Valery Pavlinovich Shantsev (b. 29 June 1947) — statesman and construction industry figure, a weighty political figure of federal significance, former deputy mayor of Moscow (1996—2005), the second appointed governor of Nizhny Novgorod Region. Member of the party United Russia". Former commercial director of the Dynamo hockey club.

Awarded the insignia of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd and 4th classes.

Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Honorary doctor of the State University of Management (1999) and of the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University n.a. R.E. Alekseev (2012).

Honorary professor of the Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (2012).

Academician of the International Academy of Informatization, Information Processes and Technologies, the International Academy of Management and the International Academy of the Integration of Science and Business.

Also, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Rogozin signed the Maritime Board's recommendation on awarding Valery Shantsev the medal "For Distinction in Maritime Activity".

Marital status: married, a son, a daughter, three grandchildren.

Hobbies — Torpedo Hockey Club and football.

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The essence of the phenomenon

A professional soother of physical needs; managerial style: an operator of material resources of a socially conservative cast.

In Jung's typology, an introverted sensing type with auxiliary thinking; according to socionics, he belongs to the sensory-logical introverts ("Gabin", "Shrek"); socialisation type "Gift", with an actualised need to create an environment that needs his friendship and care.

Official milestones

Born on 29 June 1947 in the village of Susanino, Kostroma Region. His parents, the front-line veteran Pavlin Nikolayevich and Yekaterina Ivanovna, both from the Kostroma area, worked at a Moscow abrasives plant. Until the age of 7 Valery Shantsev was brought up in the village by his grandmother, then moved to Moscow to join his parents. Until he was seventeen he spent every summer in the village. Later Shantsev came to Susanino only at the end of the 1990s, and from then on he gave his native village help with the repair of the school, the boarding school and the community club.

He completed 8 grades at school No. 743 and moved on to the Moscow Aviation College named after N. N. Godovikov. After graduating from the college, in 1966-1968 Shantsev served on Sakhalin in the air defence forces as a radio mechanic, monitoring the technical condition of the aircraft.

On returning from the army, Shantsev tried to get a job at several aviation design bureaus, but in the end decided to change his speciality, since those bureaus offered him too small a salary. In 1968 he took a job at the defence plant "Salyut". While working, Shantsev studied in the evening department of the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation, graduating with the qualification of "radio engineer" (later Shantsev obtained a second higher education — at the Academy of the National Economy).

At the "Salyut" plant Shantsev first worked as an assistant foreman, then as head of the production preparation bureau of a workshop, and as a senior process engineer. He was secretary of the plant's Komsomol organisation, created a Komsomol squad to fight drunkenness, and in 1971 joined the CPSU.

In 1975 Shantsev left for work in the party bodies. He was deputy secretary of the party committee of the "Salyut" plant, an instructor and deputy head of the industry and transport department of the Perovo district committee of the CPSU, an instructor and deputy head of the machine-building department of the Moscow city committee (MGK) of the CPSU.

Until 1985 he worked within the CPSU system.

From 1985 to 1988 — chairman of the executive committee of the Perovo district council of people's deputies.

In 1988--1991 — first secretary of the Perovo district committee of the CPSU, secretary of the Moscow city committee of the CPSU.

In 1990 — chairman of the Perovo district council of people's deputies.

From August 1991 Valery Shantsev was commercial director of the Dynamo hockey club, and at the same time first deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Moscow organisation of the KPRF.

In 1994 Shantsev returned to the structures of power. In April 1994 he became a member of the Moscow government and prefect of the Southern Administrative District. At the same time he announced his "temporary" withdrawal from the KPRF, but never returned to it afterwards (according to other data, Shantsev only left the leadership of the Moscow organisation of the KPRF, while remaining a member of the party's central executive committee until the III congress in January 1995).

In June 1996 he was elected vice-mayor of Moscow, and in July 1996 he was appointed first deputy prime minister of the Moscow government. In the course of that election campaign an attempt was made on Shantsev's life. As a result he received 148 shrapnel wounds and more than 50 % of his body was burned.

Alongside the political version about an attempt to prevent Luzhkov's team from taking part in the elections, there were other versions of the reasons for the terrorist attack: in particular, it was claimed that Shantsev was in conflict with several criminal groups, and also with a number of construction firms (in some sources the attempt on Shantsev's life was also linked to the disappearance of considerable sums from the accounts of the bankrupt bank "Favorit", although this connection was not spelled out).

In December 1999 he was again elected vice-mayor of Moscow, and until December 2003 he headed the Complex of Economic Policy and Development of the City of Moscow.

In December 2003, after the election of Yu. M. Luzhkov as Mayor of Moscow, V. P. Shantsev was appointed vice-mayor of Moscow, head of the complex for the development of the scientific and industrial potential of the city of Moscow and of interregional and public relations.

While working as vice-mayor, Shantsev was at the same time a member of the Russian Federation Commission for UNESCO (from January 1997), of the council on social development matters under the government of the Russian Federation (from December 1997), of the council on the affairs of the disabled under the president of the Russian Federation (from December 1998), and of the collegium of the Federal Migration Service of Russia (from October 1999). In addition, Shantsev was a member of the board of trustees of GAO VVTs (from October 1997), a member of the board of directors of the joint-stock commercial bank "Promradtekhbank" (from April 1998; the bank lost its licence in September 2001 [70]), Moscow's representative on the board of directors of GAO "Moscow Cable Television" ("Mostelecom"), and chairman of the supervisory board of the company "Avtoframos" — a joint venture of the Moscow government and the Renault company (from the summer of 1998).

From the mid-1990s Shantsev was also mentioned as president of the Moscow Hockey Federation, and later as president of the Moscow Billiards Federation.

On 8 August 2005 the Regional Legislative Assembly, on the nomination of the President of Russia, vested him with the powers of governor of Nizhny Novgorod Region. In the open vote, 36 deputies — all those present — spoke in favour of V. Shantsev's candidacy submitted by President V. Putin; the regional parliament has 43 legislators in all.

For the first time in the whole post-Soviet history of Russia, a well-known capital-city official was being sent to the provinces as a candidate for the post of head of a region.

Family

Tatyana and Valery Shantsev married in 1969, and had met at the aviation college, where they studied in the same group. Then Tatyana waited for him to return from the army, and in that time graduated from MATI with distinction. For many years she worked at the Ilyushin Design Bureau. Later she changed her speciality. Having completed special courses, she worked at the city property fund. Having obtained, at a mature age, one more higher education — at the Higher School of Entrepreneurship and Privatisation, she then worked as deputy chairwoman at the Moscow regional branch of the Federal Securities Commission. By her husband's account, an excellent homemaker. Besides that, a striking, attractive woman.

Their elder daughter, having graduated from the pedagogical university, teaches physics at a school. She married at 19.

Their son Alexander studied to be an automotive engineer, and to be a lawyer. He mastered the profession of cook. Then he studied for another year, obtaining the qualification of manager in the restaurant business. After which he works and studies by correspondence at an institute.

Close relatives

According to data from open sources, Valery Pavlinovich's family circle includes:

Mother

Shantseva Yekaterina Ivanovna.

She grew up in the village of Susannino, Kostroma Region, where she met the future father of Valery Shantsev – Pavlin Nikolayevich Shantsev.

In the mid-1930s Pavlin moved to Moscow to work at the abrasive tools plant, while Yekaterina married Pavel Mukhin, and soon they had a daughter, Margarita.

Pavel Mukhin was killed in the war; in 1946 Yekaterina met Pavlin again and married for the second time. In 1947 they had a son, Valery, named in honour of Valery Chkalov.

Elder sister

Shantseva Margarita Pavlovna.

Born on 18 June 1941 in Kostroma Region.

A half-sister on their mother's side.

Graduated from a technical college. Worked in the system of computing centres.

A pensioner.

Married, has a daughter and a granddaughter.

Younger brother

Shantsev Vladimir Pavlinovich.

An electrician by training.

Worked at a state-owned enterprise.

Since the early 2000s he has run his own business related to the electrical equipment of buildings.

Wife

Shantseva Tatyana Vladimirovna.

Graduated from the Moscow Aviation Technical School, where she met her future husband.

She received her higher education at the Moscow Aviation Technological Institute.

Under the job-assignment system she went to the Ilyushin Design Bureau, where she took part in developing the landing gear for the Il-76 and Il-96 aircraft. In the late 1980s she took the post of head of the technological bureau of the Ilyushin Design Bureau.

In the mid-1960s she married Valery Shantsev, who had just returned from the army.

In the early 1990s Shantseva decided to change her life and obtained a second higher education at the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation. She was one of the first people in Russia to receive a licence from the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation for work with securities.

Until 1997 she worked at the Moscow Property Fund.

From 1997 to 2005 she worked as deputy head of the branch of the Federal Financial Markets Service in the Central Federal District.

In October 2005 she worked as deputy head of the branch of the Federal Financial Markets Service in the Volga Federal District. However, a month after the appointment she resigned of her own accord.

Since November 2005 — manager of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Moscow Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the settlement bank of Sistema JSFC)

Married, two children and three grandchildren.

Younger son

Shantsev Alexander Valeryevich.

Born on 20 February 1977.

At school he was a mediocre student. From the age of six he played for the Dynamo youth hockey team, but at 16 he gave up his sporting career.

After finishing secondary school he studied for a year at the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute, then for two years at the law faculty of the Russian State Social University.

In 1995 he enrolled at the Moscow College of Restaurant and Hotel Business. After graduating from the college he received the qualification of a 4th-grade cook and took a job at one of the first restaurants of Arkady Novikov's Yolki-Palki chain.

Alexander quickly rose up the career ladder, becoming a manager, then deputy director of a restaurant, and several years later he was entrusted with opening the Yolki-Palki restaurant on Neglinnaya Street, next to TsUM, which he headed for several years.

In the late 1990s he received a higher education at the Russian Academy of Entrepreneurship.

In the early 2000s he worked as deputy director of the Yolki-Palki restaurant chain, where he oversaw business development matters.

In 2000 his daughter Masha was born, and in 2006 his son Ivan.

In 2007 the Yolki-Palki and Malenkaya Yaponiya restaurants appeared in Nizhny Novgorod; Valery Shantsev came in person to their opening. But as early as the beginning of 2010 the restaurants in Nizhny Novgorod closed. Since 2007 — general director of the Moscow restaurant Cantinetta Antinori.

According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Alexander Shantsev owns:

a 20% stake in OOO Beta-3 (which owns the Cantinetta Antinori restaurant, managed by the Arkady Novikov Group)

a 10% stake in OOO Plato (co-owners — Arkady Novikov and Vladimir Bigvava), which plans to begin construction of a shopping complex near Moscow's Paveletsky Railway Station (Vokzal), at 2–4 Kozhevnicheskaya Street.

a 25% stake in the Nizhny Novgorod companies OOO Kvartet and OOO Sakura, which managed the restaurant business of the Yolki-Palki and Malenkaya Yaponiya chains and the Do-Re-Mi coffee house in Nizhny Novgorod. (Revenue in 2009 — 12.1 million roubles.)

Married, two children.

Daughter-in-law

Shantseva Yulia.

Graduated from the College of Restaurant and Hotel Business.

A housewife, raising daughter Masha (born 2000) and son Ivan (born 2006)

Elder daughter

Shantseva Tatyana Valeryevna.

Born in 1972.

Graduated from a secondary school in Moscow with a silver medal. Graduated with honours from the physics faculty of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute.

For several years after graduating she worked as a physics teacher at a private school, but then moved to an ordinary comprehensive school, where she worked as a physics teacher and deputy director for extracurricular work.

Since 2006 — director of one of Moscow's schools.

Married for the second time.

As Valery Shantsev recalls: "Her first husband was her classmate, they lived together for about two years, then he disappeared somewhere." Her second husband is a police lieutenant colonel who works in the internal affairs bodies of the city of Moscow.

Married, raising son Alexander (born 1998).

Grandchildren

According to the known information, Valery Pavlinovich has three grandchildren:

  • Alexander. Born in 1998. In 2004 he started secondary school.
  • Shantseva Maria Alexandrovna. Born in 2000, in Moscow.
  • Ivan (Alexandrovich). Born in September 2006 in Moscow.

Awards and titles of Valery Shantsev

  • Medal "For the Promotion of Rescue Work" (archive) (EMERCOM of Russia, January 2010). This medal is awarded to servicemen, officers and employees of EMERCOM of Russia and to citizens who take an active part in promoting civil defence measures and the protection of the population and territories from emergencies, and in spreading best practice and knowledge about actions in eliminating the consequences of accidents, catastrophes and natural disasters.
  • Medal "For Valiant Labour. In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
  • Honoured Builder of Moscow
  • Order of Friendship of the state of Laos
  • Commander of the Order of Civil Merit (Spain, 9 July 2007).
  • Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (30 December 2005) — for services in the preparation and conduct of the festive events dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941—1945.
  • Order of Friendship (28 June 2007) — for a major contribution to the socio-economic development of the region (?) and for many years of conscientious work.
  • Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
  • Medal "For Labour Valour"
  • Medal "For Distinguished Labour"
  • Honoured Worker of Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation (6 October 1997) — for a major contribution to strengthening the economy, developing the social sphere and in connection with the 850th anniversary of the founding of Moscow.
  • Commendation of the President of the Russian Federation — for a major contribution to strengthening the economy of the municipal economy and developing the social sphere.
  • Badge of Distinction "For Services to Moscow" (15 August 2005) — for a major contribution to the socio-economic, scientific-technical and cultural development of the city of Moscow.
  • Belarusian Order of Honour (16 February 2005) — for a major personal contribution to strengthening economic, scientific-technical and cultural ties between the Republic of Belarus and the city of Moscow of the Russian Federation.
  • South Ossetian Order of Friendship (22 October 2009) — for a major personal contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples, and for the support and assistance rendered to the Republic of South Ossetia in restoring the economy destroyed during the Georgian aggression.
  • Order of Honour (20 December 1996) — for services to the state, a major contribution to the development of physical Culture) and sport and in connection with the 50th anniversary of Russian hockey.

Projects whose implementation ran into certain difficulties

In 2006–2011 difficulties arose with the implementation of approximately 20 major projects.

The boldest projects

  • Construction of the City-Strelka) business centre. Investment — $4 billion.
  • Construction of a high-speed railway with the participation of Japan.
  • Construction of an oncology centre in Nizhny Novgorod.
  • Underground multi-level car parks on Minin) and Pozharsky Square, as well as on Gorky Square.
  • Construction of a crematorium.
  • Reconstruction of the Nizhne-Volzhskaya Embankment.
  • Construction of a new residential district in the Bor floodplain (the Globe Town project).

The list has been compiled on the basis of materials from the Interfax news agency and the NIA Nizhny Novgorod news agency

Shantsev's rating

« Nizhny Novgorod. 27 September. NTA-Privolzhye — the Petersburg Politics Foundation and the communications holding Minchenko Consulting have published the seventh rating of the political survivability of governors.

In the foundation's rating, the governor of Nizhny Novgorod Region Valery Shantsev scored four points out of a possible five. Shantsev was helped by his recent reappointment to the post of head of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

At the same time, the rating notes that working against Shantsev are "intra-elite conflicts, the presence of an opposition inside United Russia, criticism of the actions of the regional authorities during the forest fires, and unpopularity".

In the previous rating, published by the foundation in February of this year, Shantsev also scored four points.
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"Steal something and you will instantly be sent to the 101st kilometre"

« Tomorrow is the day of the fight against corruption. <...> Everyone must understand that no crime will go unpunished. Steal something and you will instantly be sent beyond the 101st kilometre.
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A comment by user asdfgh89:

« I had a look at the map.

to the north — Bezvodnoye, spot on. But then: to the west — +/-Bogolyubovo in Vladimir Region to the east — Makaryevsky Monastery to the south — +/-Vyezdnoye, and from there there is only one road — to Diveyevo.

Are you sending the officials on a tour of holy places? :)
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"If I were Old Man Hottabych.."

« – There has to be some kind of stimulator of the positive, some centre for rejecting the negative, which obviously exists everywhere. Of course, much of this comes down to resources. If I were Old Man Hottabych, I would pull out my last hair and arrange everything the way I would want it. But in the absence of miracles you have to work out what you can and cannot do.

Take the very same staffing problem. You can build good clinics, hospitals, kindergartens and schools, but who is going to work there if there are no specialists — the vacancies have been open for years. We started thinking: how do we attract young people? We looked at the number of graduates of the medical academy and of the pedagogical one. And most of them then go not into our social sphere but scatter among all sorts of firms and little firms that pay big salaries. Several years ago I went myself to the medical academy and to the Pedagogical University, gathered the students and asked them to tell me what we needed to do so that they would go and work in the countryside.

We added 10 thousand to a young specialist's standard salary, promised immediate help in obtaining a mortgage loan with a down payment and low interest, as well as a loan to buy a VAZ-2107 car. And since 2006 our university graduates who went into health care and education, and now also into culture and sport, immediately buy a flat or build a house and receive a domestic car for their use.

– Is this a governor's programme?

– Yes. Why such concern about a car? Because a young person who spent at least five or six years in the city while studying has got used to city conditions, got used to going to the theatre, to the disco, to good shops and so on. He has to feel the same way in the countryside too. And as a true rural intellectual he must go on enjoying comfort. We sign a 10-year contract with such young specialists. We have already built and bought 2.5 thousand such houses and flats. The most interesting thing is that now it is not only our own graduates who move to our countryside, but people from Vladimir and Cheboksary as well. I know for certain that no other region has such a programme.
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"We have no fire here"

« (NIA "Nizhny Novgorod" – Arseny Solovey)

Nizhny Novgorod Region Governor Valery Shantsev will not put the question of confidence to the head of state.

He announced this to journalists on 1 August in Diveyevo.

Shantsev recalled that in 2009 a major fire broke out at the Perm club "Lame Horse", after which the head of Perm Krai Oleg Chirkunov put the question of confidence to the President. "We have no fire here, we have a natural disaster.

These are different things. In June there were two hurricanes. If you put the question of confidence every time, there will be no time left to work," Shantsev said.
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Building miracles

« In the course of the talks Valery Shantsev presented several investment projects at once that could be carried out jointly with Taisei. First of all, the Governor spoke about plans to build the "City-Strelka" complex in Nizhny Novgorod — an international trade centre on the bank of the Volga (disambiguation). According to the head of the region, Japanese technology and the experience of building the artificial island "O Dombai" in Japan would make it possible to realise the regional Government's ambitious plans. "It would give us great pleasure to build this miracle in Nizhny Novgorod together with you," Valery Shantsev stressed.

In addition, the Governor invited the representatives of the construction corporation to take part in building an international logistics centre in the Balakhna area, in building the northern bypass, and also in the comprehensive improvement of urban areas. "We want Nizhny Novgorod to be as clean and beautiful as Tokyo!" Valery Shantsev declared.

The Governor assured the representatives of the Japanese construction corporation that the regional government would do everything possible to avoid unnecessary formalities in preparing the documentation. In conclusion, Valery Shantsev invited Mr K. Nambu to Nizhny Novgorod so that he could personally and seriously assess the possibilities for joint cooperation.
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On the fact that the people of Nizhny Novgorod have no crisis in their heads

« The population of Nizhny Novgorod Region is different from Moscow. They are all very kind.

If you have done something, helped, they will never forget it. You arrive in a remote village and there stand old men and old women in quilted jackets. You can feel that life is not easy for them here. But all the same they hardly complain about anything, they only say: "Everything is fine, son, just come more often, we support you."

Last summer we had a whole cascade of festivities... I... suddenly caught myself thinking: these people, the Nizhny Novgorod folk, have no crisis in their heads. They live a full life. "We brew our own beer, please try it, moonshine, mushrooms, pickles, bread, pastries" – they offer everything.

And they also ask: "When are you going to sort out this crisis of yours? We do not have it here, we live just as we always lived".
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Comments by internet users:

« To judge the life of the people of Nizhny Novgorod you have to spend at least a little time in their skin (in their quilted jacket) Compare the salaries of Moscow residents (40 thousand roubles) and of someone from the backwoods (5-7 thousand roubles)Visit rural clubs and get treated by a feldsher.The crisis mainly affected overfed Muscovites,office plankton,hapless entrepreneurs.After all, a man already lying down cannot fall.
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« obviously — for the shantsevs the whole of life is a cascade of festivities, while the little people, just as they stood before the master in their quilted jackets, so they still stand, at least it is good that they have been allowed to distil moonshine.
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« "If you have done something, helped, they will never forget it." such a thing really is hard to forget, since it happens extremely rarely, and that is exactly why the kindly quilted-jacket wearers compose their long drawn-out songs about it, which shantsev so loves to listen to over the host's moonshine and pastries. And his eyes fill with tears, and he understands that it was not for nothing that he chose this work full of hardship and danger — helping people
ibid.
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Conceptual reflections in the blog on eradicating corruption

« Mentality, habit and fines for bribe-takers. 16 July, 12:15

I have studied the President's address to the Council of Legislators closely. I was deeply struck by the point that the problem of corruption lies not only in the sphere of good or bad laws, but in the sphere of our mentality. I agree — our society has grown accustomed not only to taking bribes, but to offering them. I think that, in the main, some take because others offer. Is this some kind of "tradition", or just a bad habit? I once came across the phrase that bad politicians are corrupted by good businessmen — that is exactly our situation.

The President proposed that, besides criminal prosecution, a fine exceeding the bribe itself should be levied on the corrupt official. Such a measure would cool many heads. I recall a case in our region — an executive was detained for a large bribe, spent a year and a half under investigation, and the sentence was a year and a half. That term was counted, and he was released. The signal to bribe-takers is that nothing terrible will happen even if you are caught. This situation has to be broken.

One might think we are actively pursuing anti-corruption work: we are improving legislation, implementing a targeted anti-corruption programme, preparing a code of professional ethics for officials for release. We strive to create the conditions for rooting out this evil. But what about our citizens? Are they ready not to offer and not to give bribes, and, when money is extorted, to go to the authorities? Many are not ready. Until we break something within ourselves, until we change something at the level of self-awareness, we will not defeat bribery.
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Contribution to the education of Nizhny Novgorod residents

« I would like education in the Nizhny Novgorod Region to be the best in Russia, and Russian education to be the best in the world
V.P. Shantsev
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In 1996, construction of a new school began in the town of Zavolzhye in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. By 2005 the residents of the new Rozhdestvensky neighbourhood had lost all hope that their children would ever stop storming the buses every morning with huge backpacks in tow. The main problem holding up construction was, of course, funding. Active construction of the school began in 2005, immediately after Valery Pavlinovich Shantsev was elected head of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

On the Day of Knowledge, 1 September 2007, the new four-storey School No. 19 opened its doors to pupils and their parents. It is worth noting that the school is superbly equipped: it has 27 classrooms, 3 computer rooms, physics, chemistry and biology rooms, a language laboratory, workshops and two spacious gymnasiums. Another problem solved by bringing the new school into operation was the two shifts caused by the large number of pupils in the three schools of the town of Zavolzhye. Now the children will not have to study in the evenings.

The 2007 school year was a special one for the Nizhny Novgorod Region: as many as 16 new educational facilities were brought into service in the region, including 8 new schools. Nothing like this had happened in our region for eighteen years. On 1 September, Governor Valery Shantsev personally rang the first bell at three new schools in different districts of the region. From Zavolzhye, Governor Valery Shantsev and the director of the regional department of education, Sergey Naumov, travelled to the south of the region — to the Shatkovsky and Gaginsky districts. In the first they opened a new single-storey school for 90 places in the village of Sharapovo, in the second a two-storey school for 75 pupils in the village of Bolshaya Arat.

In both schools these new buildings had also been long awaited, and only really got moving after Valery Pavlinovich Shantsev was appointed head of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. The district budgets could not cope with the construction. The head of the Shatkovsky district, Alexey Nesterov, for example, admitted that whereas over the previous three years a total of only 4 million roubles had been allocated to the construction of the Sharapovo school, in 2007 alone the governor directed 45 million roubles to this facility. As a result, on 1 September the director of the new school, Vasily Agafonov, received the certificate of state registration and the keys to the new school from the hands of Valery Shantsev, and the village children received excellent conditions for study.

In just two years of Valery Shantsev's governorship the regional budget grew substantially: whereas in 2005 the region's entire development budget amounted to 200 million roubles, in 2007 as much as 713 million roubles was allocated to the construction and reconstruction of educational facilities alone, plus another 680 million that went towards preparing the material base of schools for the new school year, and routine and capital repairs.

http://www.government.nnov.ru/?id=24790

http://www.nta-nn.ru/news/item/?ID=117792

http://www.gorvestnik.ru/news/2007-09-03-414

http://www.vremyan.ru/news/41188773_574E_E3D8_9885_ED002A23E876

--Podsnezhnik 09:41, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Shantsev and "Torpedo)"

  • Before Shantsev's "arrival", the Torpedo players had long been out of the Super League. With the new governor, the situation in Nizhny Novgorod hockey changed.

In 2005 the newly appointed governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region met with the management, coaches and players of the Torpedo team. At the meeting the head of the region set the players a clear goal: "There is only one task — to reach the Super League in the spring. There simply cannot be another. I understand that the team was put together in difficult times. But even so, we have every reason to hope for a favourable outcome. And I, as governor, set only that task. Help from me will be forthcoming. I said this when I first arrived in Nizhny Novgorod, and I am ready to repeat it now: I will help Torpedo. I will certainly attend Torpedo's games. I love hockey, one might say I live by it, and I will be very upset if you lose." Torpedo reached the Super League. And with the appearance of the Kontinental Hockey League, the team played in the KHL. It reached the round of 16 of the Gagarin Cup (2008-2009).

  • With the governor's direct support, all of Torpedo's games in the 2010-2011 KHL season were broadcast for the first time

A new life in the media

Such a natural Valery Shantsev Of late the head of the region has been paying particular attention to his own PR "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" 2011-02-07. Svetlana Gamzayeva

Last Friday the governor of Nizhny Novgorod, Valery Shantsev, played five-a-side football with his fellow bloggers from the internet portal "Novy Nizhny Novgorod". He also visited a boy suffering from cancer, calling on Nizhny Novgorod residents in his blog to donate money for cancer patients. Of late the head of the region has been paying particular attention to his own PR. Whereas until recently the news from the governor's front had the character of austere officialese, lately Shantsev has begun to present himself as more lively and human, and demonstrates his closeness to the people.

The changes began after the head of the region took on as his press secretary Roman Skudnyakov, who had previously held the same post under the former mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, Bulavinov.

Notably, it was precisely the former city head's forays among the people that irritated the governor a good deal. He complained that Bulavinov did not so much work as engage in self-promotion.

Now Shantsev regularly updates as many as two blogs. Thus, over the past two months the governor has given two video tours on the internet — of his office and of the rest room behind it (called the "secret room" in the blog). He demonstrated how he uses a laptop and an iPod, gliding his finger easily across the touchscreen. Standing by the monument to Chkalov, he recounted that his father had named him after the great pilot and bequeathed him to be like him. He proposed exchanging New Year stories on his blog and, in turn, published a New Year quatrain of his own composition. He told how he had met his wife. He recalled his favourite film, "Only Old Men Are Going Into Battle" ("When something is wrong, when things are hard, I take out the disc")...

And on top of that, besides the genuine blogs, a fake Shantsev account turned up on Twitter — @shancev. It had been registered in the summer and until recently contained a single line: "I have got myself a Twitter.com, just like the President (@kremlinrussia). I will report news about myself and my affairs." However, at the end of January @shancev suddenly began showing activity, starting to spread information about the activities of the real head of the region. After that the governor decided to expose the impostor and sent Twitter a request for deletion.

Shantsev now presents himself in a new way not only on the internet. For example, this time he congratulated Nizhny Novgorod residents on the New Year in the company of his three grandchildren, decorating the New Year tree together with them. And last Friday Shantsev played football with other leading Nizhny Novgorod video bloggers. "ANYONE COULD ASK THE GOVERNOR ABOUT ANYTHING!!!" one of the participants in the match enthused afterwards.

That same Friday, on World Cancer Day, the head of the region visited a sick child. For this purpose he chose eight-year-old Yan Keniyz, for whose treatment in Germany Nizhny Novgorod residents had been raising funds together back in the summer. Yan's malignant tumour began to show when he was a year and a half old; then followed six operations, dozens of courses of chemotherapy, and after them regular relapses. The local media told the boy's story back in the summer, and people, touched by his hard fate, transferred their money — about 35 thousand euros; another 15 thousand euros were then given by the Russian charitable foundation "Podari Zhizn".

Thanks to these funds, in the autumn in Germany three tumours were removed from Yan and radiation therapy was carried out. Soon he will travel there again for a scheduled examination. And now Shantsev has visited him — he gave him a Lego set, which they began to assemble together. Yan showed the governor his drawings and presented him with one of them. After this the head of the region called on Nizhny Novgorod residents to donate money to cancer patients — whatever each of them could. He reported that he himself had transferred 30 thousand roubles to three children suffering from cancer, posting their photographs and the details for transferring money on his blog. Incidentally, for several years there was active talk in Nizhny Novgorod about the need to build a modern oncology centre, yet this project was never realised.

On his way out from the sick boy, Shantsev unexpectedly met a group of local residents, pensioners, in the courtyard and struck up a relaxed conversation with them. He talked with the women who crowded around him, half-embracing them. "At last we have you in the flesh, otherwise it is always on television," they rejoiced. And they worried: "Take care of yourself!" The head of the region, however, made it clear that such an attitude towards himself was hardly possible. "Yesterday we were in session in Kirov, Vladimir Vladimirovich had gathered us over housing, I got back at two in the morning," the governor shared with the people. "Oh, how can you go on like that!" they lamented in reply.

Shantsev's income and property

According to official information published on the website of the government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Governor Shantsev's income for 2010 amounted to 5 million 429 thousand roubles.

Shantsev owns a land plot of 2,200 sq. m, one third of an apartment of 104.7 sq. m and a country house of 648 sq. m.

The head of Nizhny Novgorod Region also owns the cars GAZ-233001, UAZ-315148 and a LYNX YETI PRO V-800 ARMY snowmobile.

The income of the governor's wife Tatyana Shantseva for 2010 amounted to 4 million 815 thousand roubles. She owns the other third of the same apartment and the cars Reno Velsatis and Toyota Corolla.

By way of comparison, in 2009 Valery Shantsev's income was 5 million 826 thousand roubles, and Tatyana Shantseva's income was 5 million 607 thousand roubles.

Shantsev's video blog on Youtube is being padded with porn traffic. 27 November 2011

Forum.forvip.ru, 27 November 2011, 22:09

Recently, namely on 4 November 2011, the residents of Nizhny Novgorod celebrated National Unity Day.

The day before, on 3 November at 16:42, Valery Pavlinovich Shantsev, governor of Nizhny Novgorod Region and a member of the United Russia party, decided to sincerely congratulate his dear friends on National Unity Day. "And following one more pleasant tradition, I am posting a video greeting for National Unity Day," reads the entry in the blog shantsevvp.livejournal.com/51383.html headlined "Happy National Unity Day!".

That same day Shantsev posted on his channel 52nnov on the Youtube site a clip: "Shantsev offers his congratulations on National Unity Day 2011"


And then on 8 November at 19:16 Valery Pavlinovich published in LiveJournal the entry "I have cancelled pre-moderation" shantsevvp.livejournal.com/51986.html with a postscript reading as follows:

"P.S. My National Unity Day greeting on YouTube has gathered 16 thousand views as of today! I did not expect it. Thank you for your interest!"

I decided to watch the clip too. More than 16,000 views produced, in the end, 2 comments — but what comments they are — and 7 ratings.

The user "RAMB0DJOHN" is upset, does not share the enthusiasm for the video with Shantsev and gives the video a thumbs down: "i came to a porn site and i get this vid....screwthat". Well, there you go, so much for "dear friends".

I look at the statistics of where the users came from and I am in SHOCK !!!! :

  • A 06.11.11 First referral from – alleng. ru 1600
  • B 06.11.11 First referral from – erolab. net 633
  • C 05.11.11 First referral from – xxx-tracker. com 2671
  • D 05.11.11 First referral from – pokaza. net 1777
  • E 05.11.11 First referral from – vdrochke. ru 929
  • F 05.11.11 First referral from – www.pokaza. net 753
  • G 05.11.11 First referral from – free-load. biz 680
  • H 05.11.11 First referral from – pornostuck. ru 503
  • I 05.11.11 First referral from – ti-ti. net 477

That is, users were being redirected from PORN SITES to Valery Pavlinovich's clip — so much for the love of the people of Nizhny Novgorod.

At the end of the entry in LiveJournal governor Shantsev remarks: "I did not expect it. Thank you for your interest!"

P.S I assume that the blog is written not by Valery Pavlinovich Shantsev himself, but most likely by the press service or someone else. So I have no complaints against Shantsev, he was set up by his own PR people. The padding of the counter could have been spotted even without looking at the detailed statistics, since previous clips had gathered no more than a few hundred views."

Source: forum.forvip.ru/index.php?showtopic=3357

Interesting facts

  • It is known that Shantsev likes to whittle, to saw, "to make something with his own hands", to play bard songs on the guitar (Komsomolskaya Pravda, 1 July 2002). Shantsev's literary tastes range from the works of Pushkin) and Dostoevsky to Lev and Alexey Tolstoy, Sholokhov, Bunin and Blok; his musical tastes include the works of Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Sviridov; his cinematic ones — the work of Sergey Bondarchuk, Georgy Daneliya and Eldar Ryazanov.
  • In the second half of the 1990s he named as his political enemies the liberal members of the government of the Russian Federation Boris Nemtsov and Anatoly Chubais (Pavel Kislov. The Moscow shield. — Rossiysky Kto est kto, 15 February 1998. — No. 2).
  • In 2002 a representative of the Moscow prosecutor's office filed a suit claiming that the elective nature of the office of deputy mayor, held at that time by Valery Shantsev, was unlawful. The trial in this case began in November 2002, with the well-known lawyer Pavel Astakhov appearing for the mayor's office. On 16 January 2003 the suit was granted, but Shantsev declared that he intended to serve as deputy mayor until the end of his term. Luzhkov filed a cassation appeal against this court decision, but at the end of March the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld it.
  • On 4 February 2003, at a session of the Moscow government, Shantsev was accused by Resin of falsifying the photographs that mayor Luzhkov had used as evidence of the poor quality of new housing; the deputy mayor himself declared on that occasion that "now is not the time to display personal ambitions" and that it was necessary to "eliminate the shortcomings together". That same year Shantsev was removed from the post of head of the complex for economic policy and city development.
  • Valery Shantsev has been awarded one of Spain's highest government decorations: the cross of the order of the King of Spain "For Civil Merit", 3rd class, known as the Numbered Lesser Cross.
  • Valery Shantsev also became famous for the impressive repair of the Borsky Bridge in 2007. In 2010 (three years after that major overhaul) the Bor bridge was repaired again — this time as a matter of routine.
  • Among Russian governors, the one who suffered most in the crisis year was the governor of Kirov Region, which neighbours Nizhny Novgorod Region, Nikita Belykh, whose income in 2009 fell by 97.9%: from 72.9 million roubles to 1.5 million roubles. The head of Nizhny Novgorod Region, Valery Shantsev, meanwhile, acquired a snowmobile.
  • The respectful name for V. P. Shantsev used in the Nizhny Novgorod area: "Pavlinych". The image of this bird is linked in the Russian language to a whole series of proverbs, sayings and idioms: "The lady glides like a peahen. The gentleman walks like a peacock, proudly, importantly. Neither peahen nor crow. A crow in peacock feathers. Hides like a peahen with an egg. As the peahen is, so is her fame. As the little peahen, so the little glory. You know a peahen by her feathers. She walks as though a peahen were gliding. A peahen is a haughty beauty. The peacock would be handsome, but he is unlucky in his feet. The peahen's attire is no match for the peacock's. Peacock feathers make a coachman's hat look fine. The cry of the peacock, of the peahen, is worse than a cat's. A crow in peacock feathers, a baslovka. Peahen's little feet. To peacock oneself: to swagger, to put on airs, to strut haughtily in showy clothes, especially someone else's. To play the peacock: the same, but more constantly.<…> Pavlinich, -nichna, pavich, pavichna, jocular: the son and daughter of proud, haughty, puffed-up parents, and rather of the well-off of the middle estate. (From Vladimir Dahl's «Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language».)".
  • Among officials, the slang nickname for Valery Shantsev is "Globe". Probably not least because of the interest he shows in global projects. See also "Globe of the Nizhny Novgorod Region)".

Unverified information

  • According to a persistent rumour circulating among middle- and senior-level Nizhny Novgorod executives since December 2010, the City Manager of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Kondrashov is "Shantsev's 4th son-in-law". The rumour was denied by Oleg Kondrashov through his blog.

Official resources

Closed resources

  • Shanzev.Net — "The unofficial reception office of Governor Shantsev". A site with criticism of Shantsev's work, closed.

See also