Leonid Kalashnikov: photo and biography

He is a State Duma deputy since December 4, 2011. Leonid Kalashnikov - Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party on International Relations. Recently, he made a statement about American support for the regime of Petro Poroshenko and current events in Ukraine and, in connection with this, became a media figure. Included in the list of sanctions Canada.

Biography

Kalashnikov Leonid Ivanovich was born on August 6, 1960 in Buryatia, the village of Stepnoy Palace. Early enough, he lost his parents and, together with his sister, was raised at the boarding school of Ulan-Ude since the age of eight. He studied at the East Siberian Technological Institute at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. In 1982, he graduated and fell on the distribution to the machine-building plant in Odessa.

During his studies he was seriously interested in sports. He received the title of master of pentathlon and diving. I was lucky to play for the national team at international competitions.

In Odessa, Leonid stayed for a short time and in 1983 moved to Togliatti, where he got a job at AvtoVAZ. At this enterprise I climbed the career ladder from a simple master to the deputy head of the department of the research center. At the factory he was secretary of the Komsomol organization.

He joined the party in 1985. Successfully graduated from the graduate school and the Higher Komsomol school. After a while he was appointed deputy secretary of the party committee of the plant. He was elected a deputy of the city council of Togliatti.

The huge managerial, production experience and serious party preparation helped Kalashnikov not get lost in the economic conditions after the collapse of the USSR. In the 90s, he directed at AtovoVAZ one of the commercial organizations "Inkom Avto". At that time, a stream of inexpensive second-hand foreign cars poured into the domestic market. Leonid defended the position of the Russian car industry.

Thanks to Leonid and similar domestic managers, AvtoVAZ was able to hold out on the market and did not share the fate of most Russian automobile plants. He saved several hundred jobs.

Leonid Kalashnikov, whose biography is set out in this article, has been working and living in Moscow since 1996. He gave up the energy field for 10 years: he worked in managerial positions in the non-profit partnership of energy producers. He opposed the "energy reform" of Anatoly Chubais, who outlined a course for the sale and fragmentation by parts of the country's energy system.

Political activity

Leonid Kalashnikov joined the Communist Party in the early 2000s and for several years has been an adviser to Gennady Zyuganov (chairman of the party). In 2006, he became editor of the "Working Paper". In autumn 2008 he was elected a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and a secretary responsible for economic and international party relations.

In the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation (2011) in the list of candidates from the Communist Party took the first number from the Samara region, was elected. On February 24, 2013, at the Plenum of the Party, he was re-elected member of the Presidium and secretary.

Canada in December 2014 decided to expand the list of sanctions for citizens of the Russian Federation. Prime Minister of the country S. Harper published on his website 11 citizens who got there citizens of our country. 10 are parliamentarians, Leonid Kalashnikov is among them. The latter stated his pride for being noticed and known in Canada. They endorse "such a great honor," which means that his work for the benefit of his native country is quite successful.

Income of a deputy

According to the Anti-Corruption Declaration, published in 2013, earned more than 5 million rubles Leonid Kalashnikov. A deputy of the State Duma owned this property, an apartment (163 sq. M.), A house (342 sq. M.), A land plot (1520 sq. M.), Two garages (total area 44 sq. M).

Interesting facts from the life of Kalashnikov

The correspondent of the newspaper "Pravda Buryatia" in BAM (85-87), the correspondent of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in BAM (88-90's), Vladimir Medvedev shared information that Leonid Kalashnikov was actively engaged in the club of scuba divers. In 1981, at the request of the detachment "Komsomolets of Buryatia", he traveled to the area of Taksimo station to organize the search for a plane that had crashed in 1940 with the prospectors of Bam.

It was Kalashnikov who managed to find this plane, which served as an impetus to organize the search for another air transport with prospectors on board, which also crashed in the area of the Barancheyevsky Lake. It turned out that the commander of the crew and the navigator could survive in this plane crash, but they believed that each of them died. Leonid Kalashnikov, whose biography is described in this article, was able to find them and arrange a meeting.

On the air of the scandalous channel "Rain", which was held on July 17, 2014, Leonid was asked a provocative question about whether it is true that he believes that it does not matter who is to blame for the situation related to the Malay Boeing shot down near Donetsk. To which Kalashnikov gave the answer: "It will be easier for you, if you find out?".

What now

On September 18, 2016, the next elections were held, on which Kalashnikova was elected as the State Duma deputy of the eighth convocation as part of the list of candidates nominated by the Communist Party. Today Leonid is a member of the faction of his party, chairman of the State Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, relations with compatriots and Eurasian integration. The powers entered into force on September 18, 2016.