Grudinin Pavel Nikolaevich- The candidate for the presidency of Russia from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the elections in 2018, took second place with a score of 11.77% of the vote. Pavel Grudinin is the director of the prosperous ZAO State Farm named after Lenin near Moscow. Honored Worker of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. Pavel Nikolayevich is also involved in politics and public affairs.

Childhood and education of Pavel Grudinin

Grudinin Pavel Nikolaevich was born on October 20, 1960 in Moscow. Pavel studied in the Leninsky district, graduated from school in 1977. After that, Pavel Grudinin chose the profession of an agricultural engineer and entered the Moscow Institute of Agricultural Engineers (MIISP) named after. Goryachkin.

After graduating from a university (1982), Pavel Grudinin became a mechanical engineer and got a job at the Lenin State Farm, where members of his family were already working. Already working at the state farm, Pavel Nikolayevich received a new education in 2001 - he graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation with a degree in jurisprudence.

Pavel Grudinin's career

In the photo: Pavel Grudinin (Photo: mkkprf.ru)

Pavel Grudinin from 1982 to 1989 was the head of the mechanical workshop. Pavel Nikolayevich always treated his duties conscientiously, so his working career grew. In 1990, Grudinin became the deputy director of the state farm, and in 1995 the general meeting gave him great confidence and elected Pavel Nikolayevich the director of ZAO Lenin State Farm.

Since then, Grudinin has been working in this position to this day, which speaks of his constancy and success in his work.

The media speak very well of the enterprise, which is headed by Pavel Grudinin, and among the people the rumor about the Lenin State Farm is a real island of socialism in the tough capitalist jungle of the Moscow region. "Sovkhoz named after Lenin" can rightly be attributed to the most socially oriented enterprises. The state farm builds houses for its workers and distributes apartments free of charge. In addition, the infrastructure is actively developing. Schools and kindergartens are appearing,” wrote Free Press.

September 27 at the state farm near Moscow. Lenin, which is 500 meters from the Moscow Ring Road, a new private institution of preschool education (MIRACLE) "Castle of Childhood" -2 was opened. The opening ceremony was attended by Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Regional Duma, head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Nikolai Vasiliev, Minister of Education of the Moscow Region Marina Zakharova, head of the rural settlement of the state farm named after. Lenin Elena Dobrenkova and, of course, the director of ZAO Sovkhoz im. Lenin” Pavel Grudinin (pictured) (Photo: mosoblduma.ru)

“On the territory of the State Farm, we abandoned the liberal changes that have been carried out in our country for the past 25 years. We have tried to preserve socialist principles. Today we have free hot meals in schools, free mugs, free medicines in the clinic. We try to make sure that utility rates in our territory are lower. The children's park on our territory is free. All, of course, at the expense of the State Farm. We have preserved socialist principles, when “to each according to his work” and we are trying to promote them. If all the state and collective farms of the Moscow region worked like we do, everyone would have the same kindergartens, the same ponds with swans, the same technologies, because we have invested a lot of money in the modernization of production, and the same wages as ours . You just need to manage it right, ”said Pavel Grudinin about CJSC Lenin State Farm, with which his entire biography is connected.

In the photo (from left to right): the outpatient clinic of the Lenin state farm; Pavel Grudinin in the "Castle of Childhood", in the gym (Photo: mosoblduma.ru)

Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Agrarian Issues Vladimir Kashin noted that "Sovkhoz im. Lenin is a vivid example of the social development of the countryside" and among the successful farms in Russia is "the flagship in matters of social development."

The news reported that the Lenin State Farm had been listed among the top 300 agricultural enterprises in the country for two decades, and its director, Pavel Nikolaevich Grudinin, had been among the top 1,000 managers in Russia since 2002. In 2005, Pavel Grudinin won the Manager of the Year 2005 competition in the agriculture category.

In 2001, Pavel Nikolaevich Grudinin was awarded the title of Honored Worker of Agriculture of the Russian Federation for his achievements as head of CJSC State Farm named after Lenin.

There are other achievements in Pavel Nikolaevich Grudinin’s career, he is the winner of the Highest Public Award in the field of food production “For the abundance and prosperity of Russia” (2006) and the ASSAGROS badge “For contribution to the development of the agro-industrial complex” (2013).

Political activities of Pavel Grudinin

Gradually, politics entered the life of Pavel Nikolaevich. Pavel Grudinin was elected a deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma three times (1997-2011).

In the photo (from right to left): Pavel Grudinin, director of the Lenin State Farm, and Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, picking strawberries at the Lenin State Farm, 2012 (Photo: Sergey Karpov)

Pavel Grudinin is also a member of the Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation and Deputy Chairman of the Committee for the Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.

Pictured: Pavel Grudinin at the Moscow Economic Forum (WEF), 2012 (Photo: Alexander Legky/Russian Look/Global Look Press)

November 7, 2017 Deputy of the lower house of the Russian Parliament from the Communist Party faction, press secretary of the Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov Alexander Yushchenko, commenting on the news about the nomination of Zyuganov, said that the decision to nominate a presidential candidate from the party had not yet been made. It is appropriate to recall here that in 2017 the Left Front movement organized a popular vote (primaries), which was supposed to determine the presidential candidate in the 2018 elections from the left and patriotic forces. In the first round of the Left Front primaries, the top ten were determined: Yuri Boldyrev, Pavel Grudinin, Konstantin Semin, Sergey Glazyev, Zakhar Prilepin, Sergey Shargunov, Mikhail Popov, Boris Kagarlitsky, Maxim Shevchenko And Valery Rashkin. In the second round, which took place from November 24 to 30, two leaders of the first round, Yuri Boldyrev and Pavel Grudinin, took part. According to the voting results, Pavel Nikolaevich Grudinin won with a score of 58.4%. More than 15 thousand people took part in the voting.

Russia. Moscow. December 18, 2017. Economist and politician Yuri Boldyrev, head of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma Gennady Zyuganov and director of the State Farm named after Lenin Pavel Grudinin (pictured from left to right) during a press conference dedicated to the presentation of the team and program of the people's patriotic forces on the eve of the 2018 elections (Photo: Sergei Fadeichev/TASS)

In the news, citing sources, it was reported that the Communist Party of the Russian Federation sees the popularity of their supporter, the director of the State Farm. Lenin Pavel Grudinin, and they can nominate this strong business executive and interesting speaker as a presidential candidate.

When voting in the “Supporters of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation” group (considered close to the leadership of the party) of the social network “VKontakte”, 31.5% of those who voted for Pavel Grudinin, 14.9% for the ex-deputy chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Yuri Boldyrev, and Gennady Zyuganov only closes the top three (14.7%), the Nakanune newspaper reported.

On December 13, the Perm Communists proposed to nominate Pavel Grudinin as a single candidate for the presidency of the Russian Federation from the left and nationally oriented forces, this was stated by the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Sergey Andreyanov.

Russia. Moscow. December 18, 2017. Head of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma Gennady Zyuganov and director of the Lenin State Farm Pavel Grudinin (pictured from left to right) during a press conference dedicated to the presentation of the team and program of the people's patriotic forces on the eve of the 2018 elections (Photo: Sergei Fadeichev / TASS)

On December 21, the congress of the National Patriotic Forces of Russia decided to nominate Yuri Boldyrev as a presidential candidate, and Pavel Grudinin was assigned the place of the likely chairman of the government. On the same day, the media reported that Gennady Zyuganov sees Pavel Grudinin as the best presidential candidate.

Later, the plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation nominated the director of the state farm Lenin Pavel Grudinin as a candidate for the post of president of the Russian Federation. It was reported that Grudinin was going to the polls “with the program of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation”, and Gennady Zyuganov would head the Supreme Council of the People's Patriotic Forces and the headquarters for the election campaign of Pavel Grudinin.

Grudinin himself spoke of his readiness to compete for the presidency if his candidacy is supported. At the same time, he stressed that with fair elections, the candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation would have no competitors.

On December 23, at the pre-election congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Pavel Grudinin was officially nominated as a candidate for the presidency of the Russian Federation in the elections in 2018. Svobodnaya Pressa reported that the non-partisan director of the "Sovkhoz named after Lenin" was chosen by secret ballot of delegates to the pre-election congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation as a candidate for the presidency of Russia.

“Out of 314 votes, only 11 against - I think this is a very good result, given that I am a non-partisan,” RIA Novosti quoted Grudinin himself as saying about the vote at the congress.

Member of the XVII Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky believes that the nomination of Grudin "opened the presidential campaign of 2024." “Pavel Grudinin has every chance to gather the entire communist and patriotic electorate too. And even take some of the votes from Zhirinovsky and some other candidates, ”Agranovsky said in an interview with SP.

Political scientist Pavel Svyatenkov assessed the chances of a new candidate from the Communist Party, "rather as high."

Critical statements of Pavel Grudinin

Pavel Nikolaevich Grudinin in his speeches often talks about the crafty statistics of "achievements", where everything is at the level of postscripts, the incompetence of the government, which supports banks, not agriculture; about why it lowers the subsistence minimum, while food becomes more expensive and the population gets poorer; about officials who cannot be reached without a “suitcase”, outdated technologies and money for the modernization of the agricultural sector, the low level of training of specialists for work in high-tech industries, the consequences of Russia's entry into the WTO, and - the prosecutor ... who stole strawberries on a state farm plantation.

“100 years ago they said: “Land to the peasants, factories to the workers, and all power to the councils.” People's enterprise is what Lenin spoke about 100 years ago. If someone thinks that Gazprom is a national treasure, then this is not true. The national heritage will not invest big money in foreign football clubs and pay a salary to his beloved in order to leave everyone without gas at the same time, or make such prices for gas that it will become impossible to live, ”Grudinin believes.

“If a Russian person is not given a job, he starts drinking. And if he drinks, he becomes a declassed element. And who led Russia to the fact that even German Gref publicly allows us to call our country a “downshifter”, that is, a loser? These are the people who continue to be in power today!” Pavel Nikolaevich Grudinin noted in the summer of 2016.

“Society is in apathy: hope is lost for renewal, a concrete solution to overripe economic, social, political problems. On the fourth term of power, it is at least strange to wait for something new from, say, a new-old president. And here the viability of the country worries, will it remain a single power, or will it fall apart into allotments?” Pavel Grudinin said in an interview with SP in December 2017.

Elections 2018, presidential candidate campaign

Before that, presidential candidate Pavel Grudinin presented his program, consisting of 20 points. At a press conference in Moscow, he called it "a program for everyone."

Pavel Grudinin made his first visit within the framework of the pre-election tour around the country to St. Petersburg. In the city on the Neva, the presidential candidate visited the Kirovsky Zavod, gave a press conference at TASS and met with voters.

Then Grudinin visited Samara and Tolyatti, and also took part in a meeting of district deputies of the Serpukhov region, who discussed the terrible state of affairs with the Lesnaya landfill.

In the news of many media and even federal television channels, information was frankly distorted against Pavel Grudinin. As SP wrote, media representatives at press conferences were interested in the issue of Grudinin's foreign accounts, although it was clarified immediately after the end of the New Year holidays, and all the journalists preparing for the press conference could not help but know this. January 12, when the Central Election Commission registered a presidential candidate from the Communist Party. CEC member Evgeny Shevchenko said that by the time of registration, Pavel Grudinin had no foreign accounts and securities, they were at the time of his nomination, which is permitted by law.

At the same time, in the news of many media, "through an oversight" 25 million rubles on these already closed accounts of Grudinin turned into 7.5 billion rubles, the total value of the package of securities, according to the law indicated on the CEC website, was multiplied by the authors of the publications by their number.

At the first press conference of Grudinin in TASS, the presidential candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation exhaustively clarified this issue: “Whoever opened foreign accounts must immediately notify the tax office. The tax office knew perfectly well that the accounts were opened in March 2017. This is due to a personal tragedy in my family, I don’t really want to discuss it, unfortunately, some operations are still not performed here in Russia. Everyone knew about these accounts, no one forgot, there were three of them. On December 28, I had a paper in my pocket that these accounts were closed. Democratic procedures were preserved in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and until the last moment I was not sure that it was I who would be nominated, it happened on December 23rd. But they prepared for it. And when the documents arrived on the 28th, it suddenly turned out that there were two more transit accounts in this bank, which I did not even know about. You know, if money just lies in foreign banks, it depreciates, so the bank offers such a service as buying securities. Everything was done absolutely correctly, in accordance with the law. But what got everyone so excited? Instead of "securities" in the documents submitted to the CEC, it was written "securities". This led to the fact that people began to multiply. Although, if you take the law and applications, the price of the entire package is indicated there. Yes, indeed, I had 25 million rubles in my current accounts.

Then the Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin explained why accounts abroad were needed. “Yes, I had my mother's operation abroad, yes, my sister also had an operation abroad. Yes, in the near future a lot of money will be spent, and not only from my relatives, but also from employees. We have treated people in Israel, in the USA. We have brought the situation in healthcare to such a situation that everyone should spend money on treatment abroad,” said Pavel Grudinin.

Nevertheless, the issue of the score and the fictitious media "billions of Grudinin" continued to be mentioned in the news with might and main. And during the tour of the candidate of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation around the country, questions about the accounts were asked to him by the most unexpected characters.

At the same time, on January 19, the police in Novosibirsk arrested the circulation of the newsletter “ Is it true with information about presidential candidate Pavel Grudinin. Later, a similar incident occurred in Buryatia. The legal service of the Novosibirsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation promised to appeal against the decision of the regional election commission, which recognized the number 2 of the newspaper "For People's Power" as illegal campaigning.

presidential candidate's remarks

Pavel Grudinin, a candidate for the 2018 presidential election, said that Russian banks should not engage in usury, and entrepreneurs should be sure that their business will not stop due to the fault of banking structures.

Pavel Grudinin shared his opinion about demography in the country. According to him, young people should not be persuaded to give birth to children, but to create an opportunity for them to live in their own apartments.

2018 presidential candidate Pavel Grudinin answered a question about the situation in Donbass:

“One way or another, we are kindred peoples with Ukraine and sooner or later we will live in peace and harmony. And the Russian people in the Donbass must decide for themselves, and their decisions must be the main ones for all the bodies that are trying to play this game, ”the SP correspondent quoted Pavel Grudinin’s statement at a press conference in St. Petersburg. Earlier, Pavel Grudinin at a press conference in Moscow shared his vision of the future of the DNR and LNR.

Russian presidential candidate Pavel Grudinin believes that the main problem of the Russian economy continues to be its raw material nature. According to him, if the commodity sector is removed from GDP, then the drop in this indicator in 2017 would be 1.5-2% instead of the declared growth of 1.5-1.7%.

“Our economy over the past 18 years has become even more primitive. The technical backwardness has worsened, the wear and tear of equipment in industry is above 50%. And even in the oil and gas industry - 55%. That's "modernization" for you. It is clear that with such a weight on your feet it is impossible to increase by a third the share of modern products by 2018, as promised in the famous "May decrees" of the president. In reality, this share is now 9% against 15% in 2012. Our country is still a raw material appendage of the West,” the candidate believes.

Election results-2018

On March 23, the Central Election Commission announced the final results of the presidential elections in the Russian Federation, which took place on March 18. With a result of 76.69% of the votes, the incumbent head of state Vladimir Putin took the first place, in total 56430712 Russian citizens spoke in his support.

Second place with a score of 11.77% of the vote was taken by candidate Pavel Grudinin, he was supported by 8,659,206. Vladimir Zhirinovsky finished the campaign third with 5.65% of the vote, thus, 4,154,985 people voted for him. Ksenia Sobchak managed to attract 1,238,031 Russian citizens to her side, which is 1.68% of the vote.

In total, 73629581 people took part in the elections, which is 67.54% of the total number of voters included in the lists, RIA Novosti reported.

The result of Pavel Grudinin worsened as the votes were counted. After processing 25.03% of the final protocols of precinct election commissions, the candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the NPSR had almost 16%.

Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Dmitry Novikov at a press conference following the results of voting in the 2018 elections, he said that the drop in the percentage of votes cast for Pavel Grudinin as he approaches the center of the country from the Far East may be due to the use of ballot processing complexes.

“We consider the widespread use of KOIBs to be the reason for such results, an indirect confirmation of this is the fact that our observers demanded a recount of votes, they have such a right, but everywhere they were refused this procedure,” said Dmitry Novikov.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation believes that the use of ballot processing complexes (KOIB) led to electoral fraud. According to party leader Gennady Zyuganov , the KOIBs cannot be trusted .

“I want to appeal to the people who supported us, they proved their combat capability. Not for money, but for conscience and honor, they worked for the benefit of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the NPSR, and the ideas prescribed in the program. I am absolutely convinced that the current president won, but what was done by officials and the media during the election race allows me to say that these were dirty elections that do not meet international standards. The government must understand that if it itself violates the law, then it cannot demand that the people comply with it. The authorities should lead by example,” Pavel Grudinin said after the elections.

Personal life of Pavel Grudinin

Very little is known about the personal life of Pavel Nikolaevich. Pavel Grudinin was married to Irina Grudinina. The family has two adult sons - Artem and Anton, and Pavel Grudinin also has two granddaughters.

In 2018, the World Court of the Babushkinsky district of Moscow decided to divorce the ex-presidential candidate of Russia Pavel Grudinin from his wife Irina, RIA Novosti reported.

“For the last nine years I have not lived with my wife. Everyone knows this. And in court, informed sources stated that I left the family exactly nine years ago. But I met a girl named Ksenia later, seven years ago. And I left the family not because of Xenia. Two years after that, I just met her. Ksenia worked as a lawyer at our state farm, ”Grudinin himself commented on the situation in his personal life to MK.

Pavel Grudinin also said that Irina did not give him a divorce for a long time, although they only communicated through children.

“I have four children in my presidential candidate materials. Everything is officially registered in the registry office. We live in a small village, where everyone, without exception, knows that the director of the state farm has younger children who go to kindergarten, ”Pavel Grudinin also said about two children from Ksenia.

The biography of Pavel Grudinin on Wikipedia says that he has two children from Ksenia Kutyukhina - Alexandra (born August 14, 2012) and Daria (born March 19, 2014).

Pavel Grudinin after the election, persecution, attempted raider takeover

In February 2019, the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region dismissed the claims of six shareholders of Lenin State Farm CJSC near Moscow, according to news reports.

The plaintiffs demanded to recover from the director of the state farm Pavel Grudinin about 2.1 billion rubles in favor of the agricultural enterprise. It was about compensation for losses allegedly incurred by the enterprise as a result of a deal to contribute two land plots to the authorized capital of TT Development LLC. In the spring of 2018, the court declared the deal invalid, as well as unprofitable for the state farm and shareholders - all this was in the news during the presidential company, although Pavel Grudinin noted the futility of this process and its inconsistency with the laws.

In 2019, Grudinin, commenting on the outcome of the case, noted that “certain political forces periodically intensify the fight against the state farm.”

In February, there was another piece of news about a former presidential candidate. Pavel Grudinin was removed from the post of chairman of the council of deputies of Vidnoye near Moscow. For the removal of Grudinin from office, 12 out of 20 deputies voted.

Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov commented on the news on his Twitter page: “How frightened the authorities of the Russian Federation by Pavel Grudinin, the most popular politician among the people! Yesterday by the forces of "ER" he was removed from the post of head of the Council of Vidnoe. It can be seen that someone really does not like the island of socialism - the state farm. Lenin. I officially declare: all persecution of Grudinin must be stopped!”, he wrote.

“This leviathan: the prosecutor's office, the court, the head, the governor, they are very afraid of me, apparently. But I did not break any law of the Russian Federation. Let's prove it now. I once proved, moreover, for 2.5 years that I am not an extremist. Then I was removed from the elections to the Moscow Regional Duma, I proved the opposite, but, of course, the elections had already passed. Same story here. For some reason, they are afraid of me, ”Grudinin himself commented on the news, adding that this was not at all the end of his political career.

“Actually, no, everyone is well aware that they are simply raising my rating,” he added.

On March 14, 2019, the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation decided to transfer the mandate of the deputy of the State Duma of the deceased Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov to the candidate for the Russian presidency in the 2018 elections Pavel Grudinin.

As party leader Gennady Zyuganov told reporters, various candidates were considered, but a unanimous decision was made to transfer the mandate to the director of the Lenin state farm.

Zyuganov noted that the candidate was chosen with all care. “We consulted with party organizations, with all influential people, with our friends, allies - everyone believes that Pavel Nikolayevich is able to continue the best traditions that outstanding, big people implemented in the faction, such as Alferov, Maslyakov, Starodubtsev, Ilyukhin,” said the communist leader.

On March 21, the Central Election Commission refused to transfer the mandate of the deputy of the State Duma of the deceased Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov to the candidate for the Russian presidency in the 2018 elections Pavel Grudinin.

This decision was made due to the fact that at the time of registration, Grudinin had accounts in foreign banks. 12 out of 13 CEC members voted against the transfer of the mandate to Grudinin.

“If you oppose lawlessness, be consistent, support Pavel Grudinin and the Lenin State Farm, sign a petition in their defense!” he wrote on social networks.

Zyuganov noted that lately numerous checks have been carried out at the Lenin State Farm by various regulatory authorities. To destroy the joint-stock company, a notorious, previously convicted professional raider is involved, who uses the divorce of the Grudinins as a tool to hack the share capital of the enterprise.

On June 10, June 10, representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Left Front, the Komsomol and other organizations held a rally near the building of the Moscow Regional Court in the form of a meeting with State Duma deputies demanding to stop the cynical persecution of Pavel Grudinin and the destruction of the Lenin State Farm. According to representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Left Front, the authorities are taking revenge on Grudinin for his active citizenship, for not being afraid to compete with Vladimir Putin in the last presidential election and during the campaign he harshly criticized the current course of the country's development.

As reported in the TASS news, in June the Moscow Regional Court recognized as legal the receipt by the former wife of the director of ZAO State Farm named after Lenin, Pavel Grudinin, of two-thirds of the joint property, the decision of the court of the previous instance was left unchanged.

“So, the Moscow Regional Court left the decision on the “Grudinin case” unchanged, in fact, taking the side of the forces trying to carry out a raider seizure of the state farm named after. Lenin. We see how the capitalist octopus is trying to strangle the most unique enterprise in our country - an island of socialism! ”, Zyuganov wrote about the court decision.

In December 2019, ex-presidential candidate of Russia Pavel Grudinin won the elections to the Council of Deputies of the Leninsky City District of the first convocation in single-mandate constituency No. 29. According to the voting results, he was almost 3 times ahead of his main rival.

Pavel Grudinin announced his candidacy for the 2018 Russian presidential election. He has the support of leftist opposition forces such as the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Left Front. Many consider this politician a controversial figure, and some do not know anything about him at all.

Pavel Grudinin: biography

Grudinin Pavel Nikolaevich was born on 10/20/1960 in the capital of the USSR, but one year later his parents, ordinary workers with an agricultural education, for certain reasons decided to move to the Moscow region and began to equip life in the Leninsky district of the Moscow region. Grandfather and grandmother come from the Vologda region. The nationality of Pavel Grudinin is Russian, but Jewish blood also flows through his grandfather.

The education of Pavel Grudinin

In 1977, Pavel Grudinin graduated from school, where he studied individual subjects in depth and received a secondary education. After that, he studied in Moscow at the Institute. V.P. Goryachkin, became a mechanical engineer, returned to his area and got a job at a state farm, where he still works. Some time later, in 1982, Grudinin Pavel Nikolaevich became the head of the workshop at the Lenin State Farm, and in 1995 he took the position of director. After many years of activity in the agricultural sector, Pavel Grudinin's education was supplemented by a diploma of graduation from the Faculty of Law of the RANEPA, where he studied in absentia. To this day, he is the head of CJSC State Farm named after Lenin.

Political activities of Pavel Grudinin

Pavel Nikolayevich began active political activity in 1997, he passed through a single-mandate district to the Moscow Regional Duma. The main important stages in the political field of career development are:

• In 2000, Grudinin became a confidant of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in the presidential elections.
• In 2002, he was re-elected to the regional Duma, gaining 44% of the vote.
• In 2007-2011, he worked as a deputy chairman of the economic policy committee of the Moscow Regional Duma from United Russia.
• In 2010, he decided to run for the position of head of one of the districts of the Moscow Region as a self-nominated candidate, but he was not registered due to violations found in the signature lists.
• 2010 was marked by the withdrawal from United Russia.

This path in politics was Pavel Grudinin as a presidential candidate.

The activities of Grudinin Pavel Nikolaevich as a supporter of the Communist Party

In 2016, elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation were held, and Pavel Grudinin was nominated in a single-mandate district from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. When the mandates were distributed, he could not get on the list to the State Duma. According to the vote count in the Lyubertsy district, Grudinin was able to gain a little more than 13% of the vote and remained in second place. Pavel Grudinin, a candidate for the presidency of Russia, is not a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. He's just a supporter of the communist party.

In 2010, the Moscow Economic Forum was held, at which the politician most clearly expressed his position. He began to sharply criticize the current government, the taxation system, spoke critically about the insufficient and ineffective actions in the development of the Russian economy. According to Pavel Nikolayevich, today's policy will not lead to prospects for the development of the country in most of the main areas of the economy.

Grudinin Pavel Nikolaevich believes that for the development and growth of the Russian economy, it is necessary to create conditions under which the country will switch to direct financing of the private sector, and will begin to provide tangible for the development of their business. He believes that an example should be taken from countries such as Finland, Sweden and France, where the market is adjacent to the ideas of socialism, and private businessmen are supported by the state, which contributes to economic growth.

The development and provision of maximum support to the social sector is what is necessary for the development of the state and society, Pavel Grudinin believes. He knows what he is talking about, as he relies on his many years of successful experience in agricultural activities.

What presidential candidate Pavel Grudinin promises

The main theses of the election program of Pavel Grudinin are:

• The need to nationalize all major banks, oil and gas companies, railway communications, communications operators and the military industry complex.
• Implementation of State Control over all banks and withdrawal of the Russian Federation from the WTO.
• large-scale industrialization.
• Increase the cost estimates for the agricultural industry. The country must give 10% of its budget.
• Implementation of state control over the pricing of goods that are necessary for the consumer, medicines, fuel. Lowering tariffs for housing and communal services.
• Carrying out tax reform, the abolition of VAT, the introduction of progressive.
• Development of wider ties in the Eurasian Economic Union.
• State monopoly on the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
• Increase in spending in science, education and medicine, at least 7% of Russia's total GDP.

These are only the main theses of the election program, but they are clear to people. Of course, this candidate has little chance of winning, this is largely due to the fact that most people do not know him.

• Many experts point out the similarity of Pavel Grudinin with Donald Trump, the current US President. Grudinin, like the President of the United States, is engaged in big business, his program is simple and understandable for ordinary people. Against the backdrop of the economic downturn that has been observed recently in Russia, such promises by Grudinin about creating jobs, increasing their own production, raising the level of healthcare, and others, look relevant.
• The fact that Zyuganov decided to nominate Pavel Grudinin, the communist party candidate for the presidency, also attaches great importance. Zyuganov has many supporters who trust him, and they will vote for the new candidate.
• The results of the popular vote, which was held by the "leftists", showed that 58.4% of people are ready to vote for Grudinin.
• Whether the candidate will become president will be seen after the presidential elections in Russia on March 18 and the announcement of the voting results.

At one time, Pavel Grudinin was a loyal ally of Vladimir Putin, helping to take the main post in the country. But years have passed and the situation has changed dramatically. Now Pavel Grudinin has decided to try his hand at the presidency himself, becoming a candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which provoked a wave of interest not only in the latest news about the politician’s election program, but also in his biography, nationality and life history of his parents.

Pavel Grudinin, a presidential candidate nominated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation instead of Gennady Zyuganov, received from 49 to 52% of the votes “For” during Internet polls, so his biography, nationality and parents, and all the latest news about politics, interested supporters of Vladimir Putin. People who rarely read political news reports are eager to quickly fill in gaps in knowledge. After all, there is a possibility that Pavel Nikolaevich Grudinin will overtake Vladimir Putin in the race for the presidency.

Pavel Nikolaevich was born on October 10, 1960 in Moscow, but a year after his birth, the family council decided to move to the countryside. According to the parents, an attempt to earn a living in the Leninsky district of the Moscow region through the development of the economy was more appropriate than a sluggish existence in a dynamic capital. Actually, the parents of the future politician did not fail.

Pavel Nikolaevich listened to the opinion of his parents and followed in their footsteps at MIISP, where he received a diploma in mechanical engineering. Under the patronage of the older generation, in 1982 he got a job at the state farm. Lenin as head of the mechanical workshop. After five years of work, Grudinin receives a promotion, and takes the post of Deputy Director for Commercial Affairs.

Important! Pavel Grudinin, a presidential candidate, having applied for the post of head of state, kept silent about the fact that his biography is full of gaps that he actively seeks to hide, blocking the latest news about his personality, parents and nationality.

By nationality, Pavel Nikolaevich is considered Russian, but there are many Jews in his family who in the past were subjected to repression by the government of the USSR. Parents, as well as the deputy himself, try not to raise this topic. But this is not a reason to remove his candidacy from the list of candidates for the post of President of the Russian Federation. There are more compelling reasons for this.

Strawberry king of the 90s

It is important to understand that Pavel Grudinin, who is nominated by the Communist Party and in his election program emphasizes the protection and support of low-income segments of the population, is far from being a poor person. All his activities, which began in the 90s, were aimed at raising his social status, which he has been successfully using to this day. At the moment, a possible president, who is quickly gaining high ratings among fans of his program, is not only the director of the agricultural holding Sovkhoz im. Lenin”, but also one of the largest oligarchs in Russia.

In 1995, Grudinin took over as director of the state farm. Lenin by gaining victory in an open vote. About why Pavel Nikolayevich suddenly became the favorite of his colleagues, there were a variety of rumors.

Fact! But the real reason was that most of the team was bought or intimidated by Grudinin's friends from the underworld.

Then, presidential candidate Pavel Grudinin, whose latest news about the activities of which interest the citizens of the Russian Federation, no less than his nationality, parents and biography, having received carte blanche in his hands, began to restore his own order at the state farm.

He managed not only to contribute to the retirement of the former head of the state farm, Pyotr Ryabtsev, and to force him to remain silent about what happened by intimidation, but also to significantly improve his financial situation through fraud. Since the beginning of criminal activity, about six hectares of land of the state farm named after. Lenin were sold to the well-known businessman Aras Agalarov, who at that time owned shares in Crocus International.

Having received at the disposal of land in a profitable area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe Moscow Region, the entrepreneur built a chain of stores "Your House" on them. At the moment, the direct participant in the transaction is ranked 50th in the ranking of "200 richest businessmen in the Russian Federation" according to Forbes polls. And instead of a network of shops on the lands he bought, the famous "Shopping Center Vegas" rises.

An enterprising Jew by nationality, Pavel Grudinov: a presidential candidate whose biography and parents are of interest to citizens, argues the latest news that has surfaced about his past activities by investing the money he received in production and technology. But his colleagues at the state farm claim that he sold the land at a higher price and took into his hands about 840 thousand dollars, having spent only 31,000 on the enterprise. th years.

In the same 1995, Pavel Grudinin committed the following fraud with land plots. Taking advantage of the fact that in 1993, by decree of Boris Yeltsin, the state gave 15 acres of land for each family member to peasants who worked in agriculture, he invited people to make a contribution to their future. Almost all former peasants returned the plots back to the state farm. Lenin, becoming its shareholders. And already in 2000, these lands were bought by Pavel Grudinin, and he became the owner of the main block of shares.

Further, the enterprising Pavel Nikolaevich began to lease hectares to "business sharks". On the lands leased to well-known oligarchs, there are Nissan, Lexus, Toyota dealerships, as well as several large shopping centers. The income received from these plots amounts to hundreds of millions of greenbacks. The premises of the state farm them. Lenin, which are located on the same 23rd km of the Kashirskoye Highway.

Continuing a career

Deciding that with an engineering diploma his further career is impossible, Pavel Nikolayevich enters the RANEPA at the Faculty of Law in the correspondence department. And since 1997, twice a graduate goes to conquer political heights. For three years, Pavel Nikolayevich achieved incredible success in his career as a politician. Already in 2000, he became a confidant of Vladimir Putin, who ran as a candidate in the presidential election.

Fact! For ten years he was a member of United Russia. But in 2011 he joined the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, becoming a supporter of the Communist Party.

According to Pavel Grudinin, whose parents gave their lives to work for the benefit of agriculture, Russia should change its attitude towards domestic politics. The state, showing concern for the people, should provide more substantial support to state farms that develop farming and agriculture.

It is then that the Russian Federation will cease to depend on the policies of other countries and need food supplies from outside. Then the economic situation of the country will improve, as well as the life of ordinary rural residents. It is on these accents that his election program is based.

Family traditions of the Grudinins

Pavel Nikolaevich got married while still a student. In marriage, he had four children: two sons and two daughters, who at the moment are already adults and accomplished personalities. The descendants of Grudinin continue the traditions of their family, working at ZAO Lenin State Farm in high positions. The famous enterprise is engaged in the cultivation of strawberries and the production of dairy and sour-milk products.

Well-known European companies cooperate with CJSC Grudinin, ordering raw materials from the state farm for further processing. For outstanding success in organizing work, the presidential candidate was repeatedly awarded both by the state and as a result of victories in national competitions.

Pavel Nikolayevich, who manages the main stake in an agricultural enterprise, is also a shareholder in the construction company TT Development, along with his eldest son Anton. And his younger offspring Artem is engaged in real estate, acting as a co-owner of Oblinvestcom LLC and the Liga agency, the main activity of which is the leasing of premises and land plots of Sovkhoza im. Lenin. The wife of Pavel Nikolaevich owns a beauty salon LLC "Tair".

The nomination of non-partisan Pavel Grudinin as a presidential candidate from the Communist Party came as a surprise to many. The current director of the State Farm named after Lenin, as he prefers to call himself (in reality, the head and majority shareholder of the CJSC of the same name), seemingly having little connection with the Russian political scene, suddenly appears in it in an important role - as a candidate for the highest state post from one of the largest political forces in the country.

Grudinin is confident that he will be able to transfer the experience of managing a "small state farm" to the whole country, relying primarily on socialist ideas.

Forty-five years at the state farm

Grudinin was born in 1960 in Moscow, and from childhood his life was connected with the state farm, where he earned a huge amount of money for those times as a child.

“I started working at the state farm from the age of 12 as a loader. And the loader was given five kilograms of strawberries for each day of work. Strawberries then cost three rubles 50 kopecks on the market. It was a very good price, that is, you could sell a lot at once. Therefore, we they only officially earned about 300-400 rubles. Imagine, a schoolboy is 12-13 years old, and he has such an income in one month. Therefore, it was always good and profitable to work at the state farm, "Grudinin said in an interview with RBC TV channel.

The future non-partisan presidential candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation received a specialized education at the Moscow Institute of Agricultural Engineers (MIISP) named after V.P. Goryachkin. In the early 80s, he began working at the Lenin State Farm, and in 1995 he was elected its director. Grudinin has not left the leadership of the agricultural enterprise even after the announcement of his desire to become a candidate for the presidency of Russia.

“For thirty-five years I have been working at the state farm - this is only official. And if you count from the age of 12, it turns out that I have been working at the state farm for 45 years,” Grudinin summed up in the same interview with RBC television. In the video, the director of the State Farm said that the average salary of employees of his enterprise is 78 thousand rubles, and the management assists workers in resolving the issue of housing, including at the birth of a child.

Political path

Grudinin knows firsthand how to wage a political struggle. He embarked on this path 10 years ago, when in 1997 he was first elected to the Moscow Regional Duma. Later, in the early 2000s, the entrepreneur won elections twice more as a deputy of this legislative body. In an interview with RBC, Grudinin noted that, perhaps, he would have been elected for subsequent terms, "if he had not left United Russia."

“I have always told the truth, but sometimes you have to make a decision: either you compromise your principles for the sake of some political party, or you leave a political party because your principles do not coincide with their principles,” the director of the Lenin State Farm justified his decision in interview.

After his third term as a deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma, Grudinin held no other political positions. But he returned to this arena when, in December 2017, by decision of the Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, he was unexpectedly nominated as a candidate for the presidency. At the same time, the director of the State Farm positions himself as a non-party candidate and has not announced his intention to join the ranks of the communists.

Why Grudinin and not Zyuganov?

Many wondered why Grudinin, and not the chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, who had repeatedly represented the party in the presidential elections, was chosen as a candidate from this association.

"I think, because, firstly, I am a candidate not from the Communist Party, but from all left-patriotic forces<…>Because it will unite the entire leftist opposition," Grudinin explained the choice of the Communists on the air of the "Evening with Vladimir Solovyov" program of the Russia 1 TV channel. At the same time, he called Zyuganov's decision "wise", who "persuaded the party members to take this particular step."

"People must understand that the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is being renewed, the left forces are uniting around a single candidate and they want to win these elections so that the life of ordinary people, I mean pensioners, children, employees of various institutions, entrepreneurs, is better than it was actually," the candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation explained the alignment of political forces.

Small state farm - all over the country

At the same time, on the air of one of the TV shows, Grudinin expressed confidence that he would be able to "transfer a small state farm to the whole country." However, he admitted that with the possible future implementation of socialist ideology in Russia, it is necessary to carry out "work on the mistakes" in relation to the experience of the Soviet Union.

“There were mistakes in the Soviet Union, I’m not saying that it was all perfect. But I want it to be like in China: that if a person stole, then they will return him along with the money back, and he knows that there will be an inevitable punishment. I want, so that the tariffs of our energy companies do not suck money out of the pockets of entrepreneurs and residents," the non-partisan candidate from the Communist Party shared his aspirations.

Most of the election program "20 steps of Pavel Grudinin" is devoted specifically to economic measures. Thus, if he wins the election, he promises to refuse to participate in the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as to nationalize strategically important and backbone industries, electricity, railways, communication systems, and leading banks.

As for foreign policy, on the air of the 60 Minutes program on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, the director of Sovkhoz said that Russia needs a "fundamental" idea that would "unite" everyone, so that other countries, by analogy with the Soviet Union, "would like to come to us ". "We are indeed a great power," he concluded his speech in the program.

In pre-election speeches, Pavel Grudinin repeatedly spoke in favor of the rehabilitation of the name of Joseph Stalin and his role in the history of modern Russia, as well as for the return of the death penalty.

Now Pavel Grudinin is already a registered candidate for the presidency of Russia, who is quite successfully gaining his electorate. He appeared in the election race quite suddenly, pushing the "old-timers" of the elections - Zhirinovsky, Yavlinsky and Zyuganov, opposing himself to the main rival of all candidates - Putin.

What do we know about this policy? Today we will analyze in more detail who this nominee is, whether he can become the head of our state.

Registration with the CEC

Grudinin for the post of head of state was proposed by the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov. He defeated many politicians, among them Yuri Boldyrev, an ardent supporter of the unification of all national-patriotic and socially oriented forces.

Officially, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation nominated Pavel Grudinin for the presidential election on December 23, 2017. Five days later, the nominee submits documents to the CEC, and the next day they were approved. The politician was registered as a candidate for the presidency of the Russian Federation on January 12, 2018.

Biography

The date of birth of the possible president of Russia since 2018 is October 20, 1960. Parents are ordinary workers. Yes, and Pavel himself studied as a mechanical engineer in order to work with his family in the future for the benefit of his native state farm. A few years will pass, and Grudinin will rise from the head of the workshop to the director of ZAO Lenin State Farm.

Now this applicant has already received another higher legal education, got married and is raising two sons and two daughters. He tries not to talk too much about his personal life, but it is known that one of his sons runs two restaurants and cafes, and the second heads the rental department at the state farm. The daughters are still small and go to kindergarten. An even more detailed biography of Grudinin is available on a separate page.

Please note: the politician is still the head of the state farm and receives about 20 million rubles a year from it.

Political activity

As already mentioned, Grudinin began his career as the head of the workshop in 1982. Eight years later, he became the deputy head of the state farm, and after another five, the head, which gave him the opportunity to gain a deputy in the Moscow Regional Duma.

In the year 2000, Grudinin was Putin's confidant in the presidential elections. Now he is his opponent in the same elections. In an interview, the politician said that he was a legal adviser to the head of state.

Until 2011, he was successfully re-elected to the Moscow Regional Duma as a deputy from the United Russia party, until in the tenth year he left the party and tried to become the head of his native Leninsky district. Then, in 2011, Grudinin tried to be nominated again as a deputy, but already from the KPFR, but suddenly a note appeared in the Russian Reporter with an interview with a politician about his business, tied to a state farm, in which the Moscow Regional Court found signs of extremism.

These events are still rather strange, because later the charges against the politician were dropped for lack of reason to assume that they had a basis. The Supreme Court confirmed that in the interview, Grudinin's words were distorted, moreover, the ban on participation in the political life of the country in the form of a nominee in the elections remained with the politician for several more years.

Over the past three years, Grudinin ran for the State Duma and the Moscow Regional Duma in the Lyubertsy district, but both times were unsuccessful. However, running in 2017 for the post of chairman of the deputy council of the city of Vidnoye, he won and is still its head.

Enough has been said about how Pavel Nikolaevich Grudinin ran for the 2018 elections.

Election program

Very often you can see the comments of ordinary people that Grudinin is not just a presidential candidate, but a nominee from the people. And this is quite understandable, because his entire election program is based on the fact that the tax system in our country is thought out irrationally - it creates a huge layer between the oligarchs and ordinary citizens of the Russian Federation.

Pavel Nikolayevich takes the restoration of Russia's economic sovereignty as the main direction of his program. His current performance is not at all satisfactory. You can read more about Grudinin's program on a separate page.

The politician believes that it is the support of farmers and financial investments in the private sector of the agricultural industry that can make the country's economy strong and independent of the "oil needle". It will also help solve the problem that about 90% of regions receive too little budget, in contrast to "subsidized" regions like Chechnya.

In general, the program is based on many political statements related to criticism of the authorities. For example, the process of social development in Russia has long been stopped, and the social sector is only being destroyed. For this area, Grudinin proposes an increase in pensions, the minimum wage and maternity capital. It is also necessary to improve the quality of education and healthcare, not forgetting about culture.

The main examples that this politician wants to follow in his government are Finland, Sweden and France. He says that he also wants to balance the market economy with the ideas of socialism by developing the social sector.

Chances of winning the election

It is quite difficult to talk about what chances Grudinin has to win this presidential election. The politician suddenly burst into the fray when very few people knew about him.

According to the results of opinion polls, his popularity is declining. Some political scientists attribute this to one feature noticed by Medialogy and Golos in the rotation of the most popular TV channels in our country. From December 4, 2017 to January 25, 2018, Pavel Nikolayevich was ranked fourth among all candidates by mention in news stories, while in a negative sense - first place.

In general, as part of the campaign, Grudinin held a debate with Vladimir Zhirinovsky. He also began traveling around the country to visit at least 10 subjects of our federation and communicate with the electorate. A huge plus can be called the largest mention on the Internet. For example, videos with his personality are released every day, although there are many negative ones among them.

Users of social networks noticed a large influx of so-called “bots”, who wrote the same phrase in the comments: “I never went to the polls, but this time I will definitely go to vote for Grudinin. People's Candidate! It is impossible to say exactly who provoked such an attack.

Pavel Nikolayevich was not involved in dubious situations that discredited his reputation. He spent most of his life as a politician, he has quite a lot of experience in the highest government bodies. Even if he loses the presidential election, this candidate will be able to continue his political career in another high position.

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