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Gritsenko Anatoly Stepanovich: biography and photos

Gritsenko Anatoly Stepanovich (born October 25, 1957) is a Ukrainian politician who came to the political arena during the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko as an active member of his party Our Ukraine. After occupying the chair of the defense minister after the Orange Revolution, he did not leave it with the three prime ministers who were replaced in two years: Tymoshenko, Yekhanurov and Yanukovych.

Origins and parents

Gritsenko Anatoly Stepanovich - native Ukrainian, originally from the Cherkasy village near the ancient Russian town of Zvenigorodka. For three years Gritsenko's family lived in the farmhouse of my grandmother, the wife of a peasant who had been dispossessed in 1933 (and at the same time deceased), who died in that terrible "starving" year out of seven children five. Then my parents moved to the mining town of Vatutino, where they found a job. Tolya's father, Stepan Demjanovich, was a mountain rescuer. Seventeen-year-old Stepan Gritsenko was drafted into the army in 1944. They taught the demining business, he cleared Finland, Denmark, Norway. Later he served as a tanker on the T-34, a rifle-radio operator, in general - six and a half years soldier.

Stepan Gritsenko married his countrywoman Anna from the village of Voronovka in the Gorodishchensky district. Anatoly's mother worked at the construction site, in public utilities. She still lives in the same Vatutinskaya two-room apartment where her son grew up.

Childhood and years of study

Gritsenko Anatoly Stepanovich graduated from the eight-year school in Vatutino. He studied easily, read a lot, grew up quite a typical Soviet guy. According to his own recollections, the grandmother's stories of the grandmother (the last years of her life she lived in her son's apartment in Vatutino) about the Holodomor were spoiled by a general, iridescent picture of the surrounding reality, but young Anatoly then tried not to think about it. After all, there was a great life ahead of Soviet canons.

Father's military past greatly influenced the life choices of Anatoly. Biography Gritsenko was firmly associated with the army. At the age of 14, he announced to his family that he wanted to enter the Suvorov school, and, despite his mother's persuasions, nevertheless left his home in Kiev. Suvorov Military Academy, the future Minister of Defense of Ukraine graduated with a gold medal. Then there was the Faculty of Aircraft Equipment of the Kiev Higher Military Aviation Engineering School, and again the gold medal at its end in 1979.

Service in the Soviet Army

After the school was a two-year service in the air regiment near Akhtyrka in Sumy region, where the newly-minted Lieutenant-Engineer commanded a group that was engaged in the maintenance of combat-training Czechoslovak aircraft L-39. The technique was unfamiliar, because in the school the whole process was oriented to domestic aircraft and helicopters, but it was necessary to master it. The intensity of flights was very high, for a year the pilots of the regiment conducted 25,000 hours in the air. Today, all Ukrainian aviation does not fly that much.

A promising young officer (and even a medalist!) Was invited to study in an adjunct (military postgraduate study). And three years later he defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Automation of heavy military transport aircraft management at the landing mode" ahead of schedule. Calculations were carried out for the An-124 Ruslan aircraft in cooperation with the Antonov Design Bureau. The thesis was recognized as a quality work, it was positively evaluated at the Zhukovsky Academy and the Bauman Moscow City Technical University.

Teaching Activities

After defending the thesis Gritsenko Anatoly Stepanovich began teaching work in his native KVVAIU. It was interesting and rich for eight years. At the Department of Automatic Control Systems and Flight Navigation Systems, which was headed by Professor Aslanyan Albert Eduardovich, was an amazingly innovative and friendly atmosphere. With his colleagues, the current well-known Ukrainian politician is still friendly.

Our and foreign students and officers Gritsenko read technical disciplines - "SAU", "Dynamics and control of aircrafts", "Aviation equipment of aircraft", etc. Gritsenko is the author of more than 100 scientific works published in Ukraine, Belgium, the Netherlands, the USA, Germany and Switzerland.

First steps in politics

In the late 80's, Gritsenko Anatoly Stepanovich headed the party organization of the department. Without exaggeration, the panic "at the top" caused the decision of its collective to stop transferring membership dues to the Central Committee and to join the Democratic platform in the party. By the way, this party organization became the first among all military structures on the territory of Ukraine, which dared to take such a step. Major Gritsenko then was dragged along to high offices, demanding explanations. However, he survived.

Later he was the organizer of the support group of the candidate of the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, Vladimir Chernyak. In his spare time he helped organize meetings, persuaded people, put up postcards with his son on the Kharkov Massif in Kiev ... And when Chernyak was elected as a deputy, rallied several people with whom he prepared the examination of bills, sent materials to Moscow, called directly to the hotel With their advice.

Beginning of service in the Ukrainian army

In the newly created Department of Military Education of the Ministry of Defense, the future Minister of Defense of Ukraine started working in 1992. It was a completely different, new for him staff work. In the legacy of the Union in the territory of Ukraine there were 42 higher military educational institutions, and more than 100 military departments. There are many universities, there are too many for Ukraine, but these were only separate elements of a previously unified union system. The system of military education for Ukraine needed to be created, adapting it to the needs of the new, Ukrainian army. And this task was engaged precisely Hrytsenko.

Studying in the USA

In 1993, Anatoly Gritsenko falls on a one and half year course of study in the US, and, according to him, quite by accident. It turns out that the US government offered post-Soviet countries to send to prospective officers in the United States prospective officers-aviators in the rank of lieutenant colonel or colonel, with a Ph.D. and with the knowledge of English. The head of the profile department in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine could not find a suitable candidate in any way, and somehow Anatoly Hrytsenko complained about this in the smoking room. It turned out that his interlocutor is completely suitable for this mission.

So the future Ukrainian politician first got to the Military Institute of Foreign Languages of the US Department of Defense in San Antonio, Texas, and then to the University of the Air Force in Montgomery, Alabama.

Seen in the US it's just staggering (he openly writes about it on his own website). The extraordinary degree of openness (who to be afraid of the "states" in 1993?), The highest level of technical equipment and teaching (to read one author's lecture, teachers often fly from Europe across the ocean), the severity and depth of discussions on any topics between students - all This makes of Gritsenko an ardent admirer of the American system of values and way of life. That's the way for a year and a half from the exemplary former Soviet military and scientist forged a new American-Ukrainian "janissary", whose purpose of life was to remake the Ukrainian army into a Western, I mean American manner.

Military and political career

After returning from the US, Gritsenko tried to convey his ideas of reforming the Ukrainian army to his leadership, but he received no support. By the mid-90s, he studied at the Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where Gritsenko became famous for his refusal to recognize NATO as a potential adversary. He spent three years in the newly established National Scientific and Research Center for Defense Technologies and Military Security, then moves to the National Security Council, where he works under the leadership of the well-known political scientist Razumkov. After the death of the latter in 1999, he resigns from the army and until early 2005 he heads a non-governmental organization - the Razumkov Center. Who is funded by similar organizations in Ukraine - is well known.

In February 2005, he finally gets the Ukrainian Defense Ministry at his disposal, and during the next two years he tries to reform the army in accordance with his ideas about it. With two "orange" premiers-Timoshenko and Yekhanurov-he managed to do it somehow, but when the Cabinet in 2006 was headed by Yanukovych, it became clear that Gritsenko, who holds his post on the quota of President Yushchenko, will not work with the new prime minister. So it happened, in 2007 he was dismissed.

As a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, he began working in the same year after the extraordinary parliamentary elections initiated by President Yushchenko to change the composition of the parliament supporting Yanukovych.

In January 2010, Gritsenko had his own party - the Civil position, which could not overcome the 5% barrier in the two parliamentary elections.

He was also a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine in 2010 and 2014. After the entry of the Crimea into the Russian Federation and the beginning of the war in the Donbass, he speaks from the extreme right, Russophobic positions, urging the Ukrainian authorities to organize sabotage in Russian territory.

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