Rashid Nurgaliev: career and biography

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Rashid Nurgaliev (his biography is connected with law enforcement) - former Minister of the Interior, General, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, economist. He is an academician of the ABOP and has written several books.

Family

Rashid Nurgaliev was born on 10/8/1956 in the city of Zhetygar, Kazakh SSR. By nationality - Tatar. His mother and father worked in the police. Father, Vasily Ivanovich, began his career as a simple operative. Then he became a colonel and worked as the head of the colony. For some time the family lived in Karelia.

Mother, Alexandra Saitovna, worked with her husband. She died first, and Rashid's father, after her death, moved to his brother in Kazan. Nurgaliyev has an older brother who worked as a security guard at a factory in the village of Verkhniy.

Education

Nurgaliev graduated from high school, which was located in the village of Nadvoitsy in 1974. He immediately entered the Petrozavodsk University for Physics and Mathematics. Becoming a student, he joined the CPSU party. Graduated from Nurgaliyev University in 1979. Received a rare profession with a degree in metal physics and X-rays. Later he taught physics at the village evening school. Then he graduated from the KGB Academy.

Career

In 1981, Rashid Nurgaliyev became a Chekist. He began his military career in the city of Kostomuksha, which is located on the border with Finland. Then he climbed the career ladder to the detective.

From 1992 he worked with Nikolai Patrushev, the Minister of Security, who later became the head of the Russian FSB. In 1995, Nurgaliyev was seconded to the Security Service. In it, he began to head the department for the protection of state security officers.

In 2000, together with an interdepartmental task force, he organized control over the legality of wheat imports imported from the United States. In the summer of the same year, Nurgaliyev was promoted, becoming deputy director of the FSB and director of the Inspection Department.

Activities in the Ministry of Internal Affairs

In 2002, Nurgaliev Rashid Gumarovich, whose position was promoted to the head of the criminal police, became responsible for the main operational services. He was engaged in opposition to crime (including organized crime) and extremism. With his help, in 2003, a unit (in the GUBOP) for countering terrorism was created.

After Gryzlov's resignation, Nurgaliyev was first appointed Acting Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, and in 2004 he took the ministerial chair. In 2004, he published a book he had written - a historical essay on the Ministry of the Interior. Since 2005, Rashid Nurgaliyev has been an army general, and since 2006, a member of the anti-terrorist committee of our country and its deputy chairman. From 2007 to the spring of 2011, the largest reform was carried out under his leadershipmilitary departments.

The police became the police, but the methods of its work remained the same. The rights were significantly expanded, and a mandatory extraordinary recertification of employees of departments took place. As a result, more than twenty percent of employees lost their jobs.

In 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev established the Interdepartmental Commission for Resistance to Extremism in Russia. Nurgaliev was appointed its leader. The new structure was supposed not only to manage various services, but also to correct their activities.

Since 2012, Nurgaliyev was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. After the government elections, Rashid Nurgaliyev (the post of minister was not left to him) was not included in the list of the ministry. Vladimir Putin appointed Vladimir Kolokoltsev to the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Previously, he was the head of the head office of the Police Department of the capital. In the same year, Nurgaliev, a former minister, received the post of Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

Awards and achievements

He has received many awards. He was awarded five orders. Nurgaliev is considered an honorary citizen in the Republic of Karelia. Rashid Gumarovich received the Prize. Yuri Andropov.

Private life

Rashid Nurgaliev married Margarita Evgenievna, whom he met in Petrozavodsk, at the New Year's Eve. At that time, she was in her third year at the local pedagogical institute. Their family had two sons, Rashid and Maxim. They followed in their father's footstepsbecoming officers. Nurgaliev's wife worked as a primary school teacher.

Nurgaliev's hobbies

Since childhood, Rashid Gumarovich was very fond of sports. And he was constantly doing it. Most of all he preferred hockey. But he did not disdain gymnastics either. Throughout his life, he maintains a good athletic shape. He still loves to play hockey, allocating part of his free time to it.

Speaking about his favorite city, Nurgaliev most often recalls Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia. Although he has been living in Moscow for a long time, practically without leaving the capital, but it was in Petrozavodsk that he spent his youth. The father, talking about his son, always emphasizes that Rashid does not drink alcohol at all, does not smoke, prefers vegetarian cuisine. He loves bread, fruits, herbs and vegetables very much. He and his wife make signature tea on their own, brewing green and black in equal proportions.