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"Papa" and his Switzerland near Moscow

How the State Farm named after Lenin lives - the patrimony of Pavel Grudinin

If you go from Moscow to Domodedovo Airport, then immediately when turning from the Moscow Ring Road to Kashirskoye Highway, on the right side of the road, until recently, a high-rise building attracted attention, above which a huge red balloon with the inscription "KPRF" soared.

The balloon hovered over the rural settlement of the State Farm named after Lenin, where the ZAO State Farm named after Lenin is located, the general director of which is Pavel Grudinin, who is running for the presidential elections in Russia from the Communist Party. Unfortunately, the balloon did not survive the winter of 2017/18: at first it was torn off by heavy winds, and then a spark hit the balloon on the ground and it burned out.

When you hear the word "state farm", you expect to see something Soviet: identical unpretentious houses, a one-story recreation center with an announcement about dancing "For those who are over ...", red flags, posters "Don't talk!" and portraits of Lenin on every corner.

But no, when you enter a rural settlement with that name, you find yourself in a small village with beautiful modern multi-apartment brick houses, and not in the “anthill for people” format, as they are building all over Moscow now, but more like housing of such series that were built in the zero .

There is really a lot of red in the design of the settlement, but these are not communist banners, but images of strawberries. Strawberries are the emblem of ZAO State Farm named after Lenin, around which the life of the state farm goes. It is found here both on the walls of houses and in the design of street lamps, pictures with strawberries hang inside administrative buildings. The canteen near the administration of the settlement is called "Yagoda", and on the sign it is still the same strawberry.

The cleanliness of the streets is striking. All vehicular and pedestrian paths have been cleaned, and they are not sprinkled with chemicals that corrode shoes. Where it is difficult to clean the snow, for example, near curbs, it is additionally sprinkled with sand. In terms of street cleaning in winter, the standard of the Lenin State Farm greatly exceeds the standard of Moscow, and indeed of any Russian city.

They explain to me: for the winter cleaning of the streets, state farm tractor drivers are involved here, whose work is still seasonal. Three seasons they work in the fields, and during the snowy season, tractors circle the streets of the village.

There are indeed many monuments to Lenin at the State Farm. There is Ilyich on the central platform, where the buildings of the administration of ZAO State Farm named after Lenin and the rural settlement State Farm named after Lenin are located door to door, and it seems that he is dissatisfied with something. Perhaps Lenin was tired of the invasion of journalists who have been trying to study every stone here in recent months.

Switzerland for their

As already mentioned, the life of the settlement revolves around the state farm. Employees of the village administration explain to me that Grudinin came up with a model for people to come to work at the state farm and stay here for permanent work.

- The houses were built specifically for the employees of the State Farm (no one here pronounces the full name of the enterprise "CJSC State Farm named after Lenin", they simply say - State Farm - and the village is called the same). The system is such that people who move to work at a state farm receive an apartment on a mortgage or for use. The mortgage is paid for 15 years and the person does not change jobs. Now a new generation is growing up, and therefore the development of an infrastructure focused on children is underway, - employees of the administration tell me.

From the windows of the administration you can see a fairy-tale castle - almost a copy of the famous "Disney" castle with turrets and arches. This is the "Childhood Castle" kindergarten, there is also a second kindergarten in the form of a fairy-tale hut. Kindergartens were built by the State Farm, they accept children from the municipal queue, the fee for visiting is the same as in the municipal kindergarten. In general, there is a lot of free stuff for state farm employees: for example, a fitness club, children's clubs and much more. Much is free for residents of a rural settlement, but there are places intended strictly for them and employees of the State Farm. For example, one of the city parks can only be opened with a special key card, which only residents of the settlement and employees have. In this park, by the way, you can fish, but only on a float.

Local residents, when talking about their village, call it "little Switzerland", emphasizing its focus on comfort for every resident, cleanliness, aesthetics and safety. But the State Farm is distinguished from Switzerland by a large number of fenced areas, which can only be accessed with a key card. The fences are low and transparent, but in the end the village consists of such semi-closed sectors. The territory around each house is fenced: only a resident of the house can enter it with a special key. This allows children to play unaccompanied by adults.

Golden red dad

State Farm employee Olga moved here four years ago. She and her family fled from the Donbass when the war broke out there.

“We learned from friends that there is such a Pavel Grudinin, to whom you can get an appointment and, if possible, get a job and an apartment at the State Farm,” explains Olga. We did so, now we live here.

Similarly, eight more families from Donbass live in Sovkhoz.

Grudinin for many years, even in the period 2011-2017, when he did not hold elected positions (now he is the chairman of the council of deputies of the urban settlement of Vidnoye, adjacent to the State Farm), holds a personal reception once a week, which you can sign up for.

A local resident, Lyudmila, has repeatedly visited Grudinin. He says that he delves into everything, tries to help, and calls him a "golden man", meaning, of course, spiritual qualities, and not the size of the candidate's fortune. According to her, Grudinin walks around the State Farm (both the enterprise and the settlement) unguarded in a white jacket with a red inscription "State Farm named after Lenin."

- All the architectural solutions that you will see: kindergartens, a school, a park - all this was invented by Pavel Nikolayevich and his friend, a Moscow architect. And at home they build such a series that there are kitchens of 20 square meters - Lyudmila moved to the State Farm from Moscow and is very pleased. The development is not barbaric, for a small village there are three city parks, there are necessary shops and infrastructure, and the Domodedovskaya metro station is only 10 minutes by bus.

Grudinin at the State Farm is affectionately called "Papa".

Fairytale castles for children and adults

There is a small free library for children and adults at the State Farm. On its wall there is an information stand "Candidates for President of the Russian Federation", where photos and a brief biography of each candidate are posted. Grudinin is located on the stand just below presidential candidate Vladimir Putin. But the information about Sobchak is in the inconspicuous lower left corner.

After work, you can go to the local House of Culture, where there is a local attraction - the Clown Museum. In the large room, hundreds, if not thousands, of clowns of various sizes and materials are on display, from small glass puppets to large life-size puppets. The creator of the museum is Vasily Konoplyanik, a former clown of the Moscow Circus, who has been collecting clowns all his life and has been looking for a place for such a museum for a long time. The sign at the entrance calls on the residents of the State Farm "to help lonely clowns, abandoned on a bookshelf or lost in the attic, find shelter and find a friendly strong family in the museum." Those who do not like clowns can choose from 16 sports, various clubs, a cinema and other entertainment. Next year, the State Farm should have its own swimming pool. State Farm teams in different sports are called the same - "Piranha". “Because we tear everyone,” explains the director of the sports center, Alexei. Grudinin is present at all major sporting events, the State Farm provides the winners with valuable prizes and helps in any way he can.

In general, residents of the State Farm love various social events. For example, before the New Year, children and parents in the kindergarten "Castle of Childhood" first collected gifts for orphans, and then also help for a dog shelter in Vidnoe - after all, the Year of the Dog. There are cans of batteries at the entrance to the kindergarten - children are taught to take them for recycling, and not throw them away.

Inside the kindergarten in a fairytale castle is no worse than outside. The security room is called "Guard", the doctor's room is called "Healer". Gnomes are smiling from the walls, they are considered the owners of the kindergarten. All furniture with knightly motifs is made to order, the walls are painted with paintings from fairy tales. They work with children in small groups, also using the method of effective socialization of preschool children, when each month is devoted to a special topic. In December it was "Christmas Present" and now it's "Boys and Girls".

In general, there is a feeling that you really are not in Russia, and even more so not in a Soviet state farm, but in some Scandinavian country. This feeling is enhanced when visiting a school with huge floor-to-ceiling panoramic windows and warm wooden furniture. School - with an engineering bias, but there is also an old general education. Inside the school there is now a 3D exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions. All classes - with one transparent wall, instead of the usual school boards - are interactive.

Against Grudinin and for Putin

Finally, the tour is over. Unfortunately, there are no famous fields with strawberries in winter, as well as strawberries themselves - you have to be content with inspecting juices at a local store, made from the remains of berries and fruits that were not sold during the season. Also, as a souvenir, you can buy a bottle of local milk in a special "milk machine" - it costs 50 rubles.

During the day, the streets are almost deserted. The state farm is a space strictly focused on the employees of the enterprise, during the day all the elders are at work, and there are almost no casual visitors.

A few local residents - mostly older people - are trying to escape from the journalist. The maximum that can be heard from them: “Grudinin is a wonderful person”, “We all love Grudinin”, “We treat Grudinin wonderfully”. These typical answers do not create a very good impression, usually people, even those living in single-industry towns, give more lengthy answers about local authorities. Here Grudinin is the center of a small world, and here the feeling returns that after all this is a state farm in the Soviet sense of the word, where not a word can be said against the chairman and the party. There is no one to discuss the rumors about his billion-dollar fortune.

However, I still manage to find Grudinin's opponent. An employee of one private enterprise says that “in fact, everyone treats it differently.”

“Everyone here knows that his main profit is not from selling strawberries, but from leasing huge plots of land for shopping centers,” she says. - If Grudinin were the director of an agricultural enterprise in Voronezh, he would not have succeeded, like the others. Yes, and in foreign policy, he does not hold out. I will vote for Putin,” a brave resident of the State Farm tells me.

Finding a way out of the State Farm for people who are not familiar with the settlement is not so difficult, but nevertheless, for some time we wander along the beautiful transparent fences that clearly outline the life of people from Pavel Grudinin's State Farm.

Another candidate for the presidency of Russia appeared - an ambitious businessman, truth-seeker Pavel Grudinin, head of the Lenin state farm near Moscow. He was nominated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation instead of a permanent participant in the presidential race and head of the party, Gennady Zyuganov. Grudinin asked Zyuganov to become the head of his campaign headquarters. We tell you what is known about the new candidate.

What is a state farm

Grudinin is 57 years old, he has been the head of the state farm since 1995 and since then he has equipped it in accordance with his own taste - marshmallow castles with multi-colored turrets can be seen from the Kashirskoye highway, it was Grudinin who built kindergartens for the children of the village residents. The entrance and exit of the state farm are framed by triumphal arches of plasterboard in the popular style - white columns twined with giant raspberry strawberries. The state farm itself is separated from Mokva and the Moscow region by a fence. When journalists inform Grudinin that his patrimony is like a separate state, he agrees: “That's right, we have our own state, and we are trying to fight off all these people. We're in a position like we're in a cabin on the Titanic. Imagine that you have such a cabin, and you decorated it: flowers, everything is hung, cleaned, clean, and the Titanic flies on an iceberg, and the drunken captain shouts: "Calm down! Everything will be fine."

Sovkhoz is simply the name of a legal entity, a closed joint stock company formed in 1995. The main share belongs to Grudinin. He told the Russian Reporter magazine in 2011 that 40 employees own shares in the state farm, but only 5–6 of them are in large stakes:

“First, we gave out shares to all 500 employees. But the number of shareholders had to be limited in order to protect against raiders. Therefore, when employees retired, we bought shares from them. Then they made an issue and gave out bonuses for the same amount. Each employee could choose: to buy stocks with this money or, for example, a refrigerator. Most preferred the refrigerator. It's like this all over the world: when Volkswagen was corporatized, the workers also received shares and sold them en masse. But I literally forced managers and specialists to buy shares. To be honest, few wanted to.

The inhabitants of the village mostly adore Grudinin, but some remember how hard he put pressure on them in the 90s, when he collected land for a state farm. “You should have seen how he turned the state farm into a joint-stock company, in fact, a private shop! He found his own approach to everyone: he begged, and blackmailed, and forged signatures, and frightened with dismissal, ”said Nina Solodovnikova, Grudinin’s neighbor, who was still offended by him for not receiving decent money for earth.

The state farm grows strawberries, sea buckthorn and other berries, as well as vegetables, calves and other livestock. Revenue in 2015 - about 1 billion rubles. In 2017, the state farm signed government contracts for more than 57 million rubles. The press often talks about high salaries at the state farm (the average is 78,000 rubles) and that Grudinin invests all his profits in the social sphere - he builds schools, hospitals, improves the territory, and so on. “Earlier, the chairman of the state farm was in charge, he solved all issues, both schools and kindergartens, and that’s all. We decided not to go far from this, ”explains Grudinin.

At the same time, the main income, of course, does not come from the sale of berries and milk. Grudinin gives the land of the state farm for development. There are several large housing complexes on the territory of the village (LCD "Valley of Fairy Tales", LCD "Priozerny" and others), developers advertise apartments in them as housing in an elite quiet area. Some of the apartments go to state farm employees, and Grudinin says that half of the cost of housing is paid by the enterprise, and the rest of the families are paid in installments.

In 2016, IKEA bought 12 hectares of land on Kashirskoye Shosse for the construction of a store, the seller was TT Development, co-owned by Lenin State Farm, Pavel Grudinin and his son Anton. “These sites near the ring road and the Kashirskoye highway can hardly be used for agricultural purposes, as they are next to the road. A lot of housing is being built nearby, and if you plant not even vegetable crops, but seedlings, then they disappear with terrible force. Therefore, we send all sections near major roads for sale, ”Grudinin explained to Vedomosti.

Political career of Grudinin

In 2000, Grudinin was Putin's confidant, until 2011 he was a member of the United Russia party, from 1997 to 2011 he was a deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma. He was going to run again in 2011, but the publication in the Russian Reporter interfered - in it the chairman of the state farm spoke sharply on the national question. He said that he advises developers who sell apartments in his village to look at nationality: “I understand that this is a problem. Interethnic conflicts are the future of our country. This is immediately visible. Children come to school without knowing Russian. After all, they come in villages. When the white and black fight on the court, if the black one wins, the white ones scatter. If the little white one wins, then the black ones all fight the white one. And when there are two of them, it's not scary, but when there are a lot of them, it's a disaster. Competitors of Grudinin for the mandate, by the way, from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, demanded to check his words for extremism and remove him from the election race. Grudinin was going to sue the Russian Reporter and stated that his words were misinterpreted. The court indeed ruled in favor of Grudinin and demanded to refute several points in the article, in particular, to clarify that anyone can buy an apartment in the State Farm, regardless of nationality.

After that, Grudinin became an even more ardent critic of the authorities. The entrepreneur became a frequent guest at talk shows, various congresses and meetings dedicated to business support, and after 2014 - import substitution. The chairman of the state farm always speaks clearly, figuratively, denounces excesses on the ground, scolds the government (but not Putin). Often he manages to knock out special conditions for himself in this way. In 2015, Grudinin caused a stir by saying that he could not sell berries due to the decision of the FAS - the antimonopoly service decided that his stalls near the metro were infringing on the rights of other producers. He spoke in a number of media outlets (including The Secret of the Firm), and soon the Moscow authorities went to meet the entrepreneur. Branded tents of the state farm now appear in the summer in Moscow from year to year.

Grudinin's position on some issues

ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF BUSINESS AND THE STATE

Russian business is 40% PR, 40% PR, 20% business itself. In Russia, no matter what Bill Gates you are, if you don’t promote correctly, you will be devoured. And if you can’t build relationships with the authorities, you will be imprisoned.

ON CORRUPTION IN RUSSIA AND BUSINESS SUPPORT

When the president spoke about capital amnesty, about protecting small businesses from inspections, no one heard the president. What else did our president say? What guys, let's fight corruption. And at this moment they show people who definitely need to be imprisoned, and everyone in the country knows about it.

The President also said that a tax moratorium should be declared. Let's exempt from income tax. But he doesn't know that income tax is what the subjects of the Federation receive, which are all in deficit. We need patriots who would not just listen to the president and do nothing, but who would sit and say, yes, indeed, everything is bad with our credit policy. We are not developing. And if the government can do nothing, let it go itself, because sooner or later it will have to leave anyway.

ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE NEED

We made up a team, and we have a very stable team. Our people work well and know that they will receive a decent salary for their work. They will put children on it, dress it, go on vacation abroad, everything will be fine with them. And they won’t be drawn to any Bolotnaya Square. But if they lose all this, they will go out into the street.

ABOUT PRIVATE PROPERTY OF LAND

I told Economy Minister Fedorov: land is not a commodity, it is a means of production. There is no free sale and purchase of agricultural land in any country in the world. There is its state redistribution from one owner to another. You cannot change its purpose, category. You can't decide on your own not to plow. Unless the state will pay you extra for not plowing it when the state has overproduction.

If you remember, in the nineties there was such Chernichenko, he said: guys, we will all become peasants, farmers. But in Russia they always worked as a community, in which they allotted land in accordance with the consumers. Our farm has never been the main producer of agricultural products. And Chernichenko said: we will now take a shovel and feed ourselves, we have such an original people. This was fundamentally wrong, because at that time the opposite trend began in the West: all agricultural enterprises began to be enlarged. And we tried to return to the century before last, to atomic production.

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Candidate for President of the Russian Federation from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, director of CJSC State Farm named after Lenin.

Pavel Nikolaevich Grudinin was born on October 20, 1960 in Moscow. A year later, the family moved to the Leninsky district of the Moscow region.

After graduating from school in 1977, he entered the Moscow Institute of Agricultural Engineers (MIISP) named after V.I. Goryachkin, choosing the profession of an agricultural engineer. After graduation in 1982, P.N. Grudinin worked as a mechanical engineer at the Lenin State Farm, where many members of his family were already working. From 1982 to 1989, he held the position of head of the mechanical workshop of the state farm. In 1990 he was elected deputy director of the state farm for commercial issues, and in 1995 - director of CJSC Lenin State Farm.

In the elections to the Moscow Regional Duma of the 2nd convocation held on December 14, 1997, Pavel Grudinin was elected from single-mandate constituency No. 2 (Vidnoye, Leninsky district, Moscow region). He served as Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Budget, Financial and Tax Policy.

In 2000, he was a confidant of Vladimir Putin in the presidential elections.

In 2001 he received a second education - he graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation with a degree in jurisprudence.

In 2001, Pavel Nikolaevich Grudinin was awarded the title of Honored Worker of Agriculture of the Russian Federation for his achievements as head of CJSC Lenin State Farm. The CJSC headed by him has been considered one of the best agricultural enterprises in Russia for a long time, and Pavel Nikolayevich has been included in the TOP-1000 Russian Managers rating since 2002. In 2005, P.N. Grudinin became the winner of the "Manager of the Year 2005" contest in the "agriculture" nomination.

In 2001, Pavel Grudinin was nominated by voters as a candidate for deputies to the Moscow Regional Duma of the 3rd convocation. However, the elections on December 16, 2001 did not take place in the district, as the only candidate was registered. In accordance with the electoral legislation, the elections were postponed to a later date. In the repeat elections held on September 8, 2002, P.N. Grudinin was elected in single-mandate constituency No. 2, receiving 44.76% of the vote.

In 2007-2011 - Deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma of the 4th convocation. He served as Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economic and Innovation Policy.

In 2011, he was nominated in the elections to the Moscow Regional Duma of the 5th convocation from the Communist Party on the party list, heading the regional group No. 9, and in the Leninsky single-mandate constituency No. 9.

September 18, 2016 P.N. Grudinin ran for the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the VII convocation from the Communist Party on the party list (ninth number in the regional group No. 27, Moscow region) and in the Lyubertsy single-mandate constituency No. 121 (Moscow region).

On September 10, 2017, Pavel Grudinin became a deputy of the Council of Deputies of the city of Vidnoye (Leninsky district of the Moscow region) of the IV convocation from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in single-mandate constituency No. 6. 71.13% of voters voted for him.

P.N. Grudinin holds a number of public positions - he is a member of the expert council under the government of the Russian Federation and deputy chairman of the Committee for the Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, is a member of the board of the National Union of Milk Producers.

Married. Has two sons.

Grudinin Pavel Nikolaevich State Farm named after Lenin: presidential candidate - biography and compromising evidence, election program, family, nationality and all the facts from the life of this subject.

At first glance, this is a very decent and kind uncle, a kind of doctor Komarovsky - he talks about problems in Russia with a kind voice. The layman begins to feel love for Grudinin after films about his settlement - the State Farm. Lenin, located within the boundaries of Moscow. A candidate for the presidency lives on the same platform with a tractor driver, and when he rides with him in an elevator, laughing in his mustache, he scolds for being late. At the state farm, hard workers are given apartments, parks and playgrounds are spread around brand new high-rise buildings. Pavel Grudinin so sincerely sympathizes with the problems of the vegetating hinterland, and so proudly demonstrates his huge economy, that there is no doubt that it is he who will lift Russia from its knees.

In the first 5 days after being nominated by the Communist Party, Grudinin raised the party's rating among other candidates by about 10%. And a little later -. So, a complete analysis of his personality.

Biography

A native Muscovite - was born on October 20, 1960 in the capital. A couple of years later, he moved with his parents to the Leninsky district, that is, to his state farm. Grudinin's age is 57 years. In 1982 he graduated from the Moscow Agricultural Institute named after Goryachkin with a degree in mechanical engineering in agriculture. He went to work at his state farm named after Lenin as the head of the workshop. The career of a young man rapidly went up, and it is very funny that in other places he did not work anywhere in his entire life.

In 2001 he received a second education - he graduated from the Academy of State. service under the President of the Russian Federation. The second profession is a lawyer.

In 1995, Grudinin Pavel Nikolayevich became the director of the Lenin State Farm, holding this position to this day. The company has access to the markets of Moscow, shopping centers, is engaged in leasing real estate and construction.

Naturally, if Grudinin were somewhere in the outback, he would not have created any settlement, and the hell would even be able to repair the old barn.

Of course, you have to give credit to the character. In the Moscow region, almost all agriculture has fallen into decay, however, Lenin State Farm CJSC has remained afloat, and actually supplies strawberries to Moscow supermarkets. According to one source, this was achieved through the sale of agricultural land in the mid-90s in a profitable area of ​​the Moscow Ring Road. In another way, people were “thrown” for money, when the collective farm lands, according to the Yeltsin law, were distributed among the peasants by 15 acres, and then taken back free of charge. Be that as it may, Grudinin still did not plunder the money, but invested it in the restoration of the economy.

Although there is another nuance. By "strange coincidence" the heyday of the state farm. Lenin began simultaneously with the beginning of Grudinin's political career.

• In 1997, he was a deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma and was elected for several terms in a row.
• In 2000 - a confidant of Volodya Putin.
• In 2007, he was a member of United Russia.
• In 2016, he ran for the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

Party affiliation

In 2011, Grudinin left United Russia. As he stated in his interviews, due to pressure from the authorities and raider attacks. There is evidence that he applied for membership in the Liberal Democratic Party. There are a lot of photos of Grudinin and Zhirinovsky at his state farm. As a result, the romance did not work out, and Grudinin began to cooperate with Zyuganov.

The State Duma realized that the image of a populist economic executive (although according to some reports, Pavel Nikolayevich has 40% of the shares of his enterprise) would be an excellent spoiler for Putin, and in December 2017 Grudinin was nominated as a candidate for the presidency of the Russian Federation from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. It was after this that he became known to the general public.

The biography of Grudinin Pavel Nikolaevich is almost as vague as that of Putin. And this can be seen by trying to study his relatives.

Nationality, family, personal life

Grudinin is Russian by nationality, Armenian by mustache. Considering that his boss Putin said that each of us has a Tatar in our family, we can safely call him a Tatar. And judging by the throwing from one party to another and the presence of an entrepreneurial streak, Grudinin is a Jew or a Ukrainian.

Like Putin, he hides his personal life. He seems to be so democratic, he drives a simple Lexus without security, lives with a tractor driver on the same site, but nothing about his family. According to some sources, Pavel Nikolaevich has a wife, Irina, who works in the Tair beauty salon. According to other sources, Grudinin's wife is Ksenia, a housewife. On the third - is engaged in business.

Grudinin's wife is probably even more beautiful than Tinkov's. I want to say right away that Grudinin and his wife are not shown in the photo, this is just a hilarious and clumsy collage on the topic.

It is authentically known that the children of Pavel Grudinin are two sons. Where they study, what they do, what age - all this is also hidden from the public. The closeness typical of Putin immediately conjures up the idea that the children are studying somewhere abroad, which is very typical for “quilted jacket” deputies.

Grudinin's parents are also diligently hiding. Perhaps the mother's maiden name is Bershtein or Robinovich, but if Grudinin is nevertheless elected, there is no doubt that dad and mom will automatically become Ivanovs three generations ago, veterans, heroes of labor on the collective farm, Olympic champions in hammer and anvil throwing.

Attitude towards Crimea and Ukraine

In an interview with Shevchenko, presidential candidate Grudinin said he trusted the results of Putin's referendum in Crimea, which was not recognized by any country in the world. Therefore, Crimea for him is Russia. Without any options.

He also noted that he was in favor of "peace enforcement" in Ukraine. That is, if Grudinin becomes president, he will most likely continue Putin's policy of supplying the separatists, sending weapons, Ikhtanets, Buryats, and so on.

Based on this, it can be assumed with sufficient certainty that there will be no concentration on Russia's internal problems in Grudinin's program. The wars in Ukraine and Syria will continue, and huge amounts of money will be wasted to support geopolitical influence in Moldova, the Baltic States, Georgia and all CIS countries. Given that this requires a lot of money, no rise in agriculture and production in the country is expected. I would like to believe otherwise, but I don’t believe it, for the life of me.

Naturally, the sanctions under Grudinin will remain, which means that it will be practically unrealistic to invest capital in raising production and agriculture.

And more about the collective farm

Of course, the settlement and the farm itself of the Lenin collective farm with excellent kindergartens and new houses do exist. True, it was not possible to get feedback from employees from there. And it is not known whether the milkmaids there receive 70 thousand rubles each.

However, the settlement itself is impressive. The town "Lukomorye", a kindergarten, a school, a house of culture.

The interior of the school is mind blowing. True, if you do not think that a lot of things are built from Western materials.

Never before have Russians been treated like people. Therefore, the result of Grudinin's work, even despite the fact that the Lenin collective farm itself earns mainly from trade, is still impressive.

Moreover, this is not the Olympics or Iskanders, not exaggerated Putin's greatness. You can really see it, touch it, children are allowed into the same “Lukomorye” for everyone.

The barn looks clean and modern. True, it seems that only one building is shown in all issues.

The strawberry harvest is real. Grudinin himself admitted that under the guise of berries from the State Farm. Lenin was sold Turkish at one time. But today they are selling theirs.

And yet Grudinin Pavel Nikolaevich and his State Farm named after Lenin remain the most controversial issues in the minds of people who have already lost the habit of believing in a word. Still, this one (you can find out the ratings of online voting at the link) is very close to Putin in many respects, and whether he will bring the desired changes to Russia is an extremely doubtful thing.

By the way, Grudinin celebrated the New Year 2018 in Germany like a true patriot.

Childhood and education

A year after the birth of their son, the family settled in the Leninsky district of the Moscow region - parents, graduates of an agricultural technical school, got a place at the State Farm. Lenin. From the age of 12, Pavel worked there as a loader.

In 1977, Pavel graduated from high school and, having decided to follow in the footsteps of his parents, began to study the specialty of a mechanical engineer at the Moscow Institute of Agricultural Engineers (now MIISP named after Goryachkin).

Five years later, already a certified specialist, he returned to his native state farm, where many members of his family worked. Having received the position of head of the mechanical workshop, he worked in this position until 1989.

State farm them. Lenin

In the press ZAO Sovkhoz im. Lenin" is often referred to as the "island of socialism." According to Grudinin himself, the administration of the rural settlement abandoned the liberal reforms that have taken place in the country since the early 90s.

We have preserved socialist principles, when “to each according to his work” and we are trying to promote them.

How do people live in the State Farm. Lenin

The main source of income for the state farm. Lenin - strawberries and strawberries (because of this, Grudinin, who ran for president, received the nickname "strawberry oligarch"), potatoes, vegetables and fruits, milk. There are several hundred cows in the state farm herd, and among the clients are representatives of the German yogurt company Ermann.

Also, the financial well-being of the state farm was affected by its proximity to the Moscow Ring Road - these lands are leased by large shopping malls (Your House and Vegas by Aras Agalarov, StarLight Cash & Carry, Waymart). In 2016, the Swedish company IKEA acquired a plot of land from ZAO. Grudinin himself lives in an ordinary house along with other workers. His neighbor in the stairwell is a tractor driver of the enterprise.

Political career

He ran for a third term on behalf of the party. During this term, Grudinin was Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economics and Innovations. In 2010, Grudinin said goodbye to United Russia. He spoke in more detail about the reasons for this decision only 7 years later, after being nominated for the presidency.

When you see where a political party is going, you must either give up your principles, or your conscience, or your party card - so I folded the party card myself.

Pavel Grudinin: Why I left United Russia

As the hero of the article later explained, the material was presented in the style of a reportage with elements of an interview, direct speech was mixed with indirect speech, and as a result, many of the politician’s words were out of context.

The subsequent linguistic examination did not reveal signs of extremism in the text, but its results were not taken into account in court. Subsequently, the distortion of the meaning of the interview was recognized in court, but the ban on participation in the elections remained.

Grudinin's speech in the State Duma (December 2017)

In September 2016, Pavel Nikolayevich ran for the State Duma of the seventh convocation on the party list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, but failed, taking 2nd place in a single-mandate constituency.

Pavel Grudinin in the 2018 elections

There is one ideology - socialist: justice, equality, brotherhood, when people in a rich country should live richly, not poorly. This ideology must win.

Personal life of Pavel Grudinin

Grudinin has two already adult sons: the elder Anton and the younger Artem, both are engaged in business.

Pavel Grudinin now

Pavel Grudinin: “They took me seriously”