Aksyonenko, Nikolai Emelyanovich

Born March 15, 1949 in the village of Novoaleksandrovka of the Bolotninsky district of the Novosibirsk region in a large family of an assistant to the driver . Aksyonenko’s mother was engaged in farming. Nikolai was the youngest, 13th child. In 1951, the family moved to Moshkovo .

I went to school at six, because by that time I knew how to read and write well. In his youth, he was engaged in heavyweight boxing and football.

After graduating from school in 1966, he tried to enter the Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute, but did not pass entrance tests. During the year he worked as a fitter-assembler of the Chkalov Novosibirsk Aviation Plant. In 1967, he entered the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Engineers with a degree in Railway Engineering for Railway Operations. He supervised mass sports at the institute, and there he met his future wife.

In 1969 he joined the Communist Party .

Rail Work

In 1972 he graduated from the institute and entered the work as a duty officer at the Vikhorevka and Nizhneudinsk stations of the East Siberian Railway .

In 1974 he was appointed head of the Azey station of the East Siberian Railway.

From 1978 to 1979 - Deputy Head of the Otrozhka Southeast Railway Station.

Since 1979, he worked as deputy chief, later as head of the traffic department of the Voronezh branch of the Southeastern Railway, deputy head of the traffic service of the same road.

In 1984, he transferred to the Oktyabrskaya Railway , where he held the posts of Deputy Head of the Murmansk Branch (until 1985), Head of the Leningrad-Finland Branch (until 1986), Deputy Head of the Road (from 1986 to 1991), Chief Economist, First Deputy Head of October the railroad.

In 1990 he graduated from the Academy of National Economy .

Jobs at the Ministry of Railways

In 1994-1996, he served as Deputy Minister, from 1996 - First Deputy Minister, from April 15, 1997 - Minister of Railways of Russia. During his work, a commission was established to regulate tariffs, the Kizlyar - Kizilyurt railway was completed, transit traffic through Russia was established, and the telecommunication company TransTeleCom was established. At the same time, a wave of closures of inactive dead-end branches swept through it in the Moscow Region (Panki - Dzerzhinsky, freight traffic was partially preserved; Mytishchi - Pirogovo, dismantled by the summer of 2001; Lesnoy Gorodok - Vnukovo Airport, restored as part of the launch of the aeroexpress train in 2004) . In 1998, a Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation approved the “Concept for the Structural Reform of the Federal Railway Transport”, in which the main tasks and goals of restructuring the industry were determined.

Appointment as Deputy Prime Minister

On May 19, 1999, Aksenenko was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation in the cabinet of Sergey Stepashin . Previously, Boris Yeltsin was considered as a candidate for the prime minister’s post, about which the speaker of the Duma Gennady Seleznev managed to announce publicly, but in the end, Stepashin was nominated to the Duma .

Aksyonenko was actively lobbied by Tatyana Dyachenko , Abramovich and Mamut . There was a moment when Yeltsin called Seleznev (May 17, 1999) and said that Aksyonenko’s candidacy was being submitted to the Duma, which the Duma speaker announced at a plenary meeting. Everyone was noisy then, because Stepashin’s candidacy had already been introduced to the prime minister’s post. To which Seleznev answered: "I washed my ears in the morning."

But it was like that. Tatyana went to her father, and with her Yeltsin really called Seleznev. When she left, Boris Nikolayevich sent the adjutant to pick up the decree on Aksyonenko, which he himself had signed and sent to the Duma under Tatyana. They say that, not knowing this yet, Tatyana Borisovna called Aksyonenko and told him to open the champagne.

Aksyonenko was not allowed to become president of the circumstances: the Chubais group seriously opposed him. Yeltsin could not allow a split in power, and therefore, in the end, he found a compromise figure in the person of Putin.

- Source from the Presidential Administration ^[1]

Along with his appointment as deputy prime minister, he was relieved of his post as Minister of Railways.

September 16, 1999 he was re-appointed Minister of Railways in the office of Vladimir Putin , retaining the post of First Deputy Prime Minister.

From May 31, 1999 to January 18, 2000 he headed the Commission of the Government of the Russian Federation on operational issues .

In September 1999, he acted as Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation during a trip of Vladimir Putin to New Zealand .

January 10, 2000, 10 days after the resignation of Boris Yeltsin, resigned as deputy prime minister, remaining only a minister. According to some sources, he was asked to stay only in one of the positions held, and he chose the ministerial.

I am not an oligarch, but a civil servant who constantly feels responsible for the safety of people, for the development of a system of communication lines. In order to make it accessible and comfortable for people to use railways.

- Nikolai Aksyonenko, October 2000 ^[2]

On October 19, 2001, Aksyonenko was called to the prosecutor general’s office , where he was charged with abuse of power and misuse of profits from railway enterprises.

The Aksyonenko case is based on an audit of the Accounts Chamber, the results of which were published in June 2001. According to auditors, the leadership of the Ministry of Railways diverted money from the investment program of the ministry in order to buy apartments for $ 400-800 thousand. Also, according to the version of the Accounts Chamber, a considerable part of the balance sheet profit of the industry was in the accounts of numerous trust funds; part of the violations was related to the activities of the railway state unitary enterprises. ^[3]

On October 23, the Prosecutor General’s Office changed in its charge paragraph 2 to paragraph 3 of Article 286, and the new charge also contained paragraph 3 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation . Two days later, Aksyonenko took leave until December 7th.

On October 31, representatives of the Prosecutor General’s Office reported that as a result of Aksyonenko’s unlawful actions, more than 11 billion rubles of damage were caused to the state.

On January 3, 2002, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, during a meeting with President Putin, proposed the dismissal of Aksyonenko from the post of Minister of Railways. On the same day, the president signed the corresponding decree, and Aksyonenko, in turn, himself submitted his resignation as minister, motivating his actions by the fact that his resignation would create more favorable conditions for the industry to work. He also said that he was morally responsible for the problems that arose in his area of ​​responsibility.

On October 6, 2003, Aksyonenko’s lawyer, Galina Krylova, applied to the Prosecutor General’s Office for a permit to temporarily leave Russia for examination and treatment in a foreign clinic (Aksyonenko suffered from blood leukemia ). Three days later, he was canceled on his own recognizance and allowed to go abroad, but "in exchange" he signed a protocol refusing to further familiarize himself with the case.

On October 13, 2003, the General Prosecutor's Office referred the case against Aksyonenko to court. However, legal proceedings were not actually conducted.

On April 15, 2005, the Presidium of the Supreme Court ordered the Presidium of the Moscow City Court to “initiate supervisory review”. But this decision was not made.

Nikolai Aksyonenko died on July 20, 2005 in the Gross-Hadern clinic in Munich from leukemia . He was buried in St. Petersburg at the Nikolsky cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra .

Was married. Wife - Galina Siyarovna Aksyonenko (born in 1949).

Son - Rustam Nikolaevich Aksyonenko (born July 29, 1974) - graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Engineering and Economics and Webster University in Geneva . Economist, shareholder of various transport companies. Founder of the private investment company Finartis. Lives in Switzerland . Married to the daughter of Leonid Cheshinsky, former chairman of the Russian bakery committee. In 2005, he received Estonian citizenship for special services to the country.

Daughter - Olesya Nikolaevna Aksyonenko (born in 1977) - graduated from the St. Petersburg Engineering and Economics Academy, studied in the UK .

• In 2006, the station square of Moshkovo station on the Trans-Siberian Railway was named after N. Ye. Aksyonenko.
• Laboratory of traffic safety named after N. E. Aksyonenko opened at the Siberian University of Railway Transport .
• In 2013, in the Crimea, at the South Sevastopol plant, a new double-deck car-passenger ferry Nikolay Aksyonenko was built. Since December 2013, the ferry operates on the Kuban – Crimea route through the Kerch Strait ^[4] .

• Profile on the portal of JSC Russian Railways
• Obituary biography N.E. Aksyonenko
• Biography N.E. Aksyonenko
• Grave of Nikolai Emelyanovich Aksyonenko in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra