1996, he commanded troops on the territory of the Chechen Republic. During the hostilities in Chechnya, his eldest son, an officer, was killed. Later Pulikovsky said: "After the death of my son, 40 days later, I again left for Chechnya. I commanded a mountain group in the Nozhai-Yurtovsky and Vedensky districts. I was afraid of one thing - the reproach of my subordinates - officers and soldiers for throwing them into battle to avenge my son. Therefore, I myself took part in the battle with the soldiers. I went to many operations first. My comrades with whom I was in the trenches know this. Now I know that no one can reproach me. " ("Century", No. 48, 2001).

In July-August 1996, he was the commander of a grouping of federal forces in Chechnya. During the seizure of Grozny by Chechen fighters in August 1996, he presented an ultimatum to the residents of the city - to leave it before the start of the attack on Grozny by Russian troops. The ultimatum was not supported by the command in Moscow, the storming of Grozny did not take place.

In 1998 he retired with the rank of lieutenant general. “They offered to command the peacekeeping forces in Tajikistan. I asked in the personnel department of the Ministry of Defense: maybe there will be another general, I have already won four years ... But they told me that generals specialize in the country: you can fight, others can control "(Novye Izvestia, 18 January 2001 ).

In 1998 he was elected chairman of the Krasnodar regional branch of the All-Russian public movement "Combat Brotherhood" (leader - Boris Gromov).

Since 1998 he worked as an assistant to the governor - assistant to the mayor of Krasnodar for work with municipal enterprises of the Krasnodar mayor's office, head of the city improvement committee.

In 1998 he was nominated by a group of voters as a candidate for deputy of the Krasnodar Regional Legislative Assembly of the second convocation in the Krasnodar four-mandate constituency No. 2. He was on the list of candidates supported by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Was not elected.

In 2000, he was the head of the election headquarters of Vladimir Putin in the Krasnodar Territory.

On May 18, 2000 by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation he was appointed Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District.

In August 2000, he announced his intention to create a federal district council in the district, which was to include all the regional governors, heads of federal structures and law enforcement agencies.

On December 1, 2000, at a press conference, he declared his displeasure with the "crisis in the minds of the leaders of Primorye", who are using "savage methods" against the population, with their help, knocking out tranches from Moscow. The activities of the regional administration, according to Pulikovsky, are "a classic of robbing the state" (Kommersant, 02.12.2000)

In December 2000, the administration of the Primorsky Territory (head of the administration Yevgeny Nazdratenko) filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity against K. Pulikovsky and a number of media outlets as co-defendants (NTV television company, "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", etc.).

In January 2001, regarding the hospitalization of the Governor of the Primorsky Territory, E. Nazdratenko said: “Yevgeny Ivanovich is ill, but his illness is not of a medical nature, its assessment and diagnosis will be given by law enforcement agencies” (Novye Izvestia, February 7, 2001).

In February 2001, he was skeptical about the appointment of Nazdratenko to the post of head of the State Fisheries Committee: "Having given Nazdratenko the post of head of the State Fisheries Committee, the government probably thought that this appointment could restore the crumbling fishing industry. I think this opinion is wrong" (Kommersant, January 28 2001).

On March 16, 2001, speaking to journalists of the Primorsky Territory media, he said that he had challenged the mayor of Vladivostok, Yuri Kopylov, to a duel (the choice of weapons for Kopylov). Pulikovsky named the reason for this step by the fact that in December 2000 on the streets of Vladivostok there were banners with slogans: "Primorye is not a Pulikovskoye field", "Pulikovsky - hands off Primorye", etc. According to Pulikovsky, this action was initiated by Yu. Kopylov. On March 20, 2001, Kopylov made a public apology to Pulikovsky in a live broadcast of the regional radio station, stating that the posters had been displayed in Vladivostok without the knowledge of the city administration (Kommersant, March 21, 2001).

In the elections for the governor of Primorye, he supported the candidacy of his deputy, Gennady Apanasenko (however, Sergei Darkin was elected). In March 2001, one of the candidates for the post of governor of Primorye, Admiral Igor.Kasatonov, filed a complaint with the regional electoral commission against the deputy presidential envoy in the Far Eastern Federal District, GuApanasenko, accusing him of premature campaigning, and Plenipotentiary Pulikovsky himself of openly lobbying for the candidacy of his deputy.

Soon after Sergei Darkin's victory in the gubernatorial elections in Primorye, Pulikovsky announced that some of the newly elected governors in his district (he did not specify their names) came to power "by accident." Pulikovsky also proposed canceling the election of heads of administration altogether. In this case, governors, in his opinion, should be appointed by the president. "I believe that the state power should be elected, and we have elected this state power: this is a popularly elected president." (Interfax, June 27, 2001).

In July-August 2001, Pulikovsky accompanied North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on a visit to Russia. In November 2001, he received two official invitations from Kim Jong Il to visit the DPRK. The first was extended for the next month, the second - at the end of April 2002, when the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army is celebrated. (ITAR-TASS, November 22, 2001) About Kim Jong-Il Pulikovsky said: "I realized that he is an intelligent and erudite man, a subtle politician who knows how to give very precise characteristics to other politicians. We talked with him daily for three to four hours." ("Century", No. 48, 2001).

In December 2001, he said in an interview with the Vek newspaper: “You cannot imagine to what extent Nazdratenko and his administration destroyed this richest land ... Now a new governor, Darkin, has come to Primorye. He is very well versed in economics, knows how to find non-standard solutions, but he cannot fix anything in such a short time. " ("Century", No. 48, 2001).

In February 2002, he paid a visit to the DPRK, where he met with Kim Jong Il.

In November 2003, commenting on the arrest of Ministry officials in the Far East natural resources Russia, said that the actions of the security forces are directed generally against the Ministry of Natural Resources. He did not rule out that "the whole story with bribes could have been a very finely thought-out and well-organized provocative operation against officials from this ministry." The head of the Far Eastern district department of the Ministry of Natural Resources Sergey Krupetsky and the head of the Khabarovsk regional department of the Ministry of Natural Resources Vitaly Sevrin were detained in November 2003. They were accused of extorting $ 1 million from the management of the Amur miners' artel. According to one of the versions, this money should have become "gratitude" for a positive decision on the issue of issuing a license to develop a platinum deposit in the Khabarovsk Territory. The arrested officials were appointed to their posts with the direct consent of Pulikovsky. Krupetsky was, in the opinion of many in Khabarovsk, generally a "plenipotentiary man." From 1997 to 2001, he was the vice-mayor of Krasnodar, and Pulikovsky during these years was the assistant to the Krasnodar mayor for work with municipal enterprises. In March 2003, it was Krupetsky who introduced the new head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Natural Resources for the Khabarovsk Territory Vitaly Sevrin to the plenipotentiary. ("Vremya Novostei", 12.11.2003)

In the fall of 2003, a criminal case was initiated against the governor of Kamchatka, the communist Mikhail Mashkovtsev and his deputy, on the fact of improper use of budget funds. Mashkovtsev considers the case to be a "political order" that came from "the office of the plenipotentiary of the Far Eastern District and personally from Konstantin Borisovich Pulikovsky" (NG, November 28, 2003).

In early 2005, rumors spread in Primorye that Pulikovsky might avenge the fiasco of his candidate (Apanasenko) in the elections in the Primorsky Territory in the summer of 2001 and not include Sergei Darkin on the list of candidates for the post of head of the region. Darkin decided to take the risk and himself raised the question of trust with Putin. As a result, the president submitted his candidacy for approval by the regional Legislative Assembly. Pulikovsky, on the other hand, said about Darkin: "In eight years of work he will become a top-class manager, and he may be offered to lead a larger region. He has a wide open road ahead." (Power, February 14, 2005)

In July 2005 he visited seven settlements of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug, where in the winter of 2004-2005. there were big problems with heating, and said that the situation in preparing housing and communal services enterprises for the coming winter is depressing: “The authorities of the municipalities of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug are used to living in ruin, mud and lawlessness. They encourage the situation when residents do not pay for housing and communal services and do not care about the restoration of boiler houses, heating mains thawed out in the previous winter and batteries in houses ... Half of the state employees of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug have their own business, think about their enterprises, and not about the area of \u200b\u200bwork for which they receive a salary. " (Data.ru, July 8, 2005).

In August 2005 Pulikovsky said that businessman Viktor Vekselberg could become one of the candidates for the post of governor of Kamchatka in 2007. He appreciated the experience of Roman Abramovich as governor of Chukotka and said: "We will propose similar candidates in other regions." ("Gazeta.ru", August 10, 2005).

He also said about Abramovich: “To be honest, I’m not even interested in how Abramovich got Sibneft. The main thing is that people in Chukotka treat him with great respect, love and adore him. He does not often go there. great managers work - just like in business. And in order to run a business, you don't have to be in the workplace. " (AiF, no. 32, 2005)

Since October 2005 - Member of the Presidential Council for the Implementation of Priority National Projects.

On November 14, 2005, he was dismissed from the post of the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District. This position was taken by Kamil Iskhakov. (Gazeta.ru, November 14, 2005).

On November 15, 2005, the Vedomosti newspaper, referring to its "Kremlin source", reported that Pulikovsky was dismissed from the post of presidential envoy for promoting Vekselberg's candidacy for the post of governor of the Kamchatka region. ("Vedomosti", November 15, 2005).

Since December 5, 2005 - Head of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor).

Since May 2006 - member of the Government Commission on Improving Interaction between Federal Executive Bodies and Executive Bodies of the Subjects of the Russian Federation.

On August 1, 2006, he was included in the government commission for administrative reform.

On September 5, 2008, Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin, by his order, dismissed Konstantin Pulikovsky from the post of head of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor). As stated in the message published by “ Russian newspaper”, It happened on the initiative of Pulikovsky himself. A few days ago, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev included Pulikovsky in the organizing committee for the preparation of the Russian presidency in APEC in 2012. According to some reports, former deputy head Nikolai Kutyin has been appointed acting head of Rostekhnadzor, and he will also become the new head of the department. Konstantin Pulikovsky recent times conflicted with the governor of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyev. After a series of accidents at the mines of Kuzbass, the Kemerovo governor argued that "the main fault lies with the specialists of Rostekhnadzor," and also filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity personally against Pulikovsky. Polit.ru, September 5, 2008.

Military rank - lieutenant general of the reserve.

Has received awards: orders "For Service to the Motherland in the USSR Armed Forces", "For Personal Courage", the Order "For Services to the Fatherland" 4th degree (2003).

Likes to hunt, fish, drive a car.

After the death of his son, he was baptized. According to him, before leaving for the Far East, he received the blessing of Patriarch Alexy. (Century, no. 48, 2001)

His wife Vera Ivanovna is a nurse. The youngest son Sergei is a soldier. Granddaughter Sonya is the daughter of the eldest son Alexei, who died in December 1995 in Chechnya; grandson Nikita (born in 2000) is the son of Sergei. Pulikovsky said that he did everything to prevent his son from ending up in Chechnya, but Aleksey kept writing reports to be sent there. ("Century", No. 48, 2001).