Born on July 4, 1935 in the village of Uakit, Bauntovsky District, Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He spent his childhood in the village of Argada, Kurumkansky district of Buryatia. In 1959 he graduated from the Khabarovsk Institute of Railway Transport Engineers with a degree in mechanical engineer.
He worked at the locomotive and carriage repair plant in Ulan-Ude: shop foreman, department process engineer, head of the testing station, deputy head, shop manager, and since 1968 - chief engineer of the plant. In 1965 he graduated from the Irkutsk Institute of National Economy with a degree in economics.
In 1976-1978 - head of the industry department, 1978-1987 - secretary of the Buryat regional committee of the CPSU. Since 1987 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Mary Regional Council (Turkmen SSR). Since January 1990 - Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Turkmen SSR.
In April 1990, he was elected first secretary of the Buryat Regional Committee of the CPSU (elections were held on an alternative basis). Elected member of the CPSU Central Committee (1990). In 1990-1993 - People's Deputy of the Russian Federation. In October 1991, at a session of the Supreme Council of the Buryat SSR, he was elected chairman of the Supreme Council of the republic. In December 1993, he was elected as a member of the Federation Council in the Buryat two-mandate electoral district No. 3, gaining 39.06% of the votes. He was a member of the Agrarian Policy Committee.
In the national elections in 1994 he won a landslide victory, becoming the first President and at the same time Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Buryatia.
Since January 1996, he was again a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation by position, and was deputy chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Policy.
He won the presidential election for the second time on June 21, 1998, beating ten rivals and gaining 63.3% of the votes participating in the elections. In December 2000, he resigned from the Federation Council of the Russian Federation in accordance with the law on a new procedure for the formation of the upper house of the Russian parliament. In the same year, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: “Self-development of regions using the example of the Republic of Buryatia.”
On June 23, 2002, he was elected President of the Republic of Buryatia for a third term, having won in the first round of elections and gaining more than 67% of the votes, significantly ahead of his main rival, State Duma deputy Bato Semenov.
Resigned as President of Buryatia in July 2007.
On September 20, 2007, Leonid Potapov took up the duties of assistant to the head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
In February 2008, Leonid Potapov headed the Supervisory Board of the Russian-Turkmen Business Council.
Since 2009 - leading researcher at the Department of Regional Socio-Economic Research of the Buryat Scientific Center SB RAS.
Awards, honorary titles
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (August 7, 2007) - for his great contribution to the strengthening of Russian statehood and many years of conscientious work
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (May 11, 1998) - for great contribution to the socio-economic development of the republic, strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples
- Order of Friendship (June 26, 1995) - for services to the state, successes achieved in work, great contribution to strengthening friendship, cooperation between peoples and selfless actions in saving the dead
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- Order of the Badge of Honor
- Honored Engineer of the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Honorary citizen of the city of Ulan-Ude
- Honorary Professor of Buryat State University, Modern Humanitarian University, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk Technical University, Russian Economic Academy named after. G. V. Plekhanova
Russian statesman, first president of the Republic of Buryatia
Biography
Born on July 4, 1935 in the village of Uakit, Bauntovsky District, Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He spent his childhood in the village of Argada, Kurumkansky district of Buryatia. In 1959 he graduated from the Khabarovsk Institute of Railway Transport Engineers with a degree in mechanical engineer.
He worked at the locomotive and carriage repair plant in Ulan-Ude: shop foreman, department process engineer, head of the testing station, deputy head, shop manager, and since 1968 - chief engineer of the plant. In 1965 he graduated from the Irkutsk Institute of National Economy with a degree in economics.
In 1976-1978 - head of the industry department, 1978-1987 - secretary of the Buryat regional committee of the CPSU. Since 1987 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Mary Regional Council (Turkmen SSR). Since January 1990 - Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Turkmen SSR.
In April 1990, he was elected first secretary of the Buryat Regional Committee of the CPSU (elections were held on an alternative basis). Elected member of the CPSU Central Committee (1990). In 1990-1993 - People's Deputy of the Russian Federation. In October 1991, at a session of the Supreme Council of the Buryat SSR, he was elected chairman of the Supreme Council of the republic. In December 1993, he was elected as a member of the Federation Council in the Buryat two-mandate electoral district No. 3, gaining 39.06% of the votes. He was a member of the Agrarian Policy Committee.
In the national elections in 1994 he won a landslide victory, becoming the first President and at the same time Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Buryatia.
Since January 1996, he was again a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation by position, and was deputy chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Policy.
He won the presidential election for the second time on June 21, 1998, beating ten rivals and gaining 63.3% of the votes participating in the elections. In December 2000, he resigned from the Federation Council of the Russian Federation in accordance with the law on a new procedure for the formation of the upper house of the Russian parliament. In the same year, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: “Self-development of regions using the example of the Republic of Buryatia.”
On June 23, 2002, he was elected President of the Republic of Buryatia for a third term, having won in the first round of elections and gaining more than 67% of the votes, significantly ahead of his main rival, State Duma deputy Bato Semenov.
Resigned as President of Buryatia in July 2007.
On September 20, 2007, Leonid Potapov took up the duties of assistant to the head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
In February 2008, Leonid Potapov headed the Supervisory Board of the Russian-Turkmen Business Council.
Since 2009 - leading researcher at the Department of Regional Socio-Economic Research of the Buryat Scientific Center SB RAS.
Awards, honorary titles
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (August 7, 2007) - for his great contribution to the strengthening of Russian statehood and many years of conscientious work
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (May 11, 1998) - for great contribution to the socio-economic development of the republic, strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples
- Order of Friendship (June 26, 1995) - for services to the state, successes achieved in work, great contribution to strengthening friendship, cooperation between peoples and selfless actions in saving the dead
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- Order of the Badge of Honor
- Honored Engineer of the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Honorary citizen of the city of Ulan-Ude
- Honorary Professor of Buryat State University, Modern Humanitarian University, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk Technical University, Russian Economic Academy named after. G. V. Plekhanova
Potapov Leonid Vasilievich
From the memoirs of the People's Poet of Buryatia Nikolai Damdinov:
“Ties of boyish friendship were formed in Argad. Directly opposite the school, near the gate, there was a house. The Potapov family lived there. My father fought at the front, and Aunt Dusya remained at home with her three sons. A kind, hard-working Russian woman, Aunt Dusya was respected by everyone who knew her. Living next door, I became friends with the eldest of the Potapovs’ sons, Lenya. In the summer we ran together to swim in the river: Bukhaev Buda, Sangaev Bato-Munho, me, Lenya. And in winter they started skiing.
Although Lenya was the youngest among us, he did not want to fall behind in anything. Open in a comradely manner, with a wide, open smile, he at the same time firmly stood his ground in boyish arguments.
The front-line soldiers began to return home. In the summer of 1946, Vasily Lukyanovich Potapov returned after demobilization. The rejuvenated Aunt Dusya ran around the house, cooked, and received guests. We guys looked with all our eyes at the soldier, our Lenya’s father, hung with battle medals. He was a fair-haired, cheerful, active man. He told how the battles went, how they moved forward through the explosions of bombs and shells...
A lot of time has passed since then. In the mid-seventies, I learned that in Ulan-Ude, Leonid Vasilyevich Potapov worked as a manager at a lacomotive car cutting plant. Workers spoke of him as a strict but fair leader.
I approached him. The meeting was cordial and exciting. He introduced me to his wife Nina Sergeevna. They had a son and daughter. We began to be each other’s families...”
Former President - Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Buryatia (until July 2007); born July 4, 1935 in the village. Uakit, Bauntovsky district, Buryat SSR; graduated from the Khabarovsk Institute of Railway Transport Engineers with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1959, the Irkutsk Institute of National Economy with a degree in economics (on the job) in 1965, Doctor of Economics (defended in June 2000 in Moscow doctoral dissertation on the topic: “Self-development of regions using the example of the Republic of Buryatia”); from 1959 he worked at the locomotive and carriage repair plant in Ulan-Ude: workshop foreman, department process engineer, head of the testing station, deputy head, workshop manager, since 1968 - chief engineer of the plant; 1976-1978 - head of the industry department.
From 1978-1987 - Secretary of the Buryat Regional Committee of the CPSU; since 1987 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Mary Regional Council (Turkmen SSR); from January 1990 - Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Turkmen SSR; in April 1990 he was elected first secretary of the Buryat Regional Committee of the CPSU (elections were held on an alternative basis); elected member of the CPSU Central Committee (1990); 1990-1993 - People's Deputy of the Russian Federation; in October 1991, at a session of the Supreme Council of the Buryat SSR, he was elected chairman of the Supreme Council of the republic; in the national elections in 1994 he won a landslide victory, becoming the first President and at the same time Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Buryatia; won the presidential election for the second time on June 21, 1998, beating ten rivals and gaining 63.3% of the votes of voters participating in the elections; On June 23, 2002, he was elected President of the Republic of Buryatia for a third term, winning in the first round of elections and gaining more than 67% of the votes; elected member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in December 1993; from January 1996, he was a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation by position, and was deputy chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Policy; in December 2000, he resigned from the Federation Council of the Russian Federation in accordance with the law on a new procedure for the formation of the upper house of the Russian parliament; in July 2007, upon the recommendation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the parliament of Buryatia approved Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn as head of the republic; By decree of the President of the Russian Federation of August 6, 2007, Leonid Potapov was included in the advisory commission of the State Council of the Russian Federation; "Honored Engineer of the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic"; awarded the Order of the October Revolution, the Red Banner of Labor, the Badge of Honor, Friendship, and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree; speaks the Buryat language well; married, has two children.
In general, the socio-political situation in the republic remained relatively calm compared to other regions of the CIS and Russia.
The autumn of 1993 brought alarming news from Moscow, where, as in August 1991, blood was shed. Confrontation of President B.N. Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation led to bloody clashes and ended with the shooting of the “White House” (House of Soviets). In fact, direct presidential rule, not provided for by the current Constitution of the Russian Federation, was introduced. The power of laws has given way to the laws of force. And finally, on October 26, 1993. The decree “On the reform of local self-government in the Russian Federation” marked the final point in the history of Soviet power. The activities of its local bodies ceased. Their functions were transferred to the administration appointed by the President.
The new Constitution of the Republic of Belarus was adopted on February 22, 1994. it consolidated the legal status of the republic. In Art. 1 it is written that “The Republic of Buryatia is a sovereign democratic state within the Russian Federation.” The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus determined the legal status of the President of Buryatia: the President is the head of the republic and at the same time the Chairman of the Government.
The year 1994 brought new members to the ranks of political parties in Buryatia. Regional representations of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, the Democratic Choice of Russia, and the Free Democratic Party of Russia are appearing. At the end of the year, the Christian-Buddhist Union is registered with the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus; in terms of its registration status, it fully corresponds to a political party.
As of January 1, 1999 There are 26 political parties and 41 political movements registered in Buryatia.
Political parties united into various political blocs. In practice, political blocs are created to participate in one or another election campaign, after which the bloc’s activities either cease completely or are suspended until the next elections. For example, political blocs in Buryatia were formed during the elections to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on December 12, 1993. Elections of the first President of Buryatia in 1994. Led to the creation of 9 such associations.
On the eve of the December 1993 elections. In the political life of the republic, a struggle between two main forces unfolded - the “Social Justice” bloc and the “Unity and Progress” bloc, acting in alliance with other democratic associations. The Social Justice Association emerged victorious in this confrontation.
As a result of the elections of June 1994, Leonid Vasilyevich Potapov, nominated and supported by the Social Justice bloc, became the first President of the Republic of Buryatia. More than a third of the deputies of the People's Khural were representatives of this bloc.
Elections to the State Duma on December 17, 1995. and the elections of the President of Russia on June 16, 1996. again opposing political associations, oriented respectively towards communist and liberal ideology. Although this conclusion is correct only in the most general form. After all, on the lists for the 1995 parliamentary elections. 43 electoral associations were introduced, reflecting the social interests of the most diverse groups of our society. The sympathies of voters were distributed unevenly among them. Communist and traditionalist political associations won a convincing victory, even more impressive than in Russia as a whole. Thus, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation gained 27.9% of the votes of the republic’s voters, the association “Communists - Labor Russia - For the Soviet Union” - 7.9%, the Agrarian Party - 6.3%, “Power to the people!” - 3.7%. The LDPR was in second place after the Communist Party of the Russian Federation with 8.6% of the votes.
The democrats opposing the communists, led by the “Our Home is Russia” bloc, were once again defeated. The NDR gained 5.6% of the votes in Buryatia. Neither Yabloko nor the Democratic Choice of Russia reached even 3%.
The elections of the President of the Russian Federation in our republic were again marked by confrontation between the same political forces: the “Social Justice” bloc, where the communists play the main role, and the newly formed “All-Russian Movement in Support of B. N. Yeltsin.”
Many leaders of the republic spoke out very clearly in support of B.N. Yeltsin: first of all, its President L.V. Potapov. This position of the head of the republic aroused criticism from the Social Justice bloc, which, not without reason, considered L.V. Potapov to be its nominee and like-minded person.
In April 1997, the first congress of the peoples of Buryatia was held, and 405 delegates took part in its work, who discussed three reports: “National policy and socio-economic development of the Republic of Buryatia”, “Legal foundations of interethnic relations in the Republic of Belarus” and “Problems of national- cultural development of the Republic of Buryatia.” The congress made a certain contribution to the strengthening of traditional interethnic harmony in the republic and the development of new Russian federalism. In order to further harmonize interethnic relations, it was decided to begin preparing the concept of the state national policy of the Republic of Belarus. In June 1997, special parliamentary hearings on the concept of state national policy of the Republic of Belarus were held in the People's Khural of the Republic.
In 1998 Elections of the President and deputies of the People's Khural, the main legislative body of Buryatia, were held in the republic. 10 candidates for President of the Republic of Belarus were registered, including the current President L.V. Potapov. Over 62% of the republic's voters took part in the voting. L.V. Potapov immediately won a convincing victory in the first round, gaining 70.22% of the votes. The second was businessman B.L. Ochirov, who scored 9.55%, the rest of the candidates received a little over 4 percent or less.
Elections to the People's Khural took place in two rounds. In the first round, over 53% of voters took part in voting, in the second round - slightly more than 40% of voters. For the first time, 50 deputies were elected to the legislative body of the republic, the remaining 15 were elected for the second time. According to the national composition, out of 65 deputies of the National Assembly there were 34 Russians, 28 Buryats, 1 Evenks, 1 Germans, and 1 Ukrainians.
Thus, all changes in the social and political life of the republic were generally positive and contributed to strengthening stability in the region. Although not everything was so simple.
According to experts, the name of L. Potapov is associated with good relations between the leadership of this subsidized region and the federal government, and the beginning of attracting foreign investment into the economy of Buryatia. The largest and priority investment project in the republic is the construction of a gas pipeline to China. The President of Buryatia, without denying the need for market reforms, advocates a social adjustment of the course of reforms and for special relations between the federal center and the economically depressed regions of Russia, which are difficult to enter the market due to the large share of military-industrial complex enterprises and other objective conditions. Potapov’s election campaign in 1998 was supported by both the LDPR and the bloc of leftist forces, although Potapov himself suspended his membership in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation at the beginning of the first term of leadership of the republic in 1994, and in the presidential elections of the Russian Federation in 1996, the republic generally supported Yeltsin’s candidacy .
Leonid Potapov received a letter of gratitude from the Russian Ambassador to Mongolia. Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Mongolia Oleg Derkovsky expressed sincere gratitude for the close cooperation and interaction in efforts to develop relations with Mongolia to the head of the Republic of Buryatia, completing his service in Ulaanbaatar, “You are making a great contribution to promoting the interests of Russia in Mongolia, helping to deepen ties with very an important neighboring friendly country for us,” the letter of gratitude says. Oleg Derkovsky wished the President of Buryatia good health, further success in government activities for the benefit of the republic, and well-being and prosperity to the residents of Buryatia.
On March 24, the Russian Ambassador to Mongolia Oleg Derkovsky, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, was relieved of his post “due to retirement.” Former governor of the Irkutsk region Boris Govorin has been appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Mongolia.
(Anatoly Mikhailovich Belyakov as the first secretary of the Buryat Regional Committee of the CPSU)
village Uakit, Bauntovsky District, Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR
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Leonid Vasilievich Potapov(b. July 4, Uakit village, Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) - Russian statesman, first president of the Republic of Buryatia (1994-2007), assistant to the head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation (-), with - leading researcher of the department of regional socio-economic research of the Buryat Scientific Center SB RAS.
Biography
Resigned as president of Buryatia in July 2007.
Awards, honorary titles
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (August 7) - for his great contribution to the strengthening of Russian statehood and many years of conscientious work
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (May 11) - for his great contribution to the socio-economic development of the republic, strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples
- Order of Friendship (26 June) - for services to the state, successes achieved in labor, great contribution to strengthening friendship, cooperation between peoples and selfless actions in saving the dead
- Honored Engineer of the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Honorary Professor of Buryat State University, Modern Humanitarian University, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk Technical University, Russian Economic Academy named after. G. V. Plekhanova
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Literature
- Potapov Leonid Vasilievich: President-Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Buryatia // Republic of Buryatia. Business elite of Buryatia-2001: Catalog. - Ulan-Ude, 2001
- Potapov Leonid Vasilievich // Biographical data of the leaders of the Supreme Council, the Presidium of the Supreme Council and the Government of Buryatia (1923-1996). - Ulan-Ude, 1996
- Leonid Potapov - President of the Republic of Buryatia: Touches to politics. portrait // Russian Federation today. - 1999. - No. 20.
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Some people were crowding around the high stone walls of the hall. They were all very thin and emaciated. Some were quietly whispering about something, as if afraid of frightening off the happy resolution by talking loudly. Others nervously walked from corner to corner, clearly worried either for the unborn child, or for the young woman in labor herself...A man and a woman stood at the head of the huge bed. Apparently, Esclarmonde's parents or close relatives, since they were very similar to her... The woman was about forty-five years old, she looked very thin and pale, but she behaved independently and proudly. The man showed his condition more openly - he was scared, confused and nervous. Continually wiping the perspiration on his face (although the room was damp and cold!), he did not hide the slight trembling of his hands, as if the surroundings did not matter to him at the moment.
Next to the bed, on the stone floor, a long-haired young man was kneeling, all of whose attention was literally nailed to the young woman in labor. Seeing nothing around and not taking his eyes off her, he continuously whispered something to her, hopelessly trying to calm her down.
I was interested in trying to look at the expectant mother, when suddenly a sharp pain slashed all over my body!.. And I immediately, with my whole being, felt how cruelly Esclarmonde suffered!.. Apparently, her child, who was about to be born, brought her a sea of unfamiliar pain, for which she was not yet ready.
Convulsively grabbing the young man’s hands, Esclarmonde quietly whispered:
- Promise me... Please, promise me... you will be able to save him... No matter what happens... promise me...
The man did not answer anything, he only affectionately stroked her thin hands, apparently unable to find the saving words needed at that moment.
– He should be born today! He must!.. – the girl suddenly shouted desperately. - He cannot die with me!.. What should we do? Well, tell me, what should we do?!!
Her face was incredibly thin, exhausted and pale. But neither thinness nor terrible exhaustion could spoil the refined beauty of this amazingly tender and bright face! Now only his eyes lived on him... Clean and huge, like two gray-blue springs, they shone with endless tenderness and love, not looking away from the alarmed young man... And in the very depths of these wonderful eyes lurked a wild, black hopelessness...
What was that?!.. Who were all these people who came to me from someone’s distant past? Were these the Cathars?! And was it not because my heart sank so sadly for them because an inevitable, terrible misfortune hung over them?..
The mother of young Esclarmond (and it was probably her) was clearly excited to the limit, but, as best she could, she tried not to show it to her already completely exhausted daughter, who at times generally “went away” from them into oblivion, feeling nothing and not responding. ... And she just lay there like a sad angel, having left her tired body for a while... On the pillows, scattered in golden-brown waves, long, wet, silky hair glistened... The girl, indeed, was very unusual. Some kind of strange, spiritually doomed, very deep beauty shone in her.
Two thin, stern, but pleasant women approached Esclarmonde. Approaching the bed, they tried to gently persuade the young man to leave the room. But he, without answering, just shook his head negatively and turned back to the woman in labor.
The lighting in the hall was sparse and dark - several smoking torches hung on the walls on both sides, casting long, swaying shadows. Once upon a time, this hall must have been very beautiful... Wonderfully embroidered tapestries were still proudly hanging on the walls... And the high windows were protected by cheerful multi-colored stained glass windows, enlivening the last dim evening light pouring into the room. Something very bad must have happened to the owners for such a rich room to look so abandoned and uncomfortable now...
I couldn’t understand why this strange story completely and completely captured me?! And what was the most important thing about it: the event itself? Some of those present there? Or that unborn little man?.. Unable to tear myself away from the vision, I longed to quickly find out how this strange, probably not very happy, alien story would end!
Suddenly the air thickened in the papal library - North suddenly appeared.
– Oh!.. I felt something familiar and decided to return to you. But I didn’t think that you would watch something like this... You don’t need to read this sad story, Isidora. It will only bring you more pain.
– Do you know her?.. Then tell me, who are these people, North? And why does my heart hurt so much for them? “I asked, surprised by his advice.
“These are the Cathars, Isidora... Your beloved Cathars... on the night before the burning,” Sever said sadly. “And the place you see is their last and dearest fortress, which lasted longer than all the others.” This is Montsegur, Isidora... Temple of the Sun. The home of Magdalene and her descendants... one of whom is about to be born.
– ?!..
- Do not be surprised. The father of that child is a descendant of Beloyar, and, of course, Radomir. His name was Svetozar. Or – the Light of Dawn, if you prefer. This (as they always have) is a very sad and cruel story... I don’t advise you to watch it, my friend.
The North was focused and deeply sad. And I understood that the vision that I was looking at at that moment did not give him pleasure. But despite everything, he was, as always, patient, warm and calm.
– When did this happen, Sever? Are you saying that we are seeing the real end of Qatar?
North looked at me for a long time, as if pitying me... As if not wanting to hurt me even more... But I stubbornly continued to wait for an answer, not giving him the opportunity to remain silent.
– Unfortunately, this is so, Isidora. Although I would really like to answer you something more joyful... What you are now observing happened in 1244, in the month of March. On the night when the last refuge of Qatar fell... Montsegur. They held out for a very long time, ten long months, freezing and starving, infuriating the army of the Holy Pope and His Majesty, the King of France. There were only one hundred real warrior knights and four hundred other people, among whom were women and children, and more than two hundred Perfect Ones. And the attackers were several thousand professional knight-warriors, real killers who received the go-ahead to destroy the disobedient “heretics”... to mercilessly kill all the innocent and unarmed... in the name of Christ. And in the name of the “holy”, “all-forgiving” church.
And yet, the Cathars held out. The fortress was almost inaccessible, and in order to capture it, it was necessary to know the secret underground passages, or passable paths, known only to the residents of the fortress or the residents of the area who helped them.
But, as usually happened with heroes, betrayal appeared on the scene... The army of murderous knights, out of patience and going crazy from empty inaction, asked for help from the church. Well, naturally, the church immediately responded, using its most proven method for this - giving one of the local shepherds a large fee for showing the path leading to the “platform” (that was the name of the nearest site where a catapult could be installed). The shepherd sold himself, destroying his immortal soul... and the sacred fortress of the last remaining Cathars.
My heart was beating wildly with indignation. Trying not to succumb to the overwhelming hopelessness, I continued to ask Sever, as if I still hadn’t given up, as if I still had the strength to watch this pain and the savagery of the atrocity that had once happened...
-Who was Esclarmonde? Do you know something about her, Sever?
“She was the third and youngest daughter of the last lords of Montsegur, Raymond and Corba de Pereil,” answered Sever sadly. “You saw them at Esclarmonde’s bedside in your vision.” Esclarmonde herself was a cheerful, affectionate and beloved girl. She was explosive and mobile, like a fountain. And very kind. Her name translated meant – Light of the World. But her acquaintances affectionately called her “flash,” I think, for her seething and sparkling character. Just don’t confuse her with another Esclarmonde - Qatar also had the Great Esclarmonde, Dame de Foix.
(Anatoly Mikhailovich Belyakov as the first secretary of the Buryat Regional Committee of the CPSU)
village Uakit, Bauntovsky District, Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR
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Leonid Vasilievich Potapov(b. July 4, Uakit village, Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) - Russian statesman, first president of the Republic of Buryatia (1994-2007), assistant to the head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation (-), with - leading researcher of the department of regional socio-economic research of the Buryat Scientific Center SB RAS.
Biography
Resigned as president of Buryatia in July 2007.
Awards, honorary titles
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (August 7) - for his great contribution to the strengthening of Russian statehood and many years of conscientious work
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (May 11) - for his great contribution to the socio-economic development of the republic, strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples
- Order of Friendship (26 June) - for services to the state, successes achieved in labor, great contribution to strengthening friendship, cooperation between peoples and selfless actions in saving the dead
- Honored Engineer of the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
- Honorary Professor of Buryat State University, Modern Humanitarian University, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk Technical University, Russian Economic Academy named after. G. V. Plekhanova
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- Potapov Leonid Vasilievich: President-Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Buryatia // Republic of Buryatia. Business elite of Buryatia-2001: Catalog. - Ulan-Ude, 2001
- Potapov Leonid Vasilievich // Biographical data of the leaders of the Supreme Council, the Presidium of the Supreme Council and the Government of Buryatia (1923-1996). - Ulan-Ude, 1996
- Leonid Potapov - President of the Republic of Buryatia: Touches to politics. portrait // Russian Federation today. - 1999. - No. 20.
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“Look, just right,” Plato said, pulling off his shirt. The Frenchman, sticking his head and hands through, without raising his eyes, looked at his shirt and examined the seam.- Well, falcon, this is not a trash, and there is no real instrument; “But it’s said: without gear you can’t even kill a lice,” said Plato, smiling roundly and, apparently, rejoicing at his work.
- C "est bien, c" est bien, merci, mais vous devez avoir de la toile de reste? [Okay, okay, thank you, but where is the canvas, what’s left?] - said the Frenchman.
“It will be even better the way you put it on your body,” said Karataev, continuing to rejoice at his work. - That will be good and pleasant.
“Merci, merci, mon vieux, le reste?..” repeated the Frenchman, smiling, and, taking out a banknote, gave it to Karataev, “mais le reste... [Thank you, thank you, dear, but where is the rest?.. Give me the rest. ]
Pierre saw that Plato did not want to understand what the Frenchman was saying, and, without interfering, looked at them. Karataev thanked him for the money and continued to admire his work. The Frenchman insisted on the remainder and asked Pierre to translate what he was saying.
- What does he need the leftovers for? - said Karataev. “They would have given us some important little extras.” Well, God bless him. - And Karataev, with a suddenly changed, sad face, took out a bundle of scraps from his bosom and, without looking at it, handed it to the Frenchman. - Ehma! - Karataev said and went back. The Frenchman looked at the canvas, thought about it, looked questioningly at Pierre, and as if Pierre’s gaze told him something.
“Platoche, dites donc, Platoche,” suddenly blushing, the Frenchman shouted in a squeaky voice. – Gardez pour vous, [Platosh, and Platosh. Take it for yourself.] - he said, handing over the scraps, turned and left.
“Here you go,” Karataev said, shaking his head. - They say that they are not Christ, but they also have a soul. The old men used to say: a sweaty hand is a bit too hard, a dry hand is stubborn. He himself is naked, but he gave it away. – Karataev, smiling thoughtfully and looking at the scraps, was silent for some time. “And the important ones, my friend, will be blown out,” he said and returned to the booth.
Four weeks have passed since Pierre was captured. Despite the fact that the French offered to transfer him from a soldier's booth to an officer's booth, he remained in the booth he entered from the first day.
In devastated and burned Moscow, Pierre experienced almost the extreme limits of hardship that a person can endure; but, thanks to his strong constitution and health, which he had not been aware of until now, and especially due to the fact that these hardships approached so imperceptibly that it was impossible to say when they began, he endured his situation not only easily, but also joyfully . And it was at this very time that he received that peace and self-satisfaction for which he had vainly strived before. For a long time in his life he was looking from different sides for this peace, agreement with himself, for what struck him so much in the soldiers at the Battle of Borodino - he looked for this in philanthropy, in Freemasonry, in the dispersion of social life, in wine, in heroic deeds self-sacrifice, in romantic love for Natasha; he sought this through thought, and all these searches and attempts all deceived him. And he, without thinking about it, received this peace and this agreement with himself only through the horror of death, through deprivation and through what he understood in Karataev. Those terrible minutes that he experienced during the execution seemed to have washed away forever from his imagination and memories the disturbing thoughts and feelings that had previously seemed important to him. Not even a thought came to him about Russia, or the war, or politics, or Napoleon. It was obvious to him that all this did not concern him, that he was not called and therefore could not judge all this. “No time for Russia, no union,” he repeated Karataev’s words, and these words strangely reassured him. His intention to kill Napoleon and his calculations about the cabalistic number and the beast of the Apocalypse now seemed incomprehensible and even ridiculous to him. His anger against his wife and anxiety about not disgracing his name now seemed to him not only insignificant, but funny. What did he care about the fact that this woman was leading the life she liked somewhere out there? Who, especially him, cared whether they found out or didn’t find out that the name of their prisoner was Count Bezukhov?
Now he often recalled his conversation with Prince Andrei and completely agreed with him, only understanding Prince Andrei’s thought somewhat differently. Prince Andrei thought and said that happiness can only be negative, but he said this with a tinge of bitterness and irony. As if, by saying this, he was expressing another thought - that all the aspirations for positive happiness invested in us are invested only in order to torment us, not satisfying us. But Pierre, without any second thought, recognized the justice of this. The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of needs and, as a result, the freedom to choose occupations, that is, a way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be the undoubted and highest happiness of a person. Here, now only for the first time, Pierre fully appreciated the pleasure of eating when he was hungry, drinking when he was thirsty, sleeping when he was thirsty, warmth when he was cold, talking with a person when he wanted to talk and listen to a human voice. Satisfaction of needs - good food, cleanliness, freedom - now that he was deprived of all this seemed to Pierre to be perfect happiness, and the choice of occupation, that is, life, now that this choice was so limited, seemed to him such an easy matter that he forgot the fact that an excess of the comforts of life destroys all the happiness of satisfying needs, and the greater freedom to choose occupations, the freedom that education, wealth, position in the world gave him in his life, that this freedom makes the choice of occupations insolublely difficult and destroys the very need and opportunity to study.
All Pierre's dreams now aimed at the time when he would be free. Meanwhile, subsequently and throughout his life, Pierre thought and spoke with delight about this month of captivity, about those irrevocable, strong and joyful sensations and, most importantly, about that complete peace of mind, about perfect inner freedom, which he experienced only at this time .
When on the first day, getting up early in the morning, he came out of the booth at dawn and first saw the dark domes and crosses of the Novodevichy Convent, saw the frosty dew on the dusty grass, saw the hills of the Sparrow Hills and the wooded bank meandering over the river and hiding in the purple distance, when felt the touch of fresh air and heard the sounds of jackdaws flying from Moscow across the field, and when then suddenly light splashed from the east and the edge of the sun solemnly floated out from behind the clouds, and domes, and crosses, and dew, and the distance, and the river, everything began to sparkle in a joyful light , - Pierre felt a new, unexperienced feeling of joy and strength of life.
And this feeling not only did not leave him throughout his captivity, but, on the contrary, grew in him as the difficulties of his situation increased.
This feeling of readiness for anything, of moral integrity was even more supported in Pierre by the high opinion that, soon after his entry into the booth, was established about him among his comrades. Pierre with his knowledge of languages, with the respect that the French showed him, with his simplicity, who gave everything that was asked of him (he received an officer's three rubles a week), with his strength, which he showed to the soldiers by pressing nails into the wall of the booth , with the meekness that he showed in his treatment of his comrades, with his incomprehensible ability to sit still and think without doing anything, he seemed to the soldiers to be a somewhat mysterious and superior being. Those very qualities of him, which in the world in which he lived before were, if not harmful, then embarrassing for him - his strength, disregard for the comforts of life, absent-mindedness, simplicity - here, among these people, gave him the position of almost a hero . And Pierre felt that this look obliged him.
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