Komchatov Vladimir Fedorovich

Date of Birth: January 12, 1942. His father died at the front at the beginning of the war. He was educated mother, a primary school teacher. He graduated from the Faculty of Geography Moscow State University. M.V. University, specializing in marine sciences, economics courses with the USSR State Planning Committee.
He is fond of boxing and car racing. The greatest passion - work.
In 1966 he graduated from the Faculty of Geography Moscow State University specializing oceanographer. After that he worked in the hydrometeorological system, . originally a research assistant at the State Oceanographic Institute, . then (from 1969 to 1970 and from 1972 to 1977) - a senior engineer in the Directorate Hydrometeorological Service of the Council of Ministers of the USSR,
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In 1970-1972 served as an officer at the headquarters of the Northern Fleet.
Several times transferred from the central apparatus of control in the USSR Hydrometeorological Center and back. A senior engineer, chief of the department of intelligence and global meteorological survey, and from 1985 to 1990 - head of the Ocean Service meteorologist State Committee for Hydrometeorology.
Member of the CPSU from 1969 to July 1990. Left the party after the XXVIII Congress of the CPSU.
Always active in public life - the Komsomol, the party, trade union. With his active participation of party organization, then the labor collective meteorologist in 1989, Boris Yeltsin nominated a candidate for the deputies of the USSR.
Komchatov was a trustee and one of the organizers of his campaign.
Participated in the foundation in 1989, the Moscow Voters Association (IOI). He was one of the organizers and leaders of citywide street processions and demonstrations of democratic organizations in Moscow in 1989-1991.
Speak at meetings and in the media, expressing solidarity with the peoples of the Baltic states in their struggle for independence, for the right of nations to self-determination. Signed in September 1989, the collective appeal on this issue in Politburo was published in the newspapers "Awakening" (Latvia) and "Consent" (Lithuania).
Took part in the democratic forums in the Baltic States - Sejm "Sajudis" in Lithuania, the Congress of the Popular Front of Latvia.
He was one of the initiators of political strikes and other protests in connection with the January events in Vilnius in 1991,.
In late 1989, became one of the organizers of the All-Union Committee for the Defense of the investigation group Thalmann Gdlyana and Nikolai Ivanov, co-chairman of the Moscow Committee for the Protection of the investigation group Gdlyana-Ivanov.
Participated in the publication of newspapers are published illegally Moscow association of voters - "Voice of the voter," often publish investigative cases of Gdlyana and Ivanov.
In April 1990 he was elected people's deputy of RSFSR from 59 Yasenevskogo territorial electoral district of Moscow.
He was one of the organizers of the electoral bloc "Democratic Russia" (DR), a member of the parliamentary faction DR.
Since July 1990 he worked on a permanent basis in the Supreme Court (SC) of the RSFSR, first in the Committee on the media and social movements, and from November 1990 - to the Supreme Economic Council under RSFSR Supreme Soviet. In this role, managing the relations with labor collectives and workers' movements. With his participation created an alliance of labor collectives of Moscow and Moscow region and inter-republican alliance of labor collectives, a member of the Council of Representatives of which he is.
During the miners 'strikes in 1991 organized the actions of solidarity with the workers' collectives striking miners. It was Yeltsin's confidant and deputy head of the Public Committee for his election for President of Russia in 1991.
August 19, 1991, during the coup attempt, was arrested by the KGB without charge.
Released on the morning of August 21.
In December 1991 he was appointed representative of the President of Russia in Moscow.
Is engaged in Moscow on issues of due process, food, and saturating the market town of commodities, the reconstruction program the center of the capital, strengthening the municipal police, as well as problems of the Hydrometeorological Service.
In 1995, running for the State Duma 6-th convocation of the "Bloc of independent".
Political views, position:
During the miners 'strikes in 1991 organized the actions of solidarity with the workers' collectives striking miners. It was Yeltsin's confidant and deputy head of the Public Committee for his election for President of Russia in 1991.
Supported Yeltsin's course of radical economic reforms, at the V Congress of People's Deputies voted for submission to the President of emergency powers. At the same time at the VI Congress of People's Deputies joined the faction of "Civil Society", . formed by members of the democratic faction, . disappointed with the Gaidar reforms, . but walked away after the faction in the opposition bloc "Russia's unity",

. In preparation for the referendum on April 25 on behalf of Yeltsin in contact with the leaders of the movement "Democratic Russia" coordinated campaign headquarters of supporters of the President in the regions, . at the same time was negotiating with representatives of the President in the regions of the possible establishment of a "presidential party",
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Later this project was embodied in the life of the founding congress of movement "Russia's Choice, which was attended by most heads of administrations and presidential representatives in the constituent territories.
A defender of private property in land, development of farming.
Supports the government's privatization program.
In favor of the indexation of income.
Opponent of military pressure in national affairs.
A defender of church participation in child rearing.