The current Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation A. Tkachev (born 1960-23-12) has come a long way as an economic manager: from a mechanical engineer at an agricultural processing enterprise to the director of this plant, and then after almost a decade and a half of leadership of the Krasnodar Territory was co-opted into the government of the Russian Federation.
Origin
Where did Alexander Tkachev, Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, start his life? His biography began in the Kuban, in the relatively young village of Vyselki, which was formed at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. According to Tkachev himself, said in an interview with the famous TV presenter Vladimir Pozner, his father is a Kuban Cossack, and his mother is Ukrainian. In Alexei Pivovarov's documentary "Bread for Stalin", Alexander Nikolaevich claims that his father's parents were dispossessed during collectivization as owners of five horses.
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But by the time of his birth, Father Nikolai Ivanovich Tkachev (by the way, who, despite his youth (born in 1926), managed to fight on the fronts of the Second World War) already held a considerable position in the Vyselkovsky district executive committee - he was deputy chairman. When Sasha was only 14 years old, his father was entrusted with the construction of a feed mill in Vyselki. It was successfully completed (how else could it be in the USSR?), and Nikolai Tkachev became its director in the early 80s. The plant had the status of an inter-farm one, that is, it was built with the money of several collective farms, and the activities of its director were under the control of a council of their chairmen. This enterprise became the basis, the cornerstone of the current agro-industrial empire, which is owned (even informally) by Alexander Tkachev, the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, along with his relatives.
Childhood and youth
Sasha's childhood was cloudless. A tall, handsome boy was a universal favorite, like many Soviet youths of the 80s, he was fond of playing the electric guitar, graduated from a music school, sang in a youth ensemble, went in for athletics (he even received a master of sports) and played basketball for the Vyselkovskaya team (fortunately, nature awarded his true basketball height).
After school, Alexander Tkachev entered the Krasnodar Polytechnic University, and after graduating in 1983 and having received the qualification of a mechanical engineer, he was assigned to his father's plant in Vyselki.
Productionexperience and early political activity
How did Alexander Tkachev, Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, start his career? His biography in production began in the factory boiler room, the head of which he soon became. Anyone who knows production firsthand will agree that this is a troublesome business. How did the current Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Tkachev distinguish himself at the beginning of his career? His biography (production) was swift, but rather short. A couple of years later, he was appointed the chief mechanic of the plant, and his former colleagues remembered him more as an active participant in the plant's amateur performances, a guitarist and an accordionist. A young and promising specialist attracted the attention of the first secretary of the Vyselkovsky district committee of the CPSU, Alexei Klimov, and already in 1986, Alexander Tkachev became the head of the Komsomol district committee in the same Vyselki.
How the years of perestroika went in the remote Kuban province and what the Vyselkovsky Komsomol members were doing then, we do not know. They say that at first Tkachev could not work well with his deputies - in a year he replaced as many as five of them. However, he remained in his position for four whole years. And the 90s came…
In the early dashing 90s
How did Alexander Tkachev, Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, continue his career? His biography took a turn during this difficult time, and he suddenly turned out to be a director at a factory with his father, who became a deputy for his own son. How could this happen? It is obvious that by 1990 the young partythe leader “intuited” that the struggle for the cause of Lenin is an unpromising business. 64-year-old Nikolai Tkachev, from the height of his life experience, already understood that soon thousands of hungry and desperate “guys” would appear in the country, from whom it would be necessary to protect the only family asset at that time in the form of the Vyselkovsky feed mill (by that time it had absorbed the nearest enterprise "Myasoprom", therefore it became known as "Agrocomplex"). And only son Sasha can do this.
Alexander Tkachev, Minister of Agriculture in the current government of the Russian Federation, came to the secretary of the district committee Klimov and said that he no longer wanted to lead the Soviet people (within the Vyselkovsky district) to the victory of communism, but wanted to engage in agriculture. And he peacefully let him go from a responsible post to free swimming through life.
Today there are no independent agricultural enterprises in the Vyselkovsky district, all arable land (except for several dozen farms) with an area of 200 thousand hectares, all enterprises processing agricultural products belong to Agrocomplex CJSC, which now bears the name of N. I. Tkachev. In fact, the country's largest latifundia has been created, which employs 22,000 employees. And given that Alexander Tkachev is the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, it may well expand to an all-Russian scale.
How did it all start?
How did Alexander Tkachev, Minister of Agriculture in the current government of the Russian Federation, achieve such unprecedented commercial success? His biographyas an entrepreneur is quite saturated. Until 1993, Agrocomplex survived only thanks to preferential government loans, but then everything got better.
Return to politics
Throughout the 90s, the fast-growing company was formally headed by Alexander Tkachev, the Minister of Agriculture, whose biography is the subject of our study. However, the true leader and master was still Tkachev Sr. Working together, the family has achieved great success.
The time was interesting then. For almost 5 years (since 1996), the region was headed by a charismatic leader, communist Nikolai Kondratenko. He opposed market reforms in every possible way, fought desperately against the dissolution of collective farms, but missed another danger - the expansion of large private agricultural enterprises that "ate" the Kuban collective farms in one sitting, along with their lands, livestock, production assets and people.
It is noteworthy that a year before Kondratenko's victory in the regional elections, it was Alexander Tkachev who beat him in the elections to the State Duma as an independent candidate. To defeat a communist rival, he used pro-communist rhetoric in his campaign, which was rather strange for a big businessman, but at that time it worked.
Becoming the regional leader, Kondratenko took an independent position in relation to the federal authorities and tightly controlled all processes within the region, so he had to establish relations with him. Therefore, Alexander Tkachev in his political views at that time strongly “left”. The Communist Party claims that at that time he was a member(Tkachev himself denies this). At least, in the next elections to the State Duma in 1999, Tkacheva was nominated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and supported by the governor.
Regional leader
With the coming to power of Vladimir Putin, the "freedom" for local Russian leaders is over. After the new president, together with the Russian army, “broke down” the Chechen separatists, Alexander Kondratenko, who, after the Khasavyurt agreements, “flirted” with the leadership of the so-called Republic of Ichkeria and even opened its pseudo-diplomatic representation in Krasnodar, was clearly given to understand that his time was in power expired. Kondratenko did not argue and refused to participate in the gubernatorial elections in 2000, supporting the hero of our article as his successor.
What was remarkable about the time when Alexander Tkachev, Minister of Agriculture, headed the region? His biography (a photo of Tkachev at the beginning of the governorship is shown below) as a regional leader began with very decisive measures aimed at limiting the influx of illegal migrants from the North Caucasus and Transcaucasia to the Kuban. Today, when the world media is full of reports about the EU's fight against the illegal entry of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa into its territory, few Russians think that the Kuban (like neighboring Stavropol) has been in such a regime for the entire post-Soviet period.
Typically, in the Soviet period, the problem of migration was not so acute, in principle, allCaucasians could live normally on their lands, everyone had enough work and wages. But after the collapse of the USSR, the economic situation in the Caucasus and Transcaucasia deteriorated sharply. How representatives of the Turkic-speaking and Semitic peoples behave in this case, we see today on the example of Europe. Similarly, the Kuban and Stavropol regions are experiencing constant migration pressure from the East.
How did the new regional leader Tkachev act in this situation? He turned to the old Cossack traditions, forced fellow countrymen to remember that the Kuban Cossacks were a kind of border guard between the Caucasus and Russia. The peasants in the villages began to distribute kubankas, whips and trousers with stripes, to unite them into Cossack squads. The revived Cossacks have become a real force in the region, which, along with law enforcement agencies, maintains public order in it.
Government member
When last year Russia began to be frankly infringed on many issues, when the problem arose of limiting food supplies from abroad in response to Western economic sanctions, the president needed in the government not just a skillful and energetic manager (of which there are already many), but a real Russian patriot who is not afraid to express and defend his national position, even different from the generally accepted one. And Alexander Tkachev, Minister of Agriculture, whose biography has always been connected with agricultural production, came in handy in his new position. His determination to resist the pressure was expressed in sending smuggled food under the tracks of bulldozers, which clearly showed everyoneRussia's enemies: there will be no retreat.
Now Tkachev is actively engaged in the policy of import substitution in Russian agriculture. Of course, he sees this very substitution as the creation of many firms similar to his own Agrocomplex, because he simply has no other experience in working in the countryside. Whether this is good or bad for Russia, time will tell. In any case, at this stage, his efforts are welcomed by the president and the majority of the population, and this is the main thing.
A few words about personal life
And what does Alexander Tkachev, Minister of Agriculture, biography, whose family interests many Russians look like from this side? Tkachev's only wife, Olga Ivanovna, also from Vyselki, is a contemporary of Alexander Nikolayevich, studied with him at the same school. Olga Tkacheva is an economist by education. She studied in Krasnodar, like her future husband. Today is a housewife.
The Tkachevs have two daughters. The eldest Tatyana is married to the famous Kuban businessman Roman Batalov, the youngest Lyubov, after graduating from school in 2010, became interested in painting, participates in international competitions.
