Many Russian politicians began their journey as members of the CPSU and responsible hardware workers. When circumstances required it, they instantly rebuilt and began to act in new realities, while not forgetting about their interests.
Ramadan Abdulatipov also belonged to this galaxy of reforged communists, who once headed ideological work under the USSR, fought along with other members of the Supreme Council against Yeltsin, and then changed his position and sided with the first president of the country. The politician worked as Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and President of Dagestan.
Soviet period
The biography of Ramazan Abdulatipov includes the entire history of the country in the second half of the 20th century. Born in 1946 in a large family of a collective farm chairman in Dagestan. He is an Avar by nationality. At the end of school, he entered a medical school, graduated with a diploma of a medical assistant. After working for some time in the district clinic, Ramazan Abdulatipov drafted into the army, where he served from 1966 to 1970.
After the transfer to the reserve, the former foreman of the medical service changes several professions, having worked as a fireman, sports official and head of a medical center. In 1972, Ramazan Abdulatipov began his dizzying career, which, like everyone at that time, meant joining the CPSU. He organizes Komsomol work, then heads the ideological department of the Tlyaratinsky district committee.
Along the way, the young communist receives an extramural higher education at the Department of History at the University of Dagestan.
After graduating from postgraduate studies at Leningrad State University, Ramazan Abdulatipov goes to the all-Union level and moves to Murmansk, where he has also been engaged in campaigning for ten years and teaches scientific communism at the Murmansk Higher Maritime College.
The peak of his career in the Soviet period was the election of a Dagestan to the Supreme Council in 1990, where he subsequently became chairman of the Council of Nationalities.
The nineties
1991 was a decisive year both in the life of the whole country and in the biography of Ramadan Abdulatipov. He opposes the coup by the State Emergency Committee and is among the deputies who vote for the approval of the Bialowieza agreements and the dismantling of the USSR. In the same 1991, the Avar Abdulatipov, together with the Chechen Khasbulatov, participated in the resolution of the interethnic conflict in Dagestan.
The harmonious relations of the first president of Russia and the Supreme Council by 1993 sharply worsened.
The struggle for power resulted in a siege of the parliament building and the subsequent armed assault. In those days, Ramazan Abdulatipov was among the defenders of the White House, but he subsequently changed his position and took the side of Yeltsin, thereby saving his political career.
The reward for loyalty was high positions in the cabinet of ministers at various premieres. Dagestan was the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Affairs. The former communist changed his party affiliation several times, being a member of various short-lived movements, until he joined the ranks of United Russia.
2000 years
It seemed that in the late nineties, a veteran of domestic politics was disappearing, he lost his ministerial posts, photos of Ramazan Abdulatipov began to disappear from the pages of print media. Nevertheless, in 2000 he became a member of the Federation Council and performed senatorial duties until 2005.
After the end of the parliamentary powers, a person with an eastern mentality is sent as an ambassador to Tajikistan, where he represents the interests of Russia until 2009. After diplomatic work, Ramazan Abdulatipov returned to the field of higher education and held the post of rector of MGUKI.
The political career of the academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences resumes in 2013, when he was approved by the parliament of Dagestan as president of the republic.
Since then, he is the permanent head of the North Caucasian republic. The politician who worked for a long time at the federal level, Abdulatipov, according to the leadership’s plan, was to rise above the clan and group struggle for power in Dagestan and unite society. Upon taking office, he outlined a number of strategic programs for the accelerated development of the republic and the eradication of corruption.
