Manevich, Mikhail Vladislavovich

Father - Vladislav Moiseevich Manevich , professor at St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance , head of the laboratory of socio-economic problems of education and employment of the Center for Scientific Research, honored worker of a higher school of the Russian Federation ^[1] . Mother - Meta Mikhailovna Manevich ^[2] .

He graduated with honors from the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute. N.A. Voznesensky (1983). Candidate of Economic Sciences (dissertation topic: "Management in social and economic systems").

In 1983-1990, Manevich was engaged in research at the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute .

In the 1980s, he was part of the circle of Leningrad reform economists, whose informal leader was Anatoly Chubais ; in 1987 he was a member of the Synthesis club at the Leningrad Youth Palace, which included young Leningrad economists and social scientists, including: Dmitry Vasiliev , Mikhail Dmitriev , Andrey Illarionov , Boris Levin , Alexey Miller ^[3] , Andrey Lankov , Andrey Prokofiev , Dmitry Travin and others ^[4] .

In 1990, he ran for elections of people's deputies of the RSFSR and deputies of the Leningrad City Council, was supported by the Democratic Elections-90 bloc; lost in a second ballot (in the elections of People's Deputies of the RSFSR - to another candidate for the bloc Nikita Tolstoy ).

• 1990-1991 - head of the department of the Committee on Economic Reform of the Leningrad City Executive Committee (the chairman of the committee was A. B. Chubais ).
• 1992 - Director of the Institute for the Privatization of the State Property Committee of Russia. Graduated from MGIMO School of International Business.

Since 1992, he worked in the Committee on City Property Management (KUGI) of St. Petersburg.

• 1992-1993 - Deputy Chairman of the KUGI.
• 1993 - First Deputy Chairman of the KUGI.
• In November 1993, he was appointed Acting Chairman of the KUGI, in March 1994 - Chairman of the KUGI and a member of the Government of St. Petersburg.
• After the defeat of Anatoly Sobchak in the 1996 gubernatorial elections, Manevich, on the advice of Anatoly Chubais, remained in the government to continue reforms.

I remember how Misha Manevich came to me and said: “Listen, I want to consult with you. Yakovlev offers me to stay on as vice mayor. ” I say: "Misha, of course, stay." And he says: "Well then, we agreed that we all leave." I told him: “Misha, what are you? This was the election campaign, we were forced to do it. But now, to whom will all this be left, who will work? The city needs professionals. ” I persuaded him to stay.

- Vladimir Putin ^[5]

• In 1996, he was simultaneously appointed vice-governor of St. Petersburg.

The ideologist of the St. Petersburg real estate management concept adopted in December 1994, according to which the state cannot be an effective owner, but must establish uniform rules for the game for everyone.

He was engaged in the development of legislation on privatization and state programs of privatization, housing and communal reform at the federal level.

On August 18, 1997, at 8:50 a.m., the Volvo company car, in which the driver, Manevich (in the front seat) and his wife (in the back seat), slowed down, leaving Nevsky Prospekt from Rubinstein Street (where Manevich lived). After that, shots were fired from the attic of the house on the opposite side (Nevsky, 76). Mikhail Manevich was injured by five bullets in the neck and chest, he died on the way to the hospital; his wife received a slight tangential wound. The killer fled, leaving a Kalashnikov assault rifle of Yugoslav production with an optical sight ^[6] .

Misha was a terrific guy. I am so sorry that he was killed, such an injustice! Who did he interfere with? .. It's just amazing. Very soft, intelligent, flexible in a good way. He was a man of principle, he did not adapt to everyone, but he never climbed into trouble, always looking for a way out, acceptable solutions. I still do not understand how this could happen. I do not understand.

- Vladimir Putin ^[5]

Investigation

In 2005, on the anniversary of the murder, Anatoly Chubais declared: ^[7]

Eight years ago, during the funeral, I promised that we would get everyone. Today I can say with absolute certainty that we absolutely know all the organizers and all the customers of the murder. They will be punished with the utmost cruelty, to the last. ... The main motive for the murder is personal hatred, implicated in an unsuccessful attempt at blackmail. Misha did not bend.

On November 29, 2006, Chubais said: “Everything that I promised on the grave of Manevich, I carried out word for word: all the organizers of the murder sit for life, not one of them will work out.” Observers linked this statement with the fact that on November 21 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the life sentences imposed on Yuri Shutov and four members of his gang ^[8] .

Officially, at that time the murder was not solved, the investigation in the case was repeatedly extended.

In November 2009, Alexei Gardotsky admitted to the murder of Mikhail Manevich, who is under investigation in the case of a gang of Sergey Zaripov, an organized crime group leader controlled by Yuri Shutov. Gardotsky described in detail how the preparations for the murder and the murder itself took place. According to him, the murder was prepared for several months under the leadership of Sergey Zaripov’s brother, Andrei Zaripov. On the day of the murder, he, standing on Rubinstein Street, gave radio commands to Gardotsky, who was in the attic of a house on Nevsky Prospekt and shot Mikhail Manevich from a Kalashnikov assault rifle. Two more accomplices monitored the departure of the vice-governor from the house ^[9] .

Mikhail Manevich was buried on the Literary bridges of the Volkovsky cemetery . On February 18, 1999, a monument was erected on his grave - a broken ball stitched with bullets. The authors of the monument project are architect Vyacheslav Bukhayev and sculptor Mikhail Shemyakin ^[10] .

A memorial plaque (sculptor Svetlana Serebryakova ) was erected on Rubinstein Street (d. 2), not far from the place of Manevich’s death, on August 18, 2002 — a vertical board made of raspberry quartzite with a bas-relief of Manevich and the inscription: “In memory of the outstanding economist, vice-governor St. Petersburg ", under the bas-relief - a broken line ^[11] .

In 1998, the name of Manevich was assigned to school number 249, where he studied. On October 15, 2009, the Mikhail Manevich Museum was opened here ^[12] .

On March 6, 2008, the nameless square on Shcherbakov Lane was named after Manevich. February 18, 2011, on the day of the 50th anniversary of Manevich’s birth, a ceremony of laying a foundation stone at the site of the future monument took place in the square ^[13] . The monument to the work of architect Alexei Sholokhov and sculptor Jan Neumann was opened on March 5, 2013. ^{[14] [15]}

On May 29, 2012, the presentation of the book by Lev Usyskin “The Time of Mikhail Manevich”, announced as the first detailed biography of M.V. Manevich, was held at the Museum of Political History of Russia; as the author noted, the book is addressed to those “who need to explain what a pioneer organization is, potato, distribution” ^[16] .

• Rubinstein street , house 15/17 (“ Tolstoy house ”) - the house in which M.V. Manevich lived ^{[17] [18]} .

• Usyskin L. B. Time of Mikhail Manevich. - M: OGI, 2012 .-- 320 p. - ISBN 978-5-942-82659-8 .
• Batter M.N. Tolstoy House. Constellation of names / Under scientific. ed. d. n V. G. Smirnov-Volkhovsky. - St. Petersburg: Art of Russia, 2011 .-- 392 p.: Ill., 600 copies. - (Proceedings of the Museum "Tolstoy House": issue 2). - ISBN 978-5-98361-155-9
• M.V. Manevich on the site "KUGI of St. Petersburg 10 years"