After the Bratsk mayoral elections, the regional United Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) party has another black hole in personnel in the Bratsk district. Because the ruling party has no bench there either. In this lack of fish, even the loser is being tipped for the district mayor’s post Sergei Serebrennikov.
And the head of Vikhorevka is named among the main contenders for the post of district mayor Nikolay Druzhinin. Of course, look how similar he is to Trinity from “The Matrix”! That means he is the chosen one. Apparently, that is how the authors of this hypothetical creature reason.
Nikolay Yuryevich first ran for the post of head of Vikhorevka in 2017 at the age of 31. A number of circumstances contributed to this. First of all, the residents were simply tired. Vikhorevka had long been a battlefield between district and city (read: separatist in the municipal sense) authorities. Accordingly, the city administration passed from one to the other like a burnt and shot-through flag. Then a former head of the GUFSIN system, the former head of LIU-27, sat in the head’s chair. Gennady Pulyaev (This institution houses convicts with active forms of tuberculosis).
Apparently, everything is managed more simply and definitely in the penitentiary system, since Gennady Kuzmich did not fit into the contradictory free reality and soon defrosted the city in the harshest winter time. The then governor Sergey Levchenko he was kicked out, after which early elections took place.
Druzhinin ran for the unknown “Party of Growth”, but managed to beat his closest competitor by a thousand votes, becoming the head of the city straight from the position of personnel officer at “Russian Railways”. The people liked him: not known for scandals and strife, young, attractive.
Where did this rather reserved guy get the means and skills not to put all his political eggs in one basket? Where, finally, did he get the urgent desire to penetrate into power?
It’s just that Nikolai Yuryevich is the son-in-law of a local entrepreneur in the housing and utilities sector, Pavel Shaletov, who, being a smart, experienced person who had observed the entire difficult modern history of self-government in Vikhorevka, managed to move his son-in-law into the personnel vacuum that had formed in time. In such conditions, there were quite enough resources, although Pavel Vasilyevich is not exactly an oligarch (the Shaletov family owns OOO Nash Gorod, which operated in the waste sector).
As a result, the chair that his predecessors had taken with great effort, money and nerves, went to Nikolai Yuryevich almost for nothing. Well, his father-in-law spent some money on campaign materials. But what a profit! The city administration has authority over housing and communal services. You can simply fold up and unfold in joy. Soon after his election, the young head tried to transfer the city boiler house, which provided heat to most of the city, to a private owner without any competition, although the prosecutor’s office caught on in time. Actually, all this is a separate big topic.
But, to be fair, there is still a certain plus for the city. Apparently, under the watchful supervision of an experienced relative, Druzhinin did not allow catastrophes on the level of Pulyaev’s apocalypse in 2016 in Vikhorevka.
And of course, in light of the local government reform, which is eliminating independent heads of the first level, including Vikhorevka, it would be a good idea for Druzhinin to rise to the second level, the district level. Especially since a bunch of white rabbits are flashing before his eyes in the service of the “bears”, who are trying to lead Nikolai Yuryevich into the resulting even bigger black personnel hole.
But the father-in-law is not all-powerful and is no longer young.
But the rest are spread over a huge territory, in 23 rural settlements (and in almost six dozen populated areas). It is highly likely that in the foreseeable future the district will be persuaded to liquidate the first level of self-government, as mentioned above, and local leaders will have to be found and appointed. This requires extensive life and political experience, knowledge of the district, leadership qualities, talent in psychology, a certain toughness and at the same time communication skills (and Druzhinin is a rather withdrawn person)… There are many residents in the city, but they are all concentrated in a more or less local place and are united by more or less homogeneous living conditions. And in the district, one settlement receives energy from a diesel station on an hourly basis, in another, a boiler house abandoned by Ilim, which refused its social obligations, is breathing its last, in a third, the only road leading to civilization is so poorly maintained in the spring and fall that only an all-terrain vehicle can pass, and in the winter, it is snowed in…
Or will it be easier for someone (especially the mayor, who is responsible for everything) if, for example, a school defrosted due to unsuccessful management in a village with 300, not 30,000 residents? And the management must be successful, since most of the infrastructure facilities in the rural part of the district are outdated and are held solely by desperation, careful care, miracles of economy and thrift, and a lot of luck. And there is almost no money, by and large. Only to keep up the pace. Again, the city mayor has no shortage of personnel. At least, of a relatively high level. And in the rural part, the personnel shortage is severe and widespread. Almost everyone is irreplaceable.
In such conditions, Serebrennikov is really better. You can’t deny him hardware experience.