It is generally accepted that big politics can only happen in the capital. This statement is not always true. Outside the Ring Highway, significant events for the country also occur and strong personalities are encountered. And the first one that comes to mind in this context is, of course, Roizman Evgeny Vadimovich.
Ural Nugget
In the political culture of the United States of America there is such a fundamental concept - "Selfmeadman." Translated, this means - a man who made himself. One who managed to break fate on one knee and achieve his goal despite all the negative life circumstances. Of course, such people are not only overseas, sometimes they are found in our country. The mayor of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman, is certainly one of the most prominent regional politicians.
Moreover, it is no exaggeration to say that his fate and political career has no precedent in modern Russia. Let us take a closer look at this outstanding person.
Biography Facts
Roizman Evgeny Vadimovich was born in the capital of the industrial Urals in 1962. At that time, this city was called Sverdlovsk. Information sources contain very little information about the early years of politics, it is only known that at the age of 14 he left his parental home. He earned on his own, without neglecting any work. He led a free lifestyle and managed to go round almost the entire Soviet Union. He served two years in prison in a juvenile colony.
Later he worked as a fitter at the famous Uralmash. He graduated with a degree in historian-archivist, graduating from Ural State University. He was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the fourth convocation. Married a second marriage. The common-law wife of Yevgeny Roizman, Aksan Panov, works in the media field. The father of three daughters.
The capital of the Urals
You need to understand what today is a city whose mayor is Roizman Evgeny Vadimovich. By the beginning of the so-called dashing nineties, Yekaterinburg was by no means the only leading industrial center of the Ural region.
In this fourth largest city in Russia, the most serious problems and contradictions have accumulated. Even the catastrophic state of urban engineering and social infrastructure and the extreme corruption of all echelons of power faded before the criminal chaos that swept the capital of the Urals. The city, traditionally located at the crossroads of trade routes from west to east and from Central Asia to the center, turned out to be the transshipment base of all drug trafficking through the territory of Russia. The drug mafia controlled many areas of urban life. A lot of young people sat on the needle, their age was short-lived. Comprehensive evil triumphed in the city, and the common man was powerless against him.
"City without drugs"
Yevgeny Roizman began his social activities with sole resistance to the evil that swept his head home. The situation was greatly complicated by the corruption of law enforcement agencies, often held by the drug mafia. This was an initiative from below. And she sharply contradicted the intentions of the authorities, which only imitated the fight against drugs.
But Yevgeny Roizman acted by harsh methods - he collected drug addicts into rehabilitation centers opened by him, and often kept them in isolation by force. He exposed the dealer networks by agent methods and handed over the police distributors. He was repeatedly threatened by both the drug mafia and law enforcement agencies for the illegality of his methods. However, time has shown that Evgeny Roizman was right. Objective statistics indicate that overdose mortality in the capital of the Urals has decreased twelve times in the first four years of its foundation’s activity at the beginning of the 2000s. Of course, evil was not completely crushed. But the myth of his invincibility vanished.
Power is in the truth
The success of the City Without Drugs foundation brought its creator well-deserved authority in his native city and far beyond its borders. Evgeny Roizman was not going to stop there. He felt his power and growing influence. And he launched his activities in the field of politics. Such a turn was strongly disliked by those in power.
In a city where everything has long been seized, corrupt and divided, a young energetic politician suddenly appeared, tuned to the ruling elite, to put it mildly, in opposition. Roizman acted a lot and often in the media and in the virtual space, behaved defiantly and went into open conflict with the authorities. His website on the Internet adorned the slogan "Strength in Truth," and this was not empty rhetoric.
Sagra
The conflict in the suburban village of Sagra, where local residents gave a sharp rebuff to armed bandits, resonated significantly in Russian society. The ethnic criminal group suffered losses during the clash - one gangster was killed and several wounded. It was extremely unexpected. But the criminal prosecution did not threaten the drug mafia that attacked the village. Cases were instituted against residents defending their homes. To return to people the concept of justice was allowed only by a large public outcry, primarily on the Internet, and energetic intervention in the situation of Yevgeny Roizman. The bandits were in the dock and from there they openly threatened a public figure with murder. “I go without security. My address is known to everyone,” Eugene calmly answered.
2013 campaign
Yevgeny Roizman, mayor of Yekaterinburg, was elected to his post in September 2013. This was preceded by an unprecedented insolence and unbridled slander of the company, which was conducted against the opposition candidate by both local and central authorities. But the effect of this was exactly the opposite of what was expected. Moscow appointees were forced to leave for the capital with nothing. What is called "crawled with a tail between its legs." Yekaterinburg voters voted for Yevgeny Roizman. His motto “Strength in Truth” was not an empty declaration.
The post of mayor of Yekaterinburg implies not so much influence. It is rather a public position without significant financial authority. But the authorities suffered a sensitive moral defeat, almost for the first time in modern Russian reality. And today the office of the mayor of Yekaterinburg is decorated not with a portrait of President Putin, as it should be in status, but with a portrait of the poet Joseph Brodsky.
In the cultural space
The story about the mayor of Yekaterinburg will be incomplete, if not to mention his undertakings in the field of culture and art. Evgeny Roizman himself is the author of several poetry books, has been published several times in central periodicals. On his poems created several songs that have become widely known. Already as mayor, he gathered a large collection of Ural artists. Among them are such world celebrities as Mikhail Brusilovsky and Vitaly Volovich. Albums of reproductions of their works have been published. Royzman's collection of paintings is transformed into a museum over time. The most important initiative is the creation of the Nevyansk Icon Museum, which includes in its collection the unique works of icon painters of the Old Believer tradition.