For 5 years, Vladimir Puchkov has been leading the ministry that protects the population and territories of the state from emergency situations, military operations and terrorist acts (abbreviated as EMERCOM). How did his career path lead to such a high position? What kind of personal life is hidden behind the shoulders of the chief minister of salvation?
Education
Puchkov Vladimir Andreevich was born in 1959 in the Zhirnovsky district. From a young age, his life was continuously connected with the military sphere. At the end of his military service, he entered the Tyumen Higher Military Engineering School, which he successfully graduated with honors. Nine years after graduation, Vladimir Puchkov decides to graduate and enters the Military Engineering Academy in 1988, which he also graduates with honors.
And already in 1992 he defended his thesis on the problems of conducting emergency rescue operations in an urban environment. For this work, the future Minister Vladimir Puchkov received the title "Candidate of Technical Sciences". Vladimir Andreyevich has about a hundred similar works today.
And in 1995, he successfully completed a training course for leaders in the field of civil defense and emergency situations, which were conducted on the basis of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia. In the early 2000s, he again graduated with honors from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation with a degree in municipal and public administration.
Military service
At the age of 20-24, Vladimir Puchkov was in the service in the Far Eastern District. And already at the end of 1983, for a worthy and excellent service, he received the title of "senior officer of the GO Kungur."
During the writing of the dissertation, Minister Vladimir Puchkov paid great attention to teaching, having conducted 369 (!) Educational courses in civil defense among military personnel in the Russian army from 1991 to 1994.
Career ladder
1. Head of one of the departments of the All-Russian Research Institute for Civil Defense and Emergency Protection from 1995 to 1997
2. Deputy Head of the Department for Measures for the Protection of Territories and Population under the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation from 1997 to 1999
3. Deputy Head of the Department of Civil Protection from 1999 to 2003
4. Head of the Department of Civil Protection from 2003 to 2004
5. Director of the Department of Civil Protection under the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation from 2004 to 2006
6. Head of the regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies in the north-west of Russia from 2006 to 2007
7. Secretary-Deputy Minister of Emergencies S.K.Shoygu from 2007 to 2012
8. Minister of EMERCOM of the Russian Federation from 2012 to the present.
Merits and Awards
Vladimir Puchkov, whose biography defines him as a person who constantly strives only forward, has in his arsenal many awards for his services to his homeland.
Before taking office, the Minister Vladimir Andreevich took part in the elimination of accidents, disasters, fires. For example, he led the rescue operations in Spitak after the earthquake, participated in humanitarian relief operations for the people of the Chechen Republic and Yugoslavia who suffered during the South Ossetian conflict.
Vladimir Puchkov did not ignore the legislative framework in the field of civil defense and emergency situations. The development of laws in the field of fire safety almost completely fell on his shoulders, but he easily coped with this task. Thanks to him, Federal Law No. 100 and Federal Law No. 123 were published and approved.
He was awarded the following awards and orders:
1. Star of Bethlehem (2013).
2. Medal "200 years of the Ministry of Defense."
3. Medal "For Impeccable Service."
4. Order "For personal courage."
5. "Merit to the Fatherland."
6. Order of Friendship.
7. Order them. Alexander Nevsky.
Puchkov Vladimir Andreevich currently holds the position of State Councilor of the Russian Federation of the 1st class. In the period from 2009 to 2012 he was also an adviser, but of a lower 2nd class.
Grade 3 adviser was from 2007 to 2009.
Personal life
Vladimir Puchkov never advertises details of his personal life, but does not hide that he is married and is the happy father of four children (daughter and three sons).
Every year, the minister’s income varies from five to seven million rubles (in total for the whole family).
Members of the Puchkova family own real estate:
- Three apartments with areas of 40, 51 and 58 sq.m;
- land plot of 15 acres.
The minister himself owns only the Toyota Camry car (2008).
Since last October, scandals around Puchkov have not subsided. The Accounts Chamber calculated the expenses of the Ministry of Emergencies, which amounted to more than 3.5 billion rubles. Violated the law in the field of public procurement. Revealed the purchase of rescue equipment (rescue jet skis, fire tankers) at a price three times the market value of vehicles. Also, during the leadership of the ministry, Vladimir Andreevich carried out optimization in his staff, reducing more than 10 thousand employees, thereby ensuring physical impossibility for the state. inspectors to monitor compliance with legislation at supervised facilities. Yes, and firsthand it is known that the Ministry of Emergency Situations met the new 2017 year without salaries and bonuses.