Biography of Pavel Astakhov: family, work on television. Authorized by the President of the Russian Federation for the Rights of the Child

He became known to a large mass of the population after his first appearance on TV screens in the program "Hour of the court". And since to the sharp mind and education was applied a magnificent figure and a pretty face with a charming smile, most of the televiewers sat near the screens almost without breathing, afraid to miss even a word from what he had said. Biography of Pavel Astakhov (and it is he who is the hero of the article) raises only one question: when does he manage everything? After all, he presides in the Bar Association, and conducts programs, and defends the rights of children. And this is besides the fact that he is still a serious lawyer and lawyer. But then he and Pavel Astakhov, whose family always supports every step of it.

Childhood and the tree of the genus

Little Pasha Astakhov saw this big world on the eighth day of September 1966. His great-grandfather's great-grandfather was a Cossack ataman; on my mother's side, my grandfather was a severe Chekist, who was acquainted with Vyacheslav Menzhinsky (one of the first leaders of the state security). Mom of the future leading program "Hour of the court" worked as a teacher, and my father was an official in the printing industry.

His childhood was held in Zelenograd (the district of Moscow). Being a schoolboy of junior classes, Pavel went to the circle of sewing and sewing, and in the senior - to the section of oriental combat and classical wrestling. In his interviews, which were many years later, Astakhov Pavel Alekseevich recalled how he and his father built a wooden house. The future lawyer was then fifteen years old.

He studied right there, at Zelenograd school No. 609. After receiving the certificate, the young man worked a little at the Ostankino TV center.

From the Army to the KGB

From 1984 to 1986, the biography of Pavel Astakhov was supplemented by another episode: he served in the army, in frontier troops on the Soviet-Finnish border. In those years these troops were under the jurisdiction of the KGB of the Soviet Union. During the service, Pavel was a Komsomol activist.

After demobilization, he makes an important decision for himself - to enter the Higher School of the KGB. On the pages of some periodicals that published his biography and articles about his work, there appeared data that Astakhov had studied at the faculty of counterintelligence. It was there that he passed his specialization in law.

Official Pavel Astakhov's biography says that he is a graduate of the Faculty of Jurisprudence (he was also a faculty of foreign intelligence). He received the diploma of graduating from the KGB high school in 1991.

From the janitor to the legal adviser

Being a senior student, the future presenter of the program "Hour of Court" diligently moonlighted. He was a night watchman in the laundry, a bouncer and a cashier at the video salon, a janitor, a builder. At the same time, the young man was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, moreover, remained in her team until the moment of banning the party in hard 1991.

In the same year, on August 19, Pavel Alekseevich wrote a letter of resignation from the KGB (he was in the rank of lieutenant). The statement is satisfied with the wording: "transferred to the national economy".

Now he is a legal adviser in the Yaroslavl airline. A little later Astakhov ascends the ranks to the head of the legal department. In one of the interviews, Pavel Alekseevich himself told that in the early 1990s he worked in Spain.

The name of the lawyer of Russia

Since 1994, Pavel Astakhov is one of the teams of the Moscow Bar Association. In his application for employment, he wrote that he wants to be in the bar because he wants to fight for justice, he wants to bear the name of the Russian lawyer very high.

At the same time, he creates the Lawyer Group of Pavel Astakhov. He proved himself so well in the legal field that in the mid-nineties he was invited to work in the US by the famous California lawyer Graham Taylor, but Pavel Alekseevich answered with a polite refusal.

Work cases

To protect Valentina Solovyov, who led the financial pyramid of "The Lord", happened to Astakhov. This was one of the very first of his legal affairs. She was convicted, but then, thanks to her lawyer, she received parole.

In the period from the late nineties to the beginning of the two-thousandth biography of Pavel Astakhov, another interesting fact is replenished: he actively participates in discussions of several bills. These include laws on the limitation of the amount of the exported currency in cash bills of $ 500 and on state control over the expenses of citizens of the country. To all the rest, Astakhov was the initiator of many public actions, one of which concerns the public destruction of pirated discs, on which a complete database of state agencies was recorded.

Lebedev vs. Vedomosti

In those years, claims for protection of honor and dignity increased. And Pavel Astakhov (lawyer) quite often took them for them. For example, in the late nineties he was a representative of Artem Lebedev, a famous designer who spoke against the newspaper Vedomosti. The printed edition claimed the fact of Lebedev's unscrupulousness, who allegedly began his business career with an ordinary forgery. The Astakhov trial was won, and the newspaper admitted that it was wrong.

In parallel with this case Pavel Alekseevich helped to return to the homeland the archive of Ivan Shmelev, the writer.

This difficult 1999th

At the beginning of that year, Pavel Astakhov, the child rights commissioner in the near future, was attacked. But the man managed to escape from the criminals. Later he said that he was not afraid of authorities from the criminal layer of society, because they are the most grateful clients of lawyers, as much as the arbitrariness that reigns in law enforcement.

In the same year, Pavel Astakhov begins to take up pen and ink. The books he wrote are of interest not only for lawyers, but for a huge circle of readers who do not have a legal education. And the very first literary work from the famous lawyer was "The written truths, or the Levossy for all." This book was described by the author as "lawyer's tales".

In the following year, 2000, Pavel Alekseevich becomes the lawyer of the United States citizen Edmond Pope. He collected technical materials on the underwater rocket "Shkval" (Russia). The speech of the defender Astakhov spoke in verse, but the case was lost. The spy was sentenced to two decades. However, later he was pardoned on the special petition of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

After all these events, one Hollywood company asked for permission from an attorney to start shooting a film about his life. But Astakhov did not give consent.

Gusinsky, Dorenko and others ...

May 2000. A search in the company "Media-Most" by Vladimir Gusinsky. Law enforcers managed to detain journalists who tried to shoot everything that happened on the video camera.

It was Pavel Astakhov who helped them to free themselves. The consequence of these events was the proposal from Igor Malashenko and Gusinsky, the general director of NTV, to work. The lawyer of the company and directly Gusinsky himself Pavel Alekseevich worked until 2001, creating a strong tandem with Henry Reznik.

The following year, he defends Sergei Dorenko: a case was made that a journalist who was riding a motorcycle collided with a pedestrian. The investigation dragged on, and Astakhov refused to do so.

Next year, the lawyer was able to defend two theses: a master's and a candidate's thesis. And four years later he becomes a doctor of law after defending another dissertation.

Colleague Mikhail Barshchevsky invited him to work in his law office "Barshchevsky and Partners."

For two years in a row (2002 and 2003), Astakhov represents the Moscow authorities in the course of hearings on whether the election of the deputy mayor of the capital, Valery Shantsev, is legitimate. This was a very difficult matter, but the result was the recognition of election illegality. In the same period, in 2003, the Astakhov Lawyers' group was renamed the Bar of Astakhov.

The person from the screen

Since the late nineties Pavel Alekseevich Astakhov often appeared in the press with consultations on legal issues, led several issues of the rubric on legal issues. Also, his useful consultations were used in some TV programs: "The trial is on", "The trial", "The case is being heard" and others.

A little later, in the middle of two thousand, a well-known lawyer becomes a TV presenter. From the beginning of 2004, he was conducting the TV program "Hour of the court", which instantly won appreciation to the audience. Based on the materials of this program a few years later he publishes a series of books with legal advice.

Astakhov was the host of the program "Methods of advocacy" on the radio "City-FM". Since 2008, he led the show "Three corners with Pavel Astakhov" on "REN-TV".

Despite the fact that he is now a very famous person to a huge number of people (as a presenter), Astakhov does not stop his lawyer practice. In the fall of 2003, he defended former Colonel Budanov, who was accused of murdering a Chechen girl. The cancellation of the verdict did not take place, but in the winter of 2007, his client was commuted by transferring him to a colony-settlement.

In 2009, Pavel Alekseevich was a representative of the interests of entrepreneur Telman Ismailov. This happened after the beginning of the investigation into the case of certain violations in the Cherkizovsky market owned by the businessman.

Astakhov and children's problems

On the penultimate day of December 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appoints Pavel Alekseevich the Ombudsman for Children's Rights. The consequence of this was Astakhov's termination of his powers as a member of the Public Chamber. In addition, he had to interrupt his law practice.

One of the first large and serious cases, which he had to solve, was to investigate the causes of the tragedy in the boarding school No. 2 of the city of Izhevsk. There were children-orphans and children, who were left without parental care. In the walls of this boarding school in early 2010, several inmates opened their veins. This was a protest against the brutal actions of the leadership of the educational institution.

Astakhov's assistants determined that the state of affairs in the boarding school is extremely unsatisfactory. And he himself was convinced in the spring that, despite the assurances of the Udmurt commission, there had been no correction of the situation.

Last summer, Astakhov announced figures that showed that in the past five years in Russia, the number of children who were left without parental care decreased by 40 percent. And 30% less orphanages.

Every citizen who needs his help can write to Astakhov. And the lawyer will definitely help.

Family harbor of a lawyer

Pavel Alekseevich Astakhov married in 1987. Pavel Astakhov's wife Svetlana is the owner of three entities: she is a mathematician, a professional psychologist and a PR specialist. At one time she was the head of public relations of the Astakhov collegium and even was the producer of the program "Three corners".

The couple became parents three times. The eldest son Anton was born in 1988, the second - Artem - in 1992, and the younger Arseniy - in 2009. The two older boys are now working with their father.