Biography
The first president of Tatarstan, a federal politician, who led the republic in Soviet times and holding power until 2010, entered his name to the country's history. Mintimer Shaimiev, a complete cavalier of the Order "For Merit to Fatherland" and the Hero of the Russian Federation, put in one row with people who glorified the region: Rudolph Nuriev, Renat Akchurin, Albert Asadullin.Childhood and youth
The future president of the republic was born in January 1937 in the village of Anyakovo in the family of peasants-Sunniov. Mintimer - 9th and penultimate child in the family. The name Shaimiev is translated as "I am Iron". According to the national tradition, parents gave "strong names" offspring, if the firstborn died before their birth. Before the birth of the Senior Son of Hantifer, for whom Mintimer appeared, four heirs died in Shayumiyev.
The childhood of the future statesman fell on a difficult military and post-war time. Sons of Shaimyevy early joined work. Father - Shagisharip Shaimukhametovich - led the collective farm. In the late 1940s, people in the village of Pukhli from hunger. The Chair allocated 2 bags of millet for public food, for which he almost was in prison.
Seeing the father's fatherhood, Mintimer decided to become a prosecutor, but in the graduation class he heard towards the advice of the parent who dreamed of seeing his son with MTS engineer. In 1954, Shaimiev awarded the certificate of maturity, and he became a student of the Agrarian University (then agricultural institute) in Kazan.
Mintimer chose the Faculty of Mechanization, which successfully graduated in 1959, receiving a specialty mechanical engineer. Coming out of the walls of the university, Mintimer Shaimiev got a mechanic on the Muslim District Tractor Station. Soon, an intelligent engineer was raised to the main on RTS. 3 years passed, and Shaimyeva appointed the head of the "agricultural machinery" in Menzelinsk. The young head turned 25 years old.
Politics
The young and ambitious Shaimiev becomes a member of the CPSU and in 1967 changes the place of work - goes to the Tatar Oblove party: the former mechanical engineer is appointed as an instructor in the agricultural department. Soon he becomes a deputy head of the department.
After 2 years of the nomenclature-party work of the career, the output from the depthion makes the rapid jerk up: Shaimiev is prescribed by the Minister. The 32-year-old Mintmera Sharipovich trust the leadership of the agrarian industry of the republic.
Inslace Rules of Hardware Games for a long 14 years suspend Promotion of Mintimer Shaimiev through a career ladder. The talented administrator failed to break the well-established hierarchy and break through the dense cordon of the elderly officials, replacing each other in a strict sequence. Only in 1983, Shaimiev took the post of Deputy Chairman of the Republican Government, and after 2 years he headed the Council of Ministers of the Tatar ASSR.
Perestroika, initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, gave a chance to promote ambitious regional politicians. The future president of the Republic took a challenge and participated in the battle of the apparatus. Bygoing competitors, took the chair of the first secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU Tatarstan.
In 1990, Mintimer Shaimiev was headed by the Supreme Council of Tatarstan, focusing power in his hands. The beginning of the 1990s, marked by a parade of the sovereignty of the former republics of the USSR, has set new challenges before the head of Tatarstan. Shaimiev did not strive for the complete independence of the republic from the center and supported the GCCP, but could not ignore the moods of nationalists.
In the summer of 1991, the leaving from the Tatar province became the first president, leaving far behind the rivals. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the head of the republic was involved in the struggle for the expansion of rights and independence from the Russian Federation, while not wanting the full separation from the Federal Center. The struggle of Shaimiev and the powerful top of Tatarstan was crowned with a declaration of state sovereignty.
The region's economy developed dynamically, the life indicators of residents of the republic were higher than that of the neighbors who were tragicly experienced the crisis of the 1990s. Mintimer Shaimiev was re-elected to the presidential post until 2010, easily defeating competitors. The inhabitants of Tatarstan voted for him, not particularly listening to the criticism of the opposition, which indicated the family of the president who had a control over the sectors of the economy.
Under the curtain of the 1990s, the ambitious leader went beyond the framework of national education and together with Yuri Luzhkov founded the party "Fatherland - all of Russia". The party rapidly gained weight in the Russian parliament, but the "hivestable struggle" of politicians-heavyweight ended with the defeat: the founders of the ASP capitulated, giving agreement to the union with the Unity block.
Soon the proviscial party was born in the political arena, called United Russia. The authoritative leader from Tatarstan took the chair of the co-chair of the Supreme Council of the United States, in which many years stayed.
In total, Mintimer Shaimiev led the republic (including the USSR period) 21 years. The political biography of the leader ended in 2010: in January, the 73-year-old native of the village of Anyakovo declared a self-sharing and left the top three candidates for the president of the republic. But for a respected policy, the honorary position of the state counselor, in which Shaimiev remains today.
The position of the adviser allows Mintimer Sharipovich to remain a member of the Republican Parliament forever, to make draft laws and influence public life.
Achievements of Shaimiev during his leadership are the growth of agricultural production (in 2008 2nd place in the Russian Federation after the Krasnodar Territory). Tatarstan became the leader of the Russian Federation for the construction of housing and took the 6th place on the Ground Regional Product (2008).
The main achievement for the twenty-year-old Board Mintimer Shaimiev calls the changed attitude towards the people of the republic and the preservation of the Russian Federation from further crushing in the recruitment period.
Personal life
With the future wife, Shaimiev met the dance. Sakina after the end of the technical school came to the Kalininsky district, where Mintimer passed pre-diploma practice. The girl with long hair liked at first glance, and the young man did not lose time: once he invited her to the dance, and then he spoke all the evening with her friend, learning about Sakina everything.
Parents selection of the Son fell in the soul, and soon Mintimer brought a young wife in Muslimovo, where the father was lived with his mother. The first President of the Republic married once and forever. Family for the leader of Tatarstan - unshakable value. In the 1960s, Sakina gave birth to a spouse of two children - the sons of airat and radika, the difference between which 2 years.
The sons of the ex-president - successful businessmen whose condition according to the Forbes estimation exceeded $ 1 billion. Each. Shaimiev-younger - co-owners of the Russian holding "Taif". This is a group of companies that controls half of oil refining, the chemical and gas processing industries of the republic. The central office of Taif is located in Kazan.
Native sister Mintimer Sharipovich owns a network of outlets in the east of Tatarstan.
In 2015, Shaimiev issued a marriage to Kamil's granddaughter, which belongs to the part of the Taif Holding. The girl came to the list of the Russian Journal "Forbes". Its condition was estimated at $ 190 million. Camille graduated with honors from MGIMO.
Grandson Timur received a diploma of the British university and works in the oil industry. The younger granddaughter Leila graduated from school with a gold medal.
Mintimer Shaimiev now
The activities of the State Counselor of the Republic can be found on the site "Official Tatarstan". Shaimiev is engaged in research and development and revival of the ancient settlement of the Bulgarian and Island-Grand Sviyazisk.
In January 2018, President Vladimir Putin visited the Aviation Plant in Kazan and visited the hospital to the hospital Mintimer Shaimiev, who was included in the list of trusted persons in the presidential election.
Shaimiev transferred the 8th volume of the book of benefactors to the President of the Russian Federation, in which Vladimir Vladimirovich was found.
Awards and achievements
- 1966 - Order of Lenin
- 1971 - Order of the Red Banner
- 1976 - Order of the October Revolution
- 1987 - The Order of Peoples' Friendship
- 1997 - Order of the Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow I degree
- 1997 - Order "For Services to Fatherland" II degree
- 2003 - Order "Honor and Glory" II degree (Abkhazia)
- 2005 - Honorary Citizen Kazan
- 2005 - Order of Honor Al-Fakhr first degree
- 2005 - Order of Rev. Sergius of Radonezh I degree
- 2007 - Order "For Merit to Fatherland" I degree
- 2007 - International Award King Faisala (Saudi Arabia)
- 2008 - Olympic Order
- 2010 - the Order "For Merit to Fatherland" III degree
- 2010 - Order "For Merit to the Republic of Tatarstan"
- 2010 - Order of the I degree
- 2013 - Order of St. Anne of the first degree
- 2014 - Order "For Merit to Fatherland" IV degree
- 2015 - Order "Duslyk"
- 2017 - Hero of the Labor of the Russian Federation
- 2017 - Order "For merit to the Republic of Dagestan"