Bratsk district: let’s have sons-in-law! He is the chosen one…

After the election of the mayor of Bratsk, the regional United Russia formed another black personnel hole in the Bratsk region. Because the party in power does not have any bench there either. In this lack of fish, even a loser is tipped for mayor of the district Sergei Serebrennikov.

And the head of Vikhorevka is named among the main contenders for the post of district mayor Nikolai Druzhinin. Well, of course, he looks so much like Trinity from The Matrix! So he is the chosen one. Apparently, this is the reasoning of the authors of this hypothetical creature.

Nikolai Yuryevich first became head of Vikhorevka in 2017 at the age of 31. A number of circumstances contributed to this. First of all, the residents are simply tired. Vikhorevka has long been a battleground for regional and city (read separatist in the municipal sense) authorities. Accordingly, the city administration passed from one to another, like a burnt and bullet-ridden flag. Then a person from the GUFSIN system, the former head of LIU-27, sat in the chair of the head Gennady Pulyaev (this institution houses prisoners with active forms of tuberculosis).

Gennady Pulyaev

Apparently, in the penitentiary system everything is managed more simply and precisely, since Gennady Kuzmich did not fit into the contradictory free reality and soon unfrozen the city in the harshest winter time. Then-Gov. Sergey Levchenko he was kicked out, after which early elections took place.

Druzhinin ran from the unknown “Growth Party”, but managed to overtake his closest competitor by a thousand votes, becoming the head of the city immediately from the position of personnel officer at Russian Railways. The people liked him: unnoticed in scandals and strife, young, handsome.

Where did a rather reserved guy get the means and skills not to put all his political eggs in one basket? Where, finally, does the urgent desire to penetrate into power come from?

It’s just that Nikolai Yuryevich is the son-in-law of a local entrepreneur in the housing and communal services sector, Pavel Shaletov, who, being a cunning, experienced person and having observed the entire difficult recent history of self-government in Vikhorevka, managed to move his son-in-law into the resulting personnel vacuum in time. In such conditions, there were quite enough resources, although Pavel Vasilyevich is not exactly an oligarch (the Shaletov family has Our City LLC, which worked in the garbage sector).

Pavel Shaletov, photo 2010

As a result, the chair, which his predecessors took with great effort, money and nerves, went to Nikolai Yuryevich almost for nothing. Well, my father-in-law spent some of his money on campaign materials. But what a profit! Powers in the field of housing and communal services belong to the city administration. You can simply curl up and unfold in joy. Soon after his election, the young head tried, without any competition, to transfer the city boiler house that provides heat to most of the city to a private company, however, the prosecutor’s office caught on in time. Actually, this is all a separate big topic.

But, in fairness, there is still a certain plus for the city. Apparently, under the sensitive supervision of an experienced relative, Druzhinin prevented disasters in Vikhorevka on the level of the Pulyaev apocalypse in 2016.

And of course, in light of the local government reform, which eliminates independent heads of the first level, including Vikhorevka, it would be nice for Druzhinin to rise to the second, district level. Moreover, a bunch of white rabbits flash before your eyes in the service of the “bears”, who are trying to guide Nikolai Yuryevich into the even larger black personnel hole that has formed.

But the father-in-law is not omnipotent and is far from young.

But the rest are distributed over a vast territory, in 23 rural settlements (and in almost sixty settlements). With a high probability, in the foreseeable future the district will be persuaded to do the above-mentioned liquidation of the first level of self-government, and local leaders will have to be sought and appointed. This requires extensive life and political experience, knowledge of the area, leadership qualities, talent in psychology, a certain toughness and, at the same time, communication skills (and Druzhinin is a rather reserved person)… There are many residents in the city, but they are all concentrated in more or less local areas place and are united by more or less homogeneous living conditions. And in the region, one village receives energy hourly from a diesel station, in another the boiler house abandoned by Ilim, which abandoned its social obligations, is breathing its last, in the third the only road leading to civilization in the spring and autumn is carried out in such a way that only an all-terrain vehicle will pass, and in the winter it is swept away. ..

Part of the Bratsk district is located beyond the waters of the Bratsk reservoir; the maintenance of crossings is a separate issue

Or will it be easier for someone (especially the mayor who is responsible for everything) if, for example, a school is unfrozen due to unsuccessful leadership in a village with 300 rather than 30,000 residents? And the leadership must be successful, since most of the infrastructure facilities in the rural part of the region are outdated and are supported solely by hopelessness, careful care, miracles of thrift and thrift, and a lot of luck. And by and large there is almost no money. Only to support the pants. Again, the city mayor has no shortage of staff. At least at a relatively high level. And in rural areas, the personnel shortage is severe and widespread. Almost everything is irreplaceable.

In such conditions, Serebrennikov is truly better. You can’t deny him hardware experience.