Alexander Alexandrovich Surikov: biography, activities and interesting facts

Alexander Aleksandrovich Surikov is a famous Russian statesman. For 8 years he held the post of governor of the Altai Territory. Later he became the plenipotentiary ambassador of Russia in the Republic of Belarus.

Biography policy

Alexander Aleksandrovich Surikov was born in Murmansk. He was born in 1940, on the eve of the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War.

Since the times were hard, right after school I went to work. In 1957 he settled on the Kuibyshev hydroelectric power station. Having strengthened himself and got up on his feet, Alexander Aleksandrovich Surikov decided to get a higher education. He entered the Saratov Polytechnic Institute. He received a diploma in engineering engineer. With such a promising specialty, he was an enviable employee in many places. First of all, in the regions where large-scale construction projects were conducted. For example, in Altai. There he went to live and work.

Working career

Arriving in Altai in 1966, Alexander Surikov began with small positions in the Zavyalovsky road construction department.

In 1969, his significant professional and career growth began. Alexander Alexandrovich Surikov was appointed head of the road construction department number 3 in the town of Aleysk, located in the Altai Territory.

In another 7 years he took the lead of an even larger organization - the Altayavtodor association. Since then, in his charge there was a road economy of not just one city, but of a whole region.

During perestroika in 1990 he managed to elect general director of the construction and industrial concern Altaystroy.

Surikov goes into politics

During perestroika Alexander Surikov took the decision to try himself in public work and politics.

In 1991 he was elected to the Regional Council of People's Deputies of the Altai Territory. And three years later he became a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of this republic. By the time Surikov had already a weighty authority among his colleagues. Therefore, he easily enlisted the support of other parliamentarians and took up the chair of the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

In 1996, he was re-elected to this post again.

Victory in the gubernatorial elections

At the very end of 1996, Surikov managed to win the election of the head of the administration of the Altai Territory. In this position, he replaced Lev Alexandrovich Korshunov, who became head of the region two years earlier on the recommendation of the country's President Boris Yeltsin.

Surikov was not just to fight in a popular vote with Korshunov. He had good connections in Moscow. So much so that the subsidized budget of the Altai Territory began to receive tangible assistance from the capital. It was Korshunov who, thanks to his good relations with the then Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, succeeded in adopting a government decree on state support of the Altai Krai to overcome depressive phenomena in the economy.

According to this decree, the Federal Ministry of Finance annually determined the personal amount of subsidies for the Altai Territory, taking into account the crisis in its economy. The region received this money in addition to minimal subsidies from the federal budget to most Russian regions and republics.

In addition, the governor Korshunov has achieved a solution to the long-standing problem of the Altai Territory. The region was finally gasified.

Despite this, Surikov won the national elections. In 2000, he was re-elected to this post.

Activities as governor

After the victory in the gubernatorial elections, popularity became popular among Alexander Alexandrovich Surikov. "Who is he?" - no one asked this question.

Surikov led the region for 8 years. During this time, experts noted an economic decline, which occurred in the province. At large enterprises and industries, many months of salary delays began, in the economic rating of the Russian regions, the Altai slid into the basement itself - at 78th place. The factories at that time were closed by the hundreds. And this is in a place where a few decades ago there was a real industrial boom.

Surikov Alexander Alexandrovich, whose biography is given in this article, frankly admitted that his administration lacked money elementary. As a result, salaries were not received by state employees, roads were not repaired.

Obviously, under the leadership of Surikov, the economy of the Altai Territory could not adapt to the new conditions. She was actually on the brink of collapse. A lot of criticism at that time was expressed in the address of Alexander Alexandrovich Surikov. Kompromat periodically appeared in the local press.

It was possible to survive only at the expense of federal subsidies. Only with their help, with Surikov, a new bridge was built across the Ob river, they opened a regional clinical hospital that was necessary for the region, new schools and kindergartens were built and put into operation.

The era of Surikov ended in 2004, when he ran for governors for a third term. On the eve of the election, the governor joined the party "United Russia", but support for the "bears" did not help him. In the first round, none of the candidates managed to score more than 50% of the vote. And in the second round Surikov lost to the famous in the whole country humorist and TV presenter Mikhail Evdokimov.

Defeated, Surikov did not immediately go into the shadows. He was appointed deputy presidential envoy in the Siberian Federal District. In this position he was in charge of the Altai Territory.

Translation into Belarus

In 2006, Alexander Aleksandrovich Surikov moved to a new job. The Russian ambassador to Belarus, Dmitry Ayatskov, did not even manage to take office. Because of the scandal, his appointment to the fraternal republic was canceled, his place was taken by Surikov.

Ex-governor of the Saratov region Ayatskov became famous for the fact that at the press conference devoted to his move to Minsk for diplomatic work, the politician offered the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko "to stop blowing his cheeks." This statement caused a wide public response. The appointment of Ayatskov to Belarus was abolished.

Work as ambassador

The first loud statement as Ambassador Surikov made in 2007 in response to America's plans to deploy a missile defense system in Eastern Europe. The diplomat said that Russia, together with Belarus, can decide to create new military facilities. And they, according to him, can be nuclear.

A little later, he actually took his words back, confessing that Russia has no plans for placing nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus. However, it was already late, his statements provoked a wide response in Western countries.

The post of ambassador in the Republic of Belarus Surikov still holds. It is noteworthy that he is the only Russian ambassador who has worked in the fraternal republic for more than 5 years.