Konstantin Titov, whose biography is described in this article, is the ex-governor of the Samara region. He led the region for eight years. He was appointed governor first by B. Yeltsin, and then by V. Putin. He twice resigned on his own initiative.
Childhood
Konstantin Titov was born on October 30, 1944 in Moscow. His father was an employee of Glaucus. Konstantin Alekseevich had occasion to move to live in other cities several times. First, his father took the whole family to the Volgograd region, in the city of Kalach-on-Don. Then, in 1952, to the Vologda Oblast, in the city of Vytegra, and in 1653 to Tolyatti. There Alexey Sergeevich (father of Konstantin) received the position of head of department at Kuibyshevhydrostroy. A little later, already in Kuibyshev, he got a job as the chief engineer of the Council of Economic Councils.
Education
Konstantin graduated from high school in Stavropol-on-Volga in 1962 and continued his studies at the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute (now it is the Samara State Aerospace University). He graduated in 1968, becoming a mechanical engineer. From 1975 to 1978 he studied in full-time postgraduate study at the Department of Industrial Economics. Then he became a researcher.
Job
During his first year studies at the Kuibyshev Institute, Konstantin simultaneously worked as a milling machine operator at a local aircraft factory. After graduation, he received a referral to the same factory, but already as a flight mechanic for the flight test station. He worked in this position until 1970.
After graduating from graduate school, he began working at a planned institute. For 10 years, Konstantin Titov went through all the steps of the career ladder. He started as a junior research fellow, and subsequently began to lead a research laboratory in the Volga economic region. Konstantin Alekseevich dealt with the problems of the effectiveness of fixed assets, capital investments and new equipment. He was involved in the development of the bill on cooperation, adopted in 1987.
From 1988 to 1990, Titov worked as deputy director at the Informatics research and production center. Then he became a deputy of the Kuibyshev City Council of People's Deputies. After a couple of months already presided over it.
The beginning of party work
In 1969, Konstantin Titov, whose photo is in this article, became deputy secretary of the Komsomol at the Kuibyshev Aviation Plant. In 1970, he began to engage in Komsomol work in the city committee of the Komsomol, and became deputy head of the department for student youth. He was appointed head of the student city construction detachment. In 1973, Konstantin Alekseevich left the city committee and became secretary of the Komsomol at the Kuibyshev Planning Institute.
The rise of a political career
In 1991, on the day when the putsch GKChP occurred, he went on sick leave. He avoided participating in public events for several days. And on August 21, he began to urge the city authorities to implement the decrees of Yeltsin, president of the RSFSR, declaring the unconstitutional creation of the State Emergency Committee. As a result, Titov was appointed on August 31, 1991 to the post of head of the administration of the Samara region.
In 1993, when there was a confrontation between the president and the Supreme Council, Konstantin Alekseevich again sided with Yeltsin. He condemned the attempt of the Samara Regional Council to declare Decree No. 1400 unconstitutional.
In 1992, Samara Region Governor Konstantin Titov became a member of the political council of the Russian Movement for Democratic Reforms (RDR). In 1993, this organization almost ceased operations. But Titov met with scientists from the environment of E. Gaidar. And he joined the FER (Democratic Choice of Russia) party.
He joined the political council, and in 1995 he was delegated by E. Gaidar to the NDR party ("Our Home is Russia"), which was created by V. Chernomyrdin. Konstantin Alekseevich left FER. In the spring of 1995, he became the head and deputy chairman of the Samara branch of the party. From 1996 to 2002, he headed the Committee on Budget, Taxes, Customs and Currency Regulation, Finance and Banking.
In 1996, Titov was elected by a majority of votes to the post of governor of the Samara region. In 1997, he resigned from the post of Deputy Prime Minister of Russia. Konstantin Alekseevich was considered by many to be the successor to Yeltsin. And Titov repeatedly criticized his rival - V. Putin. It was him that Yeltsin officially later called his successor.
Upset by the election results, Konstantin Titov resigned from the governor's post. But when the early elections of the head of the Samara region began, he again put forward his candidacy and won 53% of the vote.
Titov was the chairman of the RPSD party, then the SDPR. In 2004, Konstantin Alekseevich appeared in the case of illegal allocation of budgetary funds for the Samara Provincial Trading House. But Titov was reclassified from the accused as a witness. And he was able to retain the gubernatorial post thanks to the new appointment to it by President V. Putin.
In 2005, Titov became a member of the United Russia party. In 2007, voluntarily resigned from the governorship. And he became a member of the Federation Council from the Samara region. From 2007 to 2008, he was Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Social Policy. Then, health care was added to the same position. Since 2008, he is a member of the Commission for Interaction with the Accounts Chamber of Russia.
A family
The ex-governor of the Samara region Konstantin Titov is married to Znamenskaya Natalia Borisovna. In 1974, their son Alex was born. He successfully graduated from the Samara State Economic Academy. In 1998, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Gazbank. Konstantin Alekseevich is a happy grandfather who is now raising two grandchildren - Konstantin and Ivan.
