Aristarkhov, Vladimir Vladimirovich

Vladimir Aristarkhov was born in Moscow on March 28, 1969.

In 1987, he graduated from the University of Marxism-Leninism at the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU with a degree in the theory and practice of Komsomol work.

In 1986, Aristarkhov entered the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov , and in 1987 he was called up for military service in the Armed Forces of the USSR . He served in the artillery troops in the Primorsky Territory . “I studied just at the time when everyone was taken into the army - regardless, is there a military department at the institute or not. For me, the army really was a school of life. “I left to serve from the second year of Moscow State University and two years later I returned to the third.” ^[3]

In 1992 he graduated from Moscow State University with honors. In 2012, he received additional education at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation with a degree in Public Finance Management.

Career start

Since 1990, he created and headed several commercial structures in the field of freight transportation, foreign trade, and industrial construction.

In 1999, he became chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tricolor Association for the Development of Domestic Production. In the same year he joined the socio-political association "Fatherland" of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov .

On December 19, 1999, he was nominated as a candidate for deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the third convocation in Mytishchi single-mandate constituency No. 108 and won first place. By decision of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, elections in the district were declared invalid, as the majority of voters voted against all candidates.

Social Activities: United Russia

In 2002, Vladimir Aristarkhov joined the United Russia party. Member of the Political Council, Member of the Presidium of the Political Council, Deputy Secretary of the Political Council of the Moscow Regional Branch of the United Russia Party. Youth Policy Coordinator of the MORO of the United Russia Party. Curator of the historical memory party project.

On December 7, 2003, he took part in the fourth convocation of the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the Mytishchi single-mandate constituency No. 109 (nominated by voters), took second place with 14.73% of the vote. The elections were won by the State Duma deputy of the third convocation Arkady Baskaev , who was elected from Mytishchi district in 2000.

In 2003-2007 - headed the Moscow regional regional branch of the All-Russian public organization “Young Guard of United Russia”.

From 2007 to 2011 - Member of the Moscow Regional Duma of the fourth convocation . Member of the Committee on Education, Culture, Sports, Youth and Tourism. He was a member of the United Russia faction.

In 2011 - an authorized representative of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF).

Since August 2012, he has been a member of the public council of the Young Guard of United Russia.

Civil Service ]: Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

Since 2012, he has been working at the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. In 2012-2013. - Advisor to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky, head of the Department of Control and Personnel of the Ministry of Culture of Russia.

Since May 2, 2013 - First Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky. At different times, he coordinated the activities of the Department of Control and Personnel, the Department of Information Policy, the Department of Interethnic Relations, the Administrative Department, the Department of Cultural Heritage, the Department of Science and Education, the Department of Museums, and the Department of Information and Digital Development.

On June 20, 2018, Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the dismissal of Deputy Minister of Culture Vladimir Aristarkhov. The document notes that Aristarchov was relieved of his post at his own request. ^[four]

On September 12, 2018, he headed the D.S. Likhachev Russian Research Institute for Cultural and Natural Heritage .

He was a member of a number of councils, committees and commissions, including:

• Expert Council for the support of theatrical productions based on works of classical Russian literature;
• Certification Commission for the Heads of Federal State Unitary Enterprises under the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation;
• Interdepartmental working group on issues related to the study and reburial of the remains of Tsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria Romanov , located in the State Archives of the Russian Federation ;
• Interdepartmental Commission for the Preservation of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation;
• Organizing Committee of the Intermuseum International Museum Festival (Chairman);
• Interdepartmental commission for monitoring the effectiveness of educational institutions of higher education;
• The Coordinating Council of the Program of Basic Research in the Russian Federation for the long term (2013-2020);
• Council on Science under the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation;
• Commission under the President of the Russian Federation for Disabled Persons;
• Interdepartmental Council for the Development of the National Electronic Library;
• National Coordinating Council for the Support of Young Talents of Russia;
• A working group to coordinate research aimed at exploring the priorities of socio-economic development of the Crimean Federal District ;
• Working group on the development of an independent system for assessing the quality of work of organizations providing social services;
• Government Commission for the Prevention of Crime;
• Interdepartmental working group on countering the ideology of terrorism;
• Coordinating Council for state support of socially oriented non-profit organizations;
• Interdepartmental Commission of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on Security in the Economic and Social Spheres;
• Expert working group at the federal level (under the project “ Russian Public Initiative ”);
• Interdepartmental working group on the preparation of strategic planning documents of the Russian Federation;
• Board of Trustees of the History of the Fatherland Foundation;
• other.

In addition, V.V. Aristarkhov was responsible for the implementation of state programs, the responsible executor of which is the Ministry of Culture of Russia: “Development of education” for 2013-2020; “Social support of citizens”; "Accessible environment" for 2011-2020; "Development of science and technology for 2013-2020"; “Information Society (2011-2020)”; as well as the chairman of the commission for categorizing the objects of the Ministry of Culture of Informatization of the central apparatus of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

In 2015, he received the class rank of Acting State Advisor of the Russian Federation of the 3rd class .

• Certificate of honor of the President of the Russian Federation (2014)
• Medal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation “For the Return of Crimea” (2014)
• Certificate of Merit of the Federal Customs Service (2016)
• Order of Friendship (2016)
• Certificate of Merit of the Russian Trade Union of Cultural Workers (2016)
• Acknowledgment of the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science (2016)
• Commemorative medal "XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi" ;
• Jubilee Medal of the Security Council of the Russian Federation “XXVth Anniversary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation” (2016)
• Gratitude of the Government of the Russian Federation (2017)
• Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (2018)
• Breastplate of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation “For Contribution to the Development of Culture” (2018), etc.

Has two children.

Brother Andrei (born 1973), an entrepreneur in the field of construction, from 08/10/2012 to 09/20/2013 - Advisor to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky. In 2014—2016 - General Director of the Restoration Companies Open Joint Stock Company, created by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and uniting several of the largest state research and production enterprises in the field of restoration. ^{[5] [6]}

Deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma, coordinator of youth policy of the Moscow regional branch of the United Russia party

On September 5, 2007, the first plenary meeting of the Moscow Regional Duma took place in the autumn session. The largest fraction in the Moscow Regional Duma was formed by the United Russia Party. The United Russia fraction is 33 deputies, each of which is assigned to certain cities and the Moscow region. Vladimir Aristarkhov, Domodedovo , Klimovsk , Troitsk , Shcherbinka , was assigned to the curator of the youth policy of the regional "United Russia". ^[7]

Parachute Cross

On October 25, 2007, Aristarkhov organized a parachute cross , parachuting in company with the chief of staff of the Young Guard of the Moscow Region Yevgeny Barishevsky and 18 “Young Guards” from Balashikha , Schelkovo , Noginsk , Orekhovo-Zuevo , Dolgoprudny , Pushkino , Lobni , Korolol and Railway . “Skydiving refers to extreme sports that allow a person to feel that he has the willpower - to take such a difficult step into the void, which then gives an incomparable joy of flying. Not everyone can do it, but all of us have done it. And this is very important - so that a person feels self-confidence, in his abilities. This is a unique experience for any young man and girl, ”emphasized Vladimir Aristarkhov in a conversation with the correspondent of the news portal of the city of Korolyov. ^[eight]

Expedition to Antarctica

In December 12, 2008, Vladimir Aristarkhov, coordinator of the youth policy of the Moscow regional branch of the United Russia party and a deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma, took part in an expedition to Antarctica. A group of Russian climbers climbed the highest point of Antarctica - the Vinson Massif (4892 meters above sea level). At the top, Vladimir Aristarkhov and his comrades raised the flags of the United Russia party and the All-Russian public organization Young Guard of United Russia! ^[9]

Youth Parliament

In 2010, Aristarchov took the initiative to create a youth parliament. “Our task, when we conceived the idea of ​​a youth parliament, was by no means the creation of an additional tribune for various political forces,” the Moscow Regional Duma deputy, member of the Committee on Education, Culture, Sports, Youth Affairs, explained to the correspondent of the ER-REGION.RU website and tourism, representative of the United Russia faction Vladimir Aristarkhov. “The goal was to enable active youth to express themselves, regardless of their partisanship or non-partisanship.”

Forbes Status and Position

In 2010, Aristarkhov took 66th position in the Russian Forbes rating “Power and Money. Rating and income of officials 2010 ". At that time, the fortune of Vladimir Aristarkhov, chairman of the board of directors of the Tricolor Association for the Development of Domestic Production, was estimated at 62.61 million rubles. “Over the past few years, the Association has built almost two dozen production and warehouse complexes in the suburbs, ” the rating commentary said. ^[ten]

In Support of Small and Medium Businesses

In 2011, becoming a trustee of ONF, Aristarkhov published an article about the problems that small and medium-sized entrepreneurs face. This article has been reprinted by many Moscow Region media. “Small and medium-sized businesses are the foundation of the Russian economy. Here, and not in the raw materials industries, the most people are employed ... To the question: is the life of an entrepreneur better or worse? - any of them will answer you: “Worse!” The point is not in the crisis, but in those laws and by-laws that strangle an independent business in our country from year to year. The general opinion of both business circles and representatives of municipal authorities: it is impossible to solve all issues from a single center. We must trust the local Councils, heads, administrations. They know better on the spot how to make the best decision. And if the head or the Council does not know how to work, then it’s easy for voters to re-elect them. ”

In Support of “Traditional Values”

After becoming the Deputy Minister of Culture, Aristarchov said that under the banner of modern plays, contemporary art, the “fruits of a sick mind” or commercial fakes are often pushed through. ^[eleven]

In March 2015, Aristarchov took part in the settlement of the scandal surrounding the production of Wagner’s opera “ Tannhauser ”. The Novosibirsk Orthodox community accused director Timofei Kulyabin and theater director Boris Mezdrich of "intentionally desecrating religious symbols." The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation demanded to remove from the production moments that offended the feelings of believers. After the director and director of the theater refused to fulfill these requirements, the director of the theater was dismissed by order of the Ministry. The order of dismissal was handed to Mezdrich by Aristarchov himself, who had flown to Novosibirsk for this. He commented on the position of the Ministry: “We are not obligated, and we will not support everything in a row. The Fundamentals of State Cultural Policy adopted last year clearly stated that we are focused on supporting the traditional values ​​of our society, ”said the Deputy Minister of Culture on April 1, 2015 at a hearing at the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on the relationship between theater and society. “I’ll say an seditious phrase: art is not an end in itself. End in itself is the well-being of our people, our culture, our society, spiritual and physical .... Does insulting the majority of the country's population fit our culture? It doesn’t correspond, ”Aristarchov emphasized. ^[12]

May 22, 2015, speaking in Tula at a meeting of the Ministry of Culture “On the implementation of the foundations of the state cultural policy of the Russian Federation”, Aristarchov criticized the Golden Mask theater festival. He said: "... there is a theater festival that systematically supports productions from year to year that obviously contradict moral standards, obviously provoke society, obviously contain elements of Russophobia , contempt for the history of our country, and consciously go beyond the moral framework. When the classics come down to gross instincts, when under the flag of the right to interpret we see not the classics, not Pushkin , Gogol and our other great playwrights, we see something completely different, under the mask, under the “Golden Mask” of the classics weep off alien values ​​to us. I mean, "The Golden Mask. Does the state have the right to support this festival in the form in which it is available? Probably it doesn’t. ... Cabbages pretending to be theater performances, this is not that drama, even if it considers himself new, which we are obliged to support. ... And asociality is not in any way key expenditures on modern cultural processes ... ”This presentation provoked a discussion in a creative environment. Georgy Taratorkin , Konstantin Raikin and Igor Kostalevsky published an open letter in which they denied the allegations.

May 29, 2015 Aristarchov made a sharp statement on the activities of some non-profit organizations . “In Russia, there are still a lot of organizations financed from abroad that support culture, as it were. It is very important to understand what exactly they drag through under the guise of culture. Such as the Open Society Institute ( Soros Foundation ), the Prokhorov Foundation, the British Council , the non-profit Institute for Cultural Policy, the New Institute for Cultural Studies, the Council of Europe - these bodies, as we see an analysis of their activities, are either working to break up our traditional values, or to conduct things that are not our values, ”he said at a plenary meeting of the Coordinating Council for Culture at the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation in [Yalta [| Yalta]]. In addition, in his speech Aristarchov noted that he considers the use of obscene expressions in productions and literary works unacceptable. “If nothing prevented Pushkin and Gorky from conveying spiritual values ​​to us without a mat , then why should we support cultural figures today who believe that they are obliged to do this?” Said the first deputy minister. ^[13]

Business Review

In May 2016, the media reported that State Duma deputies Sergei Obukhov and Valery Rashkin sent requests to the law enforcement agencies to check the activities of Vladimir Aristarkhov and his brother Andrei, who were allegedly suspected of abuse of power and their excesses. Vladimir’s brother, Andrei Aristarkhov, headed the restoration company and allegedly received multimillion-dollar contracts for the restoration of historical objects from the ministry. In September of the same year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation denied information about the presence of signs of a crime in the actions of the deputy head of the Ministry of Culture Vladimir Aristarkhov. ^[14]

However, on October 5, 2016, the Government of the Russian Federation imposed a disciplinary sanction against Vladimir Aristarkhov in accordance with Section 59.1 of the Law “On the Civil Service.” This article refers to “penalties for non-compliance with restrictions and prohibitions, requirements for the prevention or resolution of conflicts of interest and non-compliance duties established to combat corruption. ”On August 10, 2017, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree early lifting the First Deputy Minister of Culture F Vladimir Aristarkhov previously imposed disciplinary action. The corresponding document was published on the legal information portal. ^[15]

International Center of the Roerichs

Aristarchov took part in resolving the situation around the International Center of the Roerichs , a public organization located in the Lopukhins Estate in Maly Znamensky Lane .

In November 2013, Master Bank , which was the sponsor and main source of funding for the center, lost its license. In December, the ICR turned to Moscow City Hall for help, saying that it could not pay the rent. Moscow Mayor's Office replaced the lease agreement with an agreement on the gratuitous use of the area. However, the center of the Roerichs did not fulfill the conditions for the gratuitous use of premises in terms of the intended use of property, failure to provide premises to third parties and their maintenance in good condition.

Due to non-fulfillment of these conditions, in 2015 the premises of the ICR were transferred to federal ownership and to the management of the Museum of the East . The Oriental Museum tried to negotiate with the ICR about sharing the area, but the center did not want to make contact. ^[sixteen]

An inventory of historical property on the territory of the object of cultural heritage of federal significance revealed unaccounted buildings, the legality of which building users could not confirm. In particular, back in 2008, the so-called “ Stupa of Three Jewels” was erected there. Representatives of the MRC hastened to declare that the Ministry of Culture was going to demolish the religious building, although this issue was not even discussed at the ministry or the city hall. ^[17]

“The dispute about the Roerichs heritage, initiated by the International Center of the Roerichs with the State Museum of the East, lasted in various courts for more than 10 years. Last year, the Moscow City Court put an end to this trial and rejected the statement of the center on the recognition of the fact of accepting the inheritance of Svyatoslav Roerich. According to the court’s decision, the center is not the legal successor of the Soviet Roerich Foundation and, accordingly, the heir of Svyatoslav Roerich , ”said Deputy Minister of Culture Vladimir Aristarkhov at a briefing on the 80th anniversary of the Roerich Pact , which was held at the State Museum of the East.

  “It is the activity of the State Museum of the East that is the fulfillment of the will of the Roerichs in popularizing their heritage so that it is open to everyone, accessible to everyone and that the idea of ​​the Roerichs, the idea of ​​the Peace Pact and its other insights are known to all mankind, and not only in Russia” - explained the Deputy Minister.  [18] 

In 2016, the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky proposed the creation of the Roerichs State Museum as a branch of the State Museum of the East in the premises of the Lopukhins estate, where the ICR is located.

In 2017, on March 20, the Moscow Arbitration Court decided to terminate the gratuitous lease agreement and evict the ICR from the Lopukhins estate. ^[nineteen]

By decision of the Federal Property Management Agency, the Lopukhins estate was transferred to the State Museum of the East. The Moscow City Court confirmed its legitimacy in April 2017, and later, in July, the Arbitration Court of Appeal found the decision legal.

In March 2017, more than 200 paintings donated to the Center by the Chairman of the Board of the Master Bank Boris Bulochnik , who is on the international wanted list, were withdrawn from the ICR collection. According to investigators, he bought these paintings with money stolen from the bank. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the seized paintings were sent for examination. The Museum of the East accepted the deposit for storage, confirmed by its general director Alexander Sedov.

In February 2018, the Supreme Court of Russia recognized the decision of the Federal Property Management Agency to transfer the Lopukhins' estate to the State Museum of the East in the center of Moscow and to evict the International Center of the Roerichs (ICR) from it. The ICR's cassation appeal was dismissed because it did not contain arguments that would indicate a violation by the courts of substantive or procedural law. “The arguments cited by the organization in the cassation appeal cannot be recognized as the basis for the annulment of the appealed judicial acts in cassation,” the court ruling said.

The International Center of the Roerichs (ICR) appealed to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, with a demand to initiate a criminal case on “robbery with penetration of premises” against the leaders of the Ministry of Culture and other persons. ^[20]

“The ICR’s accusations are unfounded, since the center is not the legal successor of the Soviet Roerich Foundation and was evicted from the building in Znamensky Lane by a court decision, as it occupied it illegally. At the same time, the center for some reason does not mention the tax claims that were presented to it - for tens of millions of rubles, ”Vladimir Aristarkhov said in an interview with RIA Novosti . ^[20]