Ramadan Abdulatipov: former teacher of scientific communism and president of Dagestan

Many Russian politicians began their journey as members of the CPSU and responsible hardware workers. When this was demanded by the circumstances, they instantly rebuilt and began to act in new realities, while not forgetting about their interests.

Ramadan Abdulatipov, once in charge of the ideological work of the USSR, who fought along with other members of the Supreme Council against Yeltsin, and then changed his position and took the side of the first president of the country, belongs to this group of reformed communists. The politician worked as a minister, deputy prime minister and president of Dagestan.

The Soviet period

Biography of Ramadan Abdulatipov includes the entire history of the country in the second half of the 20th century. He was born in 1946 in a large family of the collective farm chairman in Dagestan. He is a national by nationality. After graduation, he entered a medical school, graduated with a diploma of a medical assistant. After working for some time in the district polyclinic, Ramadan Abdulatipov was drafted into the army, where he served from 1966 to 1970.

After leaving the reserve, the former medical sergeant changes several professions, having worked as a stoker, sports official and head of the medical unit. In 1972 Ramazan Abdulatipov began his dizzying career, which, like everyone else at that time, meant joining the CPSU. He organizes the Komsomol work, then heads the ideological department of the Tlaratin District Committee. Along the way, the young communist receives a correspondence higher education in the Dagestan University at the Faculty of History.

After graduating from the Leningrad State University, Ramadan Abdulatipov goes to the all-Union level and moves to Murmansk, where he also works for ten years as agitation and teaches scientific communism at the Murmansk Higher Naval School.

The peak of his career in the Soviet period was the election of the Daghestanian to the Supreme Soviet in 1990, where he would later become chairman of the Council of Nationalities.

The nineties

1991 was decisive both in the life of the whole country, and in the biography of Ramazan Abdulatipov. He opposes the putsch on the part of the State Emergency Committee and is among the deputies who vote for the approval of the Belovezhskaya agreements and the dismantling of the USSR. In the same year 1991, Abadulatipov, together with the Chechen Khasbulatov, participated in the resolution of the ethnic conflict in Dagestan.

Harmonious relations of the first president of Russia and the Supreme Soviet by 1993 have sharply worsened. The struggle for power resulted in the siege of the parliament building and the subsequent armed assault. In those days, Ramadan Abdulatipov was among the defenders of the White House, but he later changed his position and took the side of Yeltsin than saved his political career.

The reward for loyalty was high positions in the cabinet of ministers at different premiers. Dagestan was Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for National Affairs. The former communist changed his party membership several times, being a member of different short-lived movements, until he joined the ranks of "United Russia".

Two thousand years

It seemed that at the end of the nineties the veteran of the national policy was going into shadow, he lost ministerial posts, the photos of Ramadan Abdulatipov began to disappear from the pages of printed publications. Nevertheless, in 2000 he became a member of the Federation Council and performed his senatorial duties until 2005.

After the end of the deputy powers, a person with an eastern mentality is sent as an ambassador to Tajikistan, where he represents the interests of Russia until 2009. After diplomatic work, Ramadan Abdulatipov returns to higher education and holds the post of rector of the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts.

The political career of the academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences resumes in 2013, when he is approved by the parliament of Dagestan for the post of president of the republic. Since then, he is the permanent head of the North Caucasian republic. A politician who worked for a long time at the federal level, Abdulatipov, according to the plan of the leadership, was to rise above the clan and group struggle for power in Dagestan and unite society. Having taken office, he outlined a number of strategic programs for the accelerated development of the republic and the eradication of corruption.

A family

With his wife Ramazan Abdulatipov met in Murmansk. After years of marriage, Inna Vasilievna and Ramazan Gadzhimuradovich made two sons - Jamal and Abdulatip. From the first marriage, the politician has a daughter of Zaire.

After Abdulatipov was elected president of the republic, his sons and son-in-law also got a job in the power structures of Dagestan and shoulder to shoulder with their father working on state construction.