Biography Head of the Ministry of Emergencies

In the future, it turned out that during the filming of the training film in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the minister tried to save the life of a participant in the film crew, but in the end, together with the operator, he broke off the cliff. President Vladimir Putin called the death of Zinichev with an irreparable personal loss. Participants in the meeting on the liquidation of natural fires in a video conference mode, the first deputy minister Alexander Chuvupan was temporarily headed by the department for a year.

However, he could not get rid of the prefix “Acting” - in May Vladimir Putin proposed to the post of head of the Ministry of Emergencies the candidacy of Alexander Kurenkov. Almost immediately, she was agreed in the Council of People's Commissars. And the choice means that, according to the Head of State, the personal, official, professional qualities of Kurenkov will make it best to perform these functions, ”said Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, representative of the Kremlin.

But how the sources in the Kremlin circles explained the choice of the head of state: “He is a person who is absolutely understandable to the president, close, with extensive experience in special departments, thoughtful, so it will not be engaged in PR, but tenaciously, eating work.” I am sure that this will happen in the leadership of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and in the Ministry as a whole, relying, of course, on professionals.

” The interlocutors of journalists, who preferred to maintain anonymity, claimed that Kurenkov would quickly put things in order in the ministry, where many leaders allegedly could not share the functions among themselves. According to them, immediately after the appointment, he was going to conduct an audit in the department. Later, the president awarded him the military rank of Lieutenant General.

Alexander Kurenkov and floods - under the leadership of Kurenkov, the Ministry of Emergencies had to deal with the consequences of large natural disasters more than once, but in April the year the problem of the department became really serious - terrifying floods began in the Southern Urals. Kurenkov had to follow the situation personally - he visited Tyumen, came to Orsk several times, which was flooded after the damage to the Dam on the Ural River, was in the mound, where the Tobol River came out of the coasts.

The minister assured that rescuers will work as much as necessary, at the same time noted the importance of uniting universal forces, ”the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies noted. Facts Alexander Kurenkov is an Orthodox Christian. He said that he was holding several icons in the office. In addition, it wears a pectoral cross, and also carries crafts and small icons with it.

One St. Nicholas, the other is Alexander Nevsky. Well, because my name is connected by Alexander Nevsky, my mother called me that. Sometimes I drive the icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker with me, she is very small, with a palm, ”the minister said. In his own words, he is married. He prefers not to spread about the family. The minister checks the course of work to strengthen the hydraulic structure on the Tobol River, year.