They talked about him in the last years of the existence of the USSR. At the congresses of people's deputies, he and his colleague N. Ivanov looked like Don Quixote and Sancha Panza, who decided to challenge the entire corruption system in the ranks of the CPSU.
Telman Gdlyan: biography
On December 20, 1940, in the village of Bolshoi Samsar, Akhalkalaki Municipality (Samtskhe-Javakheti), a son was born to the family of a peasant Khoren Gdlyan (Armenian), who was named Telman, most likely, in honor of Telman Ernst - the main anti-fascist Germany. In addition to the small Body (as his mother affectionately called him), seven more brothers grew up in the family. When the boy was 7 years old, that is, in 1947, two years after the end of the war, the family decided to move closer to the sea, to Abkhazia. Telman spent his childhood and adolescence in the southern town of Sukhumi, here he went to school, where he studied well and showed himself in every way as an inquisitive and diligent student. Over the course of all 10 years of study, his photograph with a signature - Telman Khorenovich Gdlyan flaunted on the board of honor. The young man was the pride of the school; he was one of the first among peers to be admitted to the Komsomol.
Adulthood
After leaving school, Telman Gdlyan was drafted into the Soviet Army and went to serve in the Saratov region. Here, for excellent service and discipline, he was nominated as a candidate for members of the CPSU. In 1962, having passed the exam, he joined the ranks of the Communist Party. After serving in the army, he did not want to return to Abkhazia, to his family, and got a job as a farm manager in a training plant in the city of Saratov. Here he entered the Kursk Law Institute and from 1967 to 1968 was chairman of the student political club.
Activities and a brilliant career
After graduation, having received a law degree, Gdlyan Telman Khorenovich was accepted to the post of investigator of the prosecutor's office in the Baryshsky region (Ulyanovsk region), and after 2 years he was transferred to the Zavolzhsky district of Ulyanovsk as well as an investigator. Here he was waiting for a wonderful career, after 2 years he was already a senior investigator of the Ulyanovsk prosecutor's office, where he worked for about 7 years, that is, until 1981. After that, he was appointed investigator for particularly important cases in the prosecutor's office of the Ulyanovsk Region, and two years later he was already a senior investigator for especially important cases under the Prosecutor General of the Soviet Union. He discovered the case of Johannes Hint. His rapid career growth is simply impressive, but many of his luck was envy. The number of ill-wishers grew every day. With the coming to power of Yuri Andropov and the beginning of perestroika, he was appointed head of the anti-corruption investigation team, which is investigating the so-called Uzbek case. As a result of this activity, the names of senior officials involved in this case were disclosed. Many of them were forced to resign and were even arrested, A. Adylov was one of them. Strange suicides were also committed, for example, by Ruzmet Gaipov and Davydov. After a successful operation, Telman Gdlyan was appointed responsible for the Churbanov case - Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev's son-in-law.
The clouds are gathering
Of course, the anti-corruption activities of Telman Khorenovich and his group were received with hostility, and soon charges and complaints about violations of the law fell on him. As a result, he was suspended from the investigation. At the same time, a commission was established to verify the activities of his group. As a result of the pressure, some of the defendants began to abandon their previous testimonies, while they admitted that they were under pressure during interrogations. Many of them were released from custody. Johannes Hint died in custody, but he was rehabilitated in 1989. Telman Gdlyan could not put up with what was happening, and he began his public appearances, during which he made statements that the highest nomenclature wants to curtail the Uzbek case and therefore wants to falsify the investigation. The most significant of them was the publication in the magazine “Spark” on the eve of the 19th conference of the Communist Party of the USSR, where T. Gdlyan publicly accused some conference delegates of committing corruption. Photos of seized valuables and jewelry were also published. His desperate step attracted ordinary people to him.
Political activity
In 1989, Telman Gdlyan and Nikolai Ivanov (deputy investigative group) were nominated as deputies of the USSR. He was elected in the Tushino district of Moscow, collecting about 87% of the vote. However, this did not prevent the USSR prosecutor's office from instituting charges against him and his deputy for violating the “lawfulness” of the investigation, as well as for embarking on the path of “corruption”. However, before that, in 1990 Telman Gdlyan was expelled from the party. A year later, he was elected People's Deputy of the USSR and ASSR, and also became a member of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union. In 1991, Telman Khorenovich created the People’s Party of the Russian Federation and the All-Russian Fund for Mercy and the Protection of Human Rights. In the same year, he was arrested by members of the State Security Committee.
Historical essay
On the day the coup took place, four soldiers knocked on the door of the Moscow apartment of the famous countrywide investigator T. Gdlyan. They had an arrest warrant. He was taken to one of the military units near Moscow. There some colonel of secret services made an interrogation to him. He was primarily interested in what Telman Gdlyan thinks about the events that are taking place and whether or even he knows who is behind all this. He was detained for 3 days and released as soon as the passions subsided. The 76-year-old Telman Gdlyan today tells how they wanted to involve him in the ranks of the State Emergency Committee. But then he did not want to side with them.
New time
From 1992 to 1994, he headed the political block "New Russia", was a member of the public chamber under the President of the Russian Federation. From 1995 to 1999, he was again elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation for the Grandmother's constituency of the city of Moscow and immediately became a member of the committee on international affairs.
A family
Telman Gdlyan, whose photo is posted in this article, is married to Susanna Hakobovna. She is a general practitioner by profession. He has two children. My son’s name is Martin. He was born in 1981. Today he is the deputy head of the inter-district investigation department of the Butyrsky district of Moscow. Gdlyan’s daughter, Angela, has followed in her father’s footsteps and is a lawyer. Since 2011, she has held various leadership positions in the Russian Federation.
Kremlin business
Telman Gdlyan accidentally made history. It all started with the fact that after graduation he chose the work of not an attorney, but an investigator. He explains his choice by the fact that it would be difficult for him to put up with everything that the client would say on the basis of the principle “the client is always right”, and also he would not like to discuss the size of his fee. Working in the investigative department of Ulyanovsk, he conducted all the investigations very thoroughly and with theoretical reinforcement. Here he was noticed and transferred to Moscow to the department for particularly important matters. His first case in Moscow was the arrest of an Estonian Johannes Hint on charges of damaging the state on an especially large scale. Hint later died in a prison cell, but Gdlyan does not consider himself guilty of his death.
Uzbek business: some more history
According to Telman Khorenovich, in 1983, at the end of July, for the first time after he began to work in the bodies, he decided to take a vacation. But there it was, he was summoned to the authorities and ordered to fly to Uzbekistan, Bukhara, in the case of Akhmat Muzzafarov (head of the OBKhSS) and Sh. Kudratov (Shody Kudratov). Gdlyan could barely contain his indignation: since when has the prosecutor general's office been engaged in bribes of the middle hand? However, when he learned about the scale of the values seized from them, everything became clear to him. Muzaffarov’s cash, the colonel of the police, was worth one and a half million rubles. In Uzbekistan, Melkumov, the head of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR, was engaged in this matter. He was a comrade-in-arms of the new Secretary General Yu. Andropov, and on his instructions he decided to challenge the situation that reigned in the country during the reign of Brezhnev. They decided to start anti-corruption actions from Uzbekistan, where before that 5 regional clans were in charge of all affairs, of course, with the support of Sh. Rashidov, to whom everyone “unfastened” the dachshund. As it turned out later, the title of Hero of Socialist Labor could be obtained for 1.5 million rubles, and the post of the first secretary of the district committee from 200, 000 to 300, 000 rubles. The same cost the post of rector of the university. And this meant that for admission to the institute it was necessary to pay 2-5 thousand rubles. The most profitable industry was “white gold” - cotton. It was from here that Gdlyan had to start. Prior to this, “auditors” from Moscow in Uzbekistan were received with traditional oriental hospitality. You already know how everything turned out. A year after the death of Brezhnev, Rashidov, as you know, committed suicide. Apparently, he failed to “agree” with the new Secretary General. Of course, today many say that if Yu. Andropov remained longer at the helm of power, then a lot would go in a different direction.
