There are a lot of people in Russia who went down in history and left a bright mark on it. Vadim Tumanov, a great man of unbending will, belongs to the cohort of outstanding personalities and legendary figures. His fate is a series of fantastic life ups and downs, which he overcame with nobility.
He happened to be a navigator of a sea vessel and a political prisoner. He headed the legendary gold mining artel, created with his own hands back in the era of the Soviet Union. He is considered a talented and successful entrepreneur of our time. Vadim Ivanovich Tumanov was friends with Vysotsky and other prominent Russian cultural figures.
V. I. Tumanov's family
Vadim Ivanovich was born on September 1, 1927 in the Ukrainian town of Belaya Tserkov. His mother's family was considered prosperous at that time. Mother, orphaned during the years of the revolution, did not agree to travel abroad. She chose to live with her uncle's family.
Father joined the ranks of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army during the Civil War. He fought for a bright future as part of Budyonny's cavalry, fought through the territory of Central Asia, and attacked the Basmachi. Oleko Dundich was friends with him.
By 1930, Vadim Ivanovich's father left the military service. He took his family to the Far East, where he was engaged in the construction of cities. V. I. Tumanov's parents are buried in Khabarovsk.
Personal life of V. I. Tumanov
A graduate of a technical school of trade, who received the speci alty of a merchandiser, was sent to work in Kolyma. For the first time, Vadim Tumanov met Rimma on December 31, 1955, at the New Year's carnival, held at the Susumana House of Culture.
They got married on July 14, 1957. In the same year, the newlyweds were given an apartment. In 1960, a son was born in the Tumanov family. The baby was named after his father - Vadim.
In 1964, doctors, having diagnosed Rimma with tuberculosis, recommended that she change her climate. The family moved to Pyatigorsk. In her hometown, Vadim Tumanov's wife got a job at local television, taking the position of director. V. Vysotsky in 1979 came to speak at the television studio in the city of Pyatigorsk.
In 1980, Vadim Vadimovich entered the Moscow State University, he became a student of the Faculty of Journalism. The constant persecution of his father by law enforcement agencies led to the fact that V. V. Tumanov withdrew into himself.
Vadim Ivanovich Tumanov and his family were heavily attacked in 1988. After the release of an article in the media denouncing her husband, visits by police and KGB officers to the apartment where the family liveda successful gold miner, Rimma stepped down as a leading TV director.
Biography of the gold miner
During the Second World War, a teenager dreamed of the front and the career of a sailor. The fourteen-year-old boy began to serve from the moment he was enrolled in an electromechanical school on Russky Island. From there he was transferred to Zarubino Bay, where the Khasan coastal defense zone was located, where he was enrolled in the 561st separate chemical platoon.
After he accidentally damaged a portrait of Stalin at one of the political classes, Vadim Tumanov was sent to serve his sentence in the guardhouse. His biography includes this fact, and something similar happened to other people at that time. Such incidents were not uncommon, and Soviet citizens more than paid for them.
The teenager was enthusiastically engaged in boxing. Perhaps this then saved the Komsomol member from serious punishment. For misconduct, he was transferred from the chemical platoon to a sports company assigned to the Khasan sector. Vadim repeatedly emerged victorious in boxing fights. This allowed the young guy to get into the national team representing the Pacific Fleet.
In 1944, he enrolled in navigator courses, successfully completed them a year later and went to serve as the fourth assistant on the Emelyan Pugachev ship, which plowed the ocean in the Far East, Korea and China. Then he was transferred to the Arctic vessel "Uralmash" to the position of the third navigator.
Life in the Kolyma camps
In 1949, Vadim Tumanov was arrested. He was accusedin anti-Soviet propaganda, convicted and sent to serve his term in Kolyma. Humility with unjust punishment disgusted the young man. He made 8 attempts to escape from the camp. Defending himself while escaping, he mutilated a guard. During the period of unauthorized release, he robbed a savings bank. As a result, Tumanov received an additional term. In total, he was given 25 years in the camps.
Due to his indefatigable nature, Vadim had a chance to wander around the camps scattered in Kolyma, serve part of his term in penal camps, learn the intricacies of gold mining in mines and mines. His mining artel has become the best team of prisoners mining the precious metal in Kolyma.
In places of detention, Vadim Ivanovich met great people. In Kolyma, his fate brought him together with the legendary navigator Yu. K. Khlebnikov, who was the first to cross the path between Arkhangelsk and the Bering Strait in the period of one navigation. He met in the camps with M. Serykh, who later received the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. In Kolyma, Vadim Tumanov met I. Kalinin, the brilliant guitarist of the USSR.
Becoming an Entrepreneur
Tumanov's case was reviewed in July 1956 and released. Having been released, he went to Vladivostok to sail on ships, but after a few months he returned to Kolyma. Vadim Ivanovich forever abandoned the dream of becoming a sailor, his passion was to work in the gold mines.
He introduced a lot of rationalization ideas into the work, raised the productivity of gold miners. Artels under his leadershipdiscovered new deposits with rich gold layers. For shock work, people working under the supervision of V. I. Tumanov were repeatedly awarded with distinctions and certificates. A challenge Red Banner was handed over to his artel.
And throughout his career, his labor successes became, like a red rag for a bull, an incredible irritant for journalists and law enforcement agencies. Devastating articles were written about Tumanov, criminal cases were periodically opened against him and closed for lack of corpus delicti.
After the collapse of the USSR, he repeatedly sent letters with ingenious proposals for the reorganization of gold mining to General Secretary of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, the Government of the Russian Federation, President B. Yeltsin and Moscow Mayor Yu. Luzhkov. However, the initiatives of a talented entrepreneur did not receive support, he was not allowed to implement the developed projects. They were only unsuccessfully used, handed over to foreign investors.
V. Tumanov's great friends
Fate constantly confronted Vadim Ivanovich with legendary people. S. Govorukhin, E. Evtushenko, L. Monchinsky became his friends. Vadim Tumanov is a friend of Vysotsky (their first meeting, held in April 1973, became fateful). The legendary poet, musician and actor dedicated several songs to Tumanov.
Vadim Ivanovich L. Monchinsky and V. Vysotsky helped to work on the novel "The Black Candle". The work reveals the authentic aspects of the criminal world of Kolyma. Based on the bookthe script for the film "Lucky" was written. It included a piece of the biography of the legendary gold miner. With E. Yevtushenko, V. Tumanov traveled around the camps, which became part of his tragic fate.
E. Yevtushenko and V. Ilyukhin defended Tumanov's artel. Famous cultural figures expressed their sympathy to the Russian entrepreneur. He received support from L. Filatov, A. Borovik, G. Komrakov, V. Nadia, L. Shinkarev and A. Tikhomirov.
Book by V. Tumanov
In 2004 Vadim Tumanov published his memoirs. "To lose everything - and start again with a dream …" - this is how a man of difficult, but interesting fate titled his own writing work. The work describes the life of people doomed to exist in the Kolyma camps.
Vadim Tumanov's memoir is a vivid story about how the largest Russian artels of prospectors were formed. It talks about the selfless work of people mining gold for the country, unique historical facts, which the author of the novel became an eyewitness to.
Despite the vicissitudes of life that pursued V. I. Tumanov, he received the recognition of people and the state. He is known, respected and admired by many. He bears the high title of academician.
