How a minister's friend became a rector
In December 2016, the former vice-governor of the Krasnodar Territory, United Russia member Galina Zolina was appointed to the position of acting. Rector of the Timiryazev Academy, the largest agricultural university in Russia. Zolina never worked in agriculture - she graduated from the correspondence department of the Maikop Pedagogical Institute and taught Russian language and literature.
Zolina became the rector of Timiryazevka when she was the Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev, with whom she has a long-standing close relationship. In 1999, she took the post of deputy general director for social issues of the Vyselkovsky Agrocomplex, co-owned by Tkachev's father and brother. After Tkachev’s appointment as head of the region, Zolina became his media adviser, and even later, his deputy for social development.
Zolina is a philologist by training. In 2007, she defended her PhD thesis at the Faculty of Journalism of KubSU and received the academic degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences. Her scientific work was devoted to the most important philological problem - the formation of a positive image of the Krasnodar region in the media. According to the Dissernet Project, her dissertation consists of borrowings.In 2015, after Tkachev’s appointment as Minister of Agriculture, Zolina was dismissed from the post of deputy governor and a year and a half later she headed Timiryazevka. Immediately become a rector without an acting prefix. she could not because she did not meet the necessary qualification requirements - for this she must have at least five years of specialized experience. But three years later, in January 2018, she was confirmed in the position. During Zolina’s work in Timiryazevka, many employees who disagreed with her management decisions were fired. Teachers and students of the academy repeatedly went to rallies to protest against the leadership methods of the new rector.
["Interlocutor", 11/21/2017, "How Tkachev's friend plowed the agricultural academy": Galina Zolina is a long-time and close friend and ally of the Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev. They are the same age, born in the same village of Vyselki, Krasnodar Territory. [...]
Tkachev’s deputy, they recall in Krasnodar, kept the edge with a tight rein. Locals compare her either with Furtseva - also from the plow, but gravitating towards culture, or with Khrushchev - with all his quirks. On Krasnodar soil, Zolina lined up the local media, established connections with the diocese, and for this even received the Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga. After Tkachev moved to Moscow, the new governor fired his predecessor’s ally, and she followed her fellow countryman to the capital. After working for some time at the Ministry of Agriculture, Galina Zolina was appointed rector of the Timiryazev Academy. The team received the Varangian coolly. [...]
Timiryazevka thundered in the spring of 2016, when a government commission decided to seize 100 hectares of land from the academy for development. University staff united and began to fight to prevent their alma mater from being robbed. Putin personally had to intervene in the matter. “Leave Timiryazevka alone!” - was his verdict. After this, the issue with the lands was abandoned, but, as the university suggests, it was not closed.
- This is too tasty a morsel. We know that after the scandal, Minister Tkachev had a conversation with the Deputy Prime Minister Shuvalov behind closed doors. Whether they abandoned the original idea or decided to act differently is unknown, but it was at this time that Zolina’s candidacy arose, says a source at the academy.
First of all, the heads of the most active fighters against the transfer of land fell. [...]
Dozens of people, even those who had worked at the university for 20–30 years, left their jobs. Instead, new ones were hired, many came from Krasnodar. From there, dance and vocal ensembles are drawn up and perform at university celebrations. Products are now being transported from Kuban to Timiryazevka - from CJSC Agrokompleks. Of course, the path is not short, but who’s counting? - Insert K.ru]
“Students are threatened, almost everyone is under surveillance”
One of the latest high-profile stories was the dismissal of the dean of the Faculty of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Alexander Solovyov. He was one of the organizers of protests against the transfer of experimental land to the academy for commercial development. He told The Insider about the reasons for his dismissal:
“From the moment of her appointment, Zolina was faced with the task of getting rid of those who opposed the seizure of land. In just over a year, she got rid of hundreds of people, and now she’s simply clearing out those who didn’t particularly perform. After I was dismissed from the post of dean of the Faculty of Agronomy and Biotechnology for far-fetched reasons, it was necessary to arrange for two reprimands, which was done. And, despite the fact that the trade union committee unanimously supported me, a dismissal order was issued.
The union members who voted for me were subsequently deprived of all bonuses, so as to discourage them. One of the students was accused of organizing a picket and was fined. By and large, everyone who quit, was fired, or tried to sue everyone lost. As I understand it, the matter cannot proceed without financial remuneration for the judge.
Recently, the use of the laboratory has been banned; students have stopped going there and cannot conduct scientific research. Students are constantly threatened. Almost everyone is under surveillance - who writes what on social networks, who gave whom likes - individual conversations are immediately carried out, and they are intimidated with expulsion. Despite the fact that these are students who study normally.
And about. The dean, who came in my place, immediately told my assistant at the dean’s office, student Ekaterina: “We won’t work well together.” All her allowances were immediately reduced, leaving her on a bare salary, despite the fact that her work requires a lot of time, effort, and most importantly, skills and knowledge. Naturally, she was forced to leave.
When her contract for living in a hostel ended, she was given a week to leave - despite the fact that she lived in the hostel with her daughter. They were simply thrown out the door.
Teachers who at least once spoke out somewhere or did not support, that is, did not speak out “for” the rector’s policy, had their bonuses cancelled. This is 7 km from the Kremlin, and they operate as in Krasnodar during the governorship of Tkachev and the vice-government of Zolina. But our authorities don’t see anything, “everything is fine” with us.
My former deputy at the faculty, Olga Aleksandrovna Shchuklina, and deputy dean for educational work, Igor Anatolyevich Zavertkin, were fired the day after my dismissal from the post of dean. Shchuklina, when her contract for living in a hostel ended, was given a week to leave - despite the fact that she lived in the hostel with her daughter. They were simply thrown out the door.
I don’t really imagine how the educational process in the disciplines of our department will be carried out now. There are still teachers at the department, the workload is now distributed between them, but, for example, the people who conducted the practice have left. Now there is no one to conduct the practice. The laboratory that was previously used is closed. Vice-Rector for Science, Mr. Belopukhov, says that students do not have to learn the methods in practice. Of course, why do we need people who know the methods? We don’t need them, we only need obedient ones who will exclusively follow the instructions of management.”
"Close Timiryazevka and give the fields for development"
“One gets the impression that Zolina came to essentially close Timiryazevka - at least to remove the technological faculties from there, which need fields for preparing students and performing experiments, and leave there several faculties such as humanities and economics. Well, the Timiryazev Academy stop will remain, everything else will simply be given over for development.
Over the past year, no funds have been allocated to maintain these areas. They sowed mustard in the fields for show, and then forgot about it. She died. So resistant to everything, but for some reason it hasn’t grown. It would be better not to disgrace yourself, as they say.
And now the heads of the experimental stations have been expelled: the field station - Yegor Berezovsky, the vegetable station - Vasily Suddenko, he was in charge for many years. Even at the time when I was allowed to sit on the academic council of the university, Zolina said that in order to develop the scientific base, we need to build new buildings, despite the fact that not all of our buildings are even registered, and we will demarcate individual areas. That is, where individual plots are demarcated for development, it will be possible to say: you are not using them effectively, so why should you build, there will be Mr. Shuvalov’s companies to develop these territories.“All our appeals through deputies, through the round table in the Moscow City Duma, directly to the president, the president’s representative in the Central Federal District, through the government and the Federation Council - it all went into the sand.”
"There are almost no living animals left. At least there will be plastic ones"
From an open letter from former and current employees of Timiryazevka to President Putin: “Up to 30% of procurement costs - almost 300 million budget rubles! - last year it was spent on numerous pseudo-holidays and PR campaigns. And for the maintenance of all experimental fields, gardens, greenhouses, forests and vivarium, 2.6% of the funds allocated to the university were allocated last year.”
Against the background of the indifferent attitude of the university management to the educational process, salary cuts, deprivation of bonuses and dismissals, a festive atmosphere reigns in the academy. For example, Rector Zolina purchased plastic vegetables, fruits and plastic animals worth more than 0.5 million rubles to decorate the territory and premises. “We purchased about 20 thousand plastic toys to “decorate” the territory of the academy. Around the same time, in student dormitories, water was gushing from the ceiling so much that the bucket provided had to be emptied almost every hour,” a former academy employee told The Insider. “There are almost no living animals left, although there will be plastic ones. And baskets with plastic bell peppers are an excellent decoration,” he noted.
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“The garbage chute was on fire. But students on several floors woke up not from the sound of an alarm, but from smoke. It turned out that a significant part of the residents had already been evacuated, standing dressed and with their belongings on the street. But on these floors there was no signal, and they might not have woken up. Fire protection systems have not been maintained for a long time because there is no money for it. But there is money to invite Galustyan and “Tea for Two.” And about. the head of the university’s integrated security department, Farhad Zagirov, then demanded that students spread comments that the alarm was working and everything was ok. They threaten students and teachers. In the rector’s office there are real bandits, and they are protected by the Ministry of Agriculture and the governor of the Krasnodar Territory.”
“They spend money on all sorts of nonsense, they just filled the academy with all sorts of props. From lace curtains to ugly animal figures,” another academy employee told The Insider. According to the interlocutor, enormous amounts of money are spent on concerts and performances. “Everyone is dancing and singing. Millions are spent on graduation, on September 1, on awards, and on awarding certificates with cash certificates. It feels like they just decided to shut people’s eyes with this nonsense. But the fields are not being developed; a whole year has already passed.”
This information was confirmed by The Insider and chemistry teacher Pavel Uglinsky, who resigned from the academy:
“Against the backdrop of all these events, Zolina spends unaffordable expenses on various entertainment events. Concerts, invitations to some stars, the Turkish choir... The toilets were renovated with the involvement of so-called designers. Well, against the backdrop of this are falling ceilings. If previously all resources were used to resolve these issues with the involvement of the property fund, now, it turns out, the priorities are different. A person with a degree in philology, a candidate of science, does what he can. In the sixth building where I worked, it was 12–13 degrees in the laboratory all winter. The rooms are not heated, the ceilings are also leaking, it’s a mess, basically.”
On January 12, 2018, the administration of the Timiryazev Academy filed a lawsuit against a group of university employees, former and current. Eight people were defendants in the lawsuit. Among them are Academy Professor Alexander Solovyov, Associate Professor Olga Shchuklina and former head of the Department of Protocol Events and Personnel Certification Oksana Tarasenkova. On January 10, Zolina published an appeal in which she complained about “attempts to discredit the university leadership.” In her appeal, she claimed that after her appointment as rector at the end of 2016, she discovered numerous financial irregularities, “which law enforcement agencies still have to sort out.” Zolina also accused the dean of the Faculty of Agronomy and Biotechnology Solovyov of the fact that he “in pursuit of the image of a “public politician” began to increasingly move away from his main line of work” and “repeatedly committed violations of labor duties.” A week later, Solovyov was fired from the academy. In April, the Koptevsky court rejected the second filing of documents.
The Insider was unable to get a comment from Galina Zolina. Her assistant Galina Tsinamdzgvrishvili at first refused to connect the editorial office with the rector, accusing The Insider of incompetence and “executing an order,” and a week later she reported that she “no longer works in Timiryazevka.” This development of events surprised The Insider correspondents, because until recently she had expressed complete loyalty and devotion to the academy to its rector. In one of her last posts she
The controversy surrounding the Timiryazev Academy, headed by an “appointee,” continues Minister of Agriculture Alexandra Tkacheva.
At a meeting of the Moscow City Duma yesterday, January 24, Communist Party deputy Nikolai Zabrilin made a demand. His statement boiled down to the need for the urgent dismissal of the current acting rector of the Timiryazev Academy, Galina Zolin.
At the meeting, he said that at a meeting with former and current employees of the Timiryazev Academy, problems that had arisen at the academy were voiced.
He said that then, by order of officials, more than 100 hectares of land were transferred for residential development. It is worth noting that before this the area was used for educational and scientific processes.
After the personal intervention of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the land was returned to the scientists.
“Now a new rector has been appointed there, this has introduced additional friction in the workforce. And the present residents of the Timiryazevsky district, the present former and current employees of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy asked me to speak from the podium of the Moscow City Duma and demand the resignation of the current rector, Nikolai Zubrilin said at a meeting of the Moscow City Duma.
Separately, the deputy focused on “repression” by law enforcement agencies, which, in his opinion, is a consequence of the fact that students opposed, in their opinion, illegal actions of the academy’s management.
State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin shared his opinion about the scandal surrounding the Timiryazev Academy.
“The acting rector of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Galina Zolina, is a “mediocre leader” and she “must leave,” said State Duma deputy Valery Rashkin.
Let us remind you that yesterday, January 23, a meeting was held between deputies of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and defenders of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.
— If the leader Zolina does not care about her own people, she is not a leader, she must be eliminated. The incompetent leader must leave,” Communist Party member Valery Rashkin expressed his opinion.
As Notepad Krasnodar previously wrote, a scandal broke out at the Timiryazev Moscow Agricultural Academy. A group of teachers sharply criticized the actions of Galina Zolina, who was appointed to the post of rector by Alexander Tkachev.
According to the academy’s employees, Galina Zolina not only works without a specialized education, but also does everything to ensure that the academy’s lands located in the Moscow region are transferred to private companies for development.
Let us note that in her public response to these accusations, Galina Zolina mentioned only one person as the instigator of the riot - Alexander Solovyov, who is the dean of the academy. It became known that the dean was fired. According to available information, the decision to dismiss was made after a personal dialogue with the leadership of the academy.
As Notebook Krasnodar previously wrote, Galina Zolina claimed that Alexander Solovyov regularly violated labor discipline.
Let us remind you that a petition appeared on one of the popular Internet platforms and received many supporters. Residents of Russia put their signatures in support of the resignation of the appointed Minister of Agriculture and ex-governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev. We are talking about 2016, when he appointed Galina Zolina to the position of the Timiryazev Academy.
“She had nothing to do with Timiryazevka before and did not even have a specialized education. Why her? An analysis of open sources provides the answer: Zolina is Tkachev’s longtime friend and was his deputy when he was governor, the authors of the petition note.
They claim that Galina Zolina, as the rector of the Timiryazev Academy, “represses objectionable teachers, and the police right in the dormitory are pressing students who spoke out in their defense and went on pickets.”
— Timiryazevka has training, experimental and breeding fields of 101 hectares, which are located in a fairly good area of Moscow. These lands are of great interest (tens of billions of rubles) for construction corporations and officials, say the authors of the petition.
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Let's save Timiryazevka
The appointment of Galina Zolina as rector of the Russian State Agrarian University-Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K.A. Timiryazev was announced on January 29 at a meeting of the academic council of the university. The order for her confirmation in office was signed 5 days ago by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, State Secretary Ivan Lebedev.
Galina Zolina was sent to Timiryazevka at the very end of 2016 from the post of director of the department of scientific and technological policy and education of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, where she worked briefly under the leadership of Minister Alexander Tkachev (when he was governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Zolina was his deputy for a number of years). During her work as acting Rector at the Timiryazev Academy there were significant personnel changes; many employees who disagreed with its management decisions were fired.
Employees and students of Timiryazevka repeatedly went to rallies to protest against Zolina’s leadership methods.
Galina Zolina's secret mission at the Timiryazev Academy
Zolina’s rapid career is associated with Alexander Tkachev, whom they knew as children. In the late 90s, Zolina worked at the Vyselkovo “Agrocomplex” as Deputy General Director for Social Issues.
At that time, Agrocomplex was led by the father and brother of Alexander Tkachev. In 2005 he became Tkachev's deputy. Its area of responsibility includes the Department of Social Protection of the Population and the then created departments in municipalities, the Department of Education and Science, the Department of Health, the Department of Culture, the Civil Registry Office and the Department of Juvenile Affairs.
In 2009, in the village of Taman, Krasnodar Territory, the Ataman ethnocomplex was opened, which locals call “the village of Durkov” and “Zolinograd” - after the name of the official who oversaw its construction. “Here is everything that Zolina could think of.
Zolina Galina was appointed rector of the Timiryazev Academy
Education
- In 1976, she graduated from junior high school No. 25, after which she entered the Ust-Labinsk Pedagogical School. Having received a diploma, she got a job as a teacher in her native school.
- She has a correspondence pedagogical education: she studied at the correspondence department of the Maikop Pedagogical Institute and taught Russian language and literature.
- In 2007, she defended her dissertation for the academic degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences. She underwent additional training at the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of Russia under the program “State and Municipal Administration”.
- Later she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Kuban State University with a degree in Publishing.
- I tried to defend my doctoral dissertations twice, but received negative votes from dissertation councils. (More details about G.D. Zolina’s dissertation defense.
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Preschool educational institution, graduate, 81 Skorkin A.E. - document specialist, graduate, 82 Nikolaeva Maria - specialist in the accreditation department, 83 Vakhterov A.V. - head of the first department, 84 Kulakova O.K. - occupational safety specialist of the 1st category, Supply: 85 Abudkov M.V. boss, graduate. 86 Grigorenko E.V. - manager, graduate. Department of Integrated Security, 2017: 87. Pavlova Ya.E., head.
Department of Integrated Security, 88 Krestov A.V., 89 Popov S.V., 90. Galuev T. E., 92 Emelyanenko 93. Khakimova T.A. From the campus 2017: 94. Osipova N.I., 95.
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Galina Dmitrievna was released only on January 30) - “a mediocre leader” and she “must leave,” said the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, State Duma deputy Valery Rashkin at the meeting. “If leader Zolina does not take care of her own people, she is not a leader, she must be eliminated. The incompetent leader must leave,” the Red Spring news agency quotes the deputy as saying.
Rashkin supported the demands to return the elections of the rector to the academy: “Direct elections of the rector of the university - there will be a normal rector.” Another communist deputy who was present at the meeting, a member of the RF State Duma Committee on Agrarian Issues Oleg Lebedev, promised to help students who suffered while defending the teachers fired by Zolina, and announced his intention to send a deputy request to law enforcement agencies so that they would check the legality dismissal of teachers from RSAU-MSHA.
Galina Dmitrievna. In a letter addressed to the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation A.N. Tkachev, the staff of the Irkutsk State Agrarian University indicates: “while holding the position of rector of the Irkutsk State Agricultural Academy, Yuri Evgenievich was noted for a significant number of gross violations of the legislation of the Russian Federation, namely: - did not provide state registration of the ownership rights of the Russian Federation for 118 and the rights of operational management of the Academy for 85 real estate objects property; - used real estate objects assigned to the Academy with the right of operational management for other purposes, leased real estate to third-party users without determining the starting amount of rent, without holding a competition for the right to conclude lease agreements for real estate objects in federal ownership, without registration of contractual relations, incl.
Zolina Galina Dmitrievna Rector of Timiryazevka
Galina Zolina has been appointed rector of the Timiryazev Academy, the duties of which she has served as head since the end of 2016. The appointment of Galina Dmitrievna as rector of the Russian State Agrarian University was announced on January 29, 2018 at a meeting of the Academic Council of the university, at which her report on the financial and economic activities of the academy for 2017 was heard and unanimously approved.
Candidate of Technical Sciences Ilya Korneev, dean of the Faculty of Environmental Management and Water Use, was appointed the first vice-rector of the Russian State Agrarian University-Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K.A. Timiryazev. The vice-rector for strategic development and practice-oriented education became acting.
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Alexey Golubev. Galina Zolina was born on June 3, 1961. Graduated from Ust-Labinsk Pedagogical College. Subsequently she continued her studies at the Maikop Pedagogical Institute.
Zolina Galina Dmitrievna rector of Timiryazevka biography
As blogger and social activist Danila Lindele testifies, after the flood in Krymsky, Zolina “gave interviews at the Headquarters and reported (lied) that as many as 7 thousand volunteers work in the city and they do not need any help. And you and I remember very well how many volunteers were there and what role they played.”
He also states that “Zolina organized protests against Marat Gelman’s ICONS exhibition, because the modern view of icon painting allegedly insults Orthodoxy and morality. But for the KUBANA festival, where alcohol flows like a river, half-naked girls dance, and obscene songs are shouted from the stage, she allocated money from the regional budget, although the festival is a business project.
I’m not against the festival and the girls, but the hypocrisy and double standards are just off the charts.”
Zolina Galina Dmitrievna rector of Timiryazevka contacts
To all this are added personal statements, such as Zolina’s condemnation of the birth of a child out of wedlock (obviously, so that schoolchildren can again poison outcasts with the almost forgotten word “fatherlessness”). By the way, about family values: Zolina’s son, in the best traditions of our country, was seen drunk and with illegal substances. But the governor’s adviser advised the media not to publicize this issue, but to cover the escape of an albino porcupine from the Safari Park. The same Danila Lindele informs readers that “Zolina oversaw the construction of a maternity hospital, which cost 5 times more than in any other region, which even Putin swore at. In addition, a tomograph was purchased for 90 million rubles, which is 4 times higher than its usual price.” There are also discrepancies in the press regarding Galina Zolina’s doctoral dissertation.
What could be behind the departure of Timiryazevka rector Galina Zolina, with whom many scandals have recently been associated.
The rector of the Timiryazev Academy, Galina Zolina, with whom many scandals have recently been associated, resigned from her post on September 12 of her own free will.
the site called the former head of the certification department of the Timiryazev Academy Oksana Tarasenkova to find out what could be behind the departure of Galina Zolina, who largely relied on the support of ex-Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev.
“This is a logical and, in principle, expected development of events. [agriculture Alexander] Tkachev, who gave Zolina enormous support. The new minister has his own vision, I think he has figured out the situation.
There are probably those who are sad about Zolina’s departure, but most of them breathed a sigh of relief,” says Tarasenkova. “Many who were fired by her (and this is more than 150 people on our list) are glad she left. I received a lot of calls and messages, people said and wrote to me: “Thank God!”, “We waited!” During Galina Dmitrievna's work, Timiryazevka really changed - a lot of props appeared: artificial animals and fruits of gigantic sizes, candles, flowers, Khokhloma, colored toilets and buffets... Constant concerts and holidays, at one of them even the respected artist Nadezhda performed on the student stage Babkina. This is only possible with good funding and connections, which Zolina had when managing Tkachev’s ministry. Probably, as often happens, while they were singing and dancing, they forgot to prepare for the heating season. The Academy turned into a bright bubble from the outside, which has now burst. Zolina preferred to meet with her opponents in court rather than in the office of a strong and competent leader, so many professionals left the academy, and people without relevant experience took their place.
— What was the main reason for her leaving?
“A critical mass of questions and claims has accumulated, and patronage has weakened. During its work, students, teachers, local residents protested, we were always supported by deputies of the district and even the State Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Now working employees say that accounts have been frozen and an audit of financial and economic activities has been ordered.
— Do those who left the university plan to return now?
“For many people, their entire lives are connected to the academy. Some worked at the university for more than a generation and were forced to quit. Most live in “academic” houses near Timiryazevka and send their children to public schools and kindergartens. Someone has already found a new job, but I know many for whom Timiryazev Academy still remains their home. We hope that the correct prioritization of the new minister’s team will allow the university to develop in the scientific and educational context, and staff and students will have another opportunity to exercise their right to participate in the election of the university rector.