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Former Moscow mayor revives the estate of a German horse breeder

When the most famous regional politician, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, was dismissed five years ago with the derogatory phrase “due to a loss of confidence,” many were convinced that he would never recover from the blow. But even Mayakovsky wrote about people like him: "I would make nails out of these people." Luzhkov has not drunk himself to drink, has not lost his mind and, pah-pah-pah, feels great. He also fulfilled his promise "not to sit on the stove as a pensioner." After wandering around the Kaliningrad fields, farms and elevators for two days, the correspondents of "MK" were convinced that the former mayor had received the nickname "tough business executive" for a reason.

Luzhkov's farm is not just in the provinces. Even by local standards, this is a real wilderness. From almost two hours by car. Dunes and Baltic - even further. The border with Poland is just a stone's throw away, but in the current conditions this is not a plus either. After the imposition of sanctions, commercial and tourist flows sharply became shallow (and in both directions) and the border towns returned to their state of 1946, when the annexation to the northern part of East Prussia provoked their desolation and decline.

Having passed the regional center Ozersk, the driver makes a sharp left turn and, having driven a few hundred meters more, brakes near a complex of stone buildings, whose dimensions testify to a rich and glorious past, and the knock of hammers and piles of building materials - about hopes for an equally worthy future. This is the Weedern estate, known since the 17th century. Until the end of World War II, it belonged to the descendants of the German horse breeder Eberhard von Zitzewitz. And now it belongs to the former mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov. Fate often gave him surprises. And this is far from the most unexpected of them. “When I was appointed to lead the Khimavtomatika Design Bureau, it was a surprise! And when they threw them at Mosagroprom! And this is a normal story, ”the owner laughs.

Weedern has specialized in horse breeding since the century before last. Some stallions are worth over a million.

Having easily jumped out of an SUV (you simply cannot drive through the valleys and fields by another car), Luzhkov, who will celebrate another very solid anniversary next year, ignoring the calls to "take a break from the road", sets off to inspect his property. Stables are right on the course. Weedern has historically specialized in the breeding of Trakehner and Hanoverian horses. They are grown here today. The cost of some stallions reaches a million rubles, but Luzhkov is now more interested not in them, but in a small house of bizarre architecture, huddled near the arena. With the same passion with which he once erected skyscrapers and built bridges, the former mayor is trying to breathe new life into his old walls. The manager of Veedern Timur complains about the lack of electricity and rotten boards, urging the chief to show prudence, but he, with a carefree wave of his hand, rushes to the second floor, where a unique, according to him, room has been preserved - a smokehouse, in which the former owners prepared simple delicacies.

The former mayor spends all August in the fields: he says that it is more difficult to operate a combine harvester than an airplane.

“Apparently, the coachman's family used to live in this house,” explains Luzhkov by turning on the “flashlight” function on the iPhone. - After restoration it will be exactly the same, only better.

The ex-mayor himself does not live in a manor house (the three-story mansion in which a school was located in Soviet times is boarded up), but in a former German office, from where the estate was managed under the Tsitzsevitz family. The house is two-story and rather modest (although Luzhkov calls it “residence” out of old habit): the dining room and master bedroom are on the second floor, guest rooms are on the first. Opening the door to one of them, we find an unknown young man on the bed with a newspaper in his hands. “Probably came to work,” Luzhkov was not surprised at all.

- Do strangers often spend the night in your house?

- Well, where else can he spend the night? The places are deaf, - a man carelessly shrugs his shoulders, from whom even some five years ago the armed guards did not take their eyes off.

In the courtyard of the house there is an oak, which is at least 250 years old, on the oak, as expected, there is a chain, and on the chain there is a cat ... “He walks to the right - the song starts, to the left - he says a fairy tale, there are miracles, there the goblin wanders, Elena on the branches sitting, ”Yuri Luzhkov recites, replacing Pushkin's mermaid with the name of his beloved wife. Her portrait, galloping at full speed on a chestnut stallion, flaunts in the most conspicuous place in the dining room, along with numerous Weedern awards. But recently Elena Baturina practically does not come here, supporting her husband with calls, advice and, to be honest, finances. “Her soul does not lie,” the ex-mayor grows gloomy. To distract him from sad thoughts, I ask about the fate of the former owners of the stud farm. It is known that in 1946 Anna von Zitzewitz, who had hoped until the last that Prussia would remain a part of Germany, was nevertheless forced to leave here in the last echelon ...

“She came here 10 years ago,” Luzhkov nods his head. - She was already quite old. She cried very much. But at the same time, I was glad that the economy was not left to its own devices, like many local estates, and was even slowly being revived ...

Next to Veedern is a village of five houses. The buildings in it are still German, but the people are typically Russian. This means that they are drinking. And they also steal! “If all this is not guarded, tomorrow there will be no stone left over here,” says the manager Timur and points to the gutters covered with concrete slabs. The ex-mayor's neighbors have long since handed over the metal pancakes from them to scrap metal. And when Luzhkov restored the cowshed, the wrought-iron gates and even the hooks on which they hung went there as well. “Moreover, people drove a tractor and pulled them out together with pieces of walls,” Timur says. Neighbors are not hired to work in the household, not only because of their thieving disposition, but also because of unrestrained drunkenness. Luzhkov, as you know, has not drunk anything stronger than kefir for many years. And in "Veedern" established a complete dry law. “Our technique is complicated. Okay, if you cripple yourself, you will do more trouble than on a warship, ”he explains.

Luzhkovskaya buckwheat.

When Luzhkov was in charge of Moscow, his subordinates scolded him for being overly active. Every day, except Sunday, the mayor came to work at 8 am or drove around the city, bypassing problem points. Moreover, these were not official events in the “come, see, praise” style. The trips ended sometimes with many hours of meetings with a full "debriefing". Five years in retirement changed the scale, but not the habits of the former mayor. All the inhabitants of "Veedern" are now forced to get used to the peculiarities of his leadership style - from the manager to the seasonal workers. “I know they don't really like it when I come,” Luzhkov whispers in my ear. - They have their own measured rhythm here. And my awl is playing in one place. "

It is no coincidence that Luzhkov breeds sheep of the famous Romanov breed: "They helped Russia during the war, and will help now!"

Despite the late evening, he pulls us to the nearest field - to show how rape is growing. Dry yellow stems with thin pods, similar to acacia fruits, are almost equal to human growth. Having sprinkled black peas on his palm, Luzhkov is happy like a child: the oil should turn out good! Finding himself on the other side of the barricades, the former Moscow mayor experienced in his own skin all the delights of business in Russian. We return to the estate in complete darkness along the road built with Weedern's money, and the owner complains about the intractability of local officials who refuse to sign the commissioning certificate. “They're just kidding me! Either the width is not the same for them, then the drains are not the same ... ”- Luzhkov is angry, and I once again think about the vicissitudes of fate. He built hundreds of kilometers of roads in his life, received the nickname The Lord of the Rings and ... stumbled over a piece of asphalt 300 meters long!

We meet early the next morning. Although Luzhkov got up even earlier. He is wearing a matching shirt with cows embroidered on the pocket and a traditional cap. More precisely, its summer version is made of coarse, dense flax. He had already talked with agronomists and found out that due to rainy weather, each ear of wheat lost from one to two rows of grain. However, the crop prospects are still good.

The main construction site of the farm is the house of a German coachman. Restoration work is in full swing.

- It will definitely not be lower than last year! - agronomists assure in chorus, but Luzhkov is unhappy:

- So hello! We've done so much here in terms of technology, and they tell me it won't get any worse. Should be better than it was!

As a result, everyone agrees that five tons of grain from one hectare will definitely work out, and only further as God willing. Luzhkov has been working at the combine for several years now and says that he is terribly in love with this business:

- Imagine: in front of you is a golden sea swaying from the wind. You float on it on this colossus and understand that you have grown a good harvest, that you are engaged in an important and useful business that has been abandoned in the country, that you have given work and provided a decent salary for people ... All this is very stimulating and inspiring!

But what about the measures of state support, which are now being trumpeted at every corner? Didn't they reach the farmers?

“I don’t see much change,” Luzhkov shrugs. - Support from the region - 1200 rubles. per hectare. For that kind of money, you can only change your overalls! We ourselves spend 35 thousand rubles per hectare on preparing fields for sowing.

- And loans?

- I have forbidden to take them! In America, during the crisis, the rate was 0.25%, in Japan it is generally minus, the bank still pays you extra for taking out a loan, and even after the key rate was cut, the interest rates are crazy. I don't want to support monetarism with my money!

In addition to rapeseed and wheat, Weedern grows oats, barley and buckwheat, which, over time, has every chance of becoming the business card of the farm. The former mayor had to part with the dreams of Nikita Khrushchev's laurels a few years ago, when, having planted and growing his favorite corn, he could not realize a very successful harvest. It turned out that no one in the Kaliningrad region and its environs needed the queen of the fields ... But another item of expenditure appeared - hay (it is eaten not only by horses, but also by the famous Romanov sheep, which are also raised by Veedern). “Having learned that Kosygin had once organized and personally opened a large conference on meadow farming, I, with my last name, at first wondered what to discuss there: take it and mow! But it turned out that this is a whole science - different animals require hay of different quality. And the land should not be waste: to grow good grass, you need to provide a thousand little things. The Germans get 10 tons of hay per hectare, and we only get 3 tons, ”the ex-mayor says enthusiastically, not paying attention to the overwhelming mobile phone. "The governor is calling you!" - warns the vigilant Timur.

Acting head of the Kaliningrad region, Nikolai Tsukanov, without knowing it, laid the foundation for a new specialization "Veedern". Having collected a decent harvest of buckwheat last year, Luzhkov, as usual, was going to sell it to Lithuania - there are no processing facilities of his own in the region. But the times were vague: people were just sweeping groats off the shelves, prices were rising, there was a shortage ... Tsukanov asked Luzhkov to hold on to the "strategic reserve", and he, as a state man, agreed. For several months buckwheat lay as a dead weight on the elevator, and the ex-mayor was looking in cities and villages for equipment for its processing. The fact is that grains come from the fields in a dense box and are not suitable for eating. Before selling them, they need to be passed through a croupier and carefully separate the grains from the chaff.

Ukrainian manufacturers finally found a suitable unit in terms of price and technical characteristics, and although the country had already embarked on the path of import substitution at that time, Luzhkov, without thinking twice, shook hands ... The very history of Veedern is the history of international cooperation. Let it be forced, but, as practice has shown, quite successful. German equipment of the first third of the last century still regularly serves its owners, regardless of rank and political conjuncture. Luzhkov proudly flips the massive Siemens switches and shows how the Krupp conveyor delivers buckwheat from storage sites to the grain-chopper. The former mayor got the old elevator on occasion (the former owner refused to sell the land without him), but now he cannot get enough of it. In the new granary, the pipes had to be changed twice already, but here they have been standing since 1931 - and even if only henna!

In addition to the Ukrainian grinder and German pipes, Luzhkov's farm has an English grain dryer, as well as a number of devices designed by the ex-mayor himself. For example, a gearbox on a conveyor (the previous engine, according to him, was too complicated) or a container for unloading buckwheat. Part of the buckwheat husk is used to heat steam boilers used in production. Part is rented to pharmacies on pillows. The owner himself believes that there is nothing unusual in this approach. Well, what does it mean for a person with a Soviet technical education to improve a gearbox? A couple of trifles! But local hard workers look with respect. “He's such a guy! - a young guy in overalls shows his thumb. - You can’t even say that the former bureaucrat! ”

Luzhkov promises to feed the entire Kaliningrad region with his buckwheat in the near future. There will be enough capacity for everyone - for soldiers in local units, for kindergartens, and for pensioners. The first lots will be sold at fairs at a symbolic price of 39 rubles per kilogram. “Yes, this is not a business,” the ex-mayor agrees, being responsible for buckwheat and for the entire Weedern. - From the point of view of how the state relates to the agricultural sector, there is not even a smell of business here. But this activity is important both in terms of food security and as a social component, so I am doing this. "

When, after a walk around the house, we sit down to drink tea with Luzhkov's trademark honey, I finally ask the question that tormented me from the very beginning: how happy is the former mayor of such a life? What is it like - after communicating on an equal footing with the mighty of this world and managing a huge metropolis, to be behind the wheel of a combine harvester in a godforsaken corner of the enclave? Luzhkov is silent for a long time, frowning, obviously choosing his words.

“I'm satisfied with my current life,” he says finally. - But the state, it seems to me, should feel dissatisfaction. This is not a syndrome of narcissism, and I'm not just talking about myself. One cannot recklessly ignore the experience of people like Shaimiev, Boos, Rossel, Filipenko. Thanks to their work, the country at one time resisted collapse, they were prominent figures both at the regional and government levels. And now, those who can name the names of at least five governors should be given a prize ... In the United States, the same Kissinger is respected, his connections, experience and knowledge are used in the interests of the country, and Bush ...

- Resentment speaks in you ...

- My resignation is injustice and lawlessness. And revenge for my refusal to support Medvedev's nomination for a second presidential term.

- Has the criminal case, in which you passed as a witness, been closed?

- I do not know. Maybe not closed. It's good to have it close by, just in case. This is what I want to ask: five years have passed, has someone been jailed from Moscow? Ryabinin (Luzhkov's deputy in 2007-2010 - "MK") was dragged to the courts for three years for following the policy of the mayor of Moscow and for many, including government agencies, stepped on corns. It was a purely political matter, a political order. As a result, Ryabinin was fully acquitted, the investigators apologized to him. But who will be responsible for this?

- Are you angry?

- Anger is not typical of my character. It's about disappointment. I absolutely do not feel like a pensioner, I am not going to lie with my stomach upside down. Down - yes, this happens on the farm. But I do not strive for a calm old age, since there is still enough foolishness.

- How old are you, Yuri Mikhailovich?

He thinks again, turns in his hands a cup with the inscription "To the most talented sheep breeder", made by his youngest daughter Olga, and a sly smile replaces the cold mask on his face:

- Probably more than thirty after all. Well, let's go, I'll show you how buckwheat blooms ...

In Moscow.

In 1958 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry (now the Russian State University of Oil and Gas) named after I.M. Gubkin with a degree in mechanical engineer.

In 1958-1963 he worked as a junior researcher, group leader, deputy head of the laboratory for automation of technological processes at the Scientific Research Institute (SRI) of plastics.

In 1964-1971 he was the head of the department for automation of management of the State Committee for Chemistry.

In 1971-1974 he was the head of the department of automated control systems (ACS).

In 1974-1980, Yuri Luzhkov worked as the director of the experimental design bureau for automation at the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry.

In 1980 he was appointed general director of the research and production association "Neftekhimavtomatika", and in 1986 - head of the science and technology department of the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry.

In 1987 he became the first deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee, chairman of the Moscow City Agro-Industrial Committee (Mosagroprom).

In June 1991, in conjunction with Popov, he was elected vice-mayor of Moscow.

In July 1991, he took the post of prime minister of the Moscow city government formed on the basis of the Moscow City Executive Committee.

Yuri Luzhkov is a laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (2000).

He was awarded the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner of Labor, "For Services to the Fatherland" I degree (2006), "For Services to the Fatherland" II degree (1995), "For Military Services" (2003), the Order of Honor (2000), medals.

Has departmental awards and awards from the Russian Orthodox Church.

He was also awarded the honorary titles "Honored Chemist of the Russian Federation", "Honored Builder of the Russian Federation".

Yuri Luzhkov is married to a third marriage. The first marriage was a student marriage and quickly disintegrated. His second wife Marina Bashilova died in 1989. In 1991, Yuri Luzhkov married the entrepreneur Elena Baturina.

Elena Baturina topped the Forbes rating "The 25 Richest Women in Russia". Forbes estimated the fortune of Baturina at $ 1.1 billion.

Yuri Luzhkov has four children. Two sons from a marriage with Marina Bashilova - Mikhail (1959) and Alexander (1973), and two daughters from Elena Baturina - Elena (1992) and Olga (1994).

The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources

Former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov celebrated his 80th birthday today. Let's remember some interesting facts about him.

There are not many figures in our politics around whom a vast mythology is formed. Let's try to understand this mythological tree. And at the same time remember what Yuri Mikhailovich remembered in Altai.

Luzhkov and his real name

This is a favorite topic for conspiracy theorists. Many of them constantly tried to find out its origin. They said that his surname was allegedly not real. And the real one is considered indecent by nationalists and fans of any conspiracies. They said that Luzhkov was the name of the politician's first wife.

I remember that in 1998, the respected Nina Danilova, then a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, now the regional Legislative Assembly, said at a press conference that Yuri Mikhailovich's real name was Katz. Many then simply ignored this speech, but journalists were happy to replicate this statement like lightning.

They say that Luzhkov himself fueled these rumors in order to tell the public: look, what fools I have, they are trying to find worms even in my family tree! And he used all this in political games.

However, the version that Katz is hiding under the name "Luzhkov" was invented by the once famous nationalist, the leader of the RNU organization that had sunk into oblivion, Alexander Barkashov, who, by the way, had good relations with Luzhkov. Members of his movement formed several private security companies and received lucrative orders from the mayor's office to protect objects and public events. Everyone was in the business: someone was spreading the stories, someone was guarding, and at the top of the entire pyramid was sitting a famous mayor and making fun of everyone.

Luzhkov and the sick Yeltsin

In November 1998, Yuri Luzhkov arrived in Barnaul together with the then head of Gazprom, Rem Vyakhirev. Before the start of the press conference in the large hall of the regional administration, the journalists shared their opinions and jokingly discussed who would ask the question about the name of Katz. In the end, nothing was decided, and the question was not raised either.

Many people remember that press conference. After her, many of Luzhkov's statements were quoted in the reports of NTV, TVC and other leading federal media. Apparently, it was important for Yuri Mikhailovich to make a number of statements in a region remote from the capital and distribute them throughout the country.

In his speech, Luzhkov spoke very sharply about Boris Yeltsin and his health. He said that "if there are serious problems here, then you need to make a decision, no matter how difficult it may be, and not make the country hostage to your health." By the way, after this statement, the relationship between Yeltsin and Luzhkov never returned to normal.

Luzhkov and Moscow

The conflict with Yeltsin allowed Lukov to build up his political capital at that time, but the Kremlin could not ignore this either. In the fall of 1999, a killer information weapon that killed the mayor's rating was rolled out from there - Sergei Dorenko's programs on ORT (now Channel One), in which the presenter slaughtered Luzhkov and politicians close to him every Sunday. Even the lawsuits filed by the mayor against Dorenko became the reasons for the plots of the programs and new stinging attacks.

Luzhkov then made it clear that dissatisfaction with federal policy among the residents of the capital is quite high, and all the tumultuous events that change the vector of Russian policy are taking place in Moscow. And who knows what the next outbreak of mass discontent will lead to.

The Kremlin picked up the signal, and then an agreement was reached with Luzhkov. And in Moscow, after the departure of Yeltsin, a special model of life began to take shape, different from the one that exists in other regions of the country. It was she who made Moscow a city, where residents of other regions of the country began to leave in search of a better life. Yes, for this they left for the capital before, but it was in the 2000s that the capital became the main center of salvation from provincial hopelessness. And the creator of this model was specifically Luzhkov.

Now it is worth recalling that it was Luzhkov who, back in the 90s and 2000s, constantly reminded of the Russian belonging of Crimea and Sevastopol, and in 1996, on his initiative, the Federation Council adopted a resolution recognizing Sevastopol as part of Russia and qualifying the actions of the Ukrainian leadership on its rejection as contrary to international law.

On September 28, 2010, Yuri Luzhkov was removed from his post "due to the loss of the president's confidence." And Luzhkov left, became a "grandfather in a cap," as he was sometimes called by mocking politicians.

A family

Father, Mikhail Andreevich, was born in the village of Young Tud (now the Oleninsky district of the Tver region); in 1928 he moved to Moscow and got a job at an oil depot. Mother: Anna Petrovna- a native of the village (currently - the village) Kalegino.

He divorced his first wife Alevtina during his student days, the marriage was childless.

Second wife Marina Luzhkova(nee Bashilova, daughter of a prominent party and economic leader Mikhail Bashilov) died in 1989 of cancer. They had two sons - Alexander and Mikhail.

Third wife, Elena Nikolaevna Baturina- co-owner (together with his brother Victor) and CEO CJSC "Inteko"... Baturina also owns a number of companies, in particular, construction companies that work on municipal contracts. A significant part of the Moscow economy is under the control of Inteko.

They got married with Baturina in 1991. In his second marriage, Luzhkov has two daughters - Elena and Olga.

Biography

Yuri Mikhailovich spent his childhood and adolescence in the city Konotop(Ukrainian SSR) with my grandmother, having finished the seven-year period, he returned to Moscow.

For the last three years (grades 8-10) Yuri Luzhkov studied at school number 1259 (then - number 529).

In 1953 Luzhkov graduated from high school.

In 1954 he worked in the first student detachment that mastered virgin lands in Kazakhstan (together with A.P. Vladislavlev).

Graduated Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry named after Gubkina... While studying at the institute, Luzhkov actively conducted Komsomol work, organized social events.

A girl from a wealthy family, Marina Bashilova, studied in the same group with Luzhkov. Her father was a boss in the oil industry. In the fifth year, they played a wedding and settled with her, in a separate apartment with high ceilings.

1958 - 1964 Luzhkov was a researcher, group leader, deputy head of the laboratory Research Institute of Plastics... At that time, this industry was newfangled, purely applied and universal in relation to many sectors of the Soviet economy. Its undoubted plus is the opportunity to get the widest connections among the capital " elite of the second echelon"- in fact, the personnel who technically support the developments of the scientific elite proper.

1964 - 1974 - was the head of the department.

1968 - Luzhkov joined The Communist Party, of which he was a member until 1991, until it became already indecent.

In 1973, Luzhkov quit drinking after a serious heart attack.

1974 - 1980 - was the director of the experimental design bureau of automation Ministry of the chemical industry of the USSR.

In 1975 he was elected a people's deputy Babushkinsky District Council of Moscow.

From 1977 to 1991 - deputy Mossovet.

1980 - 1986 Luzhkov was CEO NPO "Neftekhim-avtomatika"... In "Khimavtomatik" Luzhkov was called "Duce" behind his back. Not only because of some external resemblance to Mussolini, but also for a certain style of leadership.

1986 - 1987 Luzhkov was the head of the Department for Science and Technology, a member of the board of the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry.

1987 - 1990 - Luzhkov was the first deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Moscow City Council and at the same time chairman of the Moscow city agro-industrial committee.

In 1987, at the initiative of the new first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Boris Yeltsin, who was picking up fresh personnel for himself, was appointed first deputy chairman Moscow City Executive Committee... At the same time, Luzhkov became chairman of the Moscow City Agroindustrial Committee and headed the city commission on cooperative and individual labor activities. The secretary of this commission was Elena Baturina.

As a boss Mosagroprom came into conflict with "Literaturnaya gazeta" because of the publication of an article about the unsuitable quality of sausages produced at the Moscow meat-packing plant. He filed a lawsuit against "Litgazeta", banned the admission of journalists and the trade inspection to all enterprises producing food products, but after the publication of his statement of claim and letters from readers in the newspaper in support of the author of the article withdrew the claim.

In April 1990, before the first session of the newly elected democratic Moscow Council, he became acting chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee as a result of the resignation of the last communist chairman of the executive committee. Valeria Saykina... The new chairman of the Moscow City Council Gavriil Popov on the recommendation of Yeltsin, he nominated Luzhkov for the post of chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee.

In 1991, Luzhkov married Baturina. Because of this, he had a conflict with his eldest son Mikhail (he graduated from the Saratov military school), the details of which are unknown.

Honorary Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, the Academy of Labor and Social Relations, a number of domestic and foreign universities, an academician of a number of Russian academies.

Yuri Luzhkov has written over 200 published works, including books on the problems of the ways of social and economic development of Russia. Has patents for over 50 different inventions. He was awarded the Orders of Lenin, Honor, "For Military Merit", the Red Banner of Labor, "For Services to the Fatherland" I, II, III degrees. He is a laureate of the State Prizes of the USSR and the Russian Federation.

Politics

In the summer and autumn of 1990, Luzhkov tried to actively implement the resolution of the Moscow City Council, signed by Popov, on the introduction of trade in goods using passports with a Moscow residence permit and "buyer's business cards", which prompted retaliatory measures from Moscow's neighboring regions, which stopped supplying food to Moscow.

In June 1991, in the first elections of the mayor of Moscow, Luzhkov was elected vice-mayor of Moscow, and Gavriil Popov was elected mayor of Moscow.

In July 1991, Luzhkov became prime minister of the Moscow government, created to replace the Moscow City Executive Committee.

1991 - 1992 - was the vice-mayor and prime minister of the Moscow government.

During the events of August 1991, Luzhkov took an active part in defense measures White House, together with his pregnant wife. It was Luzhkov who became the center of practical actions for the defense of the White House, gathering into a single fist the resources of Moscow transport organizations, banking and "informal" structures. At the same time, according to the assurances of some opposition publications, Luzhkov compared his affection for Yeltsin with his love for his own wife and Moscow.

Meanwhile, during the attempted coup GKChP on the morning of August 19, 1991, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU Yuri Prokofiev on the phone he offered to cooperate with Luzhkov, which he refused in harsh terms. The events of August 1991 were later described in the book "72 hours of agony".

On August 24, 1991, without leaving the post of prime minister of the Moscow government, he was appointed one of the deputy chairmen of the Committee for Operational Management of the National Economy of the USSR, created instead of the Union Council of Ministers (chairman - Ivan Silaev). He was responsible for questions related to the agro-industrial complex, trade, foreign economic relations and the social sphere. The committee was disbanded in December 1991 during the liquidation of the USSR.

In September 1991, a conflict arose between the mayor's office and the Moscow City Council in connection with the appointment of a new head of the City Department of Internal Affairs (GUVD) of Moscow. Mossovet appointed to this post Vyacheslav Komissarova, against whose candidacy Popov and Luzhkov spoke. Popov ignored the decision of the Moscow City Council and appointed him the head of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate Arkady Murasheva.

In December 1991, the Moscow government, at the insistence of Luzhkov, declared that Arkady Murashev was inadequate for his position due to his unwillingness to use the police to disperse street vendors and unauthorized rallies. The use of the police in solving urban problems for Luzhkov will then become quite commonplace. For example, he often issued decrees prohibiting street trade with herbs, vegetables and fruits, after which police raids on poor grandmothers with dill were organized.

Murashev himself hinted that the real reason for the government's discontent was the investigation into the bribery by two officers. Mosprivatization and the possible involvement of higher officials in this. Thanks to Popov's support, Murashev remained at the post of head of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate until the end of 1992.

In February 1992, Luzhkov, along with Popov and Murashev, was accused by deputies of the Moscow City Council of "actions from personal motives" in the line of duty, expressed in the prohibition of the pro-communist demonstration on February 23, 1992 and the use of police in its dispersal.

In 1991-1993, Luzhkov had a very close relationship with "Bridge", his master Gusinsky... It was then almost an analogue of "Sistema". But as the media holding developed, Most became less and less manageable. They were tied with Luzhkov by common enemies ( Korzhakov, who carried out a raid on "Most", aimed at the same time and even more at Luzhkov), but the interests of yesterday's friends diverged. "Most" did not just strive to play an independent role, but even ideologically disagreed with the mayor's office, although it remained in the same building with it.

And although the divorce from Gusinsky passed without a formal scandal (equally unnecessary to both parties), Luzhkov concluded from the story of "Most's betrayal": relations with the media must be built clearly, the media should not be "friendly", but "ours."

In early 1992, a conflict arose between Luzhkov and the Deputy Director of the Moscow Mayor's Department, Doctor of Economics. Larisa Piyasheva, which proposed an alternative version of the privatization program and accused the Moscow government of trying to retain the power of officials.

Piyasheva's program provided for the complete privatization of consumer services and trade enterprises with the transfer of premises into the ownership of workers, while Luzhkov insisted on the privatization of enterprises by collectives on terms of lease of premises that remain in municipal ownership - thereby retaining the ability to control the activities of privatized objects. Thanks to Popov's intervention, part of Piyasheva's program was included in the official program of the Moscow government, but in practice privatization was carried out according to Luzhkov.

In early 1992, Luzhkov changed the structure of the Moscow government and formed its new composition, naming it, after the model of the federal government Yeltsin-Burbulis-Gaidar"by the government of economic reforms."

On March 10, 1992, he addressed with a statement to the Supreme Soviet of Russia, in which he called to prohibit the holding of the so-called "Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR" "Labor Russia".

In April 1992, together with Popov, he signed a resignation letter from the Moscow government, in solidarity with the Russian government, headed by the Deputy Prime Minister Egor Gaidar, who resigned in protest against the resolution of the VI Congress of People's Deputies of Russia on the course of economic reform, and characterized the deputies' demarche as an offensive by conservative forces on reforms. As a result of the events that unfolded later at the Congress, the resignation of both governments did not take place.

On June 6, 1992, the mayor of Moscow, Gavriil Popov, resigned due to interruptions in the supply of foodstuffs to the population, some of which had to be distributed by coupons, in limited quantities. By the decree of the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, Luzhkov was appointed mayor of Moscow (retaining the post of prime minister of the Moscow government) and subsequently re-elected to this post three times (in 1996 he gained 87.5%, in 1999 - 69.89%, in 2003 - 74.81% of the vote; vice-mayor, together with Luzhkov, was elected the first two times, then the post ceased to be elective). In the course of a phased constitutional reform of the legislative branch, Luzhkov managed to form an obedient city Duma instead of the Moscow City Council, which he did not control, and became the sovereign master of his region.

The Moscow City Council tried to challenge the legality of Yeltsin's decree on the appointment of Luzhkov as mayor of Moscow and twice appointed the election of a new head of the capital's administration, but nothing came of it. The first decree of the Moscow City Council, which scheduled elections for December 5, 1992, was overturned by the Moscow City Court. The legality of the cancellation was later confirmed by the Supreme Court of Russia.

The second decision of the Moscow City Council, which set the elections for February 28, also failed to be implemented. In none of these cases did Luzhkov try to run for the post of head of administration, betting from the very beginning on the recognition of the elections as illegal. After his appointment as mayor, he announced the continuity of the policy, but soon Piyasheva was dismissed from the General Department of the Mayor "for staff reductions", and was removed from the Moscow Government. Yuri Andreev in charge of privatization. Also, measures were outlined to tighten control over the activities of privatized enterprises.

Since that time, the rules of small and medium street trading in Moscow began to change constantly and unpredictably - usually towards greater regulation and restrictions. However, in practice, businessmen found ways to circumvent these restrictions: firstly, by bribing the police and minor officials, and secondly, since the restrictions and prohibitions, as a rule, have the character of another campaign, which after some time comes to naught.

In October 1992, Luzhkov issued a decree banning the sale of domestic alcoholic beverages in commercial stalls and private stores, while giving the police broad powers to combat illegal trade. After a brief disappearance, vodka and other spirits reappeared in commercial stalls, although the decree has not been canceled.

Since 1992, Luzhkov has regularly issued orders prohibiting street trade in greens, vegetables and fruits by hand, after which police raids are usually organized on old women selling greens. After outraged articles in the press, the round-ups cease, only to resume after a few months, equally to no avail.

With some reservations, Luzhkov in 1992, on the whole, positively assessed the results of Yegor Gaidar's activities, believing that he had managed to "make the ruble work." During Yeltsin's confrontation with the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia over Gaidar in December 1992, he actively supported the president. Organized a rally of heavy truck drivers in support of Yeltsin (trucks demonstratively drove around the Kremlin shortly after the president's speech at the Congress).

After being appointed prime minister in December 1992 Viktor Chernomyrdin expressed satisfaction with the fact that the government was headed by a "business executive".

On May 1, 1993, Luzhkov authorized the dispersal of a communist demonstration that deviated from the permitted route, resulting in massive clashes between demonstrators and the police, as a result of which there were severe injuries on both sides, one policeman was killed.

In August - September 1993, together with the Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Lobov opposed the chairman of the State Property Committee Anatoly Chubais("what is happening in the field of privatization is a crime"). He believed that privatization should bring significant income to the budget (in particular, in the city), and not be an end in itself. He opposed the sale of shares in large Moscow enterprises for vouchers or at auctions, insisting that they be distributed primarily among members of labor collectives, as well as among entrepreneurs who have already proven their usefulness for the city.

In response, Chubais accused the mayor of Moscow that the privatization in the capital is taking place in violation of Russian law, and the then head of the Analytical Center for Socio-Economic Policy under the President Peter Filippov said that " with the connivance of the Moscow administration, the number of points for accepting applications for auctions is artificially limited .., "unwanted buyers".

Ultimately (in 1994), the conflict between Luzhkov and Chubais was resolved in favor of Luzhkov: "special order of privatization", which Luzhkov sought: 20% of the shares of privatized Moscow enterprises were reserved for the state (in fact - for the mayor's office), the choice of privatization options is determined by the mayor's office, the mayor's office has the right to withdraw from the privatized property areas that it considers "unused."

In August 1993, he opposed the Law of the Russian Federation "On the Right of Citizens to Freedom of Movement, Choice of Place of Stay and Residence within the Russian Federation," adopted by the Supreme Soviet, calling it "the law torpedoing Moscow." The Moscow government refused to comply with this law and did not abolish compulsory registration ("registration") even after the freedom to choose a place of residence was confirmed by the new Constitution, adopted in a referendum on December 12, 1993. For nonresidents, Luzhkov considered it necessary to introduce a visa regime in Moscow. Only with the help of a residence permit (mandatory registration) and a visa regime, according to the mayor, it was possible to protect the capital from outside criminal elements. He always advocated that citizens of the CIS countries should receive a residence permit to live in Moscow.

In September-October 1993, during the constitutional crisis, he sided with Yeltsin. By his order, the building of the Supreme Council, together with nearby residential buildings, was disconnected from all communications. He ordered the use of force to disperse rallies and demonstrations of opposition supporters. Demanded the arrest of the deputy chairman of the Moscow City Council Yuri Sedykh-Bondarenko, whom he considered "one of the main organizers of the riots in Moscow."

September 24, 1993 and. O. the president Alexander Rutskoy issued a decree that had no legal consequences on the release of Luzhkov from the post of mayor of Moscow. Later, Luzhkov continued to fulfill his duties until the 1996 mayoral elections, in which he won.

After the seizure of the city hall by the supporters of the parliament and the attempted siege of the TV company "Ostankino" spoke on the night of October 3-4, 1993 on television and - unlike Gaidar, who called the supporters of democracy to the barricades before the Moscow City Council, - called on everyone to refrain from going out.

In November 1993, Luzhkov introduced in Moscow "a special procedure for the stay of citizens permanently residing outside of Russia", which provides for their mandatory registration and collection of fees from them. Although, as a result of these measures, neither the so-called "Caucasian crime" nor the "Caucasian dominance" in petty trade were overcome (both criminals and traders successfully pay off the police with bribes), Luzhkov's popularity in Moscow has sharply increased. At the same time, in the republics of the North Caucasus and Azerbaijan, repression in Moscow against "persons of Caucasian nationality" caused outrage up to threats to apply similar measures against local Russians (in the capital of Chechnya, Grozny, these threats were implemented by the regime Dzhokhara Dudaeva).

In December 1993 he tried to evict the writer from Moscow Valentina Rasputin, who at one time received housing and a temporary residence permit in Moscow as a member of the Presidential Council under Gorbachev(as reported by Literaturnaya Gazeta, on Luzhkov's order to Rasputin, in order to expedite his eviction, the telephone and electricity were cut off). Alexander Solzhenitsyn Luzhkov, on the contrary, assisted in the return of the apartment taken from him during the expulsion and in the acquisition of a new house.

In November 1994, he awarded a large group of servicemen, police officers and employees of the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) with watches and laptop computers for participating in the harvest campaign in the Moscow region - on the same day he himself received the title of lieutenant colonel(was previously a senior lieutenant in the reserve).

With the beginning in late November - December 1994, military operations of Russian troops in Chechnya and bombing Grozny the ministers of the Moscow government, on their own behalf, as well as on behalf of the Moscow government, expressed on television their full support for the actions of President Yeltsin.

In 1995-1996, Luzhkov repeatedly expressed his support for the policies of the president and the government in Chechnya... In December 1994, he sent to the State Duma for consideration a bill providing for living in Moscow without a residence permit for imprisonment for up to two years.

In December 1994, Luzhkov established the first commercial television company in Russia - "Teleexpo".

In April 1995, at the request of Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, he took part in the creation of the movement "Our home is Russia"(NDR), delegating the Deputy Prime Minister of Moscow to the organizing committee of the NDR and supported him in the Duma elections at the end of the same year, but he himself avoided joining the NDR.

During the 1995 parliamentary elections, he supported the list of the PDR - while in the Moscow single-mandate constituencies, the PDR, at his request, did not nominate its official nominees, and the mayor's office supported certain candidates of its choice. After the defeat of the NDR in the elections (third place after i), he expressed confidence that Chubais's politician was to blame for this (later this thesis was repeated by President Yeltsin).

January 1996 to 2000 - member Federation Council by position. He became a member of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and Judicial-Legal Issues.

In 1996, Luzhkov took an active part in the campaign to re-elect Yeltsin as president for a second term, joining with it his (notoriously win-win) mayoral campaign.

On June 17, 1996, he was elected mayor of Moscow, receiving 88.49% of the vote (communist Valery Shantsev, who suspended his membership in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, was a candidate for vice-mayor, paired with Luzhkov).

In July 1996, Luzhkov formed a new city government, in which he retained the post of chairman. The powers of a member of the Federation Council were confirmed on July 17, 1996.

After terrorist explosions in Moscow trolleybuses on July 11 and 12, 1996, Luzhkov spoke on television about the need to "remove from Moscow ... the entire Chechen diaspora." In this regard, the public fund "Publicity" sent to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Skuratov requesting the initiation of a criminal case against Luzhkov under Article 74-2 (violation of the equality of citizens on the basis of race, nationality or religion, committed by an official). A similar request to the Moscow Prosecutor's Office was sent jointly by the Human Rights Center "Memorial" and Moscow Helsinki Group(MHG). In connection with the beatings of Caucasians in Moscow during the police operation "Search", the Azerbaijani Organization of Turkic Nationalist Youth (OTNM) in August 1996 threatened to take retaliatory measures (" Russians live in Azerbaijan, whose fate directly depends on the events taking place in Russia").

Shortly after being imprisoned in August 1996 Alexander Lebed Khasavyurt agreements called their signing " a step inappropriate to Russia's interests" and " surrender"in front of the militants. Assessing the situation in Belarus on the eve of the referendum, to which the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Bashkortostan made two different versions of amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus, Luzhkov said that as a result of the referendum Belarus found itself at a crossroads, and that the only correct choice for Belarus is a presidential republic (" If we talk about my sympathies, then they are undoubtedly on the side of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko").

On December 5, 1996, the Federation Council, on the initiative of Luzhkov, recognized Sevastopol part of the territory of the Russian Federation and qualified the actions of the Ukrainian leadership to "reject" this part as contrary to international law. In December 1996, Luzhkov took part in a meeting of governors of donor regions (St. Petersburg, Samara region and others), at which it was proposed to change the procedure for taxing regions.

In January 1997, after the State Duma adopted amendments to the law "About road funds", which provides for the refusal to allocate funds for the construction of roads in the city and the reduction of subventions from the federal budget, accused the State Duma of "economic discrimination against Moscow" and announced its intention to challenge the decision of the State Duma in the Constitutional Court.

In February 1997 at the congress "Russia-Belarus: past, present, future" stated that the best form of unification of the two republics is a confederation. Speaking about the structure of Russia, Luzhkov said that now there are too many subjects of the federation in Russia - it would be optimal to create 10-12 large territorial formations.

In March 1997, he said that there is a "fifth column" in Belarus, which seeks to tear the republic away from Russia, "and that" there are no restrictions on freedom of speech or the media in Belarus".

At a meeting of the Russian-Belarusian unification forum "Soyuz" in May 1997, he called Gaidar, Chubais and Boris Berezovsky who, in his opinion, " susceptible to alien influences".

In April 1997, he was delegated by the Federation Council to a joint commission to summarize the results of the nationwide discussion and to finalize the draft Charter of the Union of Belarus and Russia.

On March 10, 1997, by presidential decree, he was included in the State Commission for the Year of Consent and Reconciliation (as agreed). On May Day 1997, speaking in Moscow to veterans of the Great Patriotic War and at a rally of trade unions, he said, referring to the housing and communal reform in Russia, that prices for housing and utilities in Moscow would not rise. He also said that the results of privatization in Russia should be reviewed.

After the signing of documents on Crimea and Sevastopol in Kiev in May 1997 in Kiev by the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, he called this step "wrong" and said that " Sevastopol is a Russian city, and it will be Russian no matter what decisions are made".

November 18, 1997 at the medal ceremony dedicated to 850th anniversary of Moscow, to the heads of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the cities of the "Golden Ring" of the Russian Federation, spoke in favor of " revisit bad privatization and restore government regulation of industry"and condemned" redistribution of property, which is intensified by the criminal activities of some members of the government, namely Chubais".

In December 1997, he held regular elections to the Moscow City Duma, ensuring a complete victory for the unofficial "list of the mayor's office" (28 out of 35). Luzhkov's supporter again became the chairman of the Moscow City Duma Vladimir Platonov.

In January 1998, he supported the statement of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Anatoly Kulikova about the possibility of preemptive attacks on terrorist bases on the territory of Chechnya ("I have a positive attitude to Kulikov's statement. Bandit attacks like the recent attack on a military unit in Buinaksk cannot remain unanswered. Do not get into our territory. Strike - get retribution." ).

On May 20, 1998, Luzhkov was approved as the representative of the Russian Federation in the House of Representatives of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe.

In early September 1998, after the failure of Chernomyrdin's candidacy in the State Duma during the voting on his approval as prime minister, he was included by the State Duma deputies in the list of candidates for the post of chairman of the RF Government. Luzhkov said that he did not make his appointment as prime minister the preservation of the post of mayor of Moscow, which was regarded by the media as his consent, but almost simultaneously also said that "the possibility of his appointment as prime minister was not and is not expected."

On September 30, 1998, speaking at a press conference in London, he said that if he did not see a worthy candidate in the 2000 elections, he would fight for the presidency of Russia himself.

December 19, 1998 at the founding congress of the All-Russian Political Public Organization (OPOO) "Fatherland" Luzhkov was unanimously elected as the leader of the organization.

In February 1999, Luzhkov, along with RNU and "anti-Semitic communists", was included in the published report of the US State Department on human rights violations in Russia for registration and connivance with the actions of the police against Caucasians. On March 31, 1999, he moved from the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and Judicial-Legal Issues to the Federation Council Committee on Budget, Tax Policy, Financial, Currency and Customs Regulation, and Banking. In May 1999, Luzhkov announced his intention to hold early elections for the mayor of Moscow, combining them with the elections to the State Duma in December 1999.

May 1999 disapproved of the government's resignation Evgenia Primakova.

On July 3, 1999, speaking in Munich, he announced that "under certain conditions" he would not participate in the presidential elections.

In August 1999, he repeatedly confirmed that he would not run for president if Primakov agreed to run for this post.

In 1999, Luzhkov was deprived of the protection of the Federal Guard Service (FSO).

In August 1999, together with Primakov and the Governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Yakovlev headed the electoral bloc "Fatherland - All Russia"(OVR).

On September 17, 1999, he officially announced his decision to run for mayor of Moscow in early elections on December 19, 1999, again named Shantsev as his candidate for vice-mayor. At the same time, he was included under No. 2 in the central part of the list of candidates for the State Duma from the OVR bloc.

December 19, 1999 won the mayoral elections in Moscow, gaining 69.89% of the votes ( Sergey Kirienko second place - 11.25%). He was also elected a deputy of the State Duma on the list of the OVR, which received 13.33% (2nd place), but refused the mandate. The powers of a member of the Federation Council were confirmed on January 5, 2000.

His criticism of the incumbent President and calls for an early resignation was unexpected. The mayor's career was not affected in the least. On the contrary, having become a member of the Federation Council, as the head of a constituent entity of the federation, Luzhkov occupied significant positions - he was a member of the committee on budget, currency regulation, tax policy, banking. In 2000 he became a member of the State Council of the Russian Federation.

In early February 2000, Luzhkov refused to run for president of Russia, which in a letter dated January 31, he was asked by the initiative group of voters of the Samara region, headed by Nikolay Zubkov.

In the presidential elections on March 26, 2000, Luzhkov's Fatherland officially supported the candidacy Vladimir Putin... In June-July 2000, during the discussion in the Federation Council of the presidential package of bills on reforming the upper house of parliament, he took a cautious position, but the mayor's protege, the chairman of the Moscow City Duma, Platonov, actually headed (together with the president of Chuvashia Nikolay Fedorov) resistance to the reform on the part of the senators.

In July 2000, Luzhkov was provided with the protection of the Federal Security Service (FSB) - instead of the FSO, the services of which Yeltsin deprived him in 1999.

On July 28, 2000, the Ostankino inter-municipal court ruled that the facts given in the TV report were not true. Dorenko in November 1999, that the hospital in Budennovsk The restoration was carried out not by the Moscow mayor, but by the head of the Mobitex company, Bedzhet Pakcoli. According to the court decision, 25 thousand rubles must be paid to the plaintiff by Dorenko, and 50 thousand rubles - by ORT.

In August 2000, having received from the hands of President Putin Order of Honor, made a speech of gratitude, in which the insult to the insignificance of the award sounded. (" This is a serious, strong indicator of your attitude towards Moscow, your attitude towards Muscovites. Mr President, we wish you success in this work. I would like to say, of course, we wish you good luck, but let this good luck be the result of work, the result of your efforts, and not the result of some random moments. Although random luck is also a pleasant thing").

April 12, 2001 Luzhkov and at a joint press conference announced the intention of the Fatherland movement and the party "Unity" to create "a single political structure and a single political party." However, on May 28, Shoigu said that there would be no unification of the Unity party and the Fatherland movement into a single party - there would be a coalition.

On June 5, 2001, at a conference of the Moscow regional organization Fatherland, Luzhkov announced that the movement would be transformed into a party no later than October 2001.

In June 2001, by order of Luzhkov, a 37-member council of elders was created at the mayor's office. The most experienced and authoritative former leaders of the executive committee of the Moscow City Council and the city government, who have worked in the executive authorities for at least 20 years, as well as deputies of the Moscow City Council, who were elected to it at least four times, became members of the council. In May 2001, Yuri Luzhkov, after adopting a plan to reorganize the electric power industry, announced that he considered the privatization of Russian energy systems a "big mistake". " The new owner will simply not give a damn about the consumer's problems: if you don't pay, we'll turn it off. This path is a dead end for us, especially since in many developed capitalist countries, for example, in France, the energy sector is under state control and works great". (IA" Rosbalt "05/23/2001)

On July 12, 2001, at the founding congress, together with Shoigu, he became co-chairman of the All-Russian Union of the Unity Party and the Fatherland Movement.

In August 2001, he banned the holding of a bullfight in Moscow, despite the fact that the organizers of the show wanted to present a bloodless "Portuguese" version of a duel with a bull.

On September 29, 2001, he announced that the Moscow government had filed a lawsuit against the unlawful dismissal of the general director of Mosenergo. Alexandra Remezova... According to Luzhkov, "the expulsion of the general director of the energy company and the appointment of the acting head of Mosenergo Arkady Evstafieva, is dangerous because he is not an expert in the field of energy, is not familiar with the structure of Mosenergo and is hardly aware of what Ohm's law is. "

On October 13, 2001, at a congress of the Fatherland movement, Luzhkov called on the delegates to create a united party with Unity. He stressed that this party will become " a massive, powerful, influential political force capable of being responsible for the fate of the country".

On December 1, 2001, at the founding congress of the All-Russian party "Unity and Fatherland", he was elected co-chairman of the Supreme Council of the party (together with Sergei Shoigu and Mintimer Shaimiev).

On February 15, 2002, Luzhkov sharply criticized the work of the Kremlin administration. Speaking at an all-Russian seminar of party activists, he said that the presidential administration is working "without a clear understanding of the functions, goals and responsibilities." He also proposed to clarify the functions of the presidential administration in a special law in order to exclude a situation when this body " often acts as a kind of second government in relation to the main cabinet of ministers and other power structures".

September 13, 2002 spoke in favor of the restoration of Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, stressing that this does not mean "return to the past".

In December 2002, in a letter addressed to the President of the Russian Federation, Luzhkov proposed to revive the idea of ​​"turning the Siberian rivers", rejected by the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1986, at the very beginning of "perestroika." According to Luzhkov, the project is relevant because “our century will be characterized by the sale of fresh water on the world market in volumes comparable to the volume of oil sales. infrastructure for trade in water will be more efficient than infrastructure for trade, for example, oil, since water is a renewable resource, but oil is not. "

On January 16, 2003, the Moscow City Court satisfied the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office and declared that the norm of the capital's charter, which allows electing a vice-mayor, was contrary to federal legislation and not applicable. Luzhkov filed a cassation appeal with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. He asked the Supreme Court to make a new decision on the case and to refuse the request of the Prosecutor General's Office.

On February 11, 2003, Luzhkov criticized the leadership of the complex of property and land relations in the capital for a sharp increase in rents in the city.

On March 28, 2003, the Supreme Court of Russia confirmed the correctness of the decision of the Moscow City Court, which prohibited Muscovites from electing a vice-mayor of Moscow. Thus, the court rejected Luzhkov's cassation appeal.

On May 1, 2003, at a trade union rally, he sharply criticized the federal government, which, in his words, " serves not the real sector of the economy, but the oligarchs, serving only them ... It's a shame". At the same meeting, he spoke out against Russia's entry into WTO since from this " resource-extracting industries will win, that is, oligarchs again, and Russian production will turn out to be uncompetitive".

On June 15, 2003, Luzhkov announced that he had appealed to the President of Russia and the Security Council in connection with unsatisfactory work. Mosenergo... It was about frequent power outages, system breakdowns.

On June 17, 2003, right at a meeting of the city administration, Luzhkov fired the head of the capital's land inspection Igor Chekulaev per " not tough enough "attitude to cases of misuse and land grabbing".

On September 3, 2003, at the XVI Book Fair-Exhibition, the presentation of Luzhkov's book "The Mayor and About the Mayor" took place.

On September 17, 2003, the Moscow city regional branch of the United Russia party proposed to Yuri Luzhkov to head the party's regional list in the elections to the State Duma.

On September 20, 2003, he was included in the federal list of the United Russia party under No. 3 in the central part of the list for participation in the elections to the State Duma of the fourth convocation.

In October 2003, at a meeting between Putin and the Prime Minister of Japan Junichiro Koizumi it was decided to create "Council of the Wise Men", which would be engaged in the development of strategic cooperation between Russia and Japan on economic, political, cultural, educational and scientific issues.

On October 20, 2003, at the end of the meeting, Putin announced that he considered Luzhkov a suitable candidate for the post of co-chairman of the Council of Wise Men. Luzhkov agreed to head the Council on behalf of the Russian side.

On October 22, 2003, at a meeting of the Moscow government, after hearing reports from officials on the state of the water metering system in the capital, Luzhkov announced that he would change the team of officials of the housing and communal services department because of their dishonest work.

On December 7, 2003, he won the mayoral elections in Moscow, gaining 74.82% of the vote. Luzhkov's closest rival, Alexander Lebedev, received 12%. He refused the mandate of the State Duma deputy.

On March 16, 2004, during a serious crisis in Georgian-Adjarian relations that threatened to go to war, Luzhkov unexpectedly arrived in Batumi... Moreover, for this he had to fly on his own plane to Turkish Trabzon (the airspace of Adjara was closed), and then go by car across the border. After meeting with the Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze said that the "escalation of the situation" does not come from Adjara and from Tbilisi. He also said that he came to Batumi "not to interfere in the internal affairs of Georgia, but as a person close to Abashidze."

On March 17, 2004, the Russian Foreign Minister announced that the Russian leadership supported Luzhkov's initiative to resolve the conflict between the Georgian and Ajarian authorities. According to Lavrov, on the eve of the former foreign minister Igor Ivanov asked the President of Georgia to receive Luzhkov and received consent to this.

On May 6, 2004, the head of Adjara Abashidze, after negotiations with the Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Igor Ivanov, resigned and flew to Moscow. On the night of May 6, 2004, Luzhkov met Abashidze and his son Georgy, the mayor of Batumi, at the Vnukovo-2 airport.

In May 2004, Forbes magazine assessed the state of Luzhkov's wife Elena Baturina in $ 1.1 billion, putting her in 35th place in the list of the richest Russians.

On June 2, 2004, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili announced that "all economic interests of Yuri Luzhkov in Adjara will be confiscated." Luzhkov's press secretary Sergey Tsoi, commenting on the statement, said: " The mayor of the capital has no personal economic interests in Adjara, but only the interests of Moscow and Muscovites". He also noted that Saakashvili's phrase about" buying stolen goods in Abkhazia "is" at least unfriendly towards the mayor and government of Moscow. "

On July 23, 2004, Luzhkov went to court with a claim for the protection of honor and dignity against the director of the State Institute of Art History Alexey Komech and the TV channel "Russia". The reason was Komech's statements in an interview with the TV channel that the project for the reconstruction of the Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh", damaged in a fire in May 2004, did not pass the necessary approvals from the federal authorities.

On August 5, 2004, Luzhkov visited Abkhazia. According to the press service of the Moscow government, during this unofficial trip with the leadership of Abkhazia, the issues of providing humanitarian assistance to its population, including the Russian citizens living there, were to be discussed. Meanwhile, Georgia's State Minister for Conflict Resolution Georgy Khaindrava expressed dissatisfaction with the visit of the mayor of Moscow to Sukhumi, not coordinated with Tbilisi. Calling this visit "completely incomprehensible to them," he stated that " the meeting was supposed to be about the restoration of the Sochi-Sukhumi railway".

In December 2004, in an interview with Izvestia, he said that under social programs: support for veterans, pensioners, young families, and so on, the Moscow government is doing " more than even in such a socially oriented country as Sweden".

In the same interview, Luzhkov once again had to answer questions about his wife's business: " I am reporting to you absolutely officially - in the 15 years that my wife has been the head of Inteko (by the way, Elena started doing business even before I became mayor), she has not won a single municipal construction tender, except for the last one - according to development Molzhaninovo. And then the newspapers wrote that she did it absolutely unsuccessfully from the point of view of business - the development of the site, engineering, social infrastructure would cost dearly. I don’t care whether it’s successful or not, it’s her business, her decision. I do not consider my wife's business to be something that would discredit our family and our last name.".

In 2004, in the very center of Moscow, it was demolished hotel "Moscow"... It was planned to build a new one in its place. However, soon Luzhkov said that he liked the view that opened on the city after the demolition and that it would be nice to create a new square here - the largest in Europe. A discussion broke out on this issue, with many supporting the mayor.

In February 2005, however, Luzhkov said that the hotel "will be completely restored to the same dimensions and architecture as it was before the demolition."

On February 16, 2005, he announced that he intends to appeal to the Constitutional Court of Russia a number of provisions of the law on the monetization of benefits and that he considers this law "wrong."

In April 2005, he said that officials are trying to deceive him when he travels around Moscow. Therefore, he only says where he will go in the morning.

In June 2005, he sharply opposed the spread of gambling establishments in Moscow: " I will support any radical solution to this issue. What is happening now in the city is complete debauchery and moral deformity ... The decision that local authorities cannot interfere with the activities of gambling establishments was made without our consent. This is political sadism!". On June 23, 2005, he signed a decree" On measures of personnel renewal and formation of a reserve, "according to which, by the end of 2005, many key positions were to be occupied by young people under 35, and activists of youth associations were to become consultants to officials.

On July 6, 2005, deputies of the Moscow City Duma adopted in the first reading the law "On public positions in the city of Moscow", developed by Luzhkov's staff. This document guaranteed the mayor, after his resignation, state dacha, special communications, a state car, bodyguards and a monthly payment of about 115 thousand rubles until he gets a new job. July 30, 2005 announced his intention to sue. He accused him of stealing 49% of the company's shares Sibneft-Yugra, created by the Moscow government, Sibneft and SibirEnergy. It was about the theft of funds from the city, " which would be enough to provide Moscow with oil for 40 years", - said Luzhkov.

At the end of July 2005, he signed a decree on the creation of a youth movement in Moscow "Civil shift" and allocated 3 million rubles from the city budget to finance it.

In September 2005, the Moscow organization of the United Russia party entrusted Luzhkov to head the party list in the elections to the Moscow City Duma. The first three of the list also included the chairman of the Moscow State Duma Vladimir Platonov and his deputy Andrey Metelsky.

Since October 2005 - Member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Implementation of Priority National Projects.

In October 2005, he decided to abolish the post of vice mayor, which remained vacant after Shantsev's departure. Distributed the subdivisions of the complex, which was previously headed by Shantsev, among his first deputies.

On November 15, 2005, in a live broadcast of the TVTs television company, he called the party a "Black Hundred Plan" and said that the capital's authorities "have the strength to prevent their speech in the bud."

On November 30, 2005, the Moscow branch of United Russia announced that if it wins the elections to the Moscow City Duma on December 4, 2005, it will propose Luzhkov's candidacy for the post of mayor in 2007 (provided that an appropriate federal law is adopted, allowing parties to nominate candidates for the post of head of the region).

On December 1, 2005, he filed a complaint against Chubais directly with the President of the Russian Federation. The reason for the complaint was the proposal made by Chubais the day before to turn off the power supply to large enterprises in Moscow if frosts stay below 25 degrees in the city for more than three days.

On December 4, 2005, he was elected a deputy of the Moscow City Duma on the list of United Russia, but refused the deputy mandate.

On December 20, 2005, he signed a decree according to which letters notifying the holding of any rallies, demonstrations, processions and pickets on the territory of the Central Administrative District of the capital should henceforth be sent personally to the mayor of Moscow. Previously, the Moscow government made decisions on notifications about mass rallies with more than 5,000 participants, and decisions on notifications about marches with less than 5,000 participants were made by the prefects.

On December 29, 2005, Izvestia published a long interview with Luzhkov. In it, he characterized Yeltsin (about whom he once said: "One love is Moscow, one love is a wife, one love is a president") as a person, " which brought a lot of troubles and harm to our state".

January 21, 2006 spoke about the case Slobodan Milosevic: "This is a shame of the European Court, which unreasonably brought Milosevic to justice and held him in custody for several years, but now does not know what to do with him, since all their charges have collapsed.".

On February 15, 2006, he spoke out against Russia's accession to The World Trade Organization(WTO).

In March 2006, Georgian Minister for Refugee Affairs and Accommodation Giorgi Kheviashvili announced that the country's government intends to confiscate the real estate of the mayor of Moscow in Abkhazia.

On July 11, 2006, Luzhkov won a lawsuit against Alexander Lebedev... The lawsuit was related to material in the Voikovsky District newspaper "Our District", where Lebedev made a number of accusations against Luzhkov, which the court found defaming the honor, dignity and business reputation of the capital's mayor.

On July 20, 2006, Luzhkov said at a meeting in Sukhumi with the President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh that Moscow will build its relations with the republic as with an independent state, regardless of Tbilisi's position.

On August 16, 2006 Luzhkov became a cavalier Order named after Akhmad Kadyrov- the highest award of Chechnya.

On December 20, 2006, the deputy chairman of the Moscow City Duma, head of the United Russia faction, Andrei Metelsky, announced that the faction would nominate Luzhkov for the post of mayor of Moscow for a new term in December 2007.

In February 2007, speaking at the Christmas Readings, Luzhkov spoke about the "unprecedented pressure" that was exerted on him by various international circles in connection with the ban gay pride... He called such events "satanic action" and said that he would not allow them to take place in the future.

On February 21, 2007, speaking at the opening ceremony of the House of Moscow in Sevastopol, he mentioned "the problems that tore Sevastopol away from Russia, tore off Crimea from Russia."

On February 26, 2007, the organizers of the May 2006 gay pride parade filed a lawsuit against Luzhkov. The reason for the proceedings was Luzhkov's statement, who called the gay parade "a satanic act."

On June 22, 2007, Putin submitted Luzhkov's candidacy to the Moscow City Duma for approval as mayor of Moscow.

On June 27, 2007, the Duma approved Luzhkov. Only 3 out of 4 members of the Communist Party faction voted against.

On October 2, 2007, it became known that Luzhkov would head the Moscow list of United Russia as a "locomotive" in the December 2, 2007 elections to the State Duma.

On November 8, 2007, speaking at the conference "Russia and Abkhazia: Towards a Common Economic Space" he said: "We are convinced of the right of Abkhazia to build a sovereign state, since Abkhazia is a sovereign state. And we (Russia) must take a bold step and make a decision on the recognition of the sovereignty of Abkhazia ".

On December 2, 2007, Luzhkov was elected to the State Duma of the 5th convocation on the list of United Russia and resigned his mandate.

On October 30, 2008, a presentation of Luzhkov's new book took place "Water and Peace", in which he proves the need to return to the project of diverting part of the flow of northern rivers to Central Asia.

In the mid-1980s, according to Luzhkov, the river diversion project was ruined by the liberal intelligentsia, who hated this undertaking "as one of the megaprojects of the Soviet state, and such projects for a seasoned liberal with a Western accent in a troubled head are like a sharp knife ... The blow to the water transfer project had a hidden (another question, that someone clearly perceived, and someone did not understand) the goal of destroying the unity of destinies, the common history of Russia and Central Asia, dismantling the USSR. " (Kommersant, October 31, 2008).

In late 2008, ForeignPolicy magazine published a ranking of the most dangerous cities in the world with a record high homicide rate per capita. The top five, along with Caracas, Cape Town, New Orleans and Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea), include the capital of Russia, Moscow. These megacities have bypassed other 130 cities in the world. With a population of over 10 million and a murder rate of 9.6 per 100,000 inhabitants per year, Moscow has earned the fifth place in the ranking of the world's most life-threatening cities.

In 2008, the Public Opinion Foundation conducted a survey of 34 thousand people in 34 constituent entities of the Federation and found that 42% of Muscovites admitted that they had given bribes to an official. Moscow has been ranked as the most corrupt city in the country. In December 2008, an anti-corruption council was established in Moscow, headed by Luzhkov.

Under Luzhkov, Moscow has consistently ranked among the most expensive cities in the world. So, according to the annual rating of the consulting company Mercer in 2006, 2007, 2008, the capital of Russia topped the rating of the most expensive megacities in the world (taking into account the cost of 200 goods and services in 143 cities of the world). In 2009, it gave way to the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka: the situation was changed by the crisis and the depreciation of the ruble against the dollar.

Being one of the most expensive cities in the world, Moscow lags far behind London or Paris in terms of the average salary of residents - the gap is 3.5-4 times. As of mid-2009, the average salary of a Muscovite is 31,156 rubles. At the same time, prices for key food products in the Russian capital are catching up with European ones, and in terms of the growth rate of food prices, Russia is significantly ahead of Europe.

The gap between the richest 10% and the poorest 10% was at a critical level - in 42 times, which is not found in any other region of Russia.

From 1991 to 2000, there was a sharp increase in the number of private road transport in Moscow. During this period, the number of cars on the city's roads increased almost six times, increasing by an average of 150-200 thousand cars per year. Moscow is facing serious road congestion with private vehicles. At the same time, many major highways and transport interchanges were built. In the 1990s it was reconstructed MKAD, appeared Third Transport Ring, the purpose of which is to relieve the capital's roads and reduce the number of traffic jams.

Public transport also developed under Luzhkov. So, at this time, for the first time in Russia, monorail transport was put into operation, the Moscow metro was expanded. Construction of the first section has begun 4th Ring Road, which according to current plans will become part of Northeast Expressway... At the same time, under Luzhkov, the Moscow tram suffered losses. The length of tram lines in 1989-2004 was reduced from 460 to 420 km, in particular, due to the expansion of highways, the lines on Prospekt Mira, Nizhnyaya Maslovka and Begovaya Street were closed. Tram passenger traffic in 1995-2010 fell from 1.4 million people a year to 214 thousand.

At the same time, the cost of building roads in Moscow turned out to be the highest in the world - 1 km of the Moscow Ring Road - $ 100 million; 1 km of the Third Transport Ring - $ 117 million. However, the record belongs to the four-kilometer section of the Fourth Transport Ring. A kilometer there will cost the Moscow budget $ 537 million. This is more expensive than building a kilometer of a tunnel under the English Channel and a kilometer of the Large Hadron Collider. According to experts, with the high cost of road construction that developed under Luzhkov, the problem of traffic jams will never be solved.

In Moscow in the 2000s, prices for services Housing and communal services grew faster than the Russian average. Since 2001, they have grown more than 6 times (in Russia - five times). Higher than the average Russian and Moscow inflation. Over the first six months, prices in Moscow, according to official data, increased by 12.5%, while in Russia by 7.4%. In Moscow, the industrial decline is significantly higher - more than 25-28% in 2009 of the volume of 2008, while in Russia - 14.8%.

In 2009, Luzhkov was criticized for introducing a program of airborne silver iodide and dry ice over the Moscow region to redistribute rainfall in the region in order to reduce the cost of cleaning Moscow streets. Environmentalists and the leadership of the Moscow region expressed concern that such an experiment could only harm the environment of the capital and the region.

September 2010 Russian central TV channels launched a number of documentaries, where they criticized the mayor's activities in a harsh manner. Business, money, connections of Luzhkov himself and all members of his family were publicly discussed. "Lawlessness. Moscow, which we have lost", "It's about the cap"- with a ruthless roller they crushed trust and undermined the authority of Yuri Mikhailovich.

In response to a letter to the President of the Russian Federation dated September 27, 2010, in which the mayor expressed indignation at the criticism made against him on television.

September 28, 2010, in response to Luzhkov's letter, the President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the early termination of the powers of the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov ("To dismiss Luzhkov Yuri Mikhailovich from the post of mayor of Moscow due to the loss of confidence of the President of the Russian Federation." ... " empowered by the mayor of Moscow ").

Experts dubbed Luzhkov a victim of behind-the-scenes intrigue Vladimir Putin... Declaring threats against his family, he moved to live in London; Luzhkov's daughters were expelled from Moscow State University of their own free will. After his resignation, Luzhkov has repeatedly stated that some political forces want to take business away from his family.

Most of Luzhkov's associates were dismissed from their posts by the new mayor, criticism of his decisions and actions as mayor for a long time did not leave the pages of the press, the Internet, and the news feeds of all TV channels. In 2010, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Major Cities Management International University in Moscow.

Member of the Board of Directors since 2012 United Oil Company OJSC(executive body of Ufaorgsintez) controlled by the group AFK System and structures Yakov Goldovsky.

Currently he is engaged in his own farm in Kaliningrad region... In October 2015, he boasted on the air of Komsomolskaya Pravda radio: " Here in my Kaliningrad region - 5.5 thousand hectares of land. From each hectare I have now received a grain harvest, including wheat, 53.6 centners per hectare. Moreover, food grade wheat. And we do not consider this a record. We will add more".

Income

According to the Central Election Commission, Luzhkov's income in 2002 was 9 million 148 thousand 150 rubles... He owned a land plot of 25 acres in the Kaluga region and a residential building with an area of ​​62 sq. meters in the same place, a GAZ-69 car and a car trailer.

Annual income for 2004, declared by Luzhkov as a candidate for the Moscow City Duma in the 2005 elections, amounted to 2 million 438 rubles.

At the end of October 2007, data on Luzhkov's property and income were released. He owned four land plots in the Kaluga region, one of which is 798,528 square meters. He also had a 62 sq. M. Residential building in the Kaluga region. meters and an apartment in Moscow with an area of ​​150.3 sq. meters. Luzhkov's total income in 2006 was 31 million 906 thousand 922 rubles. A 1964 GAZ-69E passenger car and a 2000 trailer were registered for it. He also owned 1.11 million bonds in OJSC KB MIA.

In February 2009, the Finance magazine published a new rating of Russian billionaires, according to which the Luzhkov-Baturin family has become very poor. The wife of Yuri Mikhailovich took 45th place in it: the magazine estimated her fortune at $ 1 billion, that is, according to the calculations of Finance, she lost about 6 billion.

According to Forbes, in 2009, the wife of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov "froze" some of the development projects in Moscow and Ukraine... However, many residential complexes continue to be built: it is cheaper to complete than to abandon.

In July 2009, Elena Baturina published her statement of income and property for 2008. According to the official newspaper of the Moscow government, Tverskaya 13, the total income of the wife of the mayor of Moscow amounted to more than 7 billion rubles, which is about 1,183 times more than the income of the mayor himself, the newspaper Kommersant calculated.

According to data published on July 4, 2009, Baturina received more than 15 million rubles as a salary at her official place of work - CJSC Inteko. This year, Baturina also managed to earn on development projects (about 440 million rubles) and receive interest on deposits (slightly less than 1.5 million rubles). The main source of income for it was the results of operations on the sale of securities (over 6.5 billion rubles).

In addition to money, the wife of the mayor of Moscow owned shares in two Moscow apartments with an area of ​​150 and 159 sq. m (1/4 and 1/3 shares, respectively), and also has a land plot of agricultural use with an area of ​​2.85 hectares in the Kursk region. Baturina owns six cars: a 2005 PorscheTurbo S, a 2007 Mercedes-Benz S600 and a 2007 Mercedes-Benz ML63AMG, a 1995 Audi 80, a 1957 Mercedes-Benz S220 and a rare 1934 Talbot-95.

Information about Elena Baturina's income was made public in accordance with the anti-corruption decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 18, 2009, according to which officials and members of their families are required to submit data on their income annually for publication in the media. Yuri Luzhkov himself published data on his income and property also in the newspaper Tverskaya, 13 - the day after the presidential decree appeared. At the same time, the newspaper noted that the mayor's wife, Elena Baturina, filed a declaration of income at the place of residence. The publication also reported that the mayor's daughters Elena (student) and Olga (student) own only 1/4 of the share of a Moscow apartment with a total area of ​​150 sq. m.

The mayor himself, according to published data, owns 6 million rubles, 1/4 of the share in a Moscow apartment with an area of ​​150 sq. m and four land plots in the Kaluga region for beekeeping with a total area of ​​just over 1.1 million square meters. m, a GAZ-69-E car and a trailer for transporting hives.

Luzhkov last released data on his income in 2007 on the eve of the last Duma elections, in which he topped the list of United Russia in Moscow. Then the capital's mayor had a much larger amount in his accounts - 31 million rubles. In addition, in 2006 Luzhkov owned shares of Norilsk Nickel, LUKOIL, MTS, RAO UES of Russia, Gazprom, Tatneft, Sberbank and others. It is not known whether the mayor still owns the shares of leading Russian companies, but he now owns a dacha in the Moscow region with a total area of ​​2,531.2 square meters. m. Even if we proceed from a modest estimate of elite housing in Moscow, $ 6,000 / sq. m. m, approximately, the market value of Luzhkov's dacha is about $ 15 million.

Rumors (scandals)

Since 1993, the Moscow government has been repeatedly accused of corruption. For example, rumors circulated about the unjustified support of some commercial structures by the Moscow authorities (JSC "Group" Most "," Organizing Committee "," Mosinvest "," Mosprivatization "," Moscow Guild ").

The press compared the estimated cost of Luzhkov's cottage in a dacha cooperative "Pines" with the size of the mayor's salary and came to disappointing conclusions - does not agree, does not correspond, etc. He was asked to publish his income tax return free of charge. All this Yuri Luzhkov happily ignored. However, the most unpleasant story was hyped because of the Moscow journalist Anatoly Baranova, "who dared to approach the coverage of the mayor without due respect"According to some Moscow publications, he was fired from his job, sued for $ 100 million, telephone threats and constant surveillance" forced a well-known reporter and law-abiding citizen to turn into a homeless person, start a life of an illegal in his hometown. "

In 1994, Luzhkov became the object of intrigue by the head of the presidential Security Service. Alexandra Korzhakova and vice prime minister Oleg Soskovets which culminated in the article in Rossiyskaya Gazeta "Snow is Falling" (November 19) and the military operation "Snout in the Snow" on December 2, 1994, apparently directed against the Most Group of Vladimir Gusinsky, but with the main goal of Luzhkov as the then patron "Mosta".

According to British press reports, the Luzhkov-Baturin family through offshore owns a house in London, it is the second largest after Buckingham Palace(residence of the British Queen). Mansion Purchase Data Whitanhurst(Witanhurst) appeared in July 2008. At the same time, the DailyMail called the price - $ 100 million. The newspaper reports that "Whitanhurst" is a 90-room mansion in the Highgate area. One of the largest spaces is the 70 sq. M ballroom. feet.

On September 22, 1999, Luzhkov announced that he would sue the German newspaper Bild, claiming that he had bought horses in Germany in the amount of DM 150,000 (as reported by TV presenter Sergei Dorenko in his news and analysis program on ORT ).

In October 1999, he filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation against the Cult of Personalities magazine, ORT and Dorenko, who announced on television, in particular, that Luzhkov's personal fortune, according to the Cult of Individuals magazine, is $ 200-400 million dollars.

On December 3, 1999, the Ostankino inter-municipal court ruled to declare that the statements disseminated in Dorenko's author's program on September 5, September 26 and October 3 are not true; "false, discrediting honor and dignity" were recognized information about the personal condition of Luzhkov, about the acquisition by him of a land plot in Spain and others. The court ordered ORT to compensate the moral damage inflicted on Luzhkov in the amount of 50 thousand rubles, and Dorenko - 100 thousand rubles; ORT and Dorenko are also obliged to refute the information they have disseminated "within a period of no more than a week."

On February 4, 2002, at a meeting of the Moscow government dedicated to the progress of construction in the city, there was a major scandal. After Vladimir Resin's speech, who read out a report on the activities of Moscow builders in 2002, Luzhkov took the floor for a special statement. He submitted several collective letters from residents of new buildings with complaints about the poor quality of housing. Luzhkov said that for now "glorious SU-155" reports on successes, residents of the capital suffer from poor quality of work of builders. He also showed photographs of houses and apartments, from which, in his opinion, this conclusion directly follows. The mayor complained that for the poor work of the builders, Muscovites blame him, the mayor, for all the sins. In response, Resin accused Vice Mayor Valery Shantsev of falsifying photographs. As a result, Yuri Luzhkov decided to create a commission that will deal with the accusations against the builders within five days. According to the results of her work, Luzhkov said, it is possible to appeal to the prosecutor's office. " Your philosophy is making money, we are not on the way with you", - said Luzhkov to Resin.

On August 6, 2002, the leadership of the largest Latvian newspaper Diena published an appeal to the authorities to deny an entry visa to Luzhkov, whose visit to Riga was slated for September 27-28, 2002. Diena accused him of " Great Russian chauvinism"and argued that he always" contributed to the aggravation of relations between Latvia and Russia ", comparing Latvia with" Cambodia of the times of Pol Pot. " turned out to be enemy number two after the United States. "

On April 9, 2003, the international human rights organization Privacy International, awarded Luzhkov the "Dumb Security" prize of the second degree in the nomination "Blatant stupidity" for his persistent desire to preserve the institution of registration. According to the organization, the residence permit, which is designed to reduce the degree of terrorist threat and crime, does not fulfill its function at all, since the police officers who check it can be bought off, according to the Moscow correspondents of Privacy International, for $ 5- $ 10. (Luzhkov lost first place to the Australian government for an active campaign to restrict freedoms in order to counter terrorism in a country where there has never been a single terrorist act).

In the spring of 2004, the press began to see more and more reports referring to "informed sources" that the Kremlin was advising Luzhkov to voluntarily leave his post and that Putin did not like that " companies controlled by Luzhkov's wife Elena Baturina are making too much profit from the Moscow construction business".

On April 15, 2004, a round table meeting on the problems of preserving the architectural heritage of the 20th century was held at the Moscow Museum of Architecture. Those gathered at it made an open letter to the president of the country and the mayor of the capital, in which they expressed their protest against the policy of extermination of Moscow architectural monuments. It, in particular, said: "The building policy practiced in Moscow today is inherently criminal, antisocial and anti-state, depriving future generations of Russian citizens of historical memory. The destruction of the architectural past in Moscow has a detrimental effect on Russian cities, which also began to rapidly lose a historically formed appearance. The total destruction of material evidence of Russia's greatness began. A cultural catastrophe is imminent, with which neither the state nor society should put up with it. "

On November 14, 2007, the Babushkinsky Court of Moscow fully satisfied the claim of Luzhkov, Ph. According to the court ruling, Limonov and Radio Liberty were to pay Luzhkov 500 thousand rubles each as compensation for moral damage. The reason for the lawsuit was the broadcast on Radio Liberty on April 4, 2007, during which Limonov said that "the Moscow courts are controlled by Luzhkov." The court ignored the opinion of an expert from the Institute of the Russian Language Irina Levontina, who said that Limonov's phrase that offended Luzhkov did not mean that the mayor had committed "illegal and immoral actions", but only characterizes the state of the judicial system in the capital.

Limonov appealed the decision of the Babushkinsky court in the Moscow City Court, but posted a statement on the NBP website: " Since the Moscow courts are by no means under the control of the mayor of Moscow, I expect that the Moscow City Court in the coming month will uphold the decision of the Babushkinsky Court, obliging me to pay the mayor 500 thousand rubles for his honor and dignity. Being a poor person, I am already starting to collect small change and ask citizens to support me, help me pay Luzhkov the amount he has awarded. Bring your unnecessary coins, preferably copper".

On May 11, 2008, speaking in Sevastopol at the celebration of the 225th anniversary of the Black Sea Fleet, he once again stated that Sevastopol had never been transferred to Ukraine and that the issue of it remained unresolved (" We will decide it in favor of those state positions and the state law that Russia has in relation to its naval base - Sevastopol)... He also announced his intention to propose to the Russian authorities not to renew in 2008 the agreement on friendship between the Russian Federation and Ukraine signed in 1997.

In response to these statements, on May 12, 2008, the Security Service of Ukraine declared Luzhkov persona non grata and imposed an indefinite ban on his entry into the country.

On June 3, 2008, Luzhkov signed a decree of the Moscow government on renaming the Bitsevsky Park metro station into "Novoyasenevskaya", and "Business Center" - in "Exhibition"... The decision caused bewilderment among many Muscovites, because the city and metro authorities stubbornly refused to rename the station named after the Bolshevik killer. Voikovskaya, referring to the high cost of the event, and then suddenly found money for two stations with neutral names, leaving Voikov's memory alone. Also in Moscow there were streets of Menzhinsky, Kibalchich, Andropov, Leninsky Prospekt and so on.

On July 1, 2008, speaking at a meeting of the Moscow government, where the target program for the implementation of state policy towards compatriots abroad for 2009-2011 was discussed, he called not to extend the agreement on friendship and cooperation between Russia and Ukraine (signed in 1998 for 10 years ). " I experience an intellectual blow when I see what is happening in Ukraine in relation to Russia and the Russian language"- he explained. According to Luzhkov, in Crimea, Russian language teachers receive less salary than other teachers, and in Ukraine, TV shows in Russian without subtitles are prohibited:" This is the policy of the Ukrainian authorities to squeeze out the Russian language, when the entire left bank and Crimea thinks and speaks Russian".

In July 2008, Luzhkov held a Public Town Planning Council, at which the fate of Provision warehouses at the corner of Ostozhenka and the Garden Ring. They had to be "restored" so that, in the opinion of many, the architectural monument would actually perish. Luzhkov referred to the examples of Gostiny Dvor and Tsaritsyn, asking if their reconstruction had been badly done. "Bad", - there were single voices from the audience. Luzhkov replied that the people like it and that "the voice of the people is the voice of God." "We will not adjust the architecture of the city for you alone," he said, addressing the objector.

On October 9, 2008, Vedomosti wrote that during the post-Soviet years in Moscow, about 400 historic buildings, of which 80 are architectural monuments.

On October 22, 2008, the Basmanny Court partially satisfied Luzhkov's claim against Alexander Lebedev and GQ magazine for the protection of honor and dignity and business reputation. Lebedev and the magazine had to pay Luzhkov 50 thousand rubles each. The reason for the proceedings was Lebedev's interview published in the magazine, taken and Ksenia Sokolova... When asked who could spread rumors about Putin's personal life in the Moscow Correspondent newspaper (allegedly Putin abandons his wife and goes to a gymnast and a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Alina Kabaeva), Lebedev suggested that it could be "Yu. M. Luzhkov". During the trial, Lebedev argued that he had in mind not a specific mayor of the capital, Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov, but simply “a certain Yuri M. Luzhkov, of whom there are quite a few in the country,” but the court sided with the mayor. This was the fourth lawsuit since 2003 for the protection of honor and dignity, which Lebedev lost to Luzhkov.

In November 2009, Luzhkov won an honor and dignity case against the politician and the Kommersant publishing house. It was reported that a million rubles would be recovered from the defendants by a court decision. In addition, the publication and Nemtsov will be obliged to refute the information published in the politician's interview with the newspaper and his report. "Luzhkov. Results".

Almost all articles about Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov suffer from one thing: political overtones, as well as publicistic whitewash or slander. But Yuri Mikhailovich is a “chemically pure” character from the early twentieth century, worthy of consideration by a historian, psychologist and religious scholar. "They don't do that now."

How did Luzhkov manage to get into power against the background of Soviet and post-Soviet characters (almost the same thing; the latter differ from the former only in a more developed grasping reflex and a rudimentary conscience)? People like him were cut off from the System at the most in the 1960s. But the more valuable is the mayor of Moscow - you can look at his example, without stopping, at the age-old Russian capitalist in his temporary development. It is not surprising that the only person from whom Luzhkov takes an example (as he himself admitted) is the Moscow mayor of the late 19th century, the merchant of the first guild, the Greek Alekseev. As soon as the opportunity presented itself, the current mayor immortalized the name of his idol in the name of the psychiatric clinic (it was named after Kashchenko, became the name of Alekseev).

Like many people at the beginning of the twentieth century, the biographies of Yuri Mikhailovich's parents are someone's oral story, not supported by documents (birth metrics, demobilization certificates, award papers, not to mention passports). His father was born either in the village of Young Tud, or in the villages of Luzhkovo or Kolchugino, Tver region. Only one thing is known: Mikhail Andreevich Luzhkov came from a hardworking Old Believer family. In the Stalinist era and the time of stagnation, belonging to "sectarianism" was a black spot for any person, the way up was closed to them. But Yuri Mikhailovich in some incomprehensible way always knew how to bypass such (and even more terrible - which are discussed below) barriers. And in modern times, this fact of biography, on the contrary, played for Luzhkov. When the Moscow City Council elected the mayor to replace another Greek mayor (Gavrila Popov), the deputies officially introduced Yuri Mikhailovich as "a member of the CPSU, but from the Old Believers." Among the Democratic faction, the candidate's membership of sectarians caused a storm of enthusiasm: “Ours! This will be a mountain for democracy! " And the faction of communists in the Moscow Soviet liked that Luzhkov was a member of the CPSU: "This one will not betray!" And this is another generic feature of Luzhkov - the ability to please everyone, to disguise, as his father taught, under the tasks of the time.

And Mikhail Andreevich with his biography was disguised all his life (his middle son was more fortunate - at least for the last 15-17 years he has been living as he really is). In 1928, out of conviction, he refused to join the collective farm, raised some kind of turmoil along with the same ideological sectarians against the government, and was forced to flee from his native place to Moscow. In Moscow he lived for several years without documents, having straightened them only in 1932 (according to one version, he wrote himself “Luzhkov” by the name of one of the villages in the area; but he could have written himself “Molodotudov” or “Kolchugin”). In the capital, he met Anna Petrovna Syropyatova, who at the age of 8 was taken from her native Mari village of Kalegino to Moscow to work as a servant.

The Mari are still proud of the mother of Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov - they still do not have more significant historical characters. There was only the "scourge of God" Atilla, and even that Chuvash took him into their official heroes.

It even got to the point that the famous local (among the Mari) writer Vasily Izhboldin wrote a "folk" tale about Anna Petrovna and her son Yuri Mikhailovich. And this tale is now being studied in local schools (read excerpts from the tale at the end of the article). And in Kolegino, now, when the new government allowed the Mari to return to traditional paganism, the most beautiful willow was named “Yuri Mikhailovich” and on big holidays is decorated with red ribbons.

And Yuri Mikhailovich (a person, not a willow) does not forget his Mari compatriots. In the late 1990s, he came to the village of Kolegino and, for part of the fee for one of his books (70 million rubles), donated an MTZ-80 tractor to the village council. In the early 2000s, there was another gift for the villagers - a ZIL bus. But the biggest award for fellow countrymen from Yuri Mikhailovich is the creation of the Mosagro enterprise in the village. Against the background of the surrounding devastation, the village now looks like an oasis of prosperity, with new farmyards and wormholes. Cousins ​​(from Anna Petrovna's sister - Antonina Murzina) and more distant relatives of the mayor, it turns out, are also feeding Moscow now, but not honey, like their older relative, but meat and bread.

Yuri Mikhailovich, by the way, was the only one of the numerous Luzhkov-Syropyatov clan to receive a full-fledged urban specialty - petrochemist. For example, his older brother Arkady (already died) was a weightlifter, and his younger brother Sergei is now engaged in agriculture in the village of the Moscow government Medyn (he oversees the biogas station on manure). Sergei Mikhailovich himself said in one of his rare interviews: “Once I was kneading the compost, I heard that the cars were approaching, my brother came in and scooped it up from the heap with his hands. His assistants shout from behind: "Yuri Mikhailovich, this is g ...!" And how the mayor shamed them a little, I see - they, too, let them scoop up and praise them with their hands! "

Yuri Mikhailovich in his book “We are your children, Moscow” recalled: “On weekends we went to the garden. There in the ground, mother said, lived good live potatoes, which we must take care of, because they cannot protect themselves. We huddled them up, weeded them, and in the fall we dug them up, took them to Moscow and hid them in the cellar. How many times, going to bed, I imagined them lying below, in the darkness of the cellar, pressed against each other by their sides. Everything is in the spirit of natural pantheism of the same Finno-Ugric tribes, whose blood flows in Luzhkov's veins - when objects and phenomena are endowed with living, divine power. Here is also his description of the boiler room in which his mother worked: “By the way, my mother worked at the soap boiler as a fireman. She had her own room - a boiler room. There was a locomotive boiler and it was always hot, dry and good. The cauldron occupied the entire space of the room, hot and fire-breathing, like a captive fairy-tale beast. We fed him with coal, bringing food from the yard in buckets. We monitored the level of water in the body. Raked out gray, uninteresting slag. "

Later this pantheistic attitude was carried over by Luzhkov to Moscow. Once Yuri Mikhailovich, having risen over Moscow by helicopter, remarks: "The city from above gave the impression of a seriously ill - a sprawling, softened body with ulcers and holes." Of course, to cure him, a new bee colony had to be implanted. It is not without reason that even today Yuri Mikhailovich has three most beloved hives in his estate: two of them are reduced exact copies of the City Hall on Tverskaya, 13, and another hive is made in the form of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

The connection with Wildlife in the literal sense more than once saved Luzhkov's life. With the outbreak of the war, his mother brought him into evacuation to Molotov (Perm), and left him there for a year in an orphanage. In 1942, the children started scurvy, the pupils were dying, but 7-year-old Yura and one of his fellow Ingermanlans walked in early spring, when in our nature there were no vitamins, except for needles, to collect horsetail sprouts in the swamps. Yura and the Ingrian eventually survived, and the stubborn educators, who considered horsetail a poison, did not dare to save the children with his help. Of course, such events leave an imprint for a lifetime.

In general, the childhood impressions of Yuri Luzhkov not only remained in his memory for the rest of his life, but also began to define it in many ways. The audience, for example, is still wondering what his love for everything Georgian (besides Tsereteli) is connected with. Luzhkov himself explains: “Since childhood, life has been enveloped in a Georgian scent. As far back as I can remember, always a Georgian in a burka was jumping on a cigarette box "Kazbek" (in memory of his father who went to the front); the sad Demon always looked at the dancing queen Tamara (reproduction in the kitchen); the knight in the panther's skin tirelessly squeezed the beast in his raised arms (in a local eatery). "

Mikhail Andreevich really went to the front. In June 1942, he was captured. In August of the same year, somehow miraculously left the prisoner of war camp and it is not clear how he ended up in the Odessa region, which was under Romanian occupation. “Here Mikhail Luzhkov came in handy with his carpentry skills, and until March 1944 he worked on the farms of peasants in the village of Osipovka,” says the official legend. People with even minimal knowledge of the war can guess who Yuri Mikhailovich's father could have worked in the occupied territory - most likely as a "hivi" ("eastern worker"). The captured Red Army soldier had several ways to leave the camp at that time: to go to the Vlasov ROA, to punitive detachments or to "Khivi". In the Wehrmacht there were about 800 thousand Khivi from the former Red Army soldiers: they worked on the railway, at airfields, in rear units, etc. There were also carpenters to bash coffins and crosses. After the liberation of the Odessa region by the Red Army, Mikhail Andreevich was checked in SMERSH, nothing criminal was found (it means that he was neither a punisher nor a Vlasov, but simply worked peacefully for the Third Reich), and was sent to the front.

Now think about the fact that Yuri Mikhailovich all his life, even as a mayor, wrote in the questionnaires "There were relatives in the occupied territories." In addition to the stigma of the sectarian, his father and through him - the relatives had a new, more terrible mark associated with the occupation. The road to more or less decent work for Yuri Mikhailovich was closed.

But somehow I had to survive. With such stigmas, of course, it was pointless to wait for help from people from the System. There remained, again, only the Living Earth, and even the Anti-System.

In his story "Grandfather" Yuri Luzhkov describes which universities and with whom he passed on a coven on the construction of an oil refinery in Bashkiria:

“You already know about your father. Mom is just a working class, she worked as a machinist at a soap boiler. And then there are three guys who are always hungry, and even grandmother, father's mother. And father's sisters need help. There was, frankly, no abundance.

The main thesis was that the society in which we live is completely wrong. It makes serfs out of people, binds them with laws specially invented for enslavement. And there is a caste of the elect, like a knightly order. These are people "with the right concepts." They do not agree with the laws of our society, do not recognize power, do not work, usually do not marry, and in all cases put honor above life.

Here you are crushing us. And still chase bullshit, that you have a law, and we are thieves. We are thieves. Because we deny your law! Now move your brain: what's your crush? Send the trash, put it in the policeman. Is this a shame? No, honor for a thief. You cannot drop the suit. And a thief is a lucky business. It is not the grandmothers that are important, philosophy.

That's what he said "philosophy", I remember that exactly (note that since that time the word "philosophy" has become the main word in Luzhkov's lexicon - SP). He said that life in the camp, though cruel, was “without tediousness”: here no one is “chasing a fool to anyone” about equal rights. In the wild, the authorities have such scammers that you will not find in the zone. By law, equal rights for all, but in nature - for one nomenclature. By law, people are masters, but in life they are slaves of the party.

Everything at cha, kid, is turned upside down in confusion. The chaos is not here, but there (he pointed up). You would posenkal what a party horn sits in the regional committee. He has a place in the bucket, and he, if he has a grudge against anyone, calls where necessary - and the tower.

Forty-five years have passed since that summer meeting in the Bashkir city of Salavat. Fortunately, our opponents missed. Well, how was that grandfather impaled: "GOD IS NOT FRAYER, HE WILL FORGIVE" (and it is highlighted in the story in capital letters so that people remember better - SP) ".

But while it was necessary to disguise itself, and it is better in the System itself - so invisible. After the first unsuccessful marriage with a certain Alevtina, Yuri Mikhailovich looked at a classmate in "kerosene" Marina Bashilova - her father was the deputy minister of the oil industry other universities, besides, it was paid to C grade students; however, he also played preference then). Soon the young people settled in a separate apartment with ceilings of 3.5 meters (before that, Luzhkov had lived all his life in the basement near the Paveletsky railway station). It is clear that after graduation he was left in Moscow, then career growth at the Research Institute of Plastics (knowledge on plastic was then useful to his third wife Elena Baturina). But the soul asked for real, not this ersatz life, with its party committees, demonstrations and semi-official delirium.

Yuri Mikhailovich has a dacha in Kupavna, he goes there every weekend in a hunchbacked "Zaporozhets" (evil tongues say that he spent his days on sick leave not in bed, but at the dacha). Potatoes, pigs, but most importantly - stoves! Luzhkov himself empirically masters the profession of a stove-maker. The first Russian stove was made by him for his home, and then orders from the side were drawn. In the 60s and 70s, it cost up to 200 rubles to add up - a whole salary for Luzhkov's official work. Life has improved.

Then an apiary appeared - first at the dacha, and then as a business. “Back in Soviet times, when I worked as the director of NPO Neftekhimavtomatika, we were given 200 hectares of land for subsidiary farming. I thought: will our doctors and candidates of sciences really grow potatoes on it? He consulted with smart people (perhaps with "Ded" - SP), took several livestock trucks, converted them into a nomadic apiary and sent them to Adygea, where there were wonderful herbs that year. In the fall, each employee of the institute received a jar of honey. Since then, we have not lived without our honey ... ”, - Luzhkov recalled. Let me remind you that such a business was launched in pre-perestroika times.

So Yuri Mikhailovich would have remained even in modern times in the Anti-System, for sure, he would have become a businessman or a banker of average rank, but again, as with a second marriage, chance helped. How he got to the top of power, recalls businessman Artem Tarasov in his autobiographical book Millionaire:

“Popov said that he takes affairs in the Moscow City Council and wants me to become his first deputy and chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee.

I refused. Popov was surprised and asked someone to recommend him as a deputy. Two surnames immediately flashed in my head: Nikolai Gonchar, the former executive committee of the Bauman district of Moscow, and Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov.

And who are they, these people? Popov asked.

I decided to myself: which of them will welcome me more cordially, I will recommend!

Luzhkov then ran Mosplodovoshchprom. Moscow was chronically short of both fruits and vegetables, so Luzhkov got it all the time. In those days, Yuri Mikhailovich was simply refining, preoccupied with the need to look for a new place of service. One could judge his mood by the behavior of the secretary. She said with irritation:

He will not accept you, and do not hope! He's about to start a meeting with Pepsi-Cola.

I have already decided to go to the Potter. Suddenly the office door opened and Luzhkov appeared:

Dear Artem! How glad I am to see you! Please come in!

Where will you go to work, Yuri Mikhailovich? I asked.

You know, they called me from KB "Khimavtomatika" and asked me to return there as the general director. I will probably agree ...

Do you want to work as chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee and Deputy Mayor? - I ask.

After a pause, Luzhkov pressed the selector button:

Do not connect anyone with me! The meeting is canceled!

We went into the utility room for a private conversation. While drinking tea, I told about the meeting with Popov. Luzhkov became more and more excited:

I can handle it, Artem! Honestly, I can handle this position!

This is how a truly historic event for Moscow happened. I called Popov, and he made an appointment to meet Yuri Mikhailovich. "

But even after becoming mayor, Luzhkov did not betray his childish and religious principles. The city is an obstacle to the full development of a correct, rural community; there is no grace in the city. Here is how Yuri Mikhailovich describes his thoughts after meeting with the “Zhulebinsky rioters”, villagers who do not want to move to high-rise buildings, their worldview turns out to be akin to his own: “All these people refused new apartments, did not want warm water, gas, or sewers not at all because they were indifferent to comfort. But because the city apartment destroyed the way of life, the system of values ​​that connected them, the present, with their fathers and grandfathers, reproducing generic feelings, much deeper than the satisfaction of convenience. "

What an ideal habitat looks like can be seen on the example of the estate near Moscow Yuri Mikhailovich.

The family house of Yuri Mikhailovich with an area of ​​700 sq. m. 5 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, a nursery, a maid's room, a dining room, a kitchen, a billiard room, a fireplace, two storage rooms, four bathrooms.

The stables complex (560 sq. M.) Includes 18 stalls, a storage room, a harness, a sawdust loading room, and utility rooms.

The arena (882 sq. M.) Was built for year-round horse riding. The height of the building in the ridge is 10 meters.

Invention laboratory (500 sq. M). Divided into several specialized workshops. In them, on the most modern equipment, in his free time, the mayor sets up scientific experiments.

A utility building with a compound feed room (110 sq. M.); sheepfold for 20 sheep and 20 goats (120 sq. m); area for walking goats and sheep (200 sq. m.); a canopy with a platform for walking sheep and goats (80 sq. m.); a poultry house for 100 laying hens, 60 ducks, 8 geese, 6 turkeys (110 sq. m); poultry walking area (160 sq. m); rabbitry (12 sq. m); a cowshed for 2 cows with a calf shed and a milk processing facility ("Yes, besides two cows, I also have a pig! And the president uses my milk, and it pleases me," said Luzhkov - SP); cow walking area (300 sq. m); a canopy with a cow walking area (80 sq. m); room for decorative birds - 2 ostriches, 5 peacocks, 30 decorative chickens, 8 pheasants (96 sq. m); a playground for walking decorative birds (200 sq. m); manure storage; container yard.

Summer pool and two guest houses of 220 sq.m.

Apiary with 21 hives and two rest houses for a regular beekeeper and equipment.

Heated greenhouses (250 sq. M).

Kennel for 10 dogs.

As true believers, Yuri Luzhkov and his team hope to live forever. The head of the Moscow construction complex, Vladimir Resin, has repeatedly declared publicly: "Even when we are in a coffin, Yuri Mikhailovich will say, and we will rise!"

“The basis of my political thinking is that I do not want to leave Moscow. I don't need anything anywhere. I have a favorite job: this is Moscow. There are Muscovites who supported me in an absolutely amazing way in terms of, as they say, the potential of this support. Where to? What for? What's good there? " - Luzhkov told about his plans for future life. Translated into an antisystemic language: "Move your brain: what's your crush?" - as taught by "Grandfather" from the story of the same name by Yuri Mikhailovich.

Excerpts from the Mari "folk" fairy tale "Glory is shining fate-not laughing" (author - Vasily Izhboldin ").

“Once upon a time, Anna was not laughing ... In our primordial kingdom-state, in the old Testament village of da Kalegin there lived a family-oriented and hard-working family - the Syropyatovs. The head of this clan, Peter Svet Ivanovich, and Ksenia Nikandrovna, a faithful, caring wife, were known in the district as their diligent and laborious workers. And it was already the twelfth century of our golden and at the same time treacherous. Their eldest daughter, Anna, was born in a fast-flying year. Soon, children fell after her - seven sisters and brothers are small and small. Perhaps, the prolific parents would not be able to cope with that huge crowd, if it were not for the eldest, Anna the housewife, who was too clever and too tough. Light-eyed, hard-working, she spins around the house in her barefoot shoes, like that nimble, restless top, as if it soars on its wings around the housebuilding ... And a bright, happy smile is lit on the forehead on the mother's anxious, troublesome ...

... And we would not have seen Yu. M. in nature if Anna Petrovna had not remembered one folk custom. And as I remembered, she brought well water in the evening, closed the buckets with a lid on the lock and, lifting her white, lily-colored hands to the starry, light-eyed sky, said yes these are the words: “Come, my betrothed, come and ask me for a drink. And I will meet you, dear, with a loving, hot heart, and I will embrace you hot, sweetly "...

... In the post-war 1945 Yu.M. - 9 years. He was in a hurry, in a hurry to labor painstaking, life-giving. I went to subbotniks and mass Sundays to restore the nationwide economy destroyed by the war, as a student I was introduced into youth, creative detachments, with my mind and voluntary labor I made a modest, honest contribution to the revival of a great, dear country. Having become a professional specialist, having adopted overseas minds from colleagues, he showed in practice, and not on the slogans of naked ones, his leadership abilities, the uncommon character of his punchy, persistent character. And not everyone liked these qualities, and he got into nuts, and he was beaten more than once, but his mind was not knocked out of his clever head ... When the question arose, who should be invested with the power of the head of the capital city, the first throne, to recognize it publicly a worthy mayor, the townspeople named the name of Yuri Mikhailov, son of Luzhkov, by the will of the millionaire. The people of Moscow were not mistaken in their choice not one iota, no. "