Vadim Ivanovich Tumanov

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Vadim Tumanow (2012)

Vadim Iwanowitsch Tumanow ( Russian Вадим Иванович Туманов ; born September 1, 1927 in Bila Tserkva , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Russian mining entrepreneur.

Career

Tumanov was born into a working class family. At the age of 14 he became a member of the Komsomol . He took part in World War II as a soldier. At the end of the war he attended the school for navigation officers. In 1948 he was arrested as a navigation officer on the ship "Uralmasch" and sentenced to eight years in the gulag . In his own words, the reason for his arrest was "love for Esenin ". He tried to escape eight times, which earned him a total of 25 years in prison. He was only released and acquitted after Stalin's death. All criminal records were overturned and he regained his civil rights.

After his release, Tumanov completed a training course to become a mining master. Since 1956 he has built up several large gold mining cooperations. Some of them are still working to this day. "Semiletka" (1960–1966), "Progress" (1966), "Aldan" (1969), "Amur" are among the cooperations established by the entrepreneur, which extend from the Urals to the shores of the Sea of ​​Okhota (1973), "Witim" (1973), "Lena" (1976), "Petschora". The operations established by Tumanow, together with subsidiaries, have mined over 400 tons of gold.

Tumanov's activity as head (since 1979) of the “Pechora” cooperative formed in 1956 received the greatest response. At the beginning of the 1980s, the cooperative, which was de facto a cooperation, went over to economic accounting. In 1987, Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev , as a member of the Politburo, and the Minister of Non-ferrous Metallurgy of the USSR, VADurasov, led a hostile campaign against the cooperative "Pechora" and Vadim Tumanov himself. Others also took part in the campaign against the gold miner, such as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Socialist Industry”, AABaranov, the first secretary of the regional committee of the Communist Soviet Party of the Komi Vimelnikov region and the general secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU , Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev . The result was the liquidation of the cooperative. In 1987 Tumanow opened the Stroitel cooperative. Registered in Karelia, she specialized in road construction. Later he built up the stock company "Tumanow & Co".

Reception in literature and film

The Russian actor and songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky was a friend of Tumanov. He dedicated some of his songs to him, including "Escape to Advance". His life as an entrepreneur provided the material for the book "The Black Candle" by Vladimir Vysotsky and Leonid Mantschinski, which was filmed in 2006 under the title "Fartowyj" (Lucky Mushroom).

In 2004 his autobiography was published with the title "Lose everything - and start again with a dream ...", in which he talks about the years he had spent in Kolyma , about the establishment of gold prospecting cooperatives and about personalities he met .

Two documentaries were made about Tumanov and several television programs were broadcast.