In September last year, the governor of the Samara region issued a decree on the appointment of a new deputy. heads of the regional government. This post was taken by politician Fetisov Alexander Borisovich. Previously, he worked as the Duma leader of the Samara city district.
His activities included issues related to education, socio-demographic, family and migration policies, employment, sports, culture, youth and tourism.
Fetisov Alexander - who is it?
The small homeland of the politician is the city of Kuibyshev, where he was born on 03/05/1967. There he studied in high school.
At the age of 21, Fetisov Alexander graduated from the Higher Military-Political Combined-Arms School in Minsk. For excellent study, he was awarded a gold medal.
From 1988 to 1992, he served in the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces, after the termination of the contract from 1992 to 2001, he tried himself in entrepreneurial activity, led a hand-to-hand fighting section.
In the period 2001-2004, Alexander Fetisov served as deputy chairman of the board of Zemsky Bank.
He continued his education by entering the law faculty of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and graduating by 2003.
In 2004, he was elected chairman of the Board of Directors of the Samara Chocolate Company. Until 2007, he managed to work as a member of the regional political council, and then as secretary of the political council of "United Russia" in the Zheleznodorozhny district of Samara.
Later, until 2010, Alexander Fetisov worked as deputy secretary of the political council in the Samara regional branch of United Russia, and was the head of the executive committee.
In 2006, he was included in the federal personnel reserve.
Activities as an elected representative
10.10.2010 Mr. Fetisov, Alexander Borisovich, won the No. 1 Railway Electoral Single-mandate constituency in the elections to the deputies of the Samara City Council.
Five days later, he took over as chairman of this Duma.
On September 31, 2012, an extraordinary reporting and election conference of the regional branch of "United Russia" in Samara, by secret ballot, elected Fetisov to the post of secretary of this branch. Earlier, this post was held by the rector of Samara University I. Noskov.
November 24, 2014, he was again elected to the post of chairman of the Duma and at the same time the head of the Samara city district.
From 2014 to 2015, Alexander Fetisov, being the Samara city head, also served as deputy chairman of the Volga City Association.
09/13/2015, he again won the election in the Samara Railway constituency No. 1.
On September 17, 2015, during the plenary meeting, he resigned his existing powers (deputy, chairman of the City Duma, city mayor).
The next day he was appointed to the post of deputy head of the regional government A. Nefedov.
Alexander Fetisov: state awards
Fetisov's fields of activity - military service in his youth and service to the interests of the people and his native region at a more mature age - did not go unnoticed. For excellent service, he was repeatedly noted by various types of incentives and awards, including at the state level.
In addition to the medal "For Distinction in Military Service" and the Zhukov Medal, Alexander Fetisov has the Badges of Honor "For Achievements in the Field of Quality" and "For Merits in Law-Making Activities" issued by the Samara Regional Duma.
The Samara City Council also handed him the Badge of Honor, as well as a number of Certificates of Appreciation and Letters of Appreciation for his work.
He was awarded the title of laureate of the forum "Public Recognition" from an association created by reserve officers of the RF Armed Forces.
About family
Alexander Fetisov, whose family has always been of great importance, often simply does not have the opportunity to devote enough time to her. In an interview in 2012, he confessed that he considered his children the greatest achievement of his life.
He has two of them: the eldest daughter - Elizabeth, the youngest son - Gregory. The age difference in children is quite large - 15 years. The daughter recently completed her studies at St. Petersburg University, she turned 23 years old.
For him, real rest comes in those rare periods that he spends with children. He dreams that children should know the history of the family well. He is married to Fetisova Ekaterina Alexandrovna.
Alexander Fetisov in his youth devoted a lot of time to boxing and achieved good results. Once he even won first place in citywide competitions.
His first profession after leaving the army was working as a trainer in the hand-to-hand combat section. He is fond of sports activities at the present time.
In his house, he realized his youthful dream by building a gym that he considers ideal. He leads his eight-year-old son into it, who has his little punching bag and gloves.
Statements by the politician in the media
Sometimes interviews appear in the media, where Alexander Fetisov, whose biography did not always work out smoothly and successfully, shares his memories and reflects on life values.
Correspondents speak of him as a polite, punctual, amiable, correct and democratic interlocutor. He always answers thoughtfully, not trying to laugh it off. Difficult questions do not scare him.
He considers the most difficult life period to be the time after leaving the army, when in the nineties all life attitudes and ideals with which he lived earlier were lost.
He considers his most correct step to return in 1992 to his homeland, to Samara, from the capital, where he served in the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense.
When asked about the most significant masculine qualities, he replied that a real man should be distinguished by his ability to hold blows and never give up his positions.
About life values
He considers the advice that his grandmother gave him a very long time to be the most valuable in his life. Once during a walk they met a man begging for alms, while it was clearly visible that this was done in a fraudulent way.
Nevertheless, his grandmother gave him money, and to the question of the minor grandson why she did it, it is clearly visible that this is a fraud, she said that let sin remain on this person, and not on her.
With this thought that it is necessary to believe people, regardless of their external impression, little Sasha was forever remembered and became his life principle.
About ideals
Fetisov considers General Varennikov to be his ideal, one of the real great citizens of the country. At all stages of the life path of this Hero of the Soviet Union, there have always been deeds worthy of respect.
In his youth, Varennikov was entrusted with bringing the Victory Banner to Moscow . During the August coup, he behaved honestly, without guile. After the arrest, he considered it wrong to accept an amnesty. According to Fetisov, this general can be set as an example of worthy service to the country and the fulfillment of his civic duty.
The most negative qualities, Fetisov believes, are hypocrisy and meanness. It most irritates him in people.
He dreams of making Samara one of the most comfortable cities for living. He believes that creating a worthy future is based not only on increasing financial investments in the region’s economy, implementing grandiose projects, organizing world championship football matches, but also on gaining internal self-esteem and feeling worthy of city dwellers - patriots of the region and the whole country.
Policy Initiatives
While he was the leader in the Samara regional branch of United Russia, Fetisov initiated a number of interesting projects at the regional level.
The most effective project was called Summer with a Soccer Ball. The project is led by the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, as well as work on the improvement of sports grounds.
Compromising publications
Constantly in sight, Fetisov, of course, found a lot of ill-wishers who are trying to prick him more painfully in the press. Such, obviously, is the fate of all prominent political figures, regardless of the real affairs that they carry out at their posts.
In particular, in relation to A. Fetisov there is a publication about his allegedly unworthy behavior during his departure abroad.
In hotels in the United Arab Emirates, you can not wait until the waiter submits an invoice after lunch or dinner, but inform him of the number in which he has stayed and where the invoice will be delivered.
Before leaving the hotel, Fetisov had dinner at a restaurant and indicated someone else's hotel room number. Perhaps this was done simply by mistake, but at the time of passing customs when leaving the country, he was allegedly detained for some time to clarify the circumstances.
There are other poisonous publications trying to defame Fetisov, but ordinary citizens judge politics by his specific contribution, and not by the attacks in the yellow press.
Achievements as the head of the Samara City Council
During the leadership of the city council since 2010, Fetisov did not allow the possibility of building up the historical center of Samara.
At that time, the Golden Cheriot Samara limited liability company owned by Cypriot offshore companies intended to achieve the status of two large plots of land in the central part of the city (Mayakovsky Spusk) as a zone where commercial development is allowed. At this place, they planned to build the hotel complex buildings.
The city council revolted against the plans of the company. Public hearings were initiated, which resulted in a decision to replace the Ts-1 zone with the P-2 zone, that is, the zone where parks, boulevards and embankments should be located.
Representatives of the public actively opposed the development of these territories. The Cyprus company Golden Cheriot filed an application with the arbitration court and demanding to challenge the Duma’s decision to change the zoning.
In total, the trial lasted two years. As a result, in mid-2013 by the Supreme Arbitration Court, the decision of the City Duma to ban development in the central part of the city was recognized as legal.