Gurov Alexander Ivanovich: biography, photo

Gurov Alexander Ivanovich, whose biography is taken as a basis in the novels of writer N. Leonov about the famous operative Lev Gurov, is a co-author of Yuri Shchekochikhin. He took part in writing sensational publications in the "Literary" about the formation of organized crime, entitled "The Lion Jumped".

After these articles his name became quite popular among various strata of the population.

Beginning of biography

Gurov Alexander Ivanovich was born on November 17, 1945 in Staroyurevsky district of Tambov region, in the village of Shushpan-Olshanke.

After graduation in 1964, he was called to serve in the army. Having demobilized, he went to work in law enforcement structures as employees of the convoy regiment of militia of the Moscow GUVD. Gurov went from private to deputy chief of the convoy.

In 1970, he came as an operative in the security department at Vnukovo airport. Being a junior police lieutenant, Alexander Gurov got into the field of view of journalists because of the incident with the domestic lion King, who was detained in the Berberov family. Lev, who took part in the shooting of "The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia," attacked a man and was shot by Gurov, who happened to be nearby.

After training at the law faculty of the Moscow State University, in 1974, he moved to the service in the management of the threat of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR.

At the front of the fight against organized crime

In 1978 Gurov Alexander became a research fellow at the All-Union Research Institute of the Ministry of the Interior of the USSR, where he later rose to the head of a unit studying problems of combating organized crime.

In 1979, he defended his Ph.D. thesis.

In 1988, he headed the Sixth Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, which was created to organize combating organized crime, drug trafficking and corruption.

In 1990, Gurov was invited as a consultant for the shooting of the movie "Behind the Last Line."

From 1992 to 1994 he was the head of the anti-corruption bureau , the first deputy head of the Center for Public Relations, a consultant in the Regional Office for Combating Organized Crime, and headed the Security Research Institute at the Russian Ministry of Security.

Participation in elective bodies and further work

From 1990 to 1993 Gurov Alexander Ivanovich, a photo of which could be found on the pages of many publications writing about crime, was elected a people's deputy. He joined the Committee of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, which oversees the rule of law, law and order and the fight against crime.

Soon Gurov Alexander Ivanovich became a doctor of law. The topic of the dissertation was organized crime in the Soviet Union.

During this period, Literaturnaya Gazeta published two articles on the intensification of organized crime, prepared by the journalist Shchekochikhin and Gurov, who brought them both wide popularity.

Gurov Alexander stood at the origins of the creation of a new structure, which later became known as the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian Federation.

Since 1994, in connection with the reorganization of law enforcement agencies and the liquidation of the Security Research Institute, he retired to the rank of Major General of Counterintelligence, and then headed the security service of the Moscow "TEPCO-Bank." In 1995 he took the post of vice-president of "Infoservice".

Return to Service

Since 1998 Gurov Alexander has again returned to law enforcement bodies and has headed the All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. He also served as advisor to the head of the Russian government.

19.12.1999 Gurov again became a member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. He was the third in the federal list of the electoral bloc "Unity". He headed the list of Sergei Shoigu. It also could meet the name of the repeated champion of the Olympics, wrestler Alexander Karelin. From the faction of "Unity" Gurov was headed by the State Duma committee on security issues.

In the next fourth convocation of the State Duma in December 2003, he passed from the party "United Russia". From this faction he again entered the Duma committee on security.

In the fifth convocation of the State Duma in December 2007, Lieutenant-General Alexander Gurov was also on the federal list from United Russia. He re-entered the security committee, and also headed the credentials commission of the State Duma.

Deputy activity

AI Gurov showed considerable activity in the post of people's choice.
12.12.1991 in the Supreme Council he supported the proposal to ratify the agreement signed in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, as a result of which the Soviet Union ceased to exist.

In 1991, he joined the commission of the Supreme Council, which investigated the "Case of 140 billion."

He voted for the proposal to suspend the sixth constitutional article, which established a leading party role in public life.
In 1992, he joined the "Civil Society" deputy group, in which radical democrats united in opposition to Boris Yeltsin and Yegor Gaidar joined together .

Gurov was given a sanction to conduct an investigation in the case of "Istoka", a firm under the leadership of A. Tarasov.

Work on the law "On Police"

Gurov is a member of the group of authors who developed the law "On Police". In 2010, in the autumn, he told in an interview about this law that people in uniform should work in the police, guided only by public interests, and not by their own pocket. He told the correspondent that it is not worth paying attention to the costs of implementing this law, if only there was a benefit. In the people, the police themselves discredited themselves somewhat, so renaming it into the police should be a real step in reforming the Internal Affairs Department, which is extremely necessary for the development of the modern Russian state, Gurov thought.

According to him, in order to avoid the complete collapse of public order, the collapse of national security, as well as the accelerated disintegration of society and the onset of the historic end of Russian statehood, a serious reform of law enforcement structures should be carried out.

About posts, titles and awards

Alexander Gurov, a lieutenant-general of the militia, is a member of the National Civil Committee, which cooperates with representatives of law enforcement, legislative and judicial bodies, being a member of its presidium.

He is a deserved lawyer of the Russian Federation. He was awarded a number of state awards, in particular, the Order of Honor and the Order of Friendship.

Taking into account outstanding merits and great personal contribution to the development and strengthening of Russian statehood in 2003, Gurov was awarded the Order of Peter the Great of the first degree.

For outstanding contribution to the security of the country in 2002 he was awarded a gold medal and the title of laureate of the Andropov Prize.

In 2001, he was awarded the golden medal of public recognition.

AI Gurov is a member of the Russian Writers' Union, has over one hundred and fifty monographs, teaching aids and scientific research. He published several books. In 1995, he released the "Red Mafia" - a book about organized criminal clans during the collapse of the USSR.