In 2017, the President of Russia pretty much renewed the gubernatorial staff, dismissing many heads of regions. The most ineffective administrators, who were supposed to clear the way for more competent employees, were hit. All political scientists thought that the resignation of the governor of the Kursk region Alexander Mikhailov in 2017 was inevitable. However, the “unsinkable” regional leader managed to survive large-scale cleaning. The governor of the Kursk region has been sitting confidently in his comfortable chair since 2000, having many years of experience in the apparatus struggle in the CPSU, and in the work of the State Duma of two convocations.
early years
Alexander Nikolaevich Mikhailov was born in the village of Kosorzha, in the Shchigrovsky district of the Kursk region, in 1951. After graduating from school, he managed to work at the Kshensky sugar factory, after which he decided to take up education. To do this, Alexander went to Kharkov, where he successfully entered the local institute of railway transport.
It was the university that became the political cradle for the future governor of the Kursk region, here he became interested in public work and soon grew to the Komsomol leader. In the third year, Mikhailov becomes deputy secretary of the Komsomol committee of the faculty, and a year later - a candidate for party membership.
Then he firmly decided to pursue a career as a hardware leader, but before that he had to fulfill the obligatory minimum of any party worker — to serve in the army and gain at least some work experience.
So, in 1974, Alexander Nikolaevich began to fulfill his mandatory program, having gone to serve in the Armed Forces. Demobilized, he returns to his native Kursk, where for a short time he works as a senior inspector of cars in a local car depot.
Political career in Soviet times
Having received in his profile a mandatory record of labor activity in the world, Mikhailov could devote himself to responsible work in government. From 1976 to 1979, he worked in the Kursk region on Komsomol work, headed the Komsomol district committees of the Dmitrov and Shchigrov districts.
In 1979, Mikhailov went to work in the Dmitrovsky district committee of the CPSU, becoming the head of the department. The time of the rapid careers of the party officials of the Stalin era was far behind, in the peaceful stagnant years, the apparatchiks climbed the ranks slowly and unhurriedly.
So Alexander Nikolaevich peacefully worked in his modest position for four whole years before waiting for a raise. The failed mechanical engineer was appointed second secretary of the Shchigrovsky district party committee, and by the end of the eighties he became the first secretary.
Opposition deputy
Alexander Mikhailov never hid his negative attitude to reform attempts by Gorbachev and always publicly called his policy destructive for the party. It is logical that in the days of the August events he zealously supported the Emergency Committee. However, the putsch failed, and with it the Soviet Union failed along with the CPSU, of which Mikhailov was a member.
However, the political career of a native of Kosorzha was just beginning for real. He achieved the election of the chairman of the district council of deputies and successfully led him until the well-known events of 1993. At this time, the future governor of the Kursk region was a member of the Socialist Workers Party.
In 1993, Mikhailov decided to join the Communist Party, where he quickly moved into the front ranks. He passes to the Central Committee of the party, is successfully elected to the State Duma of the first convocation in 1993. Mikhailov seemed to find his place in life, he worked safely in parliament until 2000, when a decision matured in his head to return to his native region for great accomplishments.
