Kuptsov, Valentin Aleksandrovich

Soviet period

Valentin Kuptsov was born on December 4, 1937 in the village of Mindyukino , Cherepovetsky District, Vologda Region . He began working in 1955 on a collective farm, later in charge of a hut reading room in the Ulomsky district of the Vologda region.

From 1956 to 1958 he served in the army. From 1958 he worked at a metallurgical plant in Cherepovets . At the same time, he studied at the North-West Correspondence Polytechnic Institute, which he graduated in 1966 with a degree in metallurgical engineering. In 1988 he graduated from the Leningrad Higher Party School. At the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant, he worked as a roller, a master of rolling mills, a secretary of the party committee of a workshop, a deputy secretary of the party committee of a plant.

Member of the CPSU since 1966. Since 1974 - on the party work. In the years 1974-1979 - First Secretary of the Cherepovets City Committee of the CPSU.

As Kuptsov himself recalled, he was “offered to Moscow three times,” for the first time in 1974, during his work at the plant, then in 1975 - “when I worked as the second secretary of the city committee in Cherepovets, they took me to the department of heavy industry of the Central Committee of the party ”: Kuptsov refused to have an interview with the Secretary of the Central Committee V. I. Dolgikh . “The last incident was already in 1985. I was taken to Moscow by an inspector ... this was the third case, it was impossible for me to refuse. I went through this school, and they recommended me to the second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan. And then suddenly the Politburo decided to release A. S. Drygin ... So I was returned to the Vologda region ” ^[1] .

From 1985 to 1989, he worked as First Secretary of the Vologda Regional Committee of the CPSU . In 1986-1991 - a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU .

In the spring of 1989, he was elected a people's deputy of the USSR from the Veliky Ustyug territorial constituency of the Vologda region ^[2] .

In 1989-1990 he was a member of the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

In 1990 he was elected a people's deputy of the Vologda Regional Council of People's Deputies.

In March — April 1990 - Chairman of the Vologda Regional Council.

In April 1990, he was transferred to party work in Moscow - he was secretary of the CPSU Central Committee , head of the department for working with social and political organizations of the CPSU Central Committee, and chairman of the Permanent Social and Political Commission of the CPSU Central Committee.

Participated in the creation of KP RSFSR . On August 6, 1991, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR , he was elected first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR (instead of Ivan Kuzmich Polozkov ). He refused to support the actions of the leadership of the RSFSR against the State Emergency Committee, after August 21, 1991, was under investigation as an "accomplice of the attempted coup".

By a decree dated August 23, 1991, the President of the RSFSR, Boris Yeltsin, suspended, and by a decree dated November 6, 1991, he stopped the activity of the CPSU and its republican organization - the Communist Party of the RSFSR - and disbanded the party’s organizational structures. According to Kuptsov, on October 25, 1991, he met with B. N. Yeltsin and persuaded him to cancel the decree on the suspension of the activities of the CPSU-KP RSFSR ^[3] . After the ban of the party, Kuptsov de facto continued his work as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR until February 1993, when a restoration congress was held ^[4] .

Russian period

In 1991-1992 he worked as a consultant to the International Fund for the Promotion of Privatization and Foreign Investments.

After the ban in 1991, he headed the work on the restoration of the party, in 1992-1993 he headed the Organizing Committee for the convocation of the Congress of Communists of Russia. On May 26, 1992, V.A. Kuptsov was reinstated as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR by order of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation to appear as a defendant at the suit of a group of people's deputies of the Russian Federation (headed by O. G. Rumyantsev) declaring the CPSU and the Communist Party of the RSFSR unconstitutional. On November 30 of the same year, the Constitutional Court lifted the ban on the activities of the primary organizations of the CPSU — KP RSFSR, but upheld the dissolution of the governing structures.

The organizers of the restoration congress initially planned that the institute of co-chairs would be introduced into the party, among which the leading role would be played by the Merchants. However, at the II congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (February 1993) A.M. Makashov accused Kuptsov of contacts with Yeltsin, softness and Gorbachev's opportunism ^[5] , and Kuptsov gave up the first place in the party hierarchy G. A. Zyuganov .

On February 14, 1993, he was elected Vice-Chairman, and on March 20, 1993, First Deputy Chairman of the CEC of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (from January 1995 - Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation), held this post until July 3, 2004. Member of the Presidium of the Communist Party Central Committee from February 14, 1993 to November 30, 2008.

In 1994-1995, he was the head of the apparatus of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma of the first convocation of the Russian Federation. On December 17, 1995, he was elected to the State Duma of the second convocation , was a member of the Committee on Tourism and Sport.

On December 19, 1999, he was elected to the State Duma of the third convocation , was a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs.

In 2003, he was elected to the fourth Duma of the State Duma , in which he became deputy chairman of the State Duma.

In 2007 he was elected a deputy of the State Duma of the fifth convocation , worked as the chairman of the Committee on Nationalities.

In 2002-2003, the press widely debated the question of Kuptsov’s conflict with Gennady Zyuganov because of the distribution of powers in the party hierarchy. In June 2004, Kuptsov announced the resignation of the first deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation at the next congress, which was taken as a hint to Zyuganov of similar actions. However, V. A. Kuptsov ended up on the side of Zyuganov in the conflict that broke out inside the CPRF in July 2004 .

On April 24, 2010, information about the death of Valentin Aleksandrovich Kuptsov on a hunt appeared in a number of Russian Internet publications, which was corrected only by the end of the next day ^[6] .

September 10, 2018 Valentine Kuptsov was awarded the Order of Friendship ^[7] .

He was awarded the Order of Friendship (September 10, 2018) ^[8] , the Order of Lenin (December 3, 1987), two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of the Badge of Honor , the medal " For Labor Valor " ^[2] , the commemorative Medal of the People's Republic of China ^[9] .

• Kuptsov, Valentin - an article in Lentapedia . year 2012.
• Valentin Kuptsov: I foresee - Putin will fight for a third term
• "For the sake of a great popular idea." Interview with V. A. Kuptsov // Pravda. - 2007. - 4 dec.
• Ilyin A. A. “Gennady Zyuganov:“ Truth about the Leader ”. - M., 2005. - p. 21.