Many, including those with little interest in politics, viewers, familiar with Zatulin Konstantin Fedorovich - deputy of the State Duma, political scientist and TV presenter. His calm soft voice is pleasant to listen to, he leads the conversation always with reason, unobtrusive and interesting.
Konstantin Zatulin. Biography
The future politician was born on September 7, 1958 in the capital of Adjara - the city of Batumi. About his father - the Don Cossack Zatulin Fedor Ivanovich - speak of as a prototype of Lanovoy in the legendary film "Officers".
In the twenties, Fyodor Ivanovich began serving as a simple Red Army soldier, and graduated as colonel of the border troops of the State Security Committee as chief of staff of the Turkestan border district. His total service life was 35 years. After retiring, he headed the Sochi City Beach Authority. He died in 1981.
About mother - Zatulina Vera Ivanovna (nee Fedorova) - it is known that her parents were Rostov rich bourgeois who had a shoe shop. Before her death in 1978, she was paralyzed for about a decade, as she had previously had a stroke.
Konstantin in the family was born the very last, third child. After leaving school (in 1975), he tried to enter one of the faculties of MGIMO, but could not, and got a job at Sochigorbytprokat as a designer.
The following year, he applied for a full-time department of the History Department of Moscow State University, failed to enter due to lack of points, so Zatulin Konstantin Fedorovich began to study in absentia.
The period of study at Moscow State University
In September 1977, Zatulin was transferred to the full-time department of the Department of History of the CPSU of the Faculty of History. This was done on the basis of an official petition signed by Deputy Yu. V. Andropov, Chairman of the USSR State Security Committee.
During his studies, he served as secretary of ideology at the faculty committee of the Komsomol.
Zatulin immediately joined the operational Komsomol detachment, showing considerable activity. As a result, he was entrusted with the post of commissar in the faculty detachment, in 1986 he was already the commander of the detachment of the entire university.
Since 1981, Zatulin Konstantin Fedorovich became a graduate student at Moscow State University, after which he received a red diploma. The dissertation was written on the topic of party leadership in industry in the 1965-1980s under the academic leadership of Tetyushev Vladimir Ilyich.
As noted by Zatulin in one of the election leaflets in 1990, at first he failed to defend his dissertation, as they gave a sharp assessment of the situation in the industrial sector of the state, which required a restructuring of the administration. He managed to do this only in 1987.
Vigorous activity
From 1984 to 1991, Zatulin Konstantin Fedorovich was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Due to the fact that he was an active participant in the operational detachment, despite the failure to defend his dissertation, he managed to save a place in the postgraduate student dormitory, which occupied part of the main building of Moscow State University in the Lenin Mountains region. He was considered a master in the repair of elevators of the University’s Office of Economic Operations, although he actually headed the opera detachment.
In 1987 he was taken to the Central Committee of the Komsomol as an assistant to the Secretary of the Central Committee and political observer Joseph Ordzhonikidze. He worked there in 1990. Komsomol helped Zatulin with a permanent residence permit and an apartment in the capital.
In 1988, the Soviet Association of Young Historians was created with Sergei Stankevich and Evgeny Kozhokin. The curator of this process from the Komsomol was Zatulin Konstantin Fedorovich. His contacts at that time were quite extensive, in particular, he created the so-called Komsomol economy - centers for scientific and technical youth creativity.
12/12/1987, although Zatulin left the opera detachment, he led the dispersal of university student activists who supported Yeltsin, who had been removed from the post of first secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee.
The period of the end of perestroika
In early 1989, on the basis of youth creativity centers, they created an Association, which included young leaders of industrial enterprises. The post of executive director of the Association was taken by Zatulin Konstantin Fedorovich, whose photo often began to flicker in the media.
The role of the honorary president of this structure went to Gavriil Popov, and one of the leaders to Mikhail Bocharov. By 1990, it became the All-Union Association of Enterprise Directors, and by the end of 1991 it had become the International Association of Enterprise Directors with Mark Masarsky as president. The post of its general director was taken by Konstantin Fedorovich Zatulin, whose biography increasingly passed from the economic to the political plane.
He actively supported the leadership of the Moscow Association of Voters. On the eve of large demonstrations organized by democratic forces, he helped massively propagate leaflets.
Zatulin was a participant in the 1990 conference, during which they created a candidate bloc called "Democratic Russia".
At the beginning of 1990, Moskovsky Komsomolets covered the activities of the operational Komsomol detachment of Moscow State University, including reports on reports from members of the detachment addressed to its leader, which revealed the political unreliability of some students.
Zatulin published the answer that the appearance of such reports was a personal initiative of individual "figures", whom he got rid of, removing them from the ranks of the detachment.
First unsuccessful campaigning attempts
In early April 1990, Zatulin made an attempt to run for election in the Sovetsky District (district under number 391) as a member of the Moscow Soviet.
He chose Gavriil Popov and Sergey Stankevich as proxies, and there was an agitation for him by Nikolai Travkin and the district Society of the Disabled, whom he had previously helped with financing.
At first, Zatulin acted as the only democratic candidate in the district, but later the Memorial intervened, and Sergey Vasiliev was added to it. Nevertheless, a flyer was posted in every mailbox throughout the constituency with information that Zatulin was the only democratic candidate.
Many leaflets were also posted on the streets, their number was a record for this election campaign. Most of the votes were cast for Zatulin’s candidacy, but since the district as a whole received less than 50 percent of the population, the election results were not recognized.
At the repeated autumn elections in the same year, Zatulin came forward in the above constituency. A similar option was not allowed at that time, but an exception was made in this case.
The electorate again showed passivity, the election results were not recognized again.
Participation in the commodity exchange
Joseph Ordzhonikidze, being the deputy head of the Moscow City Executive Committee, helped Zatulin in May 1990 organize the first officially registered exchange in the state - MTB (Moscow Commodity Exchange). Among the organizers were also Grigory Poleshchuk, Mark Masarsky and Yuri Milyukov.
Among the founders of this project, one could mention the Association of Young Directors, as well as structures such as the Union of Centers for Scientific and Technical Youth Creativity and the Glavsnab at the Moscow City Executive Committee.
Zatulin Konstantin Fedorovich worked in the Exchange Committee and at the same time was a co-chair on the exchange.
The Moscow Commodity Exchange, which was created earlier, created by Konstantin Borov, had to be renamed due to the lack of its official registration. She became the Russian Commodity Exchange.
In the same period, Zatulin created a brokerage firm "Robrok", which he headed.
From March to June 1991, Konstantin Zatulin, whose biography at that time was inextricably linked with the exchange, was engaged in the organization of MBS (Interregional Exchange Union).
Together with Konstantin Borov, he became the co-chair of MBS. A year later, in connection with the contradictions between the two exchanges, Borovoy had to leave the exchange union. All power was concentrated in the hands of Zatulin, whose candidacy was approved by the congress. The Union, after a series of renaming, was called the International Exchange and Commercial Union.
Entrepreneurs and politics
In 1992, a group of entrepreneurs, which in addition to Zatulin included M. Khodorkovsky, V. Gusinsky, V. Vinogradov, M. Masarsky, Yu. Milyukov, organized the "Entrepreneurial Political Initiative-92". Representatives of this association at the Seventh Congress of People’s Deputies said that a compromise between the branches of government was needed. In their opinion, direct presidential rule and congresses of deputies should be abolished, as well as protectionism of domestic business should be addressed.
Since 1993, Zatulin Konstantin Fedorovich - Member of the State Duma. He passed from the union of PRES.
At the end of 1995, the PRES faction expelled him from his ranks, so he was put forward in parliament on the list of associations of the Congress of Russian Communities, as well as in the Tuapse District, but failed again.
In 1996, Zatulin set about creating the Institute of the CIS countries, the founders of which were several Russian ministries, Moscow higher education institutions and the city hall.
The scientific council of the newly created institution was headed by Andranik Migranyan, and Zatulin Konstantin Fedorovich - director of the Institute of the CIS countries.
Since December 1997, Zatulin was appointed assistant head of the Moscow administration.
SPD "Power"
In mid-1998, Zatulin Konstantin Fedorovich joined the Social-Patriotic Movement "Power". The Russian question has always been his skate. Just during this period, Alexander Rutsky was expelled from the "Power", who at one time created it.
Zatulin immediately became a member of the National Movement Committee and its executive committee, and in November the Sixth Congress of the Power entrusted him with the post of chairman.
He inspired the entry into the Luzhkov "Fatherland", remaining in the Zyuganov’s People’s Patriotic Union of Russia.
In 1998, Derzhava became one of the founders of the Fatherland. Zatulin entered his Central Council. In 2000, the Power was disbanded due to internal contradictions.
Media work
Since 2002, Zatulin began to be involved in weekly programs on the TV Center channel.
Great popularity among a certain audience was won by the journalistic program "Materik". The host of the TV project, Konstantin Fedorovich Zatulin, organized a discussion of the problems arising in the post-Soviet space.
A lot of interesting things could be learned from Political Cuisine, Cases of Principle. Often Zatulin is invited to participate in political discussions organized by various central television channels, where he always convincingly and reasonably defends his point of view.
He has published many articles in periodicals in our country and abroad. Books have been published on the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, on the development of Russian-Abkhaz relations, etc.
