Ryabov Nikolai Timofeevich. Ryabov, Nikolai Timofeevich Library of the journal "Autonom" Petr Ryabov a brief history of anarchism

Diplomat.

Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Moldova (October 2004 - July 2007).

Graduated from the Agricultural College, Law Faculty of Rostov State University (evening department) in 1979.

He began his career as a tractor driver at the Budyonny stud farm.

1966-1971 - served in the Soviet Army.

1971-1973 - engineer at an agricultural engineering plant in the Rostov region.

1973-1990 - teacher, deputy director of the agricultural technical school in the village of Gigant, Rostov region.

1990-1993 - People's Deputy of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Council of the Republic of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Commission, member of the Supreme Council Committee on Legislation, Chairman of the subcommittee on legal support for economic reform, participated in the work of the Free Russia faction.

1993-1996 - Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of the Russian Federation.

1996-2000 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Czech Republic.

September 2000 - October 2004 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Azerbaijan.

By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of October 19, 2004, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Moldova; by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of July 27, 2007, he was relieved of his duties as Ambassador due to retirement.

Has the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation.

In 1999 he was awarded the gold medal named after. Franz Kafka on behalf of the European Foundation of the same name in Prague "for his contribution to the development of Russian-Czech cultural relations and assistance to Russian art in the Czech Republic."

"for services in the implementation of Russia's foreign policy and many years of diplomatic service" the President of the Russian Federation was thanked (Decree of May 26, 2007).

Speaks German.

Married, has a son.

He is interested in hunting, chess, and numismatics.

While running for people's deputies of the Russian Federation, he advocated for the separation of legislative, executive and judicial powers, for the transfer of full power to the Councils of People's Deputies, and for the abolition of the constitutional consolidation of the leading role of the CPSU. He spoke out for expanding the economic independence of enterprises and for providing workers with a share in the property of enterprises. He supported the idea of ​​transition to a market economy, but with government regulation. He called for the prevention of the use of the army in interethnic conflicts. He participated in the development and legal examination of most bills prepared and adopted by the Supreme Council of Russia. He opposed the holding of a referendum in April 1993, arguing that the institution of a referendum itself is not suitable for a federal state. After Boris Yeltsin’s victory in the April referendum, he criticized the leadership of the Supreme Council and deputies due to their reluctance to take into account its political results. After the Chairman of the Supreme Council R. Khasbulatov dissolved several “opposition” Committees to him, he accused him of striving for a dictatorship of personal power. He supported the Decree of President Yeltsin of September 21, 1993 on the dissolution of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Council, as contributing to the solution of the protracted crisis of power, and resigned from the post of Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council. He was immediately appointed chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation..

Graduated from Salsky Agricultural College.

1966-1971 - tractor driver of the stud farm named after. S. M. Budyonny (Salsky district, Rostov region).

1972-1973 - engineer at the Salskselmash plant.

In 1973 - master of industrial training and military director of school No. 78 in the village of Gigant, Rostov region.

1973-1990 - teacher, deputy director of the Salsky Agricultural College.

In 1979 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Rostov State University (evening department).

Political career

1990-1991 - Chairman of the subcommittee of the Committee on Legislation of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR.

From October 2, 1991 to December 23, 1992 - Chairman of the Council of the Republic of the Supreme Soviet of Russia.

From December 4, 1992 to September 23, 1993 - Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation.

CEC leadership

From September 24, 1993 to 1996 - Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.

He led the electoral process during the elections to the State Duma in 1995 and the presidential elections in Russia in 1996.

Diplomatic Service

November 12, 1996 - September 9, 2000 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Czech Republic.

September 9, 2000 - October 19, 2004 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Azerbaijan.

October 19, 2004 to July 27, 2007 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Moldova.

Awards

  • Medal “Defender of Free Russia” (August 5, 1994) - for the fulfillment of civic duty in defending democracy and the constitutional system on August 19-21, 1991, great contribution to the implementation of democratic reforms, strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples
  • Certificate of Honor from the President of the Russian Federation (December 12, 2008) - for active participation in the preparation of the draft Constitution of the Russian Federation and great contribution to the development of the democratic foundations of the Russian Federation
  • Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (December 5, 2001) - for his great contribution to the development and implementation of the State Automated System “Elections” and many years of conscientious work
  • Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (May 26, 2007) - for services in implementing the foreign policy of the Russian Federation and many years of diplomatic service
  • Honorary Worker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation - for many years of fruitful work in the Ministry
  • Order of Glory (Azerbaijan, 2004) - for services in the development of friendly relations between the two states during diplomatic activities in Azerbaijan
  • Order of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia in honor of Saints Cyril and Methodius Equal-to-the-Apostles (2009)
  • Order of the Republic (Transnistria, 2007) - for special services to the people of Transnistria and great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
  • Kafka Gold Medal (Kafka Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic, 1999) - for contribution to the development of Russian-Czech cultural relations and assistance to Russian art in the Czech Republic

Diplomatic rank

  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (November 12, 1996).

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Azerbaijan since September 2000; born December 9, 1946 in Salsk, Rostov region; graduated from the Agricultural College, Law Faculty of Rostov State University in 1979; He began his career as a tractor driver at a stud farm named after. Budyonny; 1966-1971 - served in the Soviet Army; 1971-1973 - engineer at an agricultural engineering plant in the Rostov region; 1973-1990 - teacher, deputy director of the agricultural technical school in the village of Gigant, Rostov region; 1990-1993 - People's Deputy of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Commission, member of the Supreme Council Committee on Legislation, Chairman of the subcommittee on legal support for economic reform, participated in the work of the Free Russia faction; 1993-1996 - Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of the Russian Federation; 1996-2000 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Czech Republic; has the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation; in 1999 he was awarded the gold medal named after. Franz Kafka on behalf of the European Foundation of the same name in Prague “for his contribution to the development of Russian-Czech cultural relations and assistance to Russian art in the Czech Republic”; speaks German; married, has a son; enjoys hunting, chess, and numismatics.

While running for people's deputies of the Russian Federation, he advocated for the separation of legislative, executive and judicial powers, for the transfer of full power to the Councils of People's Deputies, and for the abolition of the constitutional consolidation of the leading role of the CPSU. He spoke out for expanding the economic independence of enterprises and for providing workers with a share in the property of enterprises. He supported the idea of ​​transition to a market economy, but with government regulation. He called for preventing the use of the army in interethnic conflicts. Participated in the development and legal examination of most bills prepared and adopted by the Supreme Council of Russia. He opposed the holding of a referendum in April 1993 and argued that the institution of a referendum itself was not suitable for a federal state. After Boris Yeltsin’s victory in the April referendum, he criticized the leadership of the Supreme Council and deputies due to their reluctance to take into account its political results. After the Chairman of the Supreme Council R. Khasbulatov dissolved several “opposition” Committees to him, he accused him of striving for a dictatorship of personal power. He supported the Decree of President Yeltsin of September 21, 1993 on the dissolution of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Council, as contributing to the solution of the protracted crisis of power, and resigned from the post of Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council. He was immediately appointed chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.

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Predecessor: Alexander Viktorovich Blokhin Successor: Vasily Nikolaevich Istratov November 12, 1996 - September 9, 2000 Predecessor: Successor: Igor Sergeevich Savolsky
September 24, 1993 - 1996 The president: Boris Yeltsin Predecessor: Vasily Ivanovich Kazakov Successor: October 2, 1991 - December 23, 1992 Predecessor: Vladimir Borisovich Isakov Successor: Veniamin Sergeevich Sokolov Birth: 9th December(1946-12-09 ) (72 years old)
Salsk, Rostov region, RSFSR, USSR Education: Rostov State University Awards:

Nikolai Timofeevich Ryabov(born December 9, Salsk, Rostov region) - Russian statesman, diplomat.

Biography

Graduated from Salsky Agricultural College.

  • - Messrs. - tractor driver of the stud farm named after. S. M. Budyonny (Salsky district, Rostov region).
  • - Messrs. - engineer at the Salskselmash plant.
  • In the city - master of industrial training and military director of school No. 78 in the village of Gigant, Rostov region.
  • - Messrs. - teacher, deputy director of the Salsky Agricultural College.
  • In 1979 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Rostov State University (evening department).

Political career

CEC leadership

  • September 24 - November 14 - Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.

He led the electoral process during the elections to the State Duma and the presidential elections in 1996.

Diplomatic Service

Family

Married, has a son.

Awards

  • Medal “Defender of Free Russia” (August 5, 1994) - for the fulfillment of civic duty in protecting democracy and the constitutional system on August 19-21, 1991, great contribution to the implementation of democratic reforms, strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples
  • Certificate of Honor from the President of the Russian Federation (December 12, 2008) - for active participation in the preparation of the draft Constitution of the Russian Federation and great contribution to the development of the democratic foundations of the Russian Federation
  • December 5, 2001) - for his great contribution to the development and implementation of the State Automated System “Elections” and many years of conscientious work
  • Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (May 26, 2007) - for services to the implementation of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation and many years of diplomatic service
  • Honorary Worker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation - for many years of fruitful work in the Ministry
  • Order of Glory (Azerbaijan, 2004) - for services in the development of friendly relations between the two states during diplomatic activities in Azerbaijan
  • Order of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia in honor of Saints Cyril and Methodius Equal-to-the-Apostles (2009)
  • Order of the Republic (Transnistria, 2007) - for special services to the people of Transnistria and great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
  • Kafka Gold Medal (Kafka Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic, 1999) - for his contribution to the development of Russian-Czech cultural relations and assistance to Russian art in the Czech Republic

Diplomatic rank

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Notes

Predecessor:
Vladimir Borisovich Isakov
Chairman of the Council of the Republic of the Supreme Soviet of Russia

October 2, 1991 - December 23, 1992
Successor:
Veniamin Sergeevich Sokolov
Predecessor:
Vasily Ivanovich Kazakov
Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation

September 24, 1993 - 1996
Successor:
Alexander Vladimirovich Ivanchenko
Predecessor:
Alexander Alexandrovich Lebedev
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Czech Republic


November 12, 1996 - September 9, 2000
Successor:
Igor Sergeevich Savolsky
Predecessor:
Alexander Viktorovich Blokhin
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Azerbaijan


September 9, 2000 - October 19, 2004
Successor:
Vasily Nikolaevich Istratov
Predecessor:
Yuri Antonovich Zubakov
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Moldova


October 19, 2004 - July 27, 2007
Successor:
Valery Ivanovich Kuzmin

Sources

  • Ryabov Nikolay Timiofeevich // Who is who in Russia and the neighboring countries: Directory. - M.: Publishing house “New Time”, “Everything for You”, 1993. - P. 562-563 ISBN 5-86564-033-X
  • Ryabov Nikolay Timiofeevich // Shchegolev K. A. Who is who in Russia. Executive power. Who rules Russia. - M., Astrel: AST, 2007, pp. 382-383 ISBN 978-5-17-047056-3

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Several captured officers, in order to get a better view, climbed onto the wall of the burnt house near which Pierre stood.
- To the people! Eka people!.. And they piled on the guns! Look: furs... - they said. “Look, you bastards, they robbed me... It’s behind him, on a cart... After all, this is from an icon, by God!.. These must be Germans.” And our man, by God!.. Oh, scoundrels!.. Look, he’s loaded down, he’s walking with force! Here they come, the droshky - and they captured it!.. See, he sat down on the chests. Fathers!.. We got into a fight!..
- So hit him in the face, in the face! You won't be able to wait until evening. Look, look... and this is probably Napoleon himself. You see, what horses! in monograms with a crown. This is a folding house. He dropped the bag and can't see it. They fought again... A woman with a child, and not bad at all. Yes, of course, they will let you through... Look, there is no end. Russian girls, by God, girls! They are so comfortable in the strollers!
Again, a wave of general curiosity, as near the church in Khamovniki, pushed all the prisoners towards the road, and Pierre, thanks to his height, saw over the heads of others what had so attracted the curiosity of the prisoners. In three strollers, mixed between the charging boxes, women rode, sitting closely on top of each other, dressed up, in bright colors, rouged, shouting something in squeaky voices.
From the moment Pierre became aware of the appearance of a mysterious force, nothing seemed strange or scary to him: not the corpse smeared with soot for fun, not these women hurrying somewhere, not the conflagrations of Moscow. Everything that Pierre now saw made almost no impression on him - as if his soul, preparing for a difficult struggle, refused to accept impressions that could weaken it.
The train of women has passed. Behind him were again carts, soldiers, wagons, soldiers, decks, carriages, soldiers, boxes, soldiers, and occasionally women.
Pierre did not see people separately, but saw them moving.
All these people and horses seemed to be being chased by some invisible force. All of them, during the hour during which Pierre observed them, emerged from different streets with the same desire to pass quickly; All of them equally, when confronted with others, began to get angry and fight; white teeth were bared, eyebrows frowned, the same curses were thrown around, and on all faces there was the same youthfully determined and cruelly cold expression, which struck Pierre in the morning at the sound of a drum on the corporal’s face.
Just before evening, the guard commander gathered his team and, shouting and arguing, squeezed into the convoys, and the prisoners, surrounded on all sides, went out onto the Kaluga road.
They walked very quickly, without resting, and stopped only when the sun began to set. The convoys moved one on top of the other, and people began to prepare for the night. Everyone seemed angry and unhappy. For a long time, curses, angry screams and fights were heard from different sides. The carriage driving behind the guards approached the guards' carriage and pierced it with its drawbar. Several soldiers from different directions ran to the cart; some hit the heads of the horses harnessed to the carriage, turning them over, others fought among themselves, and Pierre saw that one German was seriously wounded in the head with a cleaver.
It seemed that all these people were now experiencing, when they stopped in the middle of a field in the cold twilight of an autumn evening, the same feeling of an unpleasant awakening from the haste that gripped everyone as they left and the rapid movement somewhere. Having stopped, everyone seemed to understand that it was still unknown where they were going, and that this movement would be a lot of hard and difficult things.
The prisoners at this halt were treated even worse by the guards than during the march. At this halt, for the first time, the meat food of the prisoners was given out as horse meat.
From the officers to the last soldier, it was noticeable in everyone what seemed like a personal bitterness against each of the prisoners, which had so unexpectedly replaced previously friendly relations.
This anger intensified even more when, when counting the prisoners, it turned out that during the bustle, leaving Moscow, one Russian soldier, pretending to be sick from the stomach, fled. Pierre saw how a Frenchman beat a Russian soldier for moving far from the road, and heard how the captain, his friend, reprimanded the non-commissioned officer for the escape of the Russian soldier and threatened him with justice. In response to the non-commissioned officer's excuse that the soldier was sick and could not walk, the officer said that he had been ordered to shoot those who lag behind. Pierre felt that the fatal force that had crushed him during his execution and which had been invisible during his captivity had now again taken possession of his existence. He was scared; but he felt how, as the fatal force made efforts to crush him, a life force independent of it grew and strengthened in his soul.
Pierre dined on a soup made from rye flour with horse meat and talked with his comrades.
Neither Pierre nor any of his comrades talked about what they saw in Moscow, nor about the rudeness of the French, nor about the order to shoot that was announced to them: everyone was, as if in rebuff to the worsening situation, especially animated and cheerful . They talked about personal memories, about funny scenes seen during the campaign, and hushed up conversations about the present situation.
The sun has long since set. Bright stars lit up here and there in the sky; The red, fire-like glow of the rising full moon spread along the edge of the sky, and a huge red ball swayed amazingly in the grayish haze. It was getting light. The evening was already over, but the night had not yet begun. Pierre got up from his new comrades and walked between the fires to the other side of the road, where, he was told, the captured soldiers were standing. He wanted to talk to them. On the road, a French guard stopped him and ordered him to turn back.
Pierre returned, but not to the fire, to his comrades, but to the unharnessed cart, which had no one. He crossed his legs and lowered his head, sat down on the cold ground near the wheel of the cart and sat motionless for a long time, thinking. More than an hour passed. Nobody bothered Pierre. Suddenly he laughed his fat, good-natured laugh so loudly that people from different directions looked back in surprise at this strange, obviously lonely laugh.
- Ha, ha, ha! – Pierre laughed. And he said out loud to himself: “The soldier didn’t let me in.” They caught me, they locked me up. They are holding me captive. Who me? Me! Me - my immortal soul! Ha, ha, ha!.. Ha, ha, ha!.. - he laughed with tears welling up in his eyes.
Some man stood up and came up to see what this strange big man was laughing about. Pierre stopped laughing, stood up, moved away from the curious man and looked around him.
Previously loudly noisy with the crackling of fires and the chatter of people, the huge, endless bivouac fell silent; the red lights of the fires went out and turned pale. A full moon stood high in the bright sky. Forests and fields, previously invisible outside the camp, now opened up in the distance. And even further away from these forests and fields one could see a bright, wavering, endless distance calling into itself. Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the receding, playing stars. “And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me! - thought Pierre. “And they caught all this and put it in a booth fenced off with boards!” He smiled and went to bed with his comrades.

In the first days of October, another envoy came to Kutuzov with a letter from Napoleon and a peace proposal, deceptively indicated from Moscow, while Napoleon was already not far ahead of Kutuzov, on the old Kaluga road. Kutuzov responded to this letter in the same way as to the first one sent with Lauriston: he said that there could be no talk of peace.
Soon after this, from the partisan detachment of Dorokhov, who went to the left of Tarutin, a report was received that troops had appeared in Fominskoye, that these troops consisted of the Broussier division and that this division, separated from other troops, could easily be exterminated. The soldiers and officers again demanded action. The staff generals, excited by the memory of the ease of victory at Tarutin, insisted to Kutuzov that Dorokhov’s proposal be implemented. Kutuzov did not consider any offensive necessary. What happened was the average, what had to happen; A small detachment was sent to Fominskoye, which was supposed to attack Brusier.
By a strange coincidence, this appointment - the most difficult and most important, as it turned out later - was received by Dokhturov; that same modest, little Dokhturov, whom no one described to us as drawing up battle plans, flying in front of regiments, throwing crosses at batteries, etc., who was considered and called indecisive and uninsightful, but the same Dokhturov, whom during all Russian wars with the French, from Austerlitz until the thirteenth year, we find ourselves in charge wherever the situation is difficult. In Austerlitz, he remains the last at the Augest dam, gathering regiments, saving what he can, when everything is running and dying and not a single general is in the rearguard. He, sick with a fever, goes to Smolensk with twenty thousand to defend the city against the entire Napoleonic army. In Smolensk, as soon as he dozed off at the Molokhov Gate, in a paroxysm of fever, he was awakened by cannonade across Smolensk, and Smolensk held out all day. On Borodino Day, when Bagration was killed and the troops of our left flank were killed in a ratio of 9 to 1 and the entire force of the French artillery was sent there, no one else was sent, namely the indecisive and indiscernible Dokhturov, and Kutuzov hurries to correct his mistake when he sent there another. And small, quiet Dokhturov goes there, and Borodino is the best glory of the Russian army. And many heroes are described to us in poetry and prose, but almost not a word about Dokhturov.
Again Dokhturov is sent there to Fominskoye and from there to Maly Yaroslavets, to the place where the last battle with the French took place, and to the place from which, obviously, the death of the French already begins, and again many geniuses and heroes are described to us during this period of the campaign , but not a word about Dokhturov, or very little, or doubtful. This silence about Dokhturov most obviously proves his merits.
Naturally, for a person who does not understand the movement of a machine, when he sees its action, it seems that the most important part of this machine is that splinter that accidentally fell into it and, interfering with its progress, flutters in it. A person who does not know the structure of the machine cannot understand that it is not this splinter that spoils and interferes with the work, but that small transmission gear that silently turns, is one of the most essential parts of the machine.
On October 10, the same day that Dokhturov walked half the road to Fominsky and stopped in the village of Aristov, preparing to exactly carry out the given order, the entire French army, in its convulsive movement, reached Murat’s position, as it seemed, in order to give The battle suddenly, for no reason, turned left onto the new Kaluga road and began to enter Fominskoye, in which Brusier had previously stood alone. Dokhturov at that time had under his command, in addition to Dorokhov, two small detachments of Figner and Seslavin.
On the evening of October 11, Seslavin arrived in Aristovo to his superiors with a captured French guardsman. The prisoner said that the troops that had entered Fominskoe today constituted the vanguard of the entire large army, that Napoleon was right there, that the entire army had already left Moscow for the fifth day. That same evening, a servant who came from Borovsk told how he saw a huge army entering the city. Cossacks from Dorokhov's detachment reported that they saw the French Guard walking along the road to Borovsk. From all this news it became obvious that where they thought they would find one division, there was now the entire French army, marching from Moscow in an unexpected direction - along the old Kaluga road. Dokhturov did not want to do anything, since it was not clear to him now what his responsibility was. He was ordered to attack Fominskoye. But in Fominskoe there had previously only been Broussier, now there was the entire French army. Ermolov wanted to act at his own discretion, but Dokhturov insisted that he needed to have an order from His Serene Highness. It was decided to send a report to headquarters.
For this purpose, an intelligent officer was elected, Bolkhovitinov, who, in addition to the written report, had to tell the whole matter in words. At twelve o'clock at night, Bolkhovitinov, having received an envelope and a verbal order, galloped, accompanied by a Cossack, with spare horses to the main headquarters.

The night was dark, warm, autumn. It had been raining for four days now. Having changed horses twice and galloping thirty miles along a muddy, sticky road in an hour and a half, Bolkhovitinov was in Letashevka at two o'clock in the morning. Having dismounted from the hut, on the fence of which there was a sign: “General Headquarters,” and abandoning his horse, he entered the dark vestibule.