Aleksandr Rutskoy

Russian statesman and politician Alexander Rutskoi, who also completed military service and has the rank of Major General of Aviation, was the only vice president in Russian history for several years.

Alexander was born in the fall of 1947 in the city of Khmelnitsky (formerly Proskurov), in the Ukrainian SSR. The man does not advertise his nationality, but it is known that his mother is Jewish and his father is Russian.

The boy's father, Vladimir Alexandrovich, was a tank officer, took part in the Second World War. The mother was educated in trade and worked in the service industry. In addition to Alexander, the family had two more children - brothers Mikhail and Vladimir.

Due to his father's service, the family often moved, so the boy spent his childhood in the garrisons, where the head of the family served at that time. Rutskoi studied well at school and after finishing 8th grade in 1964 he entered an evening school. Since he attended the local flying club during his studies, his work during this period was associated with airplanes. At a military airfield, Sasha moonlighted as a mechanic.

In 1964, Rutskoy's father was fired, and the family decided to move to Lviv. There, a young man gets a job at a local aircraft plant, and after 2 years he is called up to the Armed Forces of the USSR.

Military service in the ranks of the Soviet army at Rutskoy began in the city of Kansk, Krasnodar Territory. A year later, already having the rank of sergeant, the young man leaves for Barnaul and enters the aviation school, and after 4 years he graduates. He spends the next 6 years in Borisoglebsk and already there he serves in various positions at the local school. This was not the end of Rutskoi's training; in 1980, Alexander received a diploma from the Yuri Gagarin Air Force Academy.

While in a group of Soviet troops, Rutskoi went to Germany and held the post of commander there. Having earned a reputation as a strict "boss" under whom strict discipline was observed, after a while Alexander went to Afghanistan, where he took part in hostilities. In the position of regiment commander during the entire war, the man flew 485 sorties.

And although Alexander was an experienced pilot, in the spring of 1986 his next flight ended unsuccessfully. The plane was shot down by a rocket, causing the engine to catch fire. However, the man tried to fly as close as possible to the location of his troops and ejected at the very last moment. The man was evacuated by helicopter to the hospital, where he was subsequently diagnosed with two bullet wounds and a fractured spine.

He miraculously survived, the doctors assured that Rutskoi would not be able to walk. However, after 1.5 months, he got to his feet for the first time on his own, and soon completely restored his health. After a serious injury, Rutskoi was banned from flying, but soon he passed a medical examination and the man was allowed to return to duty. So Alexander is again sent to Afghanistan, in 2 months he makes about 100 flights, and half of them at night.

For the second time, Rutskoi's plane was shot down in 1988 near the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The man was forced to make an emergency landing, landed in the forest and escaped pursuit for 5 days. Dushmans constantly surrounded him, but the pilot fired back and managed to hide in the mountains. He almost reached his troops, but a local resident who noticed Rutskoi betrayed him to the Afghans.

Alexander was seized and held on a rack for 2 days (an instrument of torture, used to stretch the victim's body), interrogated all day long, trying to find out any information about the Soviet troops. In exchange for this, they offered fabulous money and Canadian citizenship at that time.

And since the man was silent, the Pakistanis even tried to imitate his execution in order to scare him. They brought him to an uninhabited house, knelt down and pointed weapons at him. In this way, they also did not achieve anything and then decided to transfer the pilot to Soviet diplomats in Islamabad in exchange for a Pakistani accused of espionage on the territory of the Soviet Union. So Rutskoi again found himself in his homeland. For excellent military service, the man was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, awarded orders and medals.

Politics has been listed in Rutskoy's biography since 1989. It was then that he made an attempt to nominate his candidacy for the People's Deputies of the USSR. However, in terms of the number of votes in percentage terms, Valentin Logunov was ahead of him. But this did not stop the man: a year later, he again runs for People's Deputies of the RSFSR and in the second round gains the largest number of votes.

In the summer of 1990, the politician became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR, and in May 1991, he was nominated for the post of vice-president together with President Boris Yeltsin, who on the last day of filing an application chose him. Having laid down his parliamentary powers and duties, in the summer of 1991, Alexander assumed a new position.

Already in his new status at the end of the summer of 1991, Rutskoi was forced to participate in organizing the defense of the building of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation during the August putsch. From the very morning, a man within the walls of the Kremlin was negotiating with Anatoly Lukyanov and demanded a meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev.

At the end of 1991, after the signing of the Belovezhsky agreement, Alexander criticized Yeltsin's actions, as well as economic innovations. The man noted too many academic economists and the lack of financial practitioners among Boris Nikolaevich's deputies. In response to these statements, all the departments that were previously subordinate to the vice-president, Yeltsin transferred "under the wing" of the government.

In 1992, Alexander was appointed chairman of the commission on agrarian reform and held this position until 1993. At the same time, since mid-autumn 1992, he has headed the Interdepartmental Commission of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. But in August next year, the commission itself accuses Rutskoy of illegal money transactions.

In 1993, the country learned that Yeltsin had "temporarily removed" Alexander Vladimirovich from office. Moreover, he dissolved the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation. This was the reason why the management of the state was transferred to Vice-President Alexander Rutskoi, since the decision to remove him was questioned in terms of legality and was considered in court.

The first thing that Rutskoy did in his new position was to urge citizens to storm the building of the Moscow City Hall and Ostankino. A photo from those events shows a man, standing on the balcony of the White House, surrounded by guards, making a speech. His call was the result of armed clashes and riots in the streets of the capital. Soon Alexander was arrested and sent to the Lefortovo isolation ward. And Yeltsin, meanwhile, returned to his earlier post. At the end of the year, the position of vice president was completely abolished. A year later, the politician was released.

After these events, the man was a member of the social movement "Consent in the Name of Russia", founded the movement "Derzhava", and in 1996 became the co-chairman of the People's Patriotic Union of Russia. He also wrote several books, among them "Lefortovo Protocols", "Bloody Autumn" and other publications.

In 1996, Alexander Rutskoy became the governor of the Kursk region, however, at the end of his term, when in 2000 he again nominated a candidate, the Kursk regional court removed the politician from participation in the elections.

The reason for this was violations of the election campaign, concealment of information about personal property, etc. Then the man made several more attempts to promote the candidacy for the post he held earlier, but all of them did not bring results.

In 2015, Aleksandr Vladimirovich joined the board of directors of United Inquiry Service LLC. The last time he ran for deputy was in 2016.

The politician's personal life is rich. He married in 1969, Nelly Churikova became Alexander's first wife. Then young people lived in Barnaul. However, this marriage lasted 5 years, and in 1974 the couple filed for divorce.

In this marriage, the man had a son, who was named Dima. After leaving school, the boy, like his uncle and father, entered the aviation school, but a year later he was written off due to his health. Since his military career initially did not work out, Dmitry took up entrepreneurship, took over as CEO of the management company, and also headed a pharmacy chain and another company. He has been married for a long time and managed to give his father two grandchildren.

Rutskoi's second marriage was with Lyudmila Novikova. The woman is known in the fashion world as she headed the Vali-moda company. And she is also a fashion designer. In 1979, she gave birth to a wife, a son. The young man studied at the Suvorov School, and after graduation he entered the Institute of Finance.

According to others, the Rutskys had a strong and close-knit family, since the marriage lasted 25 years. In 1997, they divorced, or rather, Alexander filed for divorce, and then the country learned about the true relationship between Novikova and Rutskoi.

The woman told the press that her husband constantly cheated on her, and although she was there in difficult moments when she had a second stroke and paralyzed the entire left side of her body, he did not help her wife. At that time, the man had already met with Irina Popova, who did not hide their relationship and told the media that Alexander had not lived with his wife for a long time.

Popova Irina became the last wife of Rutskoy, and although there is a big age difference between the spouses (26 years), the woman gave birth to children to Alexander, or rather, to the son of Rostislav, the girl Catherine who lived with them is Irina's daughter from her first marriage. After leaving school, the politician's son entered the Moscow Military University.

In 2018, the politician turned 71. Now the man is trying to rest more, because he devoted so much time to work. He still has a warm relationship with his wife, they often rest together and try to see Rutskoy's grandchildren more often.

The politician periodically appears in various television programs. Not so long ago, in an interview, he said that in 2019 he would not nominate a candidate for the post of governor of the region.

"Agrarian reform in Russia" "Lefortovo protocols" "The collapse of the state" "Thoughts about Russia" "Finding Faith" "Unknown Rutskoy" "About us and about myself" "Bloody autumn"

Order of the Red Star Order of the Red Banner Order of Friendship of Peoples Order for Bravery Honored Military Pilot of the USSR Honorary Citizen of Kursk Candidate of Military Sciences Doctor of Economics

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