Many Russian politicians began their journey as members of the CPSU and senior staff members. When circumstances demanded it, they instantly reorganized and began to act in the new realities, while not forgetting their own interests.
This galaxy of reforged communists also includes Ramazan Abdulatipov, who at one time was in charge of ideological work under the USSR, fought along with other members of the Supreme Council against Yeltsin, and then changed his position and took the side of the first president of the country. The politician worked as a minister, deputy prime minister and president of Dagestan.
Soviet period
The biography of Ramazan Abdulatipov includes the entire history of the country in the second half of the 20th century. Born in 1946 in a large family of a collective farm chairman in Dagestan. He is an Avar by nationality. After graduating from school, he entered a medical school, graduated with a diploma of a paramedic. After working for some time in the district clinic, Ramazan Abdulatipov was drafted into the army, whereserved from 1966 to 1970.
After leaving the reserve, the former foreman of the medical service changes several professions, having worked as a fireman, sports official and head of the medical center. In 1972, Ramazan Abdulatipov begins his dizzying career, which, like everyone else at that time, means joining the CPSU. He organizes Komsomol work, then heads the ideological department of the Tlyarata district committee.
At the same time, a young communist receives a correspondence higher education at the Dagestan University at the Faculty of History.
After graduating from Leningrad State University, Ramazan Abdulatipov enters the all-Union level and moves to Murmansk, where for ten years he has also been engaged in propaganda work and teaches scientific communism at the Murmansk Higher Maritime School.
The pinnacle of a career in the Soviet period was the election of a Dagestani to the Supreme Soviet in 1990, where he would later become chairman of the Council of Nationalities.
Nineties
1991 became a decisive year both in the life of the whole country and in the biography of Ramazan Abdulatipov. He opposes the putsch by the State Emergency Committee and is among the deputies who vote for the approval of the Belovezhskaya agreements and the dismantling of the USSR. In the same 1991, the Avar Abdulatipov, together with the Chechen Khasbulatov, took part in resolving the interethnic conflict in Dagestan.
Harmonious relations between the first President of Russia and the Supreme Council by 1993 deteriorated sharply.
Struggle forpower resulted in the siege of the parliament building and the subsequent armed assault. In those days, Ramazan Abdulatipov was among the defenders of the White House, but he subsequently changed his position and took the side of Yeltsin, which saved his political career.
The reward for loy alty was high positions in the cabinets of ministers under various prime ministers. The Dagestani was the deputy chairman of the government, the minister for national issues. The former communist also changed his party affiliation several times, being a member of various short-lived movements, until he joined the ranks of United Russia.
2000 years
It seemed that in the late nineties the veteran of national politics was going into the shadows, he lost his ministerial posts, photos of Ramazan Abdulatipov began to disappear from the pages of printed publications. Nevertheless, in 2000 he became a member of the Federation Council and served as a senatorial until 2005.
After the end of the parliamentary term, a person with an Eastern mentality is sent as an ambassador to Tajikistan, where he represents the interests of Russia until 2009. After diplomatic work, Ramazan Abdulatipov returns to the field of higher education and takes the post of rector of MGUKI.
The political career of the academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences resumes in 2013, when he is approved by the parliament of Dagestan for the post of president of the republic.
Since then, he has been the permanent head of the North Caucasian republic. A politician who has worked at the federal level for a long time, Abdulatipov, according to the plan of the leadershiphad to rise above the clan and group struggle for power in Dagestan and unite society. Upon taking office, he outlined a number of strategic programs for the accelerated development of the republic and the eradication of corruption.
Family
Ramazan Abdulatipov met his wife back in Murmansk. After many years of marriage, Inna Vasilievna and Ramazan Gadzhimuradovich had two sons - Jamal and Abdulatip. From his first marriage, the politician has a daughter, Zaire.
After Abdulatipov was elected president of the republic, his sons and son-in-law also got jobs in the power structures of Dagestan and work side by side with their father on state construction.
