A high-ranking Russian official is temporarily acting governor of St. Petersburg for the second time. He moved to the highest position in the Northern capital in October of this year from the post of presidential plenipotentiary in the Central Federal District. Alexander Beglov again leads St. Petersburg, and everyone is wondering once again: will he finally become a full-fledged governor?
Early years
Alexander Dmitrievich Beglov was born on May 19, 1956 in Soviet Azerbaijan in the city of Baku. Where his father, a military man who participated in several wars, moved from the Ryazan region (the village of Ogarevsky Vyselki). In the mid-60s, when Alexander was nine years old, the family moved permanently to Leningrad.
As a child, Alexander wanted to become a military sailor, but he failed to realize his dream. As he himself admits, he did not manage to pass the entrance exams to the nautical school, because he did not always study well. After graduationeighth grade entered a vocational school. Later he graduated from the industrial-pedagogical technical school. In 1976 he was called up for two years for urgent military service in the Soviet Army.
Start in employment
The work biography of Alexander Beglov began immediately after demobilization, when he got a job as a high- altitude fitter in a construction organization. By 1985, he reached the position of head of the capital construction department, having worked in various engineering and management positions. At the same time, he entered the local civil engineering institute to study. Which he graduated in 1983 with a degree in Industrial and Civil Engineering.
As an experienced manager, in 1985 Alexander Beglov was invited to the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council, where he headed the department responsible for the construction of enterprises producing building materials. After the earthquake in Spitak (Armenia) in 1988, as part of a large group of Leningrad builders, he took part in the restoration of the city.
In leadership work
One year he worked in the Leningrad regional committee of the CPSU, where he led the sector in the socio-economic department. In 1990, with a promotion, he returned to the city executive committee, where he received the position of deputy head of the department responsible for capital construction. He was responsible for the construction of new residential microdistricts (Kupchino, Lake Dolgoe, Rybatskoye) and the construction of production facilities, utilities andspecial cleaning structures. Supervised the construction of many special facilities in various parts of the country.
With the beginning of perestroika, Alexander Beglov decides to go into private business. He became the founder of several companies, including the transport and production company Styk and the printing company Business Partner. For six years he worked as a chief engineer in the Russian-German enterprise Melazel (in which he was also a co-founder). The company worked closely with the city committee for foreign economic relations, headed at that time by Vladimir Putin. In 1997-1999, he worked as a senior researcher at his native institute, which by that time had been renamed the St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
In city leadership
In the autumn of 1999, Alexander Beglov received the post of head of the administration of the Kurortny district. On his initiative, the reconstruction of Freedom Square in Sestroretsk, the famous monument to Peter I and Sergei Mosin (designer of the famous three-line rifle) was carried out. He did not forget about the fountain "Girl with a fish".
Three years later he became one of the deputies of Governor Yakovlev, who said that he had chosen Alexander Beglov for his professional qualities. Because he has proven himself to be working in the district, he knows how to talk with adults and young people. Although, according to experts, the appointment took place under pressure from representatives of the Presidentin the region. The City Legislative Assembly approved only on the second attempt the new vice-governor, who was to lead the office of Smolny. After Yakovlev went to work in the Russian government, he was appointed acting governor.
In the administration of the head of state
After V. Matvienko was elected as the new governor, he went to work as the first deputy representative of the president in the Northwestern Federal District. Where he oversaw issues of interaction with the central executive power. In 2003, he became the head of the local branch of United Russia.
In the spring of 2004, he was appointed to the post of assistant to the Russian president, head of the control department of the presidential administration. In the same year, he was elected to the leadership of the ruling party. The following year, he joined the presidential council, which is responsible for the implementation of priority national projects and is responsible for demographic policy. He advocated the personal responsibility of regional leaders for the implementation of national projects.
Presidential Representative
In the spring of 2008, Beglov was appointed to the high post of Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia. Since 2009, he has headed the newly created Council for Cossack Affairs under the President of the Russian Federation and is considered a sincere believer. Although his colleagues say that during the work of Alexander Beglov in the regional committee of the CPSU, this piety did not manifest itself in any way. In 2012 he presented his doctoraldissertation on the production of agricultural products in the Cossack communities.
In the spring of 2012, after Vladimir Putin took office, he was appointed presidential envoy to the Central Federal District. Alexander Beglov worked in this position for five years, until in 2017 he was transferred to the same position in the North-West of the country.
Third attempt
In October 2018, he was appointed to the position of acting head of St. Petersburg. The political biography of Alexander Dmitrievich Beglov has a third chance to become a full-fledged governor of his native city.
Commenting on this appointment, Vladimir Yakovlev said that Beglov would be a good governor, because he gained experience by working in large federal positions, and at the same time he knows the city economy and all the problems well.
Personal Information
Alexander Dmitrievich has been married for a long time, he has three children (according to information from the website of the President of Russia). It is known that his wife, Natalya Vladimirovna Beglova, worked for some time (from April 2004 to October 2018) as the chairman of the committee for registry offices of the city administration of St. Petersburg.
In open sources there is information about only two daughters. The eldest daughter Yulia followed in the footsteps of her parents into public service. She worked in the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg as head of the legal support department. The younger Olga teaches at St. Petersburg University, has the title of associate professor. Her husband, Pavel AlexandrovichBelov, also worked in the local city administration as chairman of the committee on physical culture and sports. Relatives of Alexander Beglov resigned from their posts in the city administration in anticipation of his appointment as acting governor, as otherwise they would have been directly subordinate to him, which is a violation of the current legislation.
The politician's income for 2017, in accordance with the declaration, amounted to 6.9 million rubles.
