Citizens awarded the distinction "for services to the Irkutsk region". "Baikal", community

The Irkutsk community "Baikal", created in 1975, unites Muscovites, former residents of the Irkutsk region. These are honored people who have achieved success in various fields - economics, politics, industry, culture. Although most of them have lived in the capital for a long time, they continue to be part of the history of our city. Recently, some of them visited.

Boris Volynov - pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, one of the first people to have been in space. Boris Valentinovich was born in Irkutsk, but he spent his childhood and youth in the small town of Prokopyevsk in the Kuzbass: they even erected a monument to the cosmonaut there. However, Volynov considers himself an Irkutsk citizen.

You know, on this trip I once again admired our Baikal, - Boris Valentinovich admitted. - I made scientific observations on it back in 1976, during my second flight into space. It was interesting to study Baikal also because I was born here! I realized long ago that space, like Baikal, does not forgive human mistakes. We are much weaker than the force of nature. A simple example: no, even the most modern, computer will save you from a lightning strike. Or from tsunamis and tornadoes, of which there are now many more on Earth.

Boris Volynov says that, fortunately, our state has recently begun to support Russian cosmonautics. A little more - and we would, in the language of pilots, have passed the point of no return, after which only a fall.

- I support the fact that our cosmonautics is engaged in commercial projects,- continues Boris Valentinovich. - Space tourism is a promising business. But, unfortunately, even this money is not enough for global space research. The most valuable thing that our cosmonautics has lost after the collapse of the USSR is people, specialists who have gone to other industries. Or in commerce.

Boris Valentinovich recently returned from a trip to America and once again became convinced that our cosmonautics, in terms of its developments and accumulated potential, still surpasses the American one, despite their gigantic investments.

- It is a pity that romance is gradually leaving our profession,- says twice Hero of the Soviet Union. - In Russia, the attitude towards space has become more calm and even pragmatic. But in Irkutsk, I was very pleased with the great interest in astronautics among your students. I presented here a film about my flight into space and after it endlessly answered questions from young people and gave autographs. Rejoiced, of course!

Boris Volynov really has something to talk about. For example, in 1969, during the descent of his ship, an emergency situation occurred: the systems did not work, and the descent vehicle began to fall to the ground. Volynov had 40 minutes to live. Having endured colossal loads, he survived. Only then did he ask the rescuers whether he was gray-haired ... After an injury sustained during an emergency landing, Volynov was expelled from the cosmonaut corps. Doctors said that he would no longer fly even on airplanes. But this man managed to return to the detachment and once again fly into space.

Boris Volynov set a record in the cosmonaut detachment: 30 years of work, seven of which Boris Valentinovich was the commander of this detachment.

- I think that Siberians differ from other people in that we are stronger,- says Boris Valentinovich. - The harsh climate, harsh living conditions literally forge the Siberian character. For this we are appreciated.

From loaders to secretaries of the district committee

Pozdnyakov Vladimir Georgievich, head of the apparatus of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma:

- I worked as a loader, then as a mechanic, studied at the Polytechnic Institute in the evening department. Once at Karl Marx, I dug up the ground at the roots of poplars, you know, such squares of land among the asphalt? It was for this work that the envoy of the Kirov District Party Committee found me. "What are you doing? We've been looking for you for a long time!" - He speaks. “You see, I am loosening the earth,” I answer. "Well, come with me, you need to go to the district committee of the party."

So unexpectedly, Vladimir Pozdnyakov became the secretary of the Kirov district committee of the Komsomol. He worked in Irkutsk in this position from 1970 to 1977. It was the time of the BAM, the time when the party was recruiting a reserve of working youth. The Constitution of the USSR then had an article on the leading role of the party. There was a slogan: "Komsomol is a combat assistant to the CPSU."

- And I was a loader, I have experience in public work - zero!- Vladimir Georgievich recalls. - We were taught managerial work directly in practice. I remember October 2 was a holiday - the 50th anniversary of the speech of V.I. Lenin at the III Congress of the Komsomol. I was instructed to hold a solemn meeting of the Komsomol activists. We spent this holiday, and the communists told me: "You passed this test!" This is how we were taught managerial work. What were we doing? We developed the student movement, construction teams, pedagogical teams, patronage of the village, assistance in harvesting, pre-conscription training of children. Purely practical work.

The 17th Congress of the Komsomol sent the All-Union Komsomol Detachment to build the BAM. Vladimir Pozdnyakov had to supervise him. He was responsible for the Komsomol construction of Ust-Ilimsk, BAM. I selected guys with construction specialties for construction sites. He organized the life and leisure of youth at the construction sites of the century.

"Furtseva walked towards me"

The Taltsy museum, a new musical theatre, an organ hall, a house-museum of the Decembrists and 70 paintings as a gift to the Irkutsk Art Museum from a personal collection - these are just some of the merits of A. Perekalskaya-Nevzorova to Irkutsk.

Antonina Perekalskaya-Nevzorova is the permanent secretary of the "Irkutsk community" in Moscow. And she began her life as a secretary of the district committee of the party in the very beginning of the 60s. As a party secretary, she was in charge of all the enterprises of the Baikal village: the Pereval mining enterprise, a mica factory, and a fishing artel. When the need arose in Irkutsk for a new, energetic person to come to the post of head of the regional Committee for Culture, the choice fell on Perekalskaya.

Smart, businesslike, intelligent. She somehow immediately won people over to herself, could find an approach to any person, and, as you know, finding a common language with a creative person can be difficult. Antonina Mikhailovna was in love with the theater, with Irkutsk actors. She knew that the fate of the actor and, importantly, his salary directly depend on the titles. It was not easy to get the title of People's Artist then, a lot of papers were required confirming the merits of the actor. Antonina Mikhailovna helped many Irkutsk citizens to receive titles. Therefore, they were ready to carry it in their arms. Knowing that young and talented party managers are often taken "for promotion", the popular actress in Irkutsk Galina Alekseevna Kramova once asked one of the heads of the regional committee: "Do not nominate Antonina Mikhailovna anywhere else, she is ours!"

Antonina Mikhailovna helped to receive the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR and the actor of the musical theater, whose name our musical theater is named today.

- I submitted documents for the construction of a musical theater in Irkutsk and its project to the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR, I was personally received by Ekaterina Alekseevna Furtseva,- says Antonina Mikhailovna. - For culture, then, as now, the money was allocated last. But I ensured that the house-museum of the Decembrists was opened in Irkutsk, that the reconstruction, which was already a hundred years old, was carried out, and that a new musical theater and organ hall were opened.

The house-museum of wooden architecture in the open air "Taltsy" also owes its birth to Antonina Perekalskaya. It was she who obtained permission for its organization and placement on the 47th kilometer of the Baikal tract.

- I left for Moscow because I found my love there,- I met in Moscow an amazing person, an art historian from God, a true connoisseur of painting, my future husband - Yuli Vladimirovich Nevzorov.

It is surprising that, having arranged her personal life, having found a job in the capital (Antonina Mikhailovna worked for a long time as the secretary of the party committee of veterans of the party and the state), she did not forget her city. Julius Nevzorov turned out to be the keeper of a collection of unique art treasures. His grandfather, Nikolai Nevzorov, was an academician of painting, he began to create his own art collection 150 years ago. Each picture, each sketch in the family collection could make a fortune for someone. When the number of art objects exceeded a thousand, the Nevzorovs decided to donate some of the paintings to various museums. So 70 works were selflessly donated to the Irkutsk Art Museum.

- These canvases are still in his permanent exhibition,- says Antonina Mikhailovna. - Among them is Ilya Repin's study "The Seabed", the painting by the English artist Lend Syr "Family of Dogs", the only work in Irkutsk by the Italian impressionist Zantdomenegi "Girl with Flowers". Each of these paintings is worth millions at auction. But we decided to donate these paintings to Irkutsk.

Irkutsk brought me to the people

Alexander Alexandrovich Yezhevsky is 91 years old. But, if you do not know his passport details, you will never think that in front of you is a person who was born at the beginning of the last century. He is so smart, charming and, speaking in modern terms, advanced - you can talk with him about anything without fear of hearing a creaky answer: "Well, the youth has gone. But in our time ..."

Alexander Alexandrovich himself speaks about the years with a smile: "Is this age? I am a Siberian, I have an Irkutsk hardening. My life motto is: movement, diet, breathing, kindness, girls. That's the whole secret!"

He was born in 1915 in the village of Sharagul near Tulun. When Sasha was eight years old, his family moved to Irkutsk on Podgornaya Street. The most vivid memories from childhood are the wooden crossing over the Angara, cab drivers and snow, black from coal boilers.

After graduating from the eight-year school, he went to work as an apprentice turner at the Kuibyshev plant. His high efficiency, of course, was noticed, and after a while Alexander became a turner of the sixth category, and then a foreman of a machine shop. His whole life was connected with mechanics. He graduated with honors from the Mechanics Faculty of the Agricultural Institute and began teaching at his native university. But he made a great contribution to the development of Irkutsk even in his student years - together with other Komsomol members he built tram tracks, and later laid rails on the section of the Circum-Baikal Railway.

During the war years, Alexander Alexandrovich worked at the Irkutsk car repair plant, where Studebakers were assembled for the front. He recalls that then they worked around the clock without holidays and weekends. After the war, Yezhevsky became the director of an automobile plant. Under his talented leadership, the plant is gaining strength and begins to produce 100 GAZ-51 vehicles per day. In Moscow, they were very interested in the work of the Irkutsk citizen and invited him to the position of director of the Rostselmash plant. All subsequent years passed on takeoff - the deputy minister of tractor and agricultural engineering, then the minister of the same department.

Now Alexander Alexandrovich is a member of the advisory council under the Ministry of Agriculture, general adviser to the scientific and technical center "Selkhozmash", a member of the bureau of mechanization of the Academy of Sciences. Despite all the well-deserved regalia, he is very meticulous about himself: “I am always dissatisfied with my work. I want to do everything even better. But I love my job so much that I can’t live normally without it. .

During his current visit, he met with the governor of the Irkutsk region, Alexander Tishanin. "We discussed the prospects for the development of agriculture and engineering in the Angara region. I believe that the rise of agriculture should become a priority for the authorities. The Irkutsk region will be able to safely provide its residents with quality products if we find a competent approach to this problem - to attract qualified personnel to the village, to purchase new technology," says Alexander Yezhevsky. He promised that he would help our region to do this, because, even being thousands of kilometers away, he is rooting for his native Irkutsk. According to him, this city brought him to the people.

Irkutsk Hercule Poirot

40-50 years ago, an engineering degree was considered the most prestigious. Grigory Shumsky also dreamed of becoming an engineer, but did not pass the competition. Then he was very upset, but now he says: "Everything that is done, everything is for the best."

Grigory Vasilyevich graduated from the law faculty of the Irkutsk State University (then the profession of a lawyer could only be obtained at this university. - Auth.), Worked as an investigator in the prosecutor's office, and then headed the department of justice of the Irkutsk regional executive committee.

After university, the young specialist was sent to work as an investigator in the prosecutor's office in Slyudyanka. Departure to the scene happened on the first working day. “At the very end of the working day, a call rang - a man drowned in. A few minutes later we arrived at the place, but there was no drowned man. The man, because of whom the fuss rose, stood alive in front of us. this time he also dived and lingered under water for a while, and his comrades thought that he was dead, and informed the prosecutor's office.

Then the investigator Shumsky had a lot of solved cases. He managed to unravel, it would seem, completely hopeless cases. And he did it with the virtuosity of the famous Hercule Poirot.

For example, in the mid-60s, the case of a missing girl fell on the table of Grigory Shumsky. She flew by plane from Kazakhstan to Yakutia to enter the university. During an intermediate landing in the girl went for a walk on the banks of the Lena River and disappeared. Some time later, 100 kilometers downstream, the body of a girl was found. Investigators found that she was first raped and then killed. The parents of the missing girl identified their daughter as the murdered one.

It seemed that the criminals would never be found - not a single witness. But Grigory Vasilyevich found the killers. As it turned out, when the girl was standing on the river bank, not far from her, a passenger ship was boarding. A nice guy approached the girl, began to get acquainted. They started talking, and it turned out that the new acquaintance was a member of the ship's crew. He offered to get to Yakutia along the river, saying that from an airplane she would not see the same beauty as from the porthole of a ship. The naive girl agreed, but she did not admire the beauty of nature for long. Members of the team raped a passenger, killed her, and threw her body into the river. All of them were imprisoned, and the locals, who were shocked to the core by this cruelty, remembered the terrible crime for a long time.

Grigory Vasilievich is skeptical about the fact that now the profession of a lawyer can be obtained at almost any university: “Only a state university gives a classical legal education, and the Baikal State University of Economics and Law trains specialists for work in the national economy. Everything else is superfluous. So many specialists is not required, and they cannot be given a good education."

He was transferred to Moscow by order, offered to work in the Central Committee of the CPSU. “I understood that the most qualified, most experienced people were selected there. I was interested in learning a new job. But I myself did not think about Moscow at all and did not rush to go there,” Grigory Vasilyevich recalls. For him, the most dear, beloved city is Irkutsk. He says that this city is conducive to study and work.

"I'm not a Muscovite"

Many people in Irkutsk know and remember Valery Nikolayevich Khairyuzov. He became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR in 1990, when the deputyship could not yet be bought. Valery Khairyuzov, an Irkutsk pilot who flew for 30 years, was elected to the Supreme Council of People's Deputies with the hope that he would be able to do something for his native city, for the region.

But it turned out differently. He was in the midst of a redistribution of power, and on the day when Yeltsin shot down the White House from tanks and armored personnel carriers, Khairyuzov was on the side of the Constitution and the legitimate government.

- I remember 1991, the year of the collapse of the Soviet Union. I had a feeling of a falling wall, - recalls Valery Khairyuzov. - Why did this happen? The party elite lived well, they had everything, but it was not enough for them. Moscow voted 87% for Yeltsin, because it was not Sverdlovsk who chose him, but the capital's residents! It's hard to fight myths. Yeltsin by the beginning of the 90s had become a myth: this is "a sledgehammer cast in the Urals", she broke the bonds that held the state. We wanted to live like in the West, get a lot and work a little. But in the West they get a lot, but they also work accordingly. Nobody wanted to work for us.

Valery Khairyuzov believes that the ideas of destruction were created by ideologues:

- For this, both Kashpirovsky and Chumak were used, who were engaged in the introduction into the subconscious of ideas working to destroy the state. Those who were then in power quickly realized that with the help of TV this can be done quickly and efficiently, which is being done now. Victoria Tokareva and writers like her are the intelligentsia that carried the ideas of destruction to the masses. And the people shouted - down with it!

Another life has begun. Khairyuzov could not return to flight work, although he flew for 30 years. He was not hired anywhere in Irkutsk, they said: "You are a state criminal, we cannot hire you." They called him at home and shouted: "We used to read your books, and now we burn them!"

But he still became a deputy of the State Duma. He was taken first to the apparatus of the State Duma, to the Committee on Tourism and Sports, then to the press service of the State Duma. Now he is a member of the inter-factional deputy association "Aviation and Cosmonautics of Russia".

- I am essentially not a Muscovite. I was in Irkutsk six times last year, three this year. And there is no doubt that I will stay in Siberia. I work in Moscow and live in Irkutsk. I continue to write scripts for feature films and documentaries. We have recently made a film about the people of the Baikal region, who live on the ruins of the great empire, created at one time by Genghis Khan. I am the author of the idea, Alena Khmelnitskaya is the director.

Photo by Sergey Ignatenko and from the Irkipedia archive

Insignia " For services to the Irkutsk region"Citizens are awarded for activities aimed at ensuring the well-being of the region and the growth of the well-being of its population, high achievements in the development of the economy, production, science, technology, culture, art, upbringing and education, health care, environmental protection and environmental safety, legality, law and order and public safety, charitable and other activities for the benefit of the region and its population.

Awarded in 1998

1. PARTSEI PETR NIKOLAEVICH - First Deputy Prosecutor of the Irkutsk Region.

2. GLAZKOV VLADIMIR SERGEEVICH - chief engineer of the East Siberian Railway.

3. DVORNICHENKO VICTORIA VLADIMIROVNA - chief physician of the regional oncological dispensary.

4. GRECHKIN VLADIMIR VASILYEVICH - Director General of JSC "Vostsibtransstroy".

5. ZHURAVLEVA ZOYA ILYINICHNA - General Director of JSC "Moloko".

6. DOLGOV ANATOLY NIKOLAEVICH - chief engineer of the State Fund of the geological enterprise.

7. FRANTENKO GAVRIIL STEPANOVICH - General Director of OAO Belorechenskoye, Usolsky District.

8. LEONOV Sergey Borisovich - Rector of the Irkutsk State University.

Awarded in 1999

1. GORBUNOV GENNADY NIKOLAEVICH - former president of OAO "IAPO".

2. ALBINA SEMENOVNA KOVALEVA - prosecutor of the city of Irkutsk.

3. MANUKH GALINA ALEKSANDROVNA - General Director of the Karazey Educational Complex, Deputy Mayor of the Kuitun District.

4. SHKUROPAT YURI ALEKSANDROVICH - Director of the Executive Directorate of AEO SPK "Vostsibstroy".

5. SHADRIN VITALY MIKHAILOVICH - director of CJSC "Bolsheyelanskoye" of the Usolsky district.

6. KONSTANTINOV Gerold Alexandrovich - Art. instructor-methodologist of the Irkutsk regional sports school of the Olympic reserve.

7. KOZHOVA Olga Mikhailovna - Director of the Research Institute of Biology at the Irkutsk State University. university.

Awarded in 2000

1. VYRUPAEV KONSTANTIN GRIGORYEVICH - Olympic champion, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.

2. IVANOV LEONID TIKHONOVICH - First Deputy General Director of OAO "Usolyekhimprom".

3. KASHEVSKAYA ELLA LVOVNA - Correspondent of the department of social problems of LLC "Vostochno-Sibirskaya Pravda".

4. KOROTNEV ANATOLY ALEKSEEVICH - director of OAO SMP 391, Kazachinsko-Lensky district.

5. MAZMINOV KUZMA NIKODIMOVICH - Leading Engineer of OAO "Siberian Research Institute of Timber and Pulp and Paper Industry".

6. STRELTSOV ANATOLY ANDREYEVICH - Director of the Irkutsk Academic Drama Theater. N.P. Okhlopkova.

7. KHRENOV PETR MIKHAILOVICH - chief researcher of FSUE "VostSibNIIGGiMS".

8. VOLOSHIN VLADIMIR TROFIMOVICH - General Director of the agricultural cooperative "Okinsky".

Awarded in 2001

1. GEORGY YAKOVLEVICH BARSKY - senior assistant of the East Siberian transport prosecutor.

2. NENKO LYUBOV ILYINICHNA - director of the Kaltuk secondary school in the Bratsk region.

3. SALYAEV RURIK KONSTANTINOVICH - Advisor to the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.

4. SEDYKH VIKTOR INNOKENT'EVICH - Advisor to the Chairman of the Committee on Physical Culture and Sports.

5. ZUSMAN Igor Karpelevich - senior table tennis coach of the Youth Sports School of the Olympic Reserve.

Awarded in 2002

1. POZDNYAK VLADISLAV VIKTOROVYCH - mayor of the Shelekhovsky municipality.

2. TAMARA IVANOVNA BAIMASHEVA - General Director of OAO Irkutsk Oil and Fat Plant.

3. IVONIN VLADIMIR ALEKSANDROVICH - Director General of OAO Irkutskmostostroy.

4. KOSTOVSKY ANATOLY GEORGIEVICH - artist.

5. LATYSHEV LEONID ANDREEVICH - head of a personal creative architectural workshop, member of the Union of Architects of Russia.

6. LIFANTIEV VIKTOR MIKHAILOVICH - director of JSC "Zheleznodorozhnik".

7. LYUBIMOVA LYUDMILA ALEKSANDROVNA - director of professional lyceum No. 1 in Irkutsk.

8. PODASHOV IOSIF FOMICH - General Director of LLC "JV" Igirma-Tayriku ".

Awarded in 2003

1. IVASHOVA TATYANA VLADIMIROVNA - animal care operator of the fattening shop of the SHPK "Usolsky pig farm".

2. NOVOPOLTSEVA VALENTINA MIKHAILOVNA - the poultry house of the young stock rearing shop of the Belorechenskoye Agricultural Joint-Stock Company.

3. PROTOPOPOVA NATALIA VLADIMIROVNA - Deputy Chief Physician for Obstetric and Gynecological Care of the Irkutsk State Regional Clinical Hospital

4. SOLYANKINA GALINA PETROVNA - head of the association of public associations of large families of the region "Bereginya".

5. SUVOROVA VERA IVANOVNA - a milkmaid at CJSC "Bolsheyelanskoye" of the Usolsky district.

6. BEZNEZHNYKH VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH - director of gymnasium No. 25 in the city of Irkutsk.

7. ILYINA GALINA PROTASOVNA - chief physician of the regional children's tuberculosis hospital.

8. KUZMIN MIKHAIL IVANOVICH - Chairman of the Presidium of the Irkutsk Scientific Center of the SB RAS.

9. LARIONOV EDUARD NILOVICH - General Director of TM Baikal LLC (Svirsk).

10. RYBIN YURI NIKOLAEVICH - Director of the sports complex "Baikal" JSC "BTsBK".

11. SIZYKH YURI PAVLOVICH - director of the Irkutsk regional children's and youth sports school "Atlanta".

12. KHALTURIN VLADIMIR PETROVICH - chief doctor of the City Maternity Hospital, Angarsk.

13. CHERNYAK ILYA SAMUILOVICH - Professor of the Irkutsk State Technical University.

14. SHAPENKOV YURI PETROVICH - Mayor of the Cheremkhovsky District, Chairman of the Agro-Industrial Union of the Region.

15. KULINICH SVETLANA VASILYEVNA - Chairman of the Irkutsk regional branch of the all-Russian public fund "Russian Children's Fund".

16. CHUDNOVA EKATERINA VLADISLAVOVNA - head of the administration of the Tanguy rural settlement of the Bratsk district.

Awarded in 2004

1. GALINA ALEKSEEVNA BULGAKOVA - Executive Secretary of the Regional Council of Veterans of War, Labor, Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies.

2. ZLOBINA TAMARA ISAEVNA - head of the rheumatology department of the clinical hospital No. 1 of the city of Irkutsk.

3. LISOVA TATYANA BORISOVNA - teacher of geography of the Tayturskaya secondary school of the Usolsky district.

4. MOSOVA RIMMA ALEKSEEVNA - senior lecturer at the Irkutsk State Linguistic University, member of the Presidium of the Regional Women's Council.

5. SHUMSKY GRIGORY VASILIEVICH - Deputy Head of the Representative Office of the Administration of the Irkutsk Region under the Government of the Russian Federation.

6. INOZEMTSEVA LYUDMILA IVANOVNA - doctor of the Irkutsk regional oncological dispensary.

7. KRUGLOV VIKTOR KUZMICH - General Director of OAO Sayanskkhimplast.

8. LYUBIMOV YURI GRIGORYEVICH - General Director of CJSC Mostostroy-9.

9. MERKULOV VLADIMIR VASILYEVICH - retired, former director of OGUP Teplichnoye.

10. SMIRNOV VLADIMIR IVANOVICH - General Director of CJSC "Helios" (Bratsk).

11. TAYEVSKIY BORIS VLADIMIROVICH - Associate Professor of the Department of Public Health and Healthcare of the Irkutsk Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education.

12. TERENTYEVA ALEKSANDRA PETROVNA - director of secondary school No. 10 in Ust-Ilimsk.

13. SHAGIN VLADIMIR KONSTANTINOVICH - Director of the Irkutsk Regional Musical Theater. Zagursky.

14. SHUKO ANDREY GENNADIEVICH - Director of the Irkutsk branch of the State Institution "IRTC "Eye Microsurgery named after Academician S.N. Fedorov".

15. SHAKIN BORIS FYODOROVICH - veteran of OAO Irkutskenergo.

16. SHKATOV ANATOLY EVDOKIMOVICH - veteran of OAO Irkutskenergo.

17. YASHKIN VIKTOR IVANOVICH - veteran of OAO Irkutskenergo.

18. SKVORCHUK Svetlana Alexandrovna - prosecutor of the Kuibyshev region.

Awarded in 2005

1. ARKHIPOVA MARIA PAVLOVNA - Member of the Presidium of the Irkutsk Regional Council of Women, Chairman of the Council of Veterans of the Regional Prosecutor's Office.

2. YAKHNO TAMARA IVANOVNA - member of the presidium, chairman of the sports and recreation commission of the regional council of veterans of war, labor and the Armed Forces.

3. GAIDAROV GAYDAR MAMEDOVICH - chief physician of the Clinics of the Irkutsk State Medical University.

4. IGNATENKO VIKTOR VASILIEVICH - Chairman of the Election Commission of the Irkutsk Region.

5. SERGEY IVANOVICH KOLESNIKOV - Chairman of the East Siberian Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.

6. MATSUEV DENIS LEONIDOVICH - soloist pianist of the Moscow Academic Philharmonic.

7. MERZLYAKOV ANATOLY NIKOLAEVICH - prosecutor of the Irkutsk region.

8. MUTOVIN SERGEY PROKOPYEVICH - Director General of the Regional State Unitary Enterprise "Road Service of the Irkutsk Region".

9. PODYACHIKH YURI PAVLOVICH - chairman of the agricultural cooperative of the collective farm "Anniversary of October" of the Kuytunsky district.

10. VLADIMIR IVANOVICH POTAPOV - deputy of the legislative assembly of the Irkutsk region.

11. PLATONOV LEV ANATOLYEVICH - Leading Specialist of the Institute of Energy Systems named after V.I. L.A. Melentiev, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

12. RYABOV YURI NIKOLAEVICH - director of the municipal institution "Lyceum No. 1" in the city of Usolye-Sibirsky.

13. SHLOYDO ANTON IOSIFOVICH - General Director of CJSC "Irkutskpromstroy".

14. SHPRAKH VLADIMIR VIKTOROVICH - Vice-Rector for Research, Head of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery of the Irkutsk State Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education.

15. BAKSHTANOVSKY YURI ALEKSANDROVICH - Chairman of the Irkutsk regional organization of the Trade Union of workers of public education and science.

16. VOROBYOV MIKHAIL VASILIEVICH - Chairman of the Irkutsk regional organization of the mining and metallurgical trade union.

17. OBOLKIN ALEXANDER NIKITICH - Chairman of the Irkutsk Regional Association of Trade Union Organizations.

18. SHAGALOV EFIM YEVSEEVICH - veteran of the trade union movement, chairman of the Society "Mercy and Health" ANHK.

Awarded in 2006

1. ZILBERTSTEIN VICTORIA VLADIMIROVNA - flight attendant of the Moscow branch of flight attendants of Siberia Airlines OJSC.

2. BATISHCHEV VLADIMIR NIKOLAEVICH - Director General of OAO "PO Ust-Ilimsk Timber Industry Complex".

3. BELOKOBYLSKY SERGEY VLADIMIROVICH - Rector of the Bratsk State University.

4. GRINBERG IGOR SAMSONOVICH - General Director of the IrkAZ branch of OAO SUAL.

5. GUBIN GEORGY INNOKENT'EVICH - chief physician of the regional sports dispensary "Health".

6. MITROFANOV VASILY ALEKSEEVICH - Chairman of the Chamber of Control and Accounts of the Irkutsk Region.

7. MURAVYOV ALEXANDER MIKHAILOVICH - Chairman of the Irkutsk branch of the Union of Artists of Russia.

8. POPOV VALERY ALEKSEEVICH - General Director of OAO Irkutskoblagrotekhsnab.

9. SIGAL ALEXANDER PETROVICH - Director General of CJSC Vostok-Center, Sayansk.

10. LARISA ALEKSEEVNA SCHAPOVA - consultant of the registry office of the Irkutsk region.

11. BUSYGIN MIKHAIL IVANOVICH - Director General of CJSC Foreign Economic Association Vneshles, Vice President of the Union of Timber Industry.

Awarded in 2007

1. ELOYAN SERGEY NORIKOVICH - artist of the Irkutsk regional branch of the All-Russian creative public organization "Union of Artists of the Russian Federation".

2. KARAKICH SERGEY SEMENOVICH - Director General of CJSC "Irkutsk Bakery".

3. ZUBAREV BORIS MATVEYEVICH - member of the board of the regional public organization "Irkutsk community "Baikal".

4. MAZUR VLADIMIR BORISOVICH - member of the board of the regional public organization "Irkutsk community" Baikal ".

5. LIVSHITS IZISLAV ANATOLYEVICH - General Director of the Limited Liability Company "Advisory Center of Folk Medicine".

6. KHUDONOGOV SERGEY MIKHAILOVICH - mayor of the municipality "Nizhneudinsky district".

7. PENYUSHKIN NIKOLAY ALEKSANDROVICH - Mayor of the Ziminsky municipality.

8. TASHLYKOV ALEKSANDR ALEKSEEVICH - mayor of the municipality "Tulunsky district".

9. RYKOV VIKTOR MIKHAILOVICH - Director of the Department of Innovation, Science and Higher Education of the Irkutsk Region.

10. MOTOSHKIN NIKOLAY MOLGOTAEVICH - Mayor of the Olkhon District Municipal Formation.

11. BRONSHTEIN VIKTOR VLADIMIROVICH - General Director of the Limited Liability Company Production and Commercial Company "SibAtom".

12. POPOV IVAN MIRONOVICH - Acting Chairman of the Irkutsk Regional Court.

13. BADENIKOV VIKTOR YAKOVLEVICH - Head of the Department of Automation of Technological Processes, Professor of the Angarsk State Technical Academy.

14. DOROGOVA VARVARA BORISOVNA - head of the laboratory of the Angarsk branch - Scientific Research Institute of Occupational Medicine and Human Ecology of the Scientific Center for Medical Human Ecology of the SB RAS.

15. GENNADY VASILIEVICH ISTOMIN - Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region.

16. NESTEROVICH GENNADY NIKOLAEVICH - Chairman of the Committee on Legislation on Nature Management, Ecology and Agriculture of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region.

17. GAVRILOV VLADIMIR IVANOVICH - General Director of LLC "Kremlin Hills", President of LLC "Grenadiers".

18. EZHEVSKY ALEKSANDR ALEKSANDROVICH - Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.

19. FEDOSEEV IVAN VASILIEVICH - Rosoboronexport, Advisor to the General Director.

20. ALPATOV YURI NIKIFOROVICH - Head of the Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Professor of Bratsk State University.

Awarded in 2008

1. GIMELSHTEIN ALEXANDER VLADIMIROVICH - editor-in-chief, general director of East Siberian Pravda LLC.

2. PRUTSKOV GENNADY FYODOROVICH - columnist on agrarian issues of LLC "Vostochno-Sibirskaya Pravda".

3. AVDEEV DMITRY ANATOLYEVICH - Head of the Administration of the Governor of the Irkutsk Region.

4. BERLINA LYUDMILA MIKHAILOVNA - Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Assembly - Chairman of the Committee on Legislation on the State Building of the Region and Local Self-Government of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region of the 4th convocation (2004-2008).

5. LILIIA LVOVNA BRANDENBURG - Chairman of the Board of the Regional Branch of the All-Russian Public Organization "Union of Pensioners of Russia" in the Irkutsk Region.

6. ELOKHIN ALEKSANDR ALEKSANDROVICH - Chairman of the Bratsk city public organization of veterans, (pensioners) of war, labor, the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies.

7. KOROLEVA NATALIA VASILEVNA - actress of the Regional State Autonomous Cultural Institution of the Irkutsk Academic Drama Theater. N.P. Okhlopkov.

8. LEVCHENKO SERGEY GEORGIEVICH - Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

9. RAISA ABDULOVNA RASPUTINA - Deputy Director of the Finance Department of the Irkutsk Region.

Awarded in 2009

1. Vera Ivanovna KUTISCHEVA, Minister of Culture and Archives of the Irkutsk Region.

2. ANTONOV Aleksey Alekseevich, lieutenant-general of militia, head of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs for the Irkutsk region.

3. MELNIKOV Igor Anatolyevich, State Counselor of Justice 2nd Class, Prosecutor of the Irkutsk Region.

4. STARITSYN Sergey Gennadievich, Major General, Head of the Directorate of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Irkutsk Region.

Awarded in 2010

1. KONYAEVA Anna Dmitrievna, Chairman of the public organization "Women's Council of the Taishet District".

2. LAKOMOV Viktor Ivanovich, Hero of Socialist Labor.

3. ORLOV Anatoly Ivanovich, Chairman of the Coordinating Council of the Irkutsk regional public movement "Veterans of Komsomol".

4. ZHELTOVSKY Oleg Vsevolodovich, President of the Closed Joint Stock Company Group of Companies Number One.

5. IZMAILOV Nikolai Alekseevich, Chairman of the Irkutsk Regional Organization of the Russian Trade Union of Chemical Industry Workers.

6. MIROSHNIKOV Petr Ivanovich, Deputy Chairman of the Irkutsk regional public organization of veterans (pensioners) of war, labor, the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies.

7. BATERBIEV Mussa Mazanovich, Director of the Municipal Educational Institution "Ust-Ilimsk Experimental Lyceum".

8. RAEVSKAYA Lyudmila Vladimirovna, Director of the Municipal Educational Institution

nine . SEMENOVA Valentina Andreevna, head of the department of culture and criticism of the magazine "Siberia."

Awarded in 2011


1. NIZAMOV Nurgoley Denisovich, Chairman of the Agricultural Production Cooperative "Country of Soviets" (Alarsky district).

2. VAŠKYALIS Vytautas s. Vintso, executive director of the non-profit organization Union of Builders of the Irkutsk Region.

3. GOLDFARB Stanislav Iosifovich, General Director of the Limited Liability Company "Agency "Komsomolskaya Pravda - Baikal".

4. MELNIK Nikolai Viktorovich, Director General of the Open Joint Stock Company "Sayanskkhimplast".

5. SMIRNOV Alexander Ilyich, Rector of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Irkutsk State University".

6. SHUSTIKOV Alexander Sergeevich, Deputy General Director for the construction of the open joint-stock company "Trading Complex".

Awarded in 2012

1. ZAMORINA Valentina Andreevna, Head of the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service for the Irkutsk Region.

2. KOMYSHEVA Ludmila Nikolaevna, member of the Presidium of the Council of the Irkutsk regional public organization of veterans (pensioners) of war, labor, the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies.

3. PODKAMENEV Vladimir Vladimirovich, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of the Department of Pediatric Surgery of the State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Irkutsk State Medical University" of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation.

4. RUKAVISHNIKOV Viktor Stepanovich, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "East Siberian Scientific Center for Human Ecology" of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Director of the Angarsk Branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "East Siberian Scientific Center for Ecology" human" of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.

5. ALEKSEEV Boris Grigorievich, Chairman of the Committee on Legislation on the State Construction of the Region and Local Self-Government of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region.

Awarded in 2013

1. ANTONENKO Alexander Markovich, columnist on construction issues of the Closed Joint Stock Company "Newspaper" Vostochno-Sibirskaya Pravda ".

2. VOLKOV Yury Nikolaevich, instructor-methodologist of the regional state educational state institution of additional education for children "Irkutsk regional complex children's and youth sports school of the Olympic reserve".

3. Isaikin Anatoly Petrovich, member of the Regional public organization "Irkutsk community" Baikal ".

4. Lyubov Ilyinichna KOLESNIKOVA, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Scientific Center for Family Health and Human Reproduction" of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.

5. PUSHKAR Nikolay Stepanovich, head of the apparatus of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk region.

AWARDED IN 2014

1. VEPREV Alexander Alekseevich, General Director of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant - a branch of the open joint-stock company "Scientific and Production Corporation "Irkut" - Vice President

2. MATULA Galina Timofeevna, member of the Irkutsk Pharmaceutical Association

3. Saunin Vladimir Nikitovich, retiree

4. CHEREPANOV Klavdia Yakovlevna, Chairman of the commission for work with veterans of labor and children of war of the Council of the Irkutsk regional public organization of veterans (pensioners) of war, labor, the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies

Awarded in 2015

1. KUCHERENKO Vladimir Grigorievich, pensioner, former head of the Angara-Lena geological expedition in Ust-Kut, participant in the Great Patriotic War

AWARDED in 2016

1. BAZHANOV Yuri Semenovich, Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture of the Irkutsk Region

2. BYCHKOV Igor Vyacheslavovich, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Scientific Supervisor of the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science of the Irkutsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

3. VOSKOBOINIKOV Valery Aleksandrovich, member of the Commission under the Governor of the Irkutsk region for awarding prizes of the Governor of the Irkutsk region in the field of culture and art

4. MATIENKO Vladimir Alexandrovich, Chairman of the Commission on Regulations, Deputy Ethics, Information Policy and Relations with Public Associations of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region

Awarded in 2017

1. BITAROV Alexander Semenovich

2. Dementiev Vladimir Evgenievich, General Director of the Joint-Stock Company "Irkutsk Research Institute of Precious and Rare Metals and Diamonds"

3. PLINT Alexander Ilyich, Chief Artist of the Regional State Autonomous Cultural Institution of the Irkutsk Academic Drama Theatre. N.P. Okhlopkova

4. SIVOKHOV Vitold Leonardovich, doctor in sports medicine of the state budgetary institution of health care of the Irkutsk regional medical and sports dispensary "Health"

5. SINTOTSKI Roman Grigorievich, General Producer of Limited Liability Company "MEDIAHOLDING AS BAIKAL TV"

Awarded in 2018

1. ANDRUKHOVA Valentina Yakovlevna, Candidate of Chemical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of the International Institute of Economics and Linguistics of the Department of Commodity Science and Expertise of Goods of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Irkutsk State University"

2. KOZLOVA Nadezhda Sergeevna, Chairman of the Board of the Regional Branch of the All-Russian Public Organization "Union of Pensioners of Russia" in the Irkutsk Region

3. LUKIN Valery Alekseevich, member of the Irkutsk regional public organization - the movement "Veterans of Komsomol"

4. NESTEROV Nikolay Eftefeevich, teacher of the municipal budgetary institution of additional education "Children's Art School No. 9" of the city of Irkutsk

5. PROKOPYEV Nikolai Fyodorovich, Chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Irkutsk Region

Not only Irkutsk remembers them, the whole country knows them

The Irkutsk community "Baikal", created in 1975, unites Muscovites, former residents of the Irkutsk region. These are honored people who have achieved success in various fields - economics, politics, industry, culture. Although most of them have lived in the capital for a long time, they continue to be part of the history of our city. Some of them recently visited Irkutsk. About how they remember Irkutsk and what has changed in it during the years of their absence, correspondents of "Friday" found out from Moscow Irkutsk residents.

Baikal does not forgive mistakes

Boris Volynov - pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, one of the first people to have been in space. Boris Valentinovich was born in Irkutsk, but he spent his childhood and youth in the small town of Prokopyevsk in the Kuzbass: they even erected a monument to the cosmonaut there. However, Volynov considers himself an Irkutsk citizen.

You know, on this trip I once again admired our Baikal, - Boris Valentinovich admitted. - I made scientific observations on it back in 1976, during my second flight into space. It was interesting to study Baikal also because I was born here! I realized long ago that space, like Baikal, does not forgive human mistakes. We are much weaker than the force of nature. A simple example: no, even the most modern, computer will save you from a lightning strike. Or from tsunamis and tornadoes, of which there are now many more on Earth.

Boris Volynov says that, fortunately, our state has recently begun to support Russian cosmonautics. A little more - and we would, in the language of pilots, have passed the point of no return, after which only a fall.

I support the fact that our cosmonautics has taken up commercial projects, - continues Boris Valentinovich. - Space tourism is a promising business. But, unfortunately, even this money is not enough for global space research. The most valuable thing that our cosmonautics has lost after the collapse of the USSR is people, specialists who have gone to other industries. Or in commerce.

Boris Valentinovich recently returned from a trip to America and once again became convinced that our cosmonautics, in terms of its developments and accumulated potential, still surpasses the American one, despite their gigantic investments.

It is a pity that romance is gradually leaving our profession, - says the Hero of the Soviet Union twice.
- In Russia, the attitude towards space has become more calm and even pragmatic. But in Irkutsk, I was very pleased with the great interest in astronautics among your students. I presented here a film about my flight into space and after it endlessly answered questions from young people and gave autographs. Rejoiced, of course!

Boris Volynov really has something to talk about. For example, in 1969, during the descent of his ship, an emergency situation occurred: the systems did not work, and the descent vehicle began to fall to the ground. Volynov had 40 minutes to live. Having endured colossal loads, he survived. Only then did he ask the rescuers whether he was gray-haired ... After an injury sustained during an emergency landing, Volynov was expelled from the cosmonaut corps. Doctors said that he would no longer fly even on airplanes. But this man managed to return to the detachment and once again fly into space.

Boris Volynov set a record in the cosmonaut detachment: 30 years of work, seven of which Boris Valentinovich was the commander of this detachment.

I think that Siberians differ from other people in that we are stronger, - says Boris Valentinovich. - The harsh climate, harsh living conditions literally forge the Siberian character. For this we are appreciated.

From loaders to secretaries of the district committee

Pozdnyakov Vladimir Georgievich, head of the apparatus of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma:

I worked as a loader, then as a mechanic, studied at the Polytechnic Institute in the evening department. Once at Karl Marx, I dug up the ground at the roots of poplars, you know, such squares of land among the asphalt? It was for this work that the envoy of the Kirov District Party Committee found me. "What are you doing? We've been looking for you for a long time!" - He speaks. “You see, I am loosening the earth,” I answer. "Well, come with me, you need to go to the district committee of the party."

So unexpectedly, Vladimir Pozdnyakov became the secretary of the Kirov district committee of the Komsomol. He worked in Irkutsk in this position from 1970 to 1977. It was the time of the BAM, the time when the party was recruiting a reserve of working youth. The Constitution of the USSR then had an article on the leading role of the party. There was a slogan: "Komsomol is a combat assistant to the CPSU."

And I was a loader, I have experience in public work - zero! - Vladimir Georgievich recalls. - We were taught managerial work directly in practice. I remember October 2 was a holiday - the 50th anniversary of the speech of V.I. Lenin at the III Congress of the Komsomol. I was instructed to hold a solemn meeting of the Komsomol activists. We spent this holiday, and the communists told me: "You passed this test!" This is how we were taught managerial work. What were we doing? We developed the student movement, construction teams, pedagogical teams, patronage of the village, assistance in harvesting, pre-conscription training of children. Purely practical work.

The 17th Congress of the Komsomol sent the All-Union Komsomol Detachment to build the BAM. Vladimir Pozdnyakov had to supervise him. He was responsible for Komsomol construction projects in Ust-Ilimsk, Bratsk, BAM. I selected guys with construction specialties for construction sites. He organized the life and leisure of youth at the construction sites of the century.

"Furtseva walked towards me"

The Taltsy museum, a new musical theatre, an organ hall, a house-museum of the Decembrists and 70 paintings as a gift to the Irkutsk Art Museum from a personal collection - these are just some of the merits of A. Perekalskaya-Nevzorova to Irkutsk.

Antonina Perekalskaya-Nevzorova is the permanent secretary of the "Irkutsk community" in Moscow. And she began her life in Slyudyanka as a secretary of the district committee of the party in the very beginning of the 60s. As a party secretary, she was in charge of all the enterprises of the Baikal village: the Pereval mining enterprise, a mica factory, and a fishing artel. When the need arose in Irkutsk for a new, energetic person to come to the post of head of the regional Committee for Culture, the choice fell on Perekalskaya.

Smart, businesslike, intelligent. She somehow immediately won people over to herself, could find an approach to any person, and, as you know, finding a common language with a creative person can be difficult. Antonina Mikhailovna was in love with the theater, with Irkutsk actors. She knew that the fate of the actor and, importantly, his salary directly depend on the titles. It was not easy to get the title of People's Artist then, a lot of papers were required confirming the merits of the actor. Antonina Mikhailovna helped many Irkutsk citizens to receive titles. Therefore, they were ready to carry it in their arms. Knowing that young and talented party managers are often taken "for promotion", the popular actress in Irkutsk Galina Alekseevna Kramova once asked one of the heads of the regional committee: "Do not nominate Antonina Mikhailovna anywhere else, she is ours!"

Antonina Mikhailovna helped to get the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR and musical theater actor Zagursky, whose name our musical theater is named today.

I submitted the documents for the construction of a musical theater in Irkutsk and its project to the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR, Ekaterina Alekseevna Furtseva personally received me, ”recalls Antonina Mikhailovna. - For culture, then, as now, the money was allocated last. But I managed to open a house-museum of the Decembrists in Irkutsk, to reconstruct the drama theater, which was already a hundred years old, and to open a new musical theater and an organ hall.

The house-museum of wooden architecture in the open air "Taltsy" also owes its birth to Antonina Perekalskaya. It was she who obtained permission for its organization and placement on the 47th kilometer of the Baikal tract.

I left Irkutsk for Moscow because I found my love there, - says Antonina Mikhailovna. - I met in Moscow an amazing person, an art historian from God, a true connoisseur of painting, my future husband - Yuli Vladimirovich Nevzorov.

It is surprising that, having arranged her personal life, having found a job in the capital (Antonina Mikhailovna worked for a long time as the secretary of the party committee of veterans of the party and the state), she did not forget her city. Julius Nevzorov turned out to be the keeper of a collection of unique art treasures. His grandfather, Nikolai Nevzorov, was an academician of painting, he began to create his own art collection 150 years ago. Each picture, each sketch in the family collection could make a fortune for someone. When the number of art objects exceeded a thousand, the Nevzorovs decided to donate some of the paintings to various museums. So 70 works were selflessly donated to the Irkutsk Art Museum.

These canvases are still in his permanent exhibition, - says Antonina Mikhailovna. - Among them is Ilya Repin's study "The Seabed", the painting by the English artist Lend Syr "Family of Dogs", the only work in Irkutsk by the Italian impressionist Zantdomenegi "Girl with Flowers". Each of these paintings is worth millions at auction. But we decided to donate these paintings to Irkutsk.

Irkutsk brought me to the people

Alexander Alexandrovich Yezhevsky is 91 years old. But, if you do not know his passport details, you will never think that in front of you is a person who was born at the beginning of the last century. He is so smart, charming and, speaking in modern terms, advanced - you can talk with him about anything without fear of hearing a creaky answer: "Well, the youth has gone. But in our time ..."

Alexander Alexandrovich himself speaks about the years with a smile: "Is this age? I am a Siberian, I have an Irkutsk hardening. My life motto is: movement, diet, breathing, kindness, girls. That's the whole secret!"

He was born in 1915 in the village of Sharagul near Tulun. When Sasha was eight years old, his family moved to Irkutsk on Podgornaya Street. The most vivid memories from childhood are the wooden crossing over the Angara, cab drivers and snow, black from coal boilers.

After graduating from the eight-year school, he went to work as an apprentice turner at the Kuibyshev plant. His high efficiency, of course, was noticed, and after a while Alexander became a turner of the sixth category, and then a foreman of a machine shop. His whole life was connected with mechanics. He graduated with honors from the Mechanics Faculty of the Agricultural Institute and began teaching at his native university. But he made a great contribution to the development of Irkutsk even in his student years - together with other Komsomol members he built tram tracks, and later laid rails on the section of the Circum-Baikal Railway.

During the war years, Alexander Alexandrovich worked at the Irkutsk car repair plant, where Studebakers were assembled for the front. He recalls that then they worked around the clock without holidays and weekends. After the war, Yezhevsky became the director of an automobile plant. Under his talented leadership, the plant is gaining strength and begins to produce 100 GAZ-51 vehicles per day. In Moscow, they were very interested in the work of the Irkutsk citizen and invited him to the position of director of the Rostselmash plant. All subsequent years passed on takeoff - the deputy minister of tractor and agricultural engineering, then the minister of the same department.

Now Alexander Alexandrovich is a member of the advisory council under the Ministry of Agriculture, general adviser to the scientific and technical center "Selkhozmash", a member of the bureau of mechanization of the Academy of Sciences. Despite all the well-deserved regalia, he is very meticulous about himself: “I am always dissatisfied with my work. I want to do everything even better. But I love my job so much that I can’t live normally without it. .

During his current visit, he met with the governor of the Irkutsk region, Alexander Tishanin. "We discussed the prospects for the development of agriculture and engineering in the Angara region. I believe that the rise of agriculture should become a priority for the authorities. The Irkutsk region will be able to safely provide its residents with quality products if we find a competent approach to this problem - to attract qualified personnel to the village, to purchase new technology," says Alexander Yezhevsky. He promised that he would help our region to do this, because, even being thousands of kilometers away, he is rooting for his native Irkutsk. According to him, this city brought him to the people.

Irkutsk Hercule Poirot

40-50 years ago, an engineering degree was considered the most prestigious. Grigory Shumsky also dreamed of becoming an engineer, but did not pass the competition. Then he was very upset, but now he says: "Everything that is done, everything is for the best."

Grigory Vasilyevich graduated from the law faculty of the Irkutsk State University (then the profession of a lawyer could only be obtained at this university. - Auth.), Worked as an investigator in the prosecutor's office, and then headed the department of justice of the Irkutsk regional executive committee.

After university, the young specialist was sent to work as an investigator in the prosecutor's office in Slyudyanka. Departure to the scene happened on the first working day. “At the very end of the working day, a call rang - a man drowned in Baikal. A few minutes later we arrived at the place, but the drowned man was gone. this time he also dived and lingered under water for a while, and his comrades thought that he was dead, and informed the prosecutor's office.

Then the investigator Shumsky had a lot of solved cases. He managed to unravel, it would seem, completely hopeless cases. And he did it with the virtuosity of the famous Hercule Poirot.

For example, in the mid-60s, the case of a missing girl fell on the table of Grigory Shumsky. She flew by plane from Kazakhstan to Yakutia to enter the university. During an intermediate landing in Kirensk, the girl went for a walk on the banks of the Lena River and disappeared. Some time later, 100 kilometers downstream, the body of a girl was found. Investigators found that she was first raped and then killed. The parents of the missing girl identified their daughter as the murdered one.

It seemed that the criminals would never be found - not a single witness. But Grigory Vasilyevich found the killers. As it turned out, when the girl was standing on the river bank, not far from her, a passenger ship was boarding. A nice guy approached the girl, began to get acquainted. They started talking, and it turned out that the new acquaintance was a member of the ship's crew. He offered to get to Yakutia along the river, saying that from an airplane she would not see the same beauty as from the porthole of a ship. The naive girl agreed, but she did not admire the beauty of nature for long. Members of the team raped a passenger, killed her, and threw her body into the river. All of them were imprisoned, and the locals, who were shocked to the core by this cruelty, remembered the terrible crime for a long time.

Grigory Vasilievich is skeptical about the fact that now the profession of a lawyer can be obtained at almost any university: “Only a state university gives a classical legal education, and the Baikal State University of Economics and Law trains specialists for work in the national economy. Everything else is superfluous. So many specialists is not required, and they cannot be given a good education."

He was transferred to Moscow by order, offered to work in the Central Committee of the CPSU. “I understood that the most qualified, most experienced people were selected there. I was interested in learning a new job. But I myself did not think about Moscow at all and did not rush to go there,” Grigory Vasilyevich recalls. For him, the most dear, beloved city is Irkutsk. He says that this city is conducive to study and work.

"I'm not a Muscovite"

Many people in Irkutsk know and remember Valery Nikolayevich Khairyuzov. He became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR in 1990, when the deputyship could not yet be bought. Valery Khairyuzov, an Irkutsk pilot who flew for 30 years, was elected to the Supreme Council of People's Deputies with the hope that he would be able to do something for his native city, for the region.

But it turned out differently. He was in the midst of a redistribution of power, and on the day when Yeltsin shot down the White House from tanks and armored personnel carriers, Khairyuzov was on the side of the Constitution and the legitimate government.

I remember 1991, the year of the collapse of the Soviet Union. I had a feeling of a falling wall, - recalls Valery Khairyuzov. - Why did this happen? The party elite lived well, they had everything, but it was not enough for them. Moscow voted 87% for Yeltsin, because it was not Sverdlovsk who chose him, but the capital's residents! It's hard to fight myths. Yeltsin by the beginning of the 90s had become a myth: this is "a sledgehammer cast in the Urals", she broke the bonds that held the state. We wanted to live like in the West, get a lot and work a little. But in the West they get a lot, but they also work accordingly. Nobody wanted to work for us.

Valery Khairyuzov believes that the ideas of destruction were created by ideologues:

For this, both Kashpirovsky and Chumak were used, who were engaged in the introduction into the subconscious of ideas working to destroy the state. Those who were then in power quickly realized that with the help of TV this can be done quickly and efficiently, which is being done now. Victoria Tokareva and similar writers
- this is the intelligentsia that carried the ideas of destruction to the masses. And the people shouted - down with it!

Another life has begun. Khairyuzov could not return to flight work, although he flew for 30 years. He was not hired anywhere in Irkutsk, they said: "You are a state criminal, we cannot hire you." They called him at home and shouted: "We used to read your books, and now we burn them!"

But he still became a deputy of the State Duma. He was taken first to the apparatus of the State Duma, to the Committee on Tourism and Sports, then to the press service of the State Duma. Now he is a member of the inter-factional deputy association "Aviation and Cosmonautics of Russia".

I am essentially not a Muscovite. I was in Irkutsk six times last year, three this year. And there is no doubt that I will stay in Siberia. I work in Moscow and live in Irkutsk. I continue to write scripts for feature films and documentaries. We have recently made a film about the people of the Baikal region, who live on the ruins of the great empire, created at one time by Genghis Khan. I am the author of the idea, Alena Khmelnitskaya is the director.