Vitaly Leontievich- an honored person Russian Federation. At the moment he is sixty years old and he has the position of Deputy Chairman of the Government of Russia for construction and regional development. Married to Tatyana Ivanovna Mutko. The couple have two lovely children - Elena and Maria.
Vitaly Leontievich Mutko had many honorary positions in his life. From 2003 to 2008 he was a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the executive authority of St. Petersburg. From 2005 to 2009 and a little later from 2015 to 2017 he was the sole and indispensable president of the Russian Football Union. From 2008 to 2012 he was the Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of Russia.
From 2012 to 2016, he worked as Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation for sports, tourism and youth policy, as well as the Minister of Sports of Russia. Since May 18, 2018, he has been the Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation for Construction and Regional Development.
The future politician was born on December 8, 1958 in a simple family that lived near the city of Tuapse in the village of Kurinskaya, Apsheron district Krasnodar Territory. His father, Leonty Mikhailovich, worked all his life as an ordinary loader, and his mother was a milling machine operator in the forest industry of the Soviet Union. The parents worked hard to raise their son. They never forgot about raising their son and gave him a lot of time. It was thanks to his mother and father that Vitaly grew up to be a good and decent person. At school, Mutko was an excellent student and a favorite of teachers. Everything was easy for him school program and his parents were very proud of him.
From early childhood, the future politician had a dream. He was very fond of the sea and wanted to become a sea captain. At the end of the eighth grade, I tried to enter the river school in Rostov-on-Don, but, unfortunately, did not pass entrance exams. A determined teenager set a goal for himself and stubbornly walked towards it. The same year, he entered the Leningrad construction vocational school, and already at next year transferred to a professional nautical school in Petrokrepost, after graduating he received the coveted diploma of a "minder". Interestingly, the parents named their son Victor, and Mutko himself wanted to change his name in college.
In 1977, upon graduation, he was sent to work as a sailor. Finally, his dream came true, Mutko went on long voyages abroad on excursion ships. A little later he entered the St. Petersburg State University to get a degree in economics. And in 2006 he defended scientific work at the State University of Economics and Finance and received the title of candidate of economic sciences. It was then that Vitaly Leontyevich decided to redirect his profession to the world of big politics.
While studying at the college, the purposeful student showed his activity in the Youth Organization of the Communist Party of the USSR. Already in 1979, the young man joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1990 he was elected a deputy of the Kirov District Council of St. Petersburg. At the same time, he and his colleagues worked on the creation of the Council of Chairmen.
In 1991, a politician was nominated chairman Anatoly Alexandrovich Sobchak to the post of the first mayor of St. Petersburg. Sobchak's team included respected persons, including Vitaly Leontyevich. It was Anatoly Alexandrovich who helped him achieve such success in the field of politics. Thanks to the first mayor of the northern capital, Mutko led the Ministry of Health, Sports and Culture in the mayor's office of the northern capital of Russia.
Mutko awards Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova
In 1992, he decides to connect his life with Russian football. And after a while he heads the Zenit football club. If the football career was going up, then the political one, on the contrary, was at risk. In 1996, the entire team of Anatoly Sobchak lost the election for the post of mayor of the city. As a result, Vitaly Mutko left the team.
As already mentioned, in 1992 the official decided to devote himself to domestic football. Vitaly Leontyevich headed the football club "Zenith", worked there for eleven years. In 2005, the statesman began working as head of the Football Union of the Russian Federation. Also during this period, he was appointed to the post of chairman of the commission on youth and sports.
Joseph Blatter and Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko
In 2008, Vitaly Leontyevich re-heads the Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation, while continuing to work as president of the RFU. However, very soon the politician had to choose only one post, since he could not combine the duties of two posts. He preferred to work in the field of politics.
In 2009, Vitaly Mutko decided to become a member of the executive committee International Federation football. , who was then the president of the Russian Federation, gave Vitaly Leontyevich a choice: either he takes over the leadership of sports organizations, or continues his activities in the executive branch. Then the politician decided to leave the post of President of the RFU and remain in the post of Minister of Sports of Russia. In 2015, Mutko was reinstated as head of the Russian Football Council, and on September 2, 2015, he was elected President of the Russian Football Council. During the year, Vitaly combined two positions. In October 2016, the politician became Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy.
The President of Russia congratulates the Minister of Sports of Russia Vitaly Mutko
Like all statesmen, Mutko often finds himself at the epicenter of scandals. Accusations have repeatedly been made in his direction that he does not protect the rights of domestic athletes who, for certain reasons, were left without awards at the Olympic Games.
The politician was one of the main defendants doping scandal. In 2016, Russian official Mutko was accused in a World Anti-Doping Agency commission report. A lawyer from the state of Canada said that Russian athletes were repeatedly injected with illegal drugs during the Olympics in Sochi. Richard McLaren claimed that Vitaly Mutko, who served as Minister of Sports, was aware of this situation and did not interfere in any way with the violations. As a result, this led to the mass suspension of Russian athletes. Until now, the role of Vitaly Leontievich is unclear and is unlikely to ever become clear. The official himself says that he has nothing to be ashamed of in the history of doping. He also said that he believes and trusts Russian athletes and will protect them to the last.
Vitaly MUTKO (right) and Natalya Vorobyeva
In 2016, Russian official Mutko was accused in a World Anti-Doping Agency commission report. Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren said that Russian athletes were repeatedly injected with illegal drugs during the Olympics in Sochi. He claimed that Vitaly Mutko, who served as Minister of Sports, knew about this situation and in no way interfered with the violations. As a result, this led to the mass suspension of Russian athletes.
Vitaly Leontyevich is a member of happy marriage from Tatyana Ivanovna, which is four years older than its companion. Previously, she worked in the Human Resources Department of the Baltic Shipping Company, from 2007 to 2009 she held the position of General Director of a closed joint-stock company"Vitalem". At the moment, Tatyana does not work, and devotes all her time to her family. She, as a loving and wise wife, always supported in everything and contributed to the development career ladder husband. The wife gave the happy father two beautiful girls.
The eldest daughter's name is Elena, born in 1977, she is an entrepreneur by profession. She worked CEO and is the founder of the dental clinic "Leon", and in 2010 Elena Vitalievna founded a laser cosmetology clinic, which is called Vicon. The youngest was born in 1985, and they named her Maria. She was a law student at St. Petersburg State University, where her dad had once studied. At the moment, Maria Vitalievna works as a lawyer.
The politician is fond of playing the piano. Also, in his free time, he prefers to watch exciting films or read an interesting book. Behind Good work the politician was awarded a number of awards and honorary signs. Among which, in 2002 he received the Order of Friendship, and six years later the Order "For services to the Fatherland" fourth degree, also in 2003 he was awarded the Medal "In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg."
Despite the doping scandal Mutko Vitaly Leontievich managed to keep his place under the sun, and stay in the government. At the moment, the civil servant has the position of Deputy Prime Minister for Construction. In accordance with the declaration, the official's profit from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 amounted to nine million rubles, the Championship news reported. The Deputy Prime Minister also has at his disposal a luxurious Mercedes-Benz E350 car and two large apartments.
Vitaly Leontyevich is a very successful and respected person in the government of the Russian Federation. People's opinions about it conscientious work are separated. But colleagues consider him the highest professional in his field, recognized by management. Not for nothing Good friends politicians call him a man of fantastic activity, because he has such qualities as diligence, determination, patience, perseverance and determination. He overcame all obstacles with ease. life path, and this helped him to achieve such a position.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko as Deputy Prime Minister for Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy. The vacated chair of the minister will be taken by Deputy Mutko, Olympic champion of Athens and six-time world champion Pavel Kolobkov. "Lenta.ru" understood these personnel changes.
Vitaly Mutko's "sports career" began in St. Petersburg City Hall. Back in 1992, Anatoly Sobchak appointed him his deputy for social issues, along the way giving him to the curatorship and sports life of the city. The first project of the young politician was the Games good will held in St. Petersburg from July 23 to August 7, 1994. These competitions were then equated in importance to the Olympics. As a PR event, Sobchak ordered a swim in the pool of the Army Sports Club for members of the government. Vitaly Mutko himself and another Sobchak's deputy, Vladimir Putin, took to the track.
The games went off in a big way. There were few spectators in the stands, but this did not stop Mutko from reporting: thanks to the competition, most of the city's sports facilities were repaired. Surprisingly, Mutko's rhetoric has hardly changed over the years.
In addition, Mutko took patronage of the St. Petersburg football club Zenit, which had been relegated from the major leagues and was experiencing big financial problems. According to the then acting. President of Zenit Leonid Tufrin, by the end of 1992, Zenit had accumulated a debt of 17 million rubles. “I remember that my hair stood on end - I had to let the players go on vacation, prepare for the next season, plan training camps and purchase new players, but I just don’t have a penny,” recalled Tufrin. Marina Moreva, one of Mutko's assistants on the Social Policy Committee, saved the situation by arranging a meeting between Tufrin and Mutko.
“He, in my opinion, had never heard of football at that time, he had absolutely nothing to do with Zenit and showed no interest in it. It was just that he was the only official in Smolny who could be reached,” Tufrin said.
Supervising "Zenith", Mutko, according to various sources, allocated about 400 thousand dollars annually for its financing from the city budget. Thanks to Mutko, Zenit quickly got out of debt, acquired reliable sponsors (for example, the Baltika brewing company) and by the end of the 90s had achieved significant sports success: in the 1998/99 season, it won the Russian Cup for the first time in its history, in 2001 - bronze of the championship of Russia, in 2003 - silver. True, it was not without scandals: what was the unexpected departure from the team of Pavel Sadyrin worth. But Mutko was already learning the art of survival.
For authoritarian methods of management in those years, Mutko was nicknamed Vitalio Berlusconi - in honor of Silvio Berlusconi, president of FC Milan. By the way, nicknames stick to Mutko with enviable constancy: after Sochi, Medaliyleontievich appeared on social networks, and before Rio - Meldoniyleontievich. However, all this did not prevent the politician from staying afloat in any situation.
The presidency helped Mutko acquire useful connections and become an influential figure in political circles. Fortunately, people of any level visited the VIP box of Petrovsky. One of the fans was Valentina Matvienko. Having won the election of the governor in 2003, Matvienko did not forget about the president of Zenit, delegating him to the Federation Council, where he was entrusted with the post of head of the committee on youth and sports. So this is not the first time Mutko will have to be responsible for sports and youth.
In 2001, against the backdrop of a conflict between the president of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Vyacheslav Koloskov and the president of the Professional Football League (PFL) Nikolai Tolstykh, Vitaly Mutko was one of the initiators of the creation of the Russian Football Premier League, of which he soon became president. With the advent of Mutko, the oligarchs were drawn to football. Gradually, sport turned into a priority direction for the state.
Increasing his influence, by 2005 Mutko squeezed out of football and seemingly unsinkable Vyacheslav Koloskov. On April 2, 2005, at an extraordinary conference of the RFU, 96 out of 99 members of the executive committee voted for the new president. At the same time, the RFU got into a scandal: the heads of FIFA and UEFA threatened to disqualify the Union for state interference in the affairs of the sports federation, but the matter was quickly hushed up.
The new head of the RFU actively got down to business: he dismissed the head coach of the Russian team, Georgy Yartsev, inviting the famous Dutchman Guus Hiddink to this position, who in 2008 led the national team to the bronze medals of the European Championship. It was the last notable success of Russian football.
Mutko was seriously helped by the owner of the Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich, with whom Koloskov had already agreed a little earlier. From his pocket the Dutchman was paid a crazy wage- 8 million euros per year. At the same time, with the money of Abramovich, Mutko built hundreds of football fields, which he regularly noted during press briefings.
In 2007, Mutko got into an unpleasant story, so much so that he was publicly reprimanded on TV by Vladimir Putin. The head of the RFU decided to sell the rights to broadcast matches of the Russian championship to the paid TV channel NTV Plus for $100 million and heard about this: “Together with the chairman Vitaly Leontievich Mutko, they messed something up again. They want us, ordinary fans, to take away the opportunity to watch football matches for free!” Mutko resisted, as he would later, after the failure at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010, and after the meldonium scandal before Rio 2016.
Mutko was appointed to the post of head of the Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy in March 2008 at the initiative of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Rosmolodezh, headed by the former leader of the Nashi youth movement Vasily Yakemenko, fell under Mutko's department. And Mutko was replaced by Vyacheslav Fetisov. The legendary hockey player in 2005 supported Mutko in the election of the President of the RFU, and after only three years he lost his seat to him. President Medvedev completely disbanded Rossport, establishing a new agency.
After the bronze Euro 2008 in March 2009, at the 33rd UEFA Congress in Copenhagen, Mutko was elected to the FIFA executive committee and strengthened his ties in the international arena even without knowing English. In November of the same year, at an extraordinary conference of the RFU, the executive committee of the Union approved Mutko's resignation. But the official regained his seat, pushing his longtime competitor - the intractable Nikolai Tolstykh.
It is worth mentioning another important activity of the official - in November 2009, Mutko was appointed curator of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which will be held in Russia. After the Olympics in Sochi, this is the main sports start.
Recently, the imminent resignation of Mutko has often been discussed in sports circles, linking this with the recent return to the RFU presidency. However, another round of rumors collapsed after the news about the increase.
“The question arises to what extent Mutko will be able to combine the leadership of the RFU in his new position, including preparations for the 2018 World Cup, with the new set of issues that should be in the sphere of his constant control already in the position of Deputy Prime Minister,” he argued in interview with Lente.ru Alexander Pozhalov, Deputy Director of the ISEPI Foundation for Research. - I do not rule out that the appointment of Mutko to the post of Deputy Prime Minister is an opportunity to free the Ministry of Sports for a person from the sports environment. Kolobkov is just like that. He has authority in relevant circles, including international ones. This is what, in my opinion, Mutko lacked.
About the post of Deputy Prime Minister, which will now go to Mutko, Putin spoke for the first time a little more than a week ago. According to the head of state, he had previously discussed this idea with Medvedev. “Sports, youth, tourism are very close spheres, they need to be combined into one complex and entrusted with the supervision of this work to one vice-premier,” the president explained on October 11.
Political scientist Pavel Danilin confirmed in an interview with NSN that there had been talks about this for a long time. It was Mutko who was predicted for this post.
Until recently, the curatorship of these issues was assigned to different officials. Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich was responsible for sports in the government, and tourism and youth policy his colleague Olga Golodets was in charge.
Work with youth has always been “not sewn on a mare's tail,” admits political scientist Alexei Chadaev. According to him, in 2007-2012, when Rosmolodezh was headed by Nashi movement ideologue Vasily Yakimenko, the department was assigned to the area of responsibility of the Ministry of Sports and only then transferred to the Ministry of Education, with which this direction fell “under the wing” of Golodets.
But neither youth policy, nor even sports and tourism combined could be the main priority for the supervising deputy prime ministers: Dvorkovich has to deal primarily with the fuel and energy complex, Golodets - with the social block. According to Alexander Pozhalov, director of research at ISEPI, these vice-premiers have enough tasks of their own, and the appearance of another vice-premier will not affect their influence in the government.
Although, in general, “Dvorkovich is being cut off slowly, and it can be seen,” Chadaev notes. ISEPI is confident that the story of the difficult privatization of Bashneft is more capable of knocking down the "energy" vice-premier than the rise of Mutko.
At the same time, issues that require strategic support in the government are constantly on the agenda, recalls Pozhalov.
“Large sporting events are planned in the country in the near future: this is the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a year before it was another major football horizontal bar [Confederations Cup], Universiade,” he says. The appearance of a new Deputy Prime Minister, in his opinion, reflects the trends in the development of mass sports and the expansion of domestic tourism.
However, against the background of colleagues, including Dvorkovich and Golodets, the reputation is now former minister sport does not look quite unambiguous, experts admit: “Mutko was repeatedly smashed to smithereens for public blunders.”
“But this is not a problem for an official,” political analyst Chadaev is sure. Moreover, some comedy helps to reduce the degree of claims against the manager. “The funny thing is that he is kind of useful to the system. In such a direction, where some kind of trouble always occurs - either the stadium was not built, then something else - just such a “funny uncle” should be. Otherwise, he risks turning into a new Zurabov and becoming the most hated minister for society.”
In any case, the transition to the position of curator is an increase for Mutko, experts agree. “This is not a downgrade, since Mutko will no longer have operational management of sports, but strategic planning will remain with him,” Danilin, director of the Center for Political Analysis, believes.
“Any minister in our country is the head of some kind of money,” Chadayev notes. Therefore, assessing the degree of influence of officials after the reshuffle, it is worth looking at what will happen "around and around the budget." “I have a feeling that these movements may be directly related to the reallocation of funds,” he says. According to the expert, with the transition of Mutko to the vice-premier, personnel changes in the government will not end.
Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation since May 2008, President of the Russian Football Union since April 2005. Previously, he served as a member of the Federation Council from St. Petersburg, was approved for this post in 2003 and 2007. In 2001-2003 he was president of the Russian Football Premier League. In 1995-2003 he was the president of the Zenit football club. In 1992-1996, he served as Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg and Chairman of the City Hall Committee on Social Issues. In 1991 he was the head of the administration of the Kirovsky district of St. Petersburg. Candidate of Economic Sciences.
Vitaly Leontyevich Mutko was born on December 8, 1958 in the village of Kurinskaya, Krasnodar Territory. In 1972 he entered a vocational school, and then moved to the Nautical School of the city of Petrokrepost, Leningrad Region. In 1977-1978, Mutko was a sailor on the ships of the North-Western River Shipping Company and the Leningrad Sea Port. In 1978 he continued his studies, enrolling in the Leningrad River School. He graduated in 1983 and was sent to the Kirov District Executive Committee of Leningrad. At the same time he entered the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport, graduating in 1987.
In the executive committee of the Kirovsky district, Mutko worked as an instructor and head of the department for social issues. By 1990, he became secretary, and after that, chairman of the executive committee. Also in 1990, Mutko became a deputy of the Kirov District Council, and in 1991 - the head of the administration of the Kirov District. In 1992, Mutko took the position of Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak and Chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Social Issues. He supervised culture, health care and sports.
Since 1992, Mutko has been the curator of the Zenit football club from the government of St. Petersburg, and in 1995 he became its president. In 1996, Vladimir Yakovlev became the new governor of St. Petersburg instead of Sobchak, after which Mutko left the city government and focused on working at Zenit. He remained club president until 2003.
In 1999, Mutko graduated from the Faculty of Law of Saint Petersburg State University. On the presidential elections 2000 was one of the confidants of the candidate Vladimir Putin. In the same year, he headed the election headquarters of Valentina Matvienko, who announced her intention to participate in the election of the governor of St. Petersburg, but then withdrew her candidacy. In 2003, after Putin, who became president, removed Yakovlev, Matvienko was nevertheless elected head of the city.
From August 2001 to October 2003, Mutko served as president of the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL). On October 29, 2003, Matvienko was appointed representative in the Federation Council from the government of St. Petersburg, became chairman of the commission on youth and sports. On April 2, 2005, at a meeting of the executive committee of the Russian Football Union (RFU), Mutko was elected president of this organization. In June 2006 he defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of economic sciences. On February 21, 2007, he was re-confirmed as a senator. In September 2007, he was appointed a member of the Council for Development under the President of the Russian Federation physical education and sports and the preparation and holding of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
In March 2008, Dmitry Medvedev, First Deputy Prime Minister and Putin's successor, won the presidential election. On May 8, at a meeting of the State Duma, Putin was approved as prime minister, and on May 12, he made appointments to the government. Mutko headed the newly created Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation in the cabinet. At the same time, he retained the post of head of the RFU.
Despite the fact that Vitaly Mutko was born in the sunny Kuban, he grew up and matured on the banks of the Neva. And like many other Leningrad boys, he dreamed of the sea. Vitaly's dream eventually came true, he went to study, though not at a naval school, but at a river vocational school for a sailor-minder, but he did not ply the Neva waters for long. He showed a much greater inclination for Komsomol work and, at the first opportunity, "signed off" to the shore and not just to the shore, but to the Komsomol committee of the North-Western River Shipping Company. From there he was recommended to the Leningrad River School.
In this school, Vitaly Leontievich concentrated not on studies, but on Komsomol work. He managed to prove himself so successfully that he was left at the school as secretary of the Komsomol committee, and then invited to the Kirov district committee of the CPSU. Here he also did not lose his head, having gone through the path from an instructor of the district committee to the chairman of the district executive committee in less than seven years.
When the winds of change blew in the country, Mutko did everything so that these winds would not blow him away, becoming one of the most ardent supporters of the new mayor of Leningrad, Anatoly Sobchak, whom he met during the VIP Banquet on board the Anna Karenina motor ship. , one of the organizers of which was his wife, who then worked in the Baltic Shipping Company. As a result, Vitaly Leontyevich, after the August events of 1991, when he did not sleep for two nights, but was preparing to defend democracy, headed the district with the rank of head of administration.
Mutko's services to the young Russian democracy turned out to be so great that in 1992 he was invited to the post of chairman of the Committee on Social Issues of the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office with the rank of vice-mayor. Vitaly Leontievich began his career in this position by initiating a radical change in the system for providing beneficiaries with medicines, thereby provoking a large-scale crisis. But, except for such trifles, Mutko was in good standing with Sobchak. So, in 1992, the mayor even offered Vitaly Leontyevich Mutko to head the committee for state property management, but he refused, fearing the routine of work. As a result, this position was taken by German Gref, and Mutko still bit his elbows for a long time with annoyance that he “flew” past such a tidbit.
But still, Vitaly Leontyevich Mutko managed to find a gold mine, while remaining in his post as vice-mayor for social issues. In 1994, the order of the chairman of the State Property Committee Anatoly Chubais arrived just in time to grant the right to the regions to use unclaimed individuals privatization checks (vouchers) for the needs of socially vulnerable persons. Mutko immediately filed in the name of Sobchak memo with a proposal to transfer such checks to the Veteran and Trust funds. As his deputy convinced the mayor, the profits will be used to finance social programs. Of course, Sobchak agreed, because he simply waved a piece of paper slipped to him during a break between receptions, without even bothering to read it properly.
Having received the approval of the mayor, Vitaly Leontievich Mutko decided to accumulate these checks on a special account with check funds for social protection, while the right to dispose of dividends from them should remain with his Committee on Social Issues. So Mutko, as chairman of this committee, received the right to conclude agreements with check funds for the use of checks and dividends from them. Then Vitaly Leontyevich approved the agreements with the Doverie and Veteran funds, according to which 105,843 privatization checks were transferred to them at a market value of 40,000 rubles apiece. Veteran has become one of the largest voucher investment funds in St. Petersburg. The checks gradually dispersed among various firms, often affiliated with Veteran, which were often headed by one of the Veteran representatives. Mutko himself was not left out.
In 1994, Vitaly Leontievich coordinated from the administration of St. Petersburg the preparation and holding of the III Goodwill Games, funded by 52 Russian and international companies. The organization of these games went very badly, a significant part of the money allocated for them was simply stolen, and the Kirov Stadium was repaired so poorly that it had to be repaired again after the games. Ultimately, the ill-fated stadium was demolished.
In 1996, Sobchak lost the mayoral election to Vladimir Yakovlev, so Mutko had to clear his office in Smolny. Vitaly Leontievich faced the question of what to do next. In Moscow, unlike a number of former colleagues in the mayor's office, no one called him, so he had to settle in St. Petersburg. Since Vitaly Leontyevich Mutko was a passionate fan of Zenit, he was well versed in football (at the level of a fan, of course), and besides, he had good connections in sports circles, which he made when he was vice mayor, he accepted the offer to become president football club "Zenith".
This club, at the time of Mutko's arrival, did not particularly shine with success. Having got out of the hole of the first league, he vegetated in the middle of the standings. Vitaly Leontievich, rolling up his sleeves, began to raise the "Zenith" upstairs. At first, things didn't go very well, despite the frequent change of coaches and the sale of 25 percent of the club's shares to Gazprom. Only in 2002, Zenit was headed by the Czech coach Vlastimil Petrzhela, and Vladislav Radimov, who returned to his native St. Petersburg, became the team captain, and the club's affairs finally went uphill. In 2003, Zenit won the silver of the Premier League championship. But Mutko had little merit in this, on the contrary, he interfered with the coach more than helped, constantly interfering in his sphere of competence.
It all ended with Petrzhela complaining about Vitaly Leontyevich Mutko to shareholders, who, however, did not respond to the complaint. Mutko at that time headed the campaign headquarters of Valentina Matvienko, and Zenit was one of the pillars of Valentina Ivanovna. Therefore, Vitaly Leontievich Mutko was only threatened with a finger, hinting that it was not worth putting pressure on the coach and tying his hands. But after Matviyenko won the election, an independent audit of the club was carried out, which revealed a budget deficit of 61 million rubles. There was not enough money even to pay the club staff. This, as well as the scandal around the Petrovsky stadium, which Mutko never managed to rent out, seriously damaged the reputation of Vitaly Leontyevich. It is not known how the matter would have ended for him, but Matvienko came to his aid. With her filing, he became a member of the Federation Council from the government of St. Petersburg.
After sitting in the senatorial chair, Mutko again rushed into battle. In 2005, he headed the Russian Football Union (RFU), replacing Vyacheslav Koloskov, who had previously ruled Soviet and Russian football for more than a quarter of a century and was fairly bronzed. In a new place, Vitaly Leontyevich began to act with Komsomol enthusiasm. He fired Secretary General RFU Vladimir Radionov and Chairman of the Board of Football Referees Nikolai Levnikov. In three years, he had five press attachés.
Without exception, Mutko called all those fired only as “dummies” and “mediocrity”. Meetings in the RFU turned into benefits for Vitaly Leontyevich. His favorite words at these meetings were “blah” and “fields”. Well, the first word, of course, existed to connect with other words, but the second meant that Vitaly Mutko was the author of the now forgotten concept of creating football fields for mass sports, for which astronomical sums were “mastered”.
But it soon became clear that Vitaly Leontyevich Mutko was not capable of anything more than to master budget funds. He had no new ideas to move forward domestic football. And in general, there was not even a hint of any concept of development in his head. But Mutko had more resentment than the Spanish grandee. He managed to quarrel with almost all club presidents, with Roman Abramovich they became almost enemies, and even with non-conflict Guus Hiddink, Vitaly Leontievich managed to ruin relations.
But Vitaly Mutko continued to do dark things. It got to the point that in 2007, at the suggestion of Mutko, the Premier League signed an agreement with the NTV-Plus television company on the sale of exclusive rights to broadcast matches of the Russian championship. If this contract were implemented, only paid subscribers of NTV-Plus would see the games. This contract, beneficial for Vitaly Leontyevich, was not implemented only after the intervention of Vladimir Putin, when the President demanded that free TV channels receive the right to show matches. After that, Putin seriously thought about how to remove Mutko and soon removed him. True, up.
In 2008, Vitaly Leontyevich received the portfolio of the Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy in the office of Vladimir Putin. Now he has become the curator not only of Russian football, but of all sports in general. His first exam in his new post was the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010 ( summer games in Beijing can be taken out of the brackets, since he could not in any way prepare for them, since he was appointed to his post three months before they opened). At these games, the Russian team did not acquire glory, but Vitaly Leontyevich was at the center of the scandal.
During the audit by the Accounts Chamber of the efficiency of spending funds allocated for the preparation and holding of the Olympics, egregious facts came to light. For example, Yana Rudkovskaya, the wife of figure skater Yevgeny Plushenko, and the daughter of the president of the figure skating federation, who had nothing to do with figure skating, went to Vancouver at state expense. At the same time, Irina Zhuk, the ice dancing coach of Yana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitsky, was not included in the delegation due to lack of funds.
It came down to the real meanness. So the winners of the Paralympic Games that followed the Olympics were given awards in rubles at the exchange rate not on the day the order for the payment of prizes was issued, but on the day of direct payment. As a result, disabled champions received less than 993.08 thousand rubles. After checking the difference, the athletes were paid extra, but their coaches were not paid the prize money.
Based on the results of the audit of the Accounts Chamber, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against four entrepreneurs under article 159.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud in particular large sizes). However, neither Mutko nor other high-ranking representatives of his department were interrogated even as witnesses, let alone brought charges against them.
Despite the unconvincing results of the Russian team at the Olympic Games in London, Vitaly Leontievich stayed in his chair. Vitaly Mutko himself wants to wait at his post for the World Cup, which will be held in Russia in 2018. After all, he spoke so sincerely in Zurich during the presentation of the Russian application that he even became the hero of the Internet.
Recently, Vitaly Leontyevich has been focused on preparing for the Olympic Games in Sochi, which really took place, as they say, “without a hitch”, and besides, they were marked by the victory of our team in the unofficial medal standings. But Mutko's merit in this is not enough. In the pre-Olympic period, he was distinguished only by the nervous “pumping” of athletes and their coaches, and besides, having “burned himself” in Vancouver, Vitaly Leontyevich Mutko almost openly doubted that Russia would enter the top three winners. So the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation was among the skeptics whom the Russian Olympians successfully confounded. By the way, we would have much more medals if mass winter views sports such as skiing and speed skating. The backlog in them can be fully reproached to the head of the sports department of the Russian Federation.
By nature, Vitaly Mutko is rude, capricious, prone to lordship, prone to causeless outbursts of anger, painfully suspicious. He does not know how to build either the work of the team entrusted to him, or his own. So, Main coach Russian national team Yuri Semin waited for him for several hours in the waiting room on an urgent issue, and without waiting, he almost resigned. Ordinary RFU officials spent most of their official time at the door of Vitaly Leontievich's office. Thus, Vitaly Mutko was never the favorite of his subordinates.
Vitaly Leontievich also did not differ in his inclination to study. "Honestly" he graduated only from vocational school in Petrokrepost. At the Leningrad River School, he was mainly engaged in Komsomol and trade union work, the first higher education he received at the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport Engineers, which was located on the territory of the district in which he was in charge of the district committee department for social issues. Well, about the diploma of the law faculty of St. Petersburg State University and the degree of candidate of economic sciences, which he received in 1999 and 2006, respectively, we would rather keep silent.
And here family life things worked out well for Mutko. His wife, Tatyana Ivanovna, worked in the personnel department of the Baltic Shipping Company and played a significant role in introducing her husband to the director of the shipping company, Viktor Kharchenko, who, in turn, helped Mutko get closer to the chairman of the Leningrad City Council, Anatoly Sobchak. Then she was engaged in entrepreneurial activities, was the CEO of a number of companies affiliated with the Zenit football club.
Mutko Vitaly Leontyevich (b. 1958) is a Russian statesman and public figure. It can rightly be called the main actor Russian sports. In the government of the Russian Federation, he works as deputy chairman for sports, tourism and youth policy. Long time served as President of the Russian Football Union. From 2008 to 2016 he was the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation.
Vitaly was born on December 8, 1958 in the village of Kurinskaya on the Pshish River, Apsheronsky District, Krasnodar Territory. At birth, the boy was given the name Victor, but receiving a passport, he decided to change it to Vitaly.
Mutko's parents were ordinary working people. Dad worked as a loader, mom worked as a machine operator in the timber industry.
The boy was very fond of sports since childhood. He played football for the village team, even played for the district championship. Their principal rival was then a team from neighboring Khodyzhensk. After lessons in the school gym, he was engaged in boxing with other boys.
And in his studies, he was practically the first in the class, among his classmates he was considered an authority and a leader. If the teacher needed to go somewhere during the lesson, Mutko was left in charge. Almost always the class remained calm, but once there was still a case from which the returning teacher almost fainted. In her absence, the boys, including Vitaly, decided to impress the girls and began to jump out the window from the second floor on a dare. Miraculously, no one broke his leg.
Classmates remember Mutko as a good and fair comrade. Write off always gave. But it happened, while you asked him to write off, you listened a hundred times how important it is to study well yourself. He actually grew the right boy, for example, he did not smoke himself and drove other boys for it.
Among the girls enjoyed success. When Vitaly smiled, dimples appeared on his cheeks, and the representatives of the weaker sex simply melted from this. In general, Mutko had the usual happy Soviet childhood with Zarnitsa games, school parties and discos. He excelled in dancing. At school he was one of the first dancers, even with his friend and partner girls went to neighboring Khodyzhensk for a competition.
At school, everyone was sure that Mutko would definitely become a sea captain. He loved the sea very much. Once in Tuapse, during a boat trip on a boat, the boy was so impressed with the endless landscape he saw for the first time. water surface that fell in love with the sea once and for all. He said that he was struck by thunder, he liked the seagulls screaming over the waves, the sun setting over the horizon and the salty taste sea water on the lips. From that day on, he only did what he imagined, how in the future, in a white navigator and cap with a cockade, he would give commands: “Right to the helm! Full speed ahead!”
Having received a certificate of eight years of education, in which there were only “fours” and “fives”, Mutko went to enter the navigation department of the Rostov Naval School. But the attempt was not successful, unexpectedly for himself, he received a "deuce" for the dictation.
The guy did not want to return home, the captain's bridge did not give him rest. Having sold a shirt at the clothing market and bought the cheapest train ticket, Vitaly went to Leningrad region to the city of Petrokrepost (now Shlisselburg). There were very few places in this tiny town where one could get professional education. But for Vitaly, just what he needed was found - vocational school No. 226 of the river fleet (now a technical school for water transport).
From the very first days of his studies, Mutko was a ringleader and an active member of the Komsomol. Soon became a member of the Komsomol committee, secretary Komsomol organization the school considered him theirs right hand. Students (600 young boys) were settled in a hostel, their life was always in full swing, many different events were held. Mutko was distinguished by special organizational skills, he constantly came up with some kind of competitions and tournaments between groups in football and volleyball. And on New Year organized a celebration in the gym, in the center with the guys they set up a huge Christmas tree, they built a stage for the musicians on the side, it was fun.
He studied well, literature was his favorite subject. After classes, the children were given two hours for self-preparation. In the dormitory, they sat down at the tables and studied, and teachers walked around the floors, who could be consulted.
The boys came here to study from all over. Soviet Union, so the leadership of the school tried to get them to know Leningrad better, excursions and trips to the theater were organized three times a week.
Very warmly now Mutko recalls the years of study at the naval school in Petrokrepost. It's a pity, due to being busy in 2003, he didn't manage to come here to celebrate his 50th anniversary. educational institution. He sent his congratulations by fax, where he wrote: “I am proud that my labor activity began in this school.”
At the end of their studies, the guys were taken to their jobs as minders almost from the final exams, buses from the seaports were already standing and waiting in the yard. But some, instead of distribution, continued to study further. Among them was Vitaly Mutko, he entered the Leningrad River School.
In the new educational institution, he also took an active part in the life of the Komsomol organization, was elected its secretary. He had an internship on ships in the Leningrad Sea Port and in the management of the North-Western River Shipping Company as a sailor-minder. I traveled on a tourist boat along the Volga, and I happened to be abroad, from where farcey brought wool, fabric and lipsticks for sale.
But no matter how much Vitaly Mutko dreamed of the sea, he failed to connect his life with it. Even while studying at the Leningrad River School, he went through the management line. In 1979, he was elected chairman of the trade union committee of the educational institution. The following year, 1980, Vitaly joined the ranks of the CPSU.
After graduating from college, he was invited to work in the Kirovsky District Executive Committee of Leningrad, where he worked for more than ten years. He started here as an instructor, then headed the department for social issues, reached the position of secretary, and then the chairman of the district executive committee. During this time, he managed to graduate in absentia from the Institute of Water Transport Engineers.
In 1991, he headed the administration of the Kirovsky district of Leningrad, but did not work in this post for long. In 1992, he received an invitation from the mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, to the post of his deputy for social issues. The mayor's office was skeptical of Sobchak's decision and did not much accept the new deputy. The only one with whom Mutko immediately developed a good, trusting relationship was Vladimir Putin.
Vitaly worked in Sobchak's team until 1996, during this period he oversaw not only social issues, but also sports, culture, and healthcare. One of his major projects was the preparation of the northern capital for the Goodwill Games in 1994. Then these sports competitions in scale could be compared with the Olympics. The mayor's office of St. Petersburg believed that this significant event in terms of improving the image of the city, a lot of money was allocated for the preparation and holding of the games. To increase the attention of citizens to the Goodwill Games, Sobchak organized a swim in the army sports club among members of the city government, in which Mutko also took part.
When Sobchak lost at the next gubernatorial election, Mutko resigned from the city government. In fact, he lost his job. Since 1992, as a city hall official, he has been the nominal president of the Zenit football club. Turning out to be unnecessary to the new St. Petersburg government, Vitaly completely focused on football, Zenit and sports.
From 1997 to 2003, he served as president of FC Zenit. He managed to bring the club to a decent level, which in the early 1990s completely vegetated, and in 1993 was on the verge of dissolution. Under the leadership of Mutko, Zenit entered and firmly entrenched itself in the elite of Russian football. The team has become the hallmark of the city along with the Hermitage and the Mariinsky Theatre.
Mutko paid special attention to the Russian national football team, more than once became the initiator of attracting the best and most expensive coaches in the world to the team.
During his activities in the field of sports, the public has repeatedly criticized Mutko for unprofessionalism and unwillingness to defend the rights of Russian athletes who were unfairly condemned in competitions and deprived of awards. People believe that Vitaly Leontyevich is irresponsible about sports.
In this regard, the opinion of the people does not always coincide with the government. Noting the merits of Mutko in sports work, he was repeatedly awarded awards:
In 2002, Mutko was awarded the title of Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation.
In 2016, the report WADA commissions(World Anti-Doping Agency) it was stated that at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014 Russian athletes took doping and switched samples. The head of this commission, Richard McLaren, confidently announced to the whole world that all this was done at the state level and that Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko was aware of this situation.
In connection with these statements, in early December 2017, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned Mutko for life from visiting Olympic Games. In the same month, Vitaly Leontievich stepped down as president of the Russian Football Union and left the organizing committee for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. According to the official, he resigned from his positions, as it takes time to appeal the decision of the IOC regarding his person in the sports arbitration courts.
Vitaly met his wife Tanya at the Baltic Shipping Company, where she worked in the personnel department. Tatyana is older than her husband, already at the time of their acquaintance she was a rather experienced and influential woman. It was thanks to his wife that Vitaly managed to advance and build a career. In 1990, she introduced her husband to the director of the Leningrad Shipping Company, who, in turn, during a cruise on the Anna Karenina motor ship, introduced a young capable person to the chairman of the Leningrad City Council, Anatoly Sobchak.
The couple have two daughters. Elder Elena (1977) is successfully engaged in business and has her own dental clinic. The younger Maria (1985) connected her life with economics and law, she graduated from St. Petersburg State University.
Mutko never forgot his homeland. With his assistance, in 2007, an excellent sports ground was opened at the school where the future minister studied. Countrymen were waiting for Vitaly Leontievich for its opening, the head of the district came to solemnly award Mutko the title of honorary resident. But the minister could not get to the opening of the site, he sent his representative. But fellow countrymen are not offended by Vitaly Leontyevich. During the period that he led the Russian Football Union, their region was replenished with dozens of football grounds. Now the Kuban boys have the opportunity to kick the ball on them.
In the Kuban, Mutko's signature words are quoted by all football fans: "The Krasnodar Territory should become the second Brazil." When the local club "Kuban" takes off from the Premier League in the first, Vitaly Leontyevich is very upset about this. He believes that his homeland is worthy of big football; if not today, then tomorrow the strongest team must appear in the Kuban.
