Ekaterinburg Mayor Yevgeny Roizman: biography and political activity

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:45

It is generally accepted that big politics can only be done in the capital. This statement is not always true. Outside the Ring Road, significant events for the country also take place and strong personalities meet. And the first person who comes to mind in this context is, of course, Roizman Evgeny Vadimovich.

Ural nugget

In the political culture of the United States of America there is such a fundamental concept - "Selfmaidman". In translation, this means - a man who made himself. The one who managed to break fate on the knee and achieve his goal despite all the negative life circumstances. Of course, there are such people not only overseas, sometimes they are found in our country. Yekaterinburg Mayor Yevgeny Roizman is certainly one of the brightest regional politicians.

Moreover, it would not be an exaggeration to say that his fate and political career has no precedent in modern Russia. Let's take a closer look at this outstanding person.

Biography Facts

Roizman Evgeny Vadimovich was born in the capital of the industrial Urals in 1962. At that time this city was called Sverdlovsk. About the early years of politicsinformation sources contain very little information, it is only known that at the age of 14 he left his parental home. He earned on his own, without neglecting any work. He led a free lifestyle and managed to travel around almost the entire Soviet Union. Served two years in a juvenile prison.

Later he worked as a fitter at the famous "Uralmash". He received a higher education in the speci alty of a historian and archivist, graduating from the Ural State University. He was elected a deputy of the State Duma of the fourth convocation. Married with a second marriage. The common-law wife of Yevgeny Roizman, Aksana Panova, works in the media field. Father of three daughters.

Capital of the Urals

It is necessary to understand what a city today is, the mayor of which is Roizman Evgeny Vadimovich. By the beginning of the so-called dashing nineties, Yekaterinburg was by no means only the leading industrial center of the Ural region.

Severe problems and contradictions have accumulated in this fourth largest city in Russia. Even the catastrophic state of the city's engineering and social infrastructure and the extreme corruption of all echelons of power paled before the criminal lawlessness that swept the capital of the Urals. The city, traditionally located at the crossroads of trade routes from west to east and from Central Asia to the center, turned out to be a transshipment base for all drug trafficking through the territory of Russia. The drug mafia controlled many areas of the city.life. A lot of young people sat on the needle, their age was short. An all-encompassing evil triumphed in the city and a simple person was powerless against it.

City without drugs

Yevgeniy Roizman began his public activity with the sole resistance to evil, which overwhelmed his hometown. The situation was greatly complicated by the corruption of law enforcement agencies, often supported by the drug mafia. It was an initiative from below. And she sharply contradicted the intentions of the authorities, who only imitated the fight against drugs.

But Yevgeny Roizman acted with harsh methods - he collected drug addicts in rehabilitation centers opened for them, and often kept them in isolation forcibly. He exposed the drug-dealer networks by undercover methods and handed over the distributors to the police. He was repeatedly threatened both by the drug mafia and law enforcement agencies for the illegality of his methods. However, time has shown that Evgeny Roizman was right. Objective statistics show that the death rate from overdoses in the capital of the Urals has decreased twelve times in the first four years of his foundation's activity at the beginning of the 2000s. Of course, the evil was not crushed completely. But the myth of his invincibility was dispelled.

The power of truth

The success of the "City Without Drugs" foundation brought its founder a well-deserved authority in his native city and far beyond its borders. stop atachieved Evgeny Roizman was not going to. He felt his strength and growing influence. And he turned his activity into the sphere of politics. Such a turn was strongly disliked by those in power.

In a city where everything has long been seized, corrupted and divided, a young energetic politician suddenly appeared, tuned in to the ruling elite, to put it mildly, in opposition. Roizman spoke a lot and often in the media and in the virtual space, behaved defiantly and went into open conflict with the authorities. His website on the Internet was decorated with the slogan "Strength in Truth", and this was not empty rhetoric.

Sagra

The conflict in the suburban village of Sagra, where local residents gave a sharp rebuff to armed bandits, resonated significantly in Russian society. An ethnic criminal group suffered losses during the clash - one bandit was killed and several wounded. It was extremely unexpected. But criminal prosecution threatened not the drug mafia that attacked the village. Cases were filed against residents who defended their homes. Only a great public outcry, primarily on the Internet, and Yevgeny Roizman's energetic intervention in the situation made it possible to return the concept of justice to people. The bandits ended up in the dock and from there openly threatened the public figure with murder. "I go without security. My address is known to everyone," Evgeny calmly replied to this.

2013 election campaign

Yevgeny Roizman, mayor of Yekaterinburg, was elected topost in September 2013. This was preceded by an unprecedented campaign in terms of arrogance and unbridled slander, which was waged against the opposition candidate by both local and central authorities. But the effect of this was just the opposite of what was expected. Moscow appointees were forced to leave for the capital with nothing. What is called "crawled away with his tail between his legs." Yekaterinburg voters voted for Yevgeny Roizman. His motto "Strength in Truth" was not an empty declaration.

The post of mayor of Yekaterinburg implies not so much influence. It is rather a public position without significant financial powers. But the authorities suffered a sensitive moral defeat, almost for the first time in modern Russian reality. And today, the office of the mayor of Yekaterinburg is decorated not with a portrait of President Putin, as it should be by status, but with a portrait of the poet Joseph Brodsky.

In the cultural space

A story about the mayor of Yekaterinburg would be incomplete without mentioning his undertakings in the field of culture and art. Yevgeny Roizman himself is the author of several books of poetry, and has been repeatedly published in central periodicals. Several songs have been created based on his poems, which have become widely known. Already as mayor, he collected a large collection of Ural artists. Among them are such world celebrities as Mikhail Brusilovsky and Vitaly Volovich. Albums of reproductions of their works have been published. The collection of Roizman's paintings will eventually be transformed into a museum. The most important initiative iscreation of the museum "Nevyansk Icon", which includes in its collection unique works of icon painters of the Old Believer tradition.