Comrade General, now the largest maneuvers in the history of Russia are taking place in the east of the country, about 300,000 military personnel, more than 1,000 aircraft, helicopters, up to 36,000 tanks, armored personnel carriers, other vehicles, up to 80 ships and support vessels are taking part in them. Why do you think these exercises are being held right now and specifically in the east?

As a military man, I think: the choice of location is very logical. Because this is the region where we have the least concentration of troops.

And then - let's look back at history. We have already encountered situations when an armed conflict arose in this region, and we were forced to solve the problem of transferring troops.

What do you mean! The battles of the spring - autumn of 1939 at Khalkhin Gol in Mongolia, where the Red Army participated, or the border conflict between the USSR and China on Domansky Island in 1969?

I mean, among other things, the Russo-Japanese War. By the way, it is considered lost, although in fact we were just finishing the mobilization and transfer of troops at that time, and we were persuaded to conclude a peace treaty. And Japan by this moment already ran out of steam.

- It's 1904.

Yes, 1904 - 1905.

So, returning to today and to Vostok-2018, everything is very logical: the task has been set to quickly, accurately and smoothly transfer troops to this region. In Europe, we have a developed road network and so on, but here, at least even in this sense, such difficult task. This is about choosing a place for maneuvers.

As for their scale ... It is very logical and remarkable that, in addition to exercises of a tactical, operational-tactical level, we finally have the opportunity (it is still quite an expensive pleasure) to conduct maneuvers of such a scale. And thank God...

And these maneuvers (and they began on September 11 and will continue until September 17) involve not only formations of the army, navy, and aviation, but, in particular, the bodies and forces of military command and control. Exactly what you are talking about...

Bodies of military control - headquarters of various levels.

And you know what got me interested in the first place? There, at the Tsugul training ground, there were two tents where 92 military attachés were concentrated.

Well, in the exercises - normal practice ...

And when the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces Vladimir Putin, after the completion of the main stage of the maneuvers, spoke at the field review of the troops, he said that our foreign policy"is aimed at constructive cooperation with all countries that are interested in this, which is why 87 observers from 59 countries of the world are present at these exercises"...

What does it say about our openness? We, including those under international documents within the framework of Russia-NATO, even have certain obligations in this regard.

Vladimir Putin watches the Vostok-2018 exercises. Photo: REUTERS

- Before that, Putin said: "We are a peace-loving state" ...

And open to everyone. So they invited guests ... So that someone would not think: they didn’t invite him, probably, the attitude towards him is appropriate. For all! Although... Any army must learn to fight.

What else surprised me. They took about 170 foreign journalists from all the media, and they are transported from range to range within a few days.

And this is not surprising...

I have a feeling that it's very great attention on maneuvers to the presence of military guests. They say that there were stealth missiles at some other test site. Wouldn't it turn out that we let them in on some of our secrets?

Of course not. Another thing is that they can see elements of our disorganization in these exercises, if any.

- There were no elements of disorganization there!

We don't just talk about it, but it always happens. Military attaches as specialists can notice this. Secrets, of course not.

There were soldiers from the Chinese People's Republic and Mongolia, they, together with our president, sat at this observation post. And Putin said: “I want to express special gratitude to the servicemen of China and Mongolia. Our military fraternity has long-standing strong traditions... During the Second World War, our countries were allies, resisted the aggressor together, and today they are solving a common task – together they ensure stability and security in the Eurasian space.” The fact that both Mongolia and China are united here, perhaps even for the first time in many years, didn't it seem unusual to you?

No, it didn't seem to. With Mongolia, I think there are no questions. Well, with China ... there are no questions now either. Yes, we had certain territorial problems in the late 60s, which resulted in armed conflicts. And there were no other problems. We liberated the territory of the PRC at the end of World War II, in cooperation, of course, with Chinese forces.

And here is such a figure ... From the People's Liberation Army of China, 3,500 military personnel participated in these maneuvers, over 600 units military equipment and 30 aircraft. Also for the first time there were so many military exercises from the Middle Kingdom, it seemed to me. What is it talking about or talking about?

The fact is that, if we take the balance of forces in the region, then, of course, on the side of China here, the numerical superiority is colossal. If their small units arrived at the maneuvers, it would be illogical and incomprehensible. And here - quite an adequate presence.

During the field parade, the president said, addressing the Russian military: “Our duty to the country, the Motherland is to be ready to defend the sovereignty, security and national interests of our country, and if necessary, to support the allies.” This is not just a phrase that sounded precisely at such exercises, in the presence of military leaders from the allied countries. How can we, civilians, decipher this?

No need to decrypt. So understand. If we jointly participate in maneuvers with them, then we can talk about allied relations to a certain extent. Why else would they be together?

Then, Pavel Semenovich, tell us what signal from these exercises, from Vostok-2018, sounds to the West, where periodically, as they said in the 60s, saber-rattling, and from where we increasingly hear aggressive statements?

I think that our military does not send any signals to the West, they perform their tasks during the exercises.

- That is, they didn’t rattle and don’t rattle with weapons on purpose?

Of course not. Yes, and the task is different - to show how one shoots, the other shoots ... How it flies, how it moves. Maneuvers of this kind, as I said at the beginning of our conversation, are, first of all, our studies ... Working out interaction. Well, then ... Let everyone who is interested in it look at our possibilities.

Well, could some political signals be heard from Vostok-2018 these days? Supreme Commander Armed forces of Putin's Russia, and I somehow became calmer.

The military has somewhat different tasks than journalists. As for political signals and other things - this is not for me ...

- Thank you for your answers.

And "Komsomolskaya Pravda" - for questions.

Pavel Zolotarev, Leading Researcher of the USA and Canada, Major General - about the maneuvers "Vostok - 2018"

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Recently, the former head of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Far Eastern Federal District, Colonel-General of Militia Anatoly Zolotarev, became an assistant to the chairman of the government of the Khabarovsk Territory for security issues. This news would have remained a standard personnel procedure and would not have received wide publicity if it were not for the personality of Zolotarev himself - the general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who left his post under the pressure of certain circumstances. The rumors surrounding the figure of the chief Far Eastern policeman gradually took on real shape, and in early December 2008 Anatoly Zolotarev was “asked” ... The police colonel general was relieved of his post and transferred to the reserve of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The reasons for the resignation of Anatoly Zolotarev from the Ministry of Internal Affairs were the unsatisfactory work on combating corruption and the low performance of the operational and service activities of the police in Far East. Such a capacious comment was given in the media by representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, referring to whole line negative indicators. But, as practice shows, such people do not disappear, and now the disgraced general is back on horseback - he takes over the coordination of all law enforcement agencies working in the Khabarovsk Territory. Apparently, the governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Viktor Ishaev, is too seriously “tied up” with Zolotarev to simply come to terms with his departure from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

But back to General Zolotarev. This man has been managing his native Far Eastern land for a long time. He was born on July 21, 1949 in the village of Korsakovo, Shimanovsky district, Amur region, studied in the Gorky high school police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, which he graduated in 1976 and 1989, and served in the Far East for all years of service, with the exception of studies. He started as a "traffic cop", and, having received higher education, chose a promising Soviet times direction - the fight against theft of socialist property.

In 1985, he already headed the UBKhSS (department to combat the theft of socialist property) of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Khabarovsk Territory. Apparently then, during the period of political and economic crisis, into which the aging Soviet Union, Zolotarev began to launch his long arms into all economic spheres, to where real sums of money revolved.

After graduating from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR in 1989, Zolotarev was appointed deputy, and soon the first deputy head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Khabarovsk Territory - the head of the criminal police. In this position, on May 9, 1997, he was awarded the rank of major general of militia. In the same 1997, he headed the regional department of internal affairs.

Is it worth listing all the commercial interests of General Zolotarev in the Khabarovsk Territory? His actions in the areas of timber trade, smuggling of consumer goods, including fur coats and valuable furs from China, transportation of Japanese cars, fraud with precious metals, illegal fishing of aquatic bioresources, legalization of criminal proceeds, oil redistribution ... It is unlikely that readers will have the patience to understand these confusing schemes.

Weaving their general was a master, always using a large amount different people- the rotation of personnel in his subordinate units was usually high. There was also confusion with the documents - already in the last months of his police career, General Zolotarev was reminded of the disappearance of an entire archive of all Khabarovsk crime, accumulated by the operatives of the regional administration over many years of fighting crime. Compromising evidence in these documents would be enough to "substitute" not only the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Khabarovsk Territory himself, but also a number of major security officials and officials of the region, tied with General Zolotarev in common affairs.

And then, back in 2001, Anatoly Zolotarev was at the peak of success. Moscow, gripped by the struggle with the legacy of the Yeltsin era - the economic crisis, the war in Chechnya, personnel chaos, etc. - it was simply not up to the problems of the Far East, so distant and almost autonomous. People in the capital did their best, and now, by presidential decree, Lieutenant-General of Militia Zolotarev becomes the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Far Eastern Federal District.

He began to place his people in the internal affairs departments of other regions of the Far Eastern Federal District. Lobbying close associates in the capital, he gradually placed police chiefs and deputies throughout the Far East. Having established relations with the leadership of the Far Eastern Prosecutor's Office and a number of other law enforcement agencies, he continued to communicate with crime bosses, dishonest businessmen, poachers and national diasporas.

The result of several years of Zolotarev's rule in the Far East was the dismissal of the general with the wording "of his own free will." However, even on the pages of the state printed mouthpiece " Russian newspaper”, in an article dated December 10, 2008, data from the Human Resources Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia were posted, according to which “... during the time Zolotarev was in the position of chief, the total rotation of personnel amounted to more than 1,500 employees with the number of Glavka 400 people. The Anti-Corruption Department is understaffed, and there are no heads and deputies in other departments. It also turned out that the database of the Khabarovsk RUBOP on the “common fund” and organized crime had disappeared from the Glavka. The Investigation Department for the Far Eastern Federal District is already checking this information, in particular, they are checking the facts of violation of the secrecy regime.”

In the case of full legal confirmation of the facts of the general's underground acts, a case can be initiated under Article 286 of the Criminal Code (“Abuse of power”). True, the disgraced general skillfully covered his tracks, destroying archival documents and, in general, everything that could expose the criminal talents of the police chief. And then there is such support from the Khabarovsk governor Viktor Ishaev, who appointed Zolotarev as an assistant to the chairman of the government of the Khabarovsk Territory on security issues, and in other words, "looking" for law enforcement agencies.

Apparently, with the dismissal of the general from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, many shadow business schemes that lure the "top" of the Khabarovsk Territory began to collapse. The recently created position of assistant to the head of the region for security turned out to be surprisingly handy - now Anatoly Zolotarev is again "in harness", has access to operational information and can continue to "steer" the shadow business of the region, only not in uniform, but in a civilian suit. Well, the difference for such people is not great ... Money and power are more important.

As it becomes clear, this case will bring many more surprises... But let's get back to Valuiki. And in Valuyki, meanwhile, there was a feverish covering up of traces. People involved in Zolotarev's reports were urgently transferred, fired, and so on.
In the end, it all came down to a confrontation between Captain Zolotarev and Major Elizarov, the head of one of the divisional services. The major, without further ado, began to threaten the captain. And Zolotarev wrote down threats addressed to him.
While the essence and the matter were going on, Zolotarev managed to challenge his dismissal and achieve reinstatement in the army.

But nothing, a second case was quickly brought against him.
By the way, the mysterious disappearance of Zolotarev's personal card speaks of the cleanliness of those who started all this. With a bunch of thanks (including for participating in the program for the elimination of chemical weapons), with awards and encouragement. Instead, another one appeared, where 4 reprimands and a warning about incomplete service compliance were hastily scrawled.
We will be happy to talk about all illegal actions in the framework of criminal cases a little later, when the clerical work in the second case, separated from the first, already won by Zolotarev in the Kursk District Military Court, is over.
A. Zolotarev: “The investigation was very clumsy. Evidence of my guilt is mainly based on the testimony of witnesses. The witnesses were handled by Captain Kashkarov, who, by hook or by crook, "convinced" many. The prosecutor's office signed the case without going into details, and then, fearing that the court would be the same, I again turned to the AP.”
“I tried to talk with the investigator Kashkarov, I told him that I would complain that he was intimidating witnesses. "At least go to the direct line to Putin" - that was the answer.
In general, history surprises with the number of forged documents and distorted testimonies of witnesses. Nevertheless, Captain Zolotarev does not consider himself a liar and an inventor and is ready to go all the way in this matter. Despite the fact that hefty containers of lies and accusations shine in his regard.
But since Major Elizarov, who, according to Zolotarev, covered and continues to cover everything that the captain wrote to the Supreme Commander, continues to serve in the same position, Alexei is sure that much is yet to come.
Captain Zolotarev is considered by many to be a rat and an informer. Meanwhile, all the facts and evidence cited by the captain, oddly enough, did not go beyond the army.
Zolotarev is convinced that the problems he raised should be resolved only within the army. And in no case can they become the property of the “broad masses”. Here the point is not about one-day attention to one's person, but about the country's security issues.

The head of the Armored Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Sergei Bibik, spoke out against selling military scrap metal to Translom, a company close to Russian Railways, without bidding. The major general questioned her production capacity

The Translom company should not become a priority buyer of the Ministry of Defense scrap, as it cannot cope with the removal of the military scrap it has already acquired, Major General Sergei Bibik, Acting Head of the Main Armored Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, pointed out in his letter dated April 5. The document was sent to the director of the department of property relations of the Ministry of Defense Dmitry Kurakin. A copy of the letter is at the disposal of RBC, the authenticity of the document was confirmed by two sources of RBC close to the defense department.

The letter of the head of the department of the Ministry of Defense was written in response to an instruction to consider a draft presidential decree, which, like RBC, gives the Ministry of Defense the right to sell the scrap collection company Translom scrap of ferrous and non-ferrous metals formed from the disposal of military equipment at market value without bidding. Now the project is at the stage of public hearings. Now military scrap is being sold at the auction of the Russian Auction House, acting on behalf of the Ministry of Defense.

Arguing his position, Bibik writes that the Translom company was unable to start exporting the purchased military scrap from the territory of JSC 560 BTRZ (armored plant) within a month. By the time the letter was written, about 130 tons of scrap metal out of 1425 tons had been removed, which casts doubt on the production capabilities of Translom, the general emphasizes.

Translom fulfills all obligations to the Ministry of Defense, Sergey Astakhov, the general director of this company, told RBC. But when asked whether it is true that the removal of scrap from the territory of JSC “560 BTRZ” is being delayed, he replied: “There are different situations ... We won quite a lot of lots, I don’t want to comment on the situation for one lot. I won't comment any more!"

Last year, the Ministry of Defense gained more than 2 billion rubles thanks to the sale of military scrap, Dmitry Kurakin told RBC.​

In 2017, the military department plans to get rid of 230 thousand tons of scrap metal (the proportion of ferrous and non-ferrous metals in the batch is unknown), follows from the explanatory note to the draft presidential decree. Considering the average price in 2016 on the ferrous scrap market at the level of 9.5 thousand rubles. per ton, the contract in the first year alone can bring Translom 2.2 billion rubles. revenue. Based on the price of ferrous scrap in March (12 thousand rubles per ton), Translom will be able to earn 2.8 billion rubles.

What is "Translom"

The former structure of Russian Railways LLC Translom has been owned since October last year by Alexei Zolotarev, a partner of presidential aide Igor Levitin, a former minister of transport. The company's revenue for 2015, according to SPARK-Interfax, amounted to 13.5 billion rubles. RBC's source in the scrap collection industry noted that Translom continues to win all Russian Railways tenders for the disposal of decommissioned railcars. Despite the fact that the company has changed its owner, it de facto continues to remain close to Russian Railways, RBC's interlocutor in the market concluded.

"Translom" with the interests of the Rotenberg family. Arkady Rotenberg owns Pipe Metal Roll LLC, and his son Igor owns 50% of NSK LLC, which specializes in the production of precious and non-ferrous metals and the processing of all types of scrap. At the same time, Translom and Kronos are Russian Railways scrap collectors, where Igor Rotenberg was vice president and head of the property management department in 2004 and 2005, Kommersant argues.

The general director of Translom, Sergei Astakhov, denies the company's connection with the Rotenbergs: he told RBC that Zolotarev is the owner of 100%. The representative of the Rotenbergs also denied the connection of Translom with their structures, adding that the aforementioned NSK LLC has nothing to do with scrap collection.

December 12th, 2014 , 12:52 pm

Korean major-general of the All-Great Don Army ZOLOTAREV VICTOR NIKOLAEVICH (Kim In-su)

It's hard to believe, but the fact remains. But let's take it in order, so ...

1896

In Seoul, a large delegation of Russian military specialists under the command of Colonel General Staff of the Russian imperial army Putyaty to train the Korean army and a detachment of imperial bodyguards. For only a year, Russian officers stayed as teachers at the Seoul cadet school, but the political situation changed, and Japanese instructors appeared to replace them, but Emperor Kojon defended the right to appoint the head of the school Captain Kim In-su, a Korean of Russian citizenship, an interpreter for the Russian military mission.

1904

1st Nerchinsk Cossack Regiment of the Trans-Baikal Cossack Army.

The aide-de-camp of the Korean emperor Kim In-su in the Russian military service, a scout-raider in the rear of the Japanese army in Korea, a full-time translator, an organizer of Korean partisan squads, received the Order of St. Anna 2nd degree with swords and a bow for collecting intelligence of particular importance.

1908

In Blagoveshchensk, Prizeya province (now the Amur region of the Russian Federation), at the point of permanent deployment on March 17, all ranks of the 1st Nerchinsk Cossack Regiment were assigned by the highest permission insignia on headdresses "For the campaign in Korea in 1904 and 1905."

1915

Southwestern Front.

Heavy fighting at the mouth of the rivers Turya and Stokhod.
Colonel Kim Ying Su - commander of the detachment of the 17th Don Cossack General Baklanov Regiment of the 2nd Consolidated Cossack Division.

Awards:

Order of St. Anne 3rd class with swords and bow
Order of St. Stanislaus 3rd class with swords and a bow, both awards on the same day - 06/27/1916
Order of St. Stanislaus 2-class with swords and a bow and
St. George's weapon "For courage" - 01/03/1917

From the award list of the division commander: " Colonel Kim In-su on the night of August 31, 1915, with the forces of the 1st company and 2 hundred with 2 guns and 2 machine guns, personally leading and inspiring by personal example of courage, famously attacked the enemy line, knocked him out of the village of Gulevichi, at the same time, he captured two active machine guns, weapons, a stock of fire charges and took 3 officers and 89 lower ranks prisoners."

In December 1917 with all the Cossacks joined the Don Volunteer Army.

In October, he was awarded the rank of Major General of the All-Great Don Army, and the Russian pseudonym was taken - ZOLOTAREV VIKTOR NIKOLAEVICH.
He was the head of the Salsk detachment of the South-Eastern Front (29.10.-December 1918), commander of the Manych group of troops (December 1918-February 1919), head of the garrison of the city of Aleksandrovsk-Grushevsky, Cherkasy district (now the city of Shakhty, Rostov region), from November 1, 1919 to January 1920 was in the reserve officers of the All-Great Don Army. In January 1920, on the ship "Hannover" he emigrated to Turkey, the Balkans, the Russian Far East, Manchuria, China. So he could not see his ardently beloved family-wife and two children-son and daughter, separated by a border. 06/28/1920-1924 - as a representative of the All-Great Don Army, he was at the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief armed forces Russian Eastern Outskirts. In 1924, he was a headquarters officer for assignments at the headquarters of the most combat volunteer 1st Russian mixed brigade - more than 70% of Russian officers and soldiers (later the 14th Russian brigade of the 2nd Chinese army) of the army of Marshal Zhang Zuolin. Participating in civil war in China, died heroically during the storming of the Koaning fortress, was buried with military honors in Shanghai.

P.S. Photo, obviously, Harbin in the difficult years of emigration, all military orders, probably sold for food, one Anna with swords and a bow around her neck and Korean medals on her chest