Russian businessman, gold miner Vadim Tumanov. Biography

In Russia, many people who have gone down in history, left a bright trace in it. To a cohort of outstanding personalities and legendary figures is Vadim Tumanov - a great man of unbending will. His fate is a series of fantastic life vicissitudes, which he overcame with nobility.

He happened to be the navigator of a sea ship and political prisoner. He headed the legendary gold-mining artel created in the Soviet era. He is considered a talented and successful entrepreneur of modernity. Vadim Ivanovich Tumanov was friends with Vysotsky and other outstanding Russian cultural figures.

The family of VI Tumanov

Vadim Ivanovich appeared on September 1, 1927 in the Ukrainian town of Belaya Tserkov. His mother's family was considered prosperous at that time. Mother, orphaned during the Revolution, did not agree to go abroad. She decided to live with her uncle's family.

Father in the Civil War joined the ranks of the workers 'and peasants' Red Army. He fought for a brighter future as part of Budyonny's cavalry, fought through the territory of Central Asia, attacked the basmachi. Oleko Dundich was friendly with him.

By 1930, Vadim's father left the military service. He took his family to the Far East, where he was engaged in the construction of cities. Parents VI Tumanov buried in Khabarovsk.

Personal life of VI Tumanov

A graduate of the technical school of commerce, who received the specialty of a commodity expert, was sent to work on Kolyma. For the first time with Rimma, Vadim Tumanov met on December 31, 1955, at the New Year's carnival, held in the House of Culture of Susuman.

They were married on July 14, 1957. In the same year, the newlyweds were allocated an apartment. In 1960 the son of Tumanov was born. The baby was named after his father - Vadim.

In 1964, doctors diagnosed tuberculosis in Rimma, recommended that she change the climate. The family moved to Pyatigorsk. In his native city, Vadim Tumanov's wife got a job at local television, taking up the post of director. V. Vysotsky in 1979 came to speak at the television studio of the city of Pyatigorsk.

In 1980, Vadim Vadimovich entered the Moscow State University, he became a student of journalism. The constant persecution of his father by law enforcement agencies led to the fact that V. V. Tumanov was locked in himself.

Vadim Ivanovich Tumanov and his family were subjected to severe attacks in 1988. After the publication in the media of an article exposing her husband, visits by militiamen and KGB officers to an apartment where the family of a successful gold miner lived, Rimma left the post of the leading director on television.

Biography of gold miner

During the Second World War, a teenager dreamed about the front and career of a sailor. To serve a fourteen-year-old boy began from the moment of enrolling in an electromechanical school on Russky Island. From there he was transferred to Zarubino Bay, where the zone of the Khasan Coast Defense was located, where he was enrolled in the 561st separate chemical platoon.

After accidentally damaging Stalin's portrait at one of the political sessions, Vadim Tumanov was sent to serve in the guardhouse. His biography includes this fact, and something similar happened to other people at that time. Such incidents were not uncommon, Soviet citizens more than paid for them.

The teenager was keen on boxing. Perhaps this then saved the Komsomol from serious punishment. For his misdemeanor from the chemical platoon was transferred to a sports company assigned to the Hasan sector. Vadim repeatedly won the boxing matches. This allowed the young guy to join the national team representing the Pacific Fleet.

In 1944 he enrolled in the course of navigators, successfully graduated them in a year and went to serve as the fourth assistant to the ship "Emelyan Pugachev," who plowed the ocean in the Far East, Korea and China. Then he was transferred to the Arctic vessel "Uralmash" for the position of the third navigator.

Life in Kolyma camps

In 1949, Vadim Tumanov was arrested. He was accused of anti-Soviet propaganda, convicted and sent to serve time on Kolyma. Humility with unjust punishment was displeasing to the young man. He made 8 attempts to escape from the camp. Defending himself on escaping, he mutilated the guard. During the period of unauthorized liberation, he robbed the savings bank. As a result, Tumanov received an additional term. In total, he was given 25 years of camps.

Vadim, because of irrepressible nature, had to wander through the camps scattered on the Kolyma, spend part of the term in the penal camps, learn the subtleties of gold mining in the mines and mines. His artisan artel became the best brigade of prisoners extracting precious metal on Kolyma.

In places of detention, Vadim Ivanovich met with great people. On Kolyma, his fate was reduced to the legendary navigator Yu. K. Khlebnikov, who overcame the first for the period of one navigating the path between the Arkhangelsk and the Bering Strait. He met in the camps with M. Serykh, who later received the title Hero of Socialist Labor. On Kolyma Vadim Tumanov got acquainted with I. Kalinin - the brilliant guitarist of the USSR.

Becoming an entrepreneur

The Tumanov case was reviewed in July 1956, and released. After going free, he went to Vladivostok to sail on ships, but a few months later he returned to Kolyma. Vadim Ivanovich forever abandoned the dream of becoming a sailor, his passion was working on gold mines.

He introduced a lot of rationalization ideas, raised the productivity of gold miners. The artel under his leadership discovered new deposits with rich gold-bearing layers. For the shock work of people working under the guidance of VI Tumanov, they were repeatedly awarded with badges and diplomas. In his artel passed the passing Red Banner.

And throughout his career, his labor successes became, like a red rag for a bull, an incredible irritant for journalists and law enforcement. Tumanov wrote devastating articles, periodically initiated criminal proceedings against him and closed them for lack of corpus delicti.

After the collapse of the USSR, he repeatedly sent letters with brilliant proposals on the reorganization of gold mining to the Secretary General of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, the Government of the Russian Federation, President Boris Yeltsin and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. However, the initiatives of the talented entrepreneur were not supported, he was not allowed to implement the developed projects. They only unsuccessfully used it, passing it on to foreign investors.

Great friends of V. Tumanov

Fate constantly confronted Vadim Ivanovich with the legendary people. His friends were S. Govorukhin, E. Evtushenko, L. Monchinsky. Vadim Tumanov - Vysotsky's friend (their first meeting, held in April 1973, became fateful). A legendary poet, musician and actor devoted several songs to Tumanov.

Vadim Ivanovich L. Monchinsky and V. Vysotsky helped to work on the novel "Black Candle". The work reveals reliable aspects of the criminal world of Kolyma. According to the book, the script for the film "Fartovy" was written. It included a piece of the biography of the legendary gold miner. With E. Evtushenko V. Tumanov traveled around the camps, which became part of his tragic fate.

To protect the artel Tumanov stood E. Evtushenko and V. Ilyukhin. The celebrated cultural figures expressed sympathy to the Russian entrepreneur. He received support from L. Filatov, A. Borovik, G. Komrakov, V. Nadya, L. Shinkarev and A. Tikhomirov.

Book of V. Tumanov

In 2004 he published his memoirs Vadim Tumanov. "All lose - and again start with a dream ..." - so titled his own writer's work a man of a difficult but interesting fate. The work describes the lives of people doomed to exist in the Kolyma camps.

The memoir book of Vadim Tumanov is a vivid narration about how the largest Russian artel founders formed. It talks about the selfless labor of people mining gold for the country, unique historical facts, the witness of which was the author of the novel.

Despite the life vicissitudes, pursuing VI Tumanov, he was recognized by people and the state. Many know him, respect him and respect him. He has a high title of academician.