Today, November 25, in Yekaterinburg there will be Grand opening Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin Presidential Center. Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, leaders of the CIS countries, European and American politicians who worked with Yeltsin, as well as friends, relatives and friends of the first Russian president should come to the ceremony.
A few days ago we managed to walk around the Yeltsin Center and especially for you we compiled a small guide to this museum, which you definitely need to visit. It doesn’t matter how you feel about Yeltsin and the 90s, whether you understand history or not. There are no other similar sites in Yekaterinburg. This modern center can be compared with the best museums and galleries of the world and I am glad that such a public space has appeared in our city.
Law, building, money
Let's start with the questions that everyone discusses first. Where is the center? Who gave the money? How much does all this cost? Why build a museum dedicated to Yeltsin?
Let's figure it out. On May 13, 2008, the Federal Law “On Centers historical heritage Presidents of the Russian Federation who have ceased to exercise their powers." In connection with this bill, the design of the Yeltsin Center began. The main task of the museum is to preserve, study and comprehend the historical heritage of Boris Nikolaevich in the context of the political and social events of the 90s, as well as the development of the institution of the presidency in Russia.
Center and monument to Boris Yeltsin
When the question of building a center arose, people close to Yeltsin decided that the building should be located in Yekaterinburg, the city in which the future president studied and began his career. The team’s choice fell on the long-term construction in the city center at Boris Yeltsin, 3. In 2011, Yeltsin Center bought part of the Demidov business center from UMMC, and in the spring of 2013 it began large-scale reconstruction buildings under the direction of the Bernaskoni bureau. The total area of the complex is about 88 thousand square meters, and the area of the center is 22.5 thousand.
Names of benefactors
The federal budget allocated 4 billion 980 million rubles for the project. The center received another 2 billion rubles to complete the work from the budget of the Sverdlovsk region under a loan interest agreement. The Yeltsin Center will gradually give back this money. All other funds for construction were received from philanthropists, including Roman Abramovich, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Mikhail Prokhorov, Malysheva 73, Rezhevskaya Khlebokombinat and many others. All names can be seen on the wall in the center.
First impressions and structure of the center
If you haven't been to this part of the city for a long time, you will be surprised to see how much the building has changed. Thanks to perforated aluminum sheets, the Yeltsin Center stands out against the backdrop of the gray streets of Yekaterinburg. And thanks to the LED modules, in the evening the white building is clearly visible from different vantage points in the center.
It's easy to navigate: the entrance to the center and the conference room are marked, and there are signs inside the building. On ground floor there is a cloakroom, restaurant, information desk, toilets and shopping galleries. Two days ago the last work was being completed here, it was a little empty and you could trip over the wires, but probably by today all the deficiencies had been eliminated.
Rising to the second floor, you find yourself above the atrium. In the first minutes it seems that you are in one of the films about the future. Silent elevators, cleanliness, soft light and White color, a giant screen covering the entire wall, simple signs, beautiful light furniture, everything is very harmonious, minimalistic and stylish.
Atrium and screen on the wall
There is a lot of interesting things on this floor. For example, it will open here independent bookstore"Piotrovsky" store. It will work a little further souvenir shop, where they will sell T-shirts with quotes from Yeltsin (“You understand...”, “Take care of Russia”), Chernomyrdin (“We wanted the best, but it turned out as always”), mugs with excerpts from the Constitution and much more.
Book Shop
Located on the same floor buffet and cafe "1991", the menu of which includes dishes and desserts prepared according to the recipes of the first lady of Russia Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina. In modern conference room will take place in the future round tables, discussions, small concerts and festivals. IN art gallery They plan to hold exhibitions, photo biennales, and master classes. A in the atrium itself They are going to organize a variety of events: from simple presentations to formal balls.
By the way, tomorrow November 26, the exhibition “90s” will open in the gallery of the center, and in the atrium during the day there will be open master classes, collective art projects, presentation of the sports section, food market, first public lectures and documentary film screenings.
Art gallery. The “90s” exhibition mainly showcases the works of authors who actively worked in the nineties - the AES group, Sergei Bratkov, Alexander Brener, Dmitry Gutov, Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov, Elena Elagina and Igor Makarevich, Valery Koshlyakov, Oleg Kulik, Boris Mikhailov, Anatoly Osmolovsky and others
On third floor There are an archive and a library, educational and children's centers. The library will exist both in a traditional format and as a digital repository. Here you can find books about Yeltsin and the 90s, interviews with eyewitnesses of that time and those who worked with the president. The archive contains tens of thousands of documents, from presidential transcripts to letters from constituents.
The educational center plans to hold educational games, public seminars, and educational programs. If you have your own similar project, then you can propose it to the Yeltsin Center. Children who came with their parents are waiting in children's center, Where professional teachers will conduct exciting classes using modern technologies.
Museum dedicated to Yeltsin and the 90s
The heart of the Yeltsin Center is, of course, the Boris Nikolayevich Museum. Despite modern technology, there is a feeling that time has stood still here. Wandering among things, videos, photographs and posters from the 90s, it seems that you have returned to the past. However, as the authors of the project say, they did not want to rely only on emotions; the main thing for them was to give people the opportunity to more deeply comprehend the events of those years.
The creation of the museum was carried out by the famous company Ralph Appelbaum Associates. You will not see the usual exhibition, where you just need to move from room to room, reading the explanations along the way.
Orange sweater and other gifts. Additional photos can be seen in the gallery
The journey into the past begins from the wall, where you can see gifts to Yeltsin from a variety of people. There are things here from loved ones, from random voters, from politicians. For example, a slightly worn orange Hugo Boss sweater, which Nemtsov handed to Yeltsin with a note: “Dear Boris Nikolaevich! Please accept my warmest congratulations on your birthday. I decided to give you a sweater so that you would feel warm and cozy in it. And his Orange color- a hint of what we and Russia lack now. Every day, Boris Nikolaevich, I love and appreciate you more and more.”
Be sure to watch the film. It does not take a lot of time
Then you find yourself in a hall where you can watch a short but impressive film by Janik Fayziev. Behind the scenes, Liza Boyarskaya talks about the history of Russia and the struggle for freedom. Having remembered the main events, we find ourselves in the “Labyrinth of History”. I’m afraid to imagine how much time it takes to watch and read absolutely everything. Documents and photographs, artifacts (like the door from the place of Chekist executions), old Soviet movies, posters by artists, letters and things that belonged to Yeltsin - moving along the “timeline” among all this wealth, it is impossible to remain indifferent to those events and the history of the country.
In the "Labyrinth of History"
Finally, we go up one floor and find ourselves in the museum itself. The space is organized according to the “7 days” principle. This concept was proposed by Russian film director Pavel Lungin. Each "day" is associated with turning point that time: economic reform 91st, October 1993, elections, war in Chechnya.
Museum space
The halls are divided into several rooms, but each time you will go out to the central platform, where a monument to Yeltsin is erected, and photographs from the family archive are shown.
Everyone here takes pictures with Yeltsin
I think there is no point in talking about what you will see in the museum. I really want you to be as delighted as the first viewers. I only dare to draw your attention to a number of details. Everything here is worth touching (if there are no prohibiting signs, of course). For example, in the hall where the Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee of 1987 “takes place”, you can see photographs of party members. Expand the photo and you can read what the person said about Yeltsin at the meeting.
Here you can sit on authentic chairs, listen to a unique recording of Yeltsin’s speech, and find many interesting documents
Once you find yourself in the Moscow apartment of the president, do not hesitate to “answer” phone call, and then “go outside” from the house. Pull out document drawers, listen to recordings, “ride the trolley,” look into bullet holes, try to sell your voucher, record a video about what freedom means to you. There are so many interactive activities here that you definitely won't get bored.
By the way, the tape recorder that can be seen in the apartment was donated to the museum by Mikhail Prokhorov
By the way, it is worth noting that all exhibits are unique. There are no copies here. Items were collected throughout Russia, and many artifacts were donated to the museum by Yeltsin’s family. Be sure to pay attention to the handwritten letter from Boris Nikolayevich to Mikhail Gorbachev criticizing the party bureaucracy, the tricolor raised over the Kremlin on December 25, 1991 (the flag was preserved thanks to a caring caretaker), the nuclear suitcase that Yeltsin handed over to Putin on December 31, 1999, photographs from Chechnya, labor the president's book, photographs of all the candidates who could take his place.
Or stand in line
Or remember it all
In addition, in the last room you can see Yeltsin’s office. All these things were transferred from the 14th building of the Kremlin. The authors of the exhibition restored the view from the window, laid out the folders on the table, as the president did, and carefully hung his jacket on the back of the chair. It is here that you can find out how the recording of the farewell New Year’s speech went and hear again: “I’m tired. I'm leaving".
You can't sit on the chairs. Other photos are in the gallery
Instead of a conclusion
There will probably be too many people in the center in the first days of work, so come back in a couple of weeks or New Year holidays. With 30,000 items, 3,600 artifacts, more than 130,000 photographs, 130 interviews, 163 media programs, this museum is worth spending a whole day exploring.
The site will be open to all visitors daily from 10:00 to 21:00. The only day off is the third Monday of the month. You can learn about events and exhibitions on the official website of the project, as well as in groups
This is an old article, but even now, everything that is written in it only confirms what was intended by the organizers of the Yeltsin Center. Everything works as Western politicians planned, so that it would all be in Russia. So that propaganda and interference in politics by foreign informants does not subside.
What is the “Yeltsin Center”, whose project is it, at whose expense is the construction going on, why did Yevgeny Kuyvashev set this date, what forces and how are they trying to use this event, what is not said out loud and what are the consequences for Russian politics can have this event - about all this in our material.
What is the Yeltsin Center?
In 2007, after the death of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, his family visited the United States at the invitation of the American side. One of the points of the visit was a visit to the so-called presidential centers. The tradition of opening heritage centers for former presidents is American; in the USA there are centers for Carter, Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton, Bush Jr., Sr. - a total of 13 centers. The work of the centers is financed from extra-budgetary sources, through charity, and the same with their construction. Only in some cases, for example, two months after the assassination of John Kennedy, the construction of the corresponding centers was partially sponsored by the state budget. The cost of building a library and museum is usually several tens of millions of dollars. Traditionally, these are rather modest complexes, including a museum and archive of the former president. By the way, sometimes center projects were launched during the lifetime of presidents.
It seems that the American tradition received its new “development” in the post-Soviet space. For example, in 2005, a similar museum was opened in Kazakhstan in honor of Nursultan Nazarbayev. Of course, the memorial center “outdid” everyone “ Turkmen-bashi "in post-Soviet Turkmenistan. It was in the post-Soviet space that American public centers were transformed into state-owned ones with the pomp characteristic of the state.
The American idea pleased the family of B.N. Yeltsin. Of course, I wanted to do this at the expense of the state, and in 2007 lobbying for the project began at the state level. In 2008, the State Duma adopted the law “ ", which was never signed by the then current President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. Even then, the construction of the Yeltsin Heritage Center was estimated at 1.225 billion rubles, that is, $48 million at the current exchange rate, and annual funding from the budget was expected to be 125 million rubles. But appetites are growing...
State “pocket” of the project
Small detail... Law " About the centers of historical heritage of the presidents of the Russian Federation who ceased to exercise their powers " signed by the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev on May 13, 2008, i.e. on the first day of his presidency (!) . This, of course, says a lot... By the way, on the same day, the newly-minted President Dmitry Medvedev signed his first Decree, which instructed his Presidential Administration to establish non-profit organization- The B.N. Yeltsin Presidential Center Foundation, identifying the main source of funding for the foundation, in addition to charitable contributions and profits, as non-refundable subventions from the federal budget. By the same decree, D. Medvedev endowed the fund with state property. In Moscow, the foundation was given a complex of buildings at the Dolgorukov (Bobrinsky) estate on Malaya Nikitskaya 12, where Rosokhrankultura was previously located, consisting of three impressive buildings.
The purpose of the fund was determined - “ preservation, study and comprehension (!)historical heritage of Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin in the context of political and historical events 90s “, the fund’s task is to build the “Yeltsin Center” in the historical homeland of B.N. Yeltsin in Yekaterinburg (why not in the village of Budka?) with the opening of a museum of the first president and an archive named after him. The opening of the Yeltsin Center was originally planned for February 1, 2011, on the day of the former president’s 80th birthday. For this purpose, in 2009, by order of D. Medvedev, the necessary billion rubles were transferred to the fund’s accounts. The missing amount was supposed to be collected from philanthropists.
Where do the billions go...
But everything turned out to be more complicated and more expensive... They “swallowed” the first billion and didn’t choke - they didn’t even start building Yeltsin’s center on it. Allegedly, the money was spent on the restoration of Moscow property transferred to the B.N. Yeltsin Presidential Center Foundation, on the restoration of the complex of buildings of the Dolgorukov (Bobrinsky) estate on Malaya Nikitskaya 12... The money did not reach the Urals...
“The Family” prepared a new construction estimate and, under the pretext of “making it in time for the 80th anniversary of B.N. Yeltsin,” began to lobby in a new way for a construction project worth already 2 billion rubles. The new governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Alexander Misharin, was involved in this process. In March 2010, A. Misharin met with Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin on this matter. As a result of the meeting, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the allocation of another 2 billion rubles for the construction of the Yeltsin Center for the 80th anniversary of the first President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin. The address of the future facility was also determined - this is the unfinished Demidov business center on Boris Yeltsin Street, a rather “controversial” facility that they wanted to build for the 2008 SCO summit and which after the summit turned into another long-term construction.
But these 2 billion rubles also disappeared before reaching the construction site... A memorial complex to B.N. Yeltsin was allegedly built on them next to the same Demidov business center. On February 1, 2011, on the day of B.N. Yeltsin’s 80th birthday, under the conditions of a strict “cordon” of the holiday from the people, the opening of the complex took place in a narrow circle of “celestials” with the participation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
The cost of a 10-meter stele made of white Chinese marble caused a shock even in the presidential administration of the Russian Federation. The vague explanations of the family of B.N. Yeltsin and the sculptor Georgy Frangulyan that the extraction of such a piece of marble required extremely expensive Chinese manual labor, that billions were spent on transporting marble from China to Moscow, and then to the Urals, only caused smiles among specialists. Especially for those who remember that the largest deposits of this very marble are located in the Urals. One way or another, another 2 billion people's rubles passed by the construction site. The issue of ownership of the unfinished building was not even resolved...
And then, in May 2012, the President of the Russian Federation changed. Dmitry Medvedev is concerned about his own “legacy”. Back on May 5, 2012, Life News reported that in 2013, the Dmitry Medvedev Historical Heritage Center would begin work in St. Petersburg. This publication was reported to the publication by a source in the leadership of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, who expressed their readiness to disseminate the “accumulated experience” in the interests of D. Medvedev. The Internet was “exploded” with jokes that the main exhibit of Dmitry Medvedev’s museum could be the fourth generation iPhone, which Medvedev himself gave as a gift Steve Jobs... Jokes aside, Dmitry Medvedev continued to lobby for the eternal construction of the Yeltsin Center even after leaving the presidency...
Loan under Boris Yeltsin...
With the resignation of Dmitry Medvedev from the presidential post and the subsequent resignation of Governor Alexander Misharin, the family’s access to “free” (non-refundable) subventions from the federal budget seems to have become more difficult... The search for other sources of financing began... The search was crowned with success. We decided to “credit” under the name of B.N. Yeltsin.
In December 2012, not even a month had passed since the approval of the budget of the Sverdlovsk region for 2013, as new Governor of the region E. Kuyvashev, who owes his appointment to the outgoing president Dmitry Medvedev, urgently convenes an extraordinary session of the Sverdlovsk Legislative Assembly. There is one question on the agenda: Medvedev urgently gives the region a targeted loan for the construction of a certain tennis center named after B.N. Yeltsin in Yekaterinburg on Yasnaya Street, if you don’t vote urgently, then the money will go past the “cash register”...
None of the sensible arguments of a number of deputies had any effect, although they openly stated that the “tennis center” project is a scam, it is only a pretext for another corruption scheme. But an obedient majority of deputies from United Russia ensured the necessary voting result, and a federal loan of 2 billion rubles went to the regional budget, supposedly for the construction of a tennis center named after B.N. Yeltsin.
Indeed, the tennis center turned out to be a complete scam, even the lands for the proposed project belonged to third parties and were allocated for other purposes. Just 3 months later, in March 2013, Governor Evgeny Kuyvashev came to the regional Legislative Assembly with new changes to the budget. He proposed that the targeted federal loan received by the region for the construction of a “fake” tennis center be redirected to lending to the Yeltsin Center.
Heated battles broke out... Deputies directly accused the governor of violating the current legislation and implementing a obviously criminal scheme. The governor could not explain the complex financial chain. No one has ever understood why to lend to a federal structure, which is the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center Foundation established by the Presidential Administration, according to such a strange scheme: a federal loan to the regional budget for non-existent purposes (tennis center) - a regional loan federal structure via MUGISO and increase authorized capital GUPSO "Administrative Directorate of MUGISO"? Why didn't the federal government issue this loan directly to its federal entity? Even the regional prosecutor’s office expressed its doubts about the legality of such a scheme... At the same time, no one, including the Minister of Finance of the Sverdlovsk Region Galina Kulachenko, could explain anything about the terms of the loan. There were some vague assumptions that the region would not have to repay this federal loan, since it would be replaced with a gratuitous subvention.
The deputies were indignant. The head of the Communist Party faction in the Legislative Assembly directly stated: “ This is an example that corruption has finally won in our country. We are simply being drawn into complicity in all this... Alive and drunk Yeltsin was cheaper for Russia " His colleague also supported him. Andrey Alshevskikh: « This budget is full of dark and dirty deeds. " Vice Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Georgy Persky suggested that these 2 billion rubles will be used to buy out the unfinished Demidov business center with an area of 22 thousand sq.m. from UMMC, and this is not just a memorial center, but some kind of shopping mall named after B.N. Yeltsin. Galina Kulachenko outright lied, declaring that “ the money will go towards equipment and improvement of this center ».
Everything was decided by the obedient majority of deputies from the United Russia party. The illegal scheme was approved. As the opposition warned, the entire loan was used to buy out the unfinished Demidov business center. The money was passed through MUGISO and its Administrative Directorate, while no evidence of an increase in the authorized capital of the directorate by 2 billion rubles was provided, most likely, and could not be provided, because The directorate could not have assets worth this amount. The federal loan was never replaced with a non-repayable subvention, and in December 2015, i.e. in a month, the region will have to return it. To date, the Yeltsin Center has not returned the loan to the regional budget.
Thus, by 2013, 5 billion rubles had already disappeared into the Yeltsin Center people's money, including 2 billion rubles that will have to be returned to residents of the Sverdlovsk region.
Bottomless Barrel
Having spent 5 billion rubles of people's money, by 2014 the Yeltsin Center was left with the unfinished Demidov business center. New injections were needed. And they continued...
According to our data, which has not yet been confirmed, in 2014 the Yeltsin Center was nevertheless allocated another federal subvention in the amount of 2 billion rubles, but it was not spent on repaying the loan received from the budget of the Sverdlovsk region. The money was used to complete the construction of the business center.
In addition, we know that at least 2 billion rubles collected from “charitable” organizations passed through the accounts of the Yeltsin Center. They say that the father of Russian oligarchs is responsible for replenishing the account from benefactors Anatoly Chubais and a member of the “Yeltsin family”, son-in-law of Valentin Yumashev and the aluminum king of Russia Oleg Deripaska. But this money was not used to pay off the loan; it was also “used” for the construction of the Demidov glass skyscraper.
We know that in March of that year, the presidential administration held a special meeting on the Yeltsin Center, at which promises were made to repay the loan from the Sverdlovsk regional budget, but the money never arrived. Rumor has it that it is organized new round work with “philanthropists” in the Sverdlovsk region through the regional union of industrialists and entrepreneurs. They are allegedly guaranteed some kind of protection and are ready to provide “cheap” loans in exchange for “charity” in favor of the Yeltsin Center. There is information that we urgently need to collect another 2 billion rubles for subsequent settlements with the budget of the Sverdlovsk region.
In addition, we have information that in December 2015, the Yeltsin Center expects to receive another non-refundable subvention in the amount of 2 billion rubles from the federal budget. If all our calculations are accurate and all the expectations of the Yeltsin Center come true, then by the beginning of 2016, up to 13 billion rubles could pass through the Center’s accounts, of which up to 7 billion rubles could be non-refundable subventions from the federal budget, up to 4 billion. rubles from “philanthropists” and 2 billion rubles from borrowed funds from the budget of the Sverdlovsk region.
Even if the borrowed funds are repaid by the end of the year, the Yeltsin Center will cost 11 billion rubles of public money. And these are not final expenses, given that most likely there will be the opening of another “unfinished project.”
There is a real danger that the Yeltsin Center will turn into a bottomless barrel of memory of the first president of Russia...
Who really controls the Yeltsin Center?
Formally, a state solution to a specific problem was found: the state established a fund, the state builds and opens this very “Yeltsin Center”.
But, in fact, everything turned out to be wrong... The governing bodies of the fund were determined to be its board of 7 people, the chairman of the board and the executive director; to support the activities of the fund, a board of trustees of 14 people was formed. And, if in the fund’s board of trustees, headed by the head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergei Ivanov, there is at least some parity between statists and social activists (statists - S.B. Ivanov, S.K. Shoigu, S.E. Prikhodko, A.A. .Gromov, I.R.Kholmanskikh, E.V.Kuyvashev, E.V.Roizman, social activists - N.I.Yeltsina, T.B.Yumasheva, A.B.Chubais, A.S.Voloshin, M.E. Shvydkoy, V.N. Shevchenko, G.B. Volchek), then the real governing bodies represented by members of the fund’s board (A.A. Drozdov - chairman of the board, A.S. Voloshin, D.V. Molchanov, A.A. Oslon, M.E. Shvydkoy, V.N. Shevchenko, V.B. Yumashev) and executive director A.A. Drozlov (who is also the chairman of the board) were completely handed over to the “family” of B.N. Yeltsin. Moreover, the executive director of the state-owned Yeltsin Center previously headed the private Yeltsin Foundation, which we will discuss below.
In fact, formally a state fund with state funding was deliberately turned into a private shop for the Yeltsin family.
Private “pocket” of the project
Long before the creation of the state Foundation “Presidential Center B.N. Yeltsin”, the private Foundation “First President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin” was created in November 2000. Its founders are T.B. Yumasheva (daughter of B.N. Yeltsin and his adviser), V.B. Yumashev (husband of B.N. Yeltsin’s daughter, former head of President Yeltsin’s administration) and A.B. Chubais (father of the Russian liberal democracy). This fund is headed by the daughter of the former president and at the same time the director of the fund, Austrian citizen Tatyana Yeltsina-Khairullina-Dyachenko-Yumasheva. The executive director of the fund until 2011 was the same Alexander Alekseevich Drozdov, who is now the chairman of the board and executive director of the state Foundation “B.N. Yeltsin Presidential Center”. Currently, the executive director of the private Foundation of the First President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin is Evgeniy Stepanovich Volk, little known to the public.
The goals of the private foundation, stated back in 2000, are practically the same as those of state fund - « preservation, study and understanding of the historical heritage of B.N. Yeltsin in the context of political and historical events of the 90s ».
The people are the same, the goals are the same, even the names of the funds are indistinguishable at first glance, moreover, persons affiliated with these funds deliberately call both funds the same in interviews - the Yeltsin Foundation... What is the difference then? In the sources of replenishment of these funds-pockets. The money of exclusively sponsors goes into one pocket, and the state’s money also goes into the other. Both of these pocket funds are sewn onto one “jacket” of the B.N. Yeltsin family in its broad sense. All this allows for the transfer of funds from one pocket to another, allows you to solve problems not stated in constituent documents funds.
Liberal lining
It is necessary, of course, to distinguish the face of the project from its real interests. It is naive to even assume that the face of the project is Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina, has some secret interests. She's a decent person interested in only one thing - preserving good memory about her husband and first President of the Russian Federation Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin.She is extremely sincere in all her manifestations.- is she interested in the construction of the Yeltsin Center, is she involved in the formation of exhibits of the future museum and archive, is she rewarding talented Russian youth, is she organizing volleyball and tennis tournaments in memory of her husband... There are no complaints about her ... But she does not control the activities of these funds, She is not the one who deals with financial issues, she is not the one who deals with the ideology of the foundations.
For example, it is unlikely that she even knows that the quiet and inconspicuous executive director of the private Foundation of the First President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin, Evgeniy Stepanovich Volk, is at the same time the founder and chairman of the board of trustees International Fund Friedrich von Hayek and heads Russian branch The Heritage Foundation.
Among the partners of the Hayek Foundation are a number of American and European organizations involved in “preaching” Western values, liberalism and democracy. The website of the Hayek Foundation itself states that " The main goal of the foundation is to disseminate knowledge in the Russian Federation about the attractiveness of modern capitalism ", and the goal of the fund is stated " popularization of the ideas of neoliberalism ».
On the same website of the Hayek Foundation, one of the main headlines is an appeal from the foundation’s presidium entitled “ Who will stop Putin? ”, and the topics of other articles and speeches follow the same logic. And the Heritage Foundation is, in general, an American non-governmental research and educational center in the field of public policy, which has a significant impact on the formation of domestic and foreign policy USA. It is this organization that annually publishes the “index of economic freedoms,” where “undemocratic Putin’s Russia” ranks 140th out of 178 countries, together with Burundi. It is these foundations that finance and train personnel for the “anti-Putin opposition” in Russia. It is these funds that finance various NPOs recognized in Russia as “foreign agents.” It is these foundations that finance programs to revise the history of Russia, to “de-Stalinize” it.
Ralph Oppelbaum's company, which won the competition to equip the Yeltsin Center, is from the same cohort. It's no secret that she is close to the intelligence services of the United States and Israel. The fact that such structures are engaged in “equipping” the Center, located within walking distance from the residence of the regional governor, government buildings and the Legislative Assembly of the region with modern “electronics,” should cause concern to the Russian intelligence services.
Thus, a system of communicating vessels is built: foreign funds - private Russian funds - state Russian funds. This system makes it possible to engage in purely anti-Russian politics under the guise of Russian jurisdiction and even at the expense of the Russian budget.
In this regard, the question is: will it receive Russian authorities for our money, under the guise of the Yeltsin Center, another hotbed of liberalism in Russia? It is no coincidence that there are rumors that the Center may be headed by Gennady Burbulis, known to everyone for his merits in the destruction of the USSR.
November 24th, 2015 , 08:36 pm
Original taken from nik_nown The Yeltsin Memory Center worth more than 13 billion rubles will open in Yekaterinburg on November 25
It has happened... On November 25, 2015, the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Evgeny Kuyvashev, scheduled the grand opening of the Yeltsin Center of the same name in Yekaterinburg on Boris Yeltsin Street. The family does not object, although it would be logical to open the center on the day of B.R. Yeltsin’s 85th birthday, which will take place on February 1, 2016, in just three months... Builders are thrown into a heroic assault on a glass skyscraper, which is far from ready... Guests are invited ... Ribbons purchased...
What is the Yeltsin Center, whose project is it, at whose expense is the construction going on, why did Yevgeny Kuyvashev set this date, what forces and how are they trying to use this event, what is not said out loud and what consequences this event may have for Russian politics - about all this in our material.
What is the Yeltsin Center?
In 2007, after the death of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, his family visited the United States at the invitation of the American side. One of the points of the visit was a visit to the so-called presidential centers. The tradition of opening heritage centers for former presidents is American; in the USA there are centers for Carter, Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton, Bush Jr., Sr. - a total of 13 centers. The work of the centers is financed from extra-budgetary sources, through charity, and the same with their construction. Only in some cases, for example, two months after the assassination of John Kennedy, the construction of the corresponding centers was partially sponsored by the state budget. The cost of building a library and museum is usually several tens of millions of dollars. Traditionally, these are rather modest complexes, including a museum and archive of the former president. By the way, sometimes center projects were launched during the lifetime of presidents. 
It seems that the American tradition received its new “development” in the post-Soviet space. For example, in 2005, a similar museum was opened in Kazakhstan in honor of Nursultan Nazarbayev. Of course, the memorial center “outdid” everyone “ Turkmen-bashi "in post-Soviet Turkmenistan. It was in the post-Soviet space that American public centers were transformed into state-owned ones with the pomp characteristic of the state.
The American idea pleased the family of B.N. Yeltsin. Of course, I wanted to do this at the expense of the state, and in 2007 lobbying for the project began at the state level. In 2008, the State Duma adopted the law “ ", which was never signed by the then current President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. Even then, the construction of the Yeltsin Heritage Center was estimated at 1.225 billion rubles, that is, $48 million at the current exchange rate, and annual funding from the budget was expected to be 125 million rubles. But appetites are growing...
State “pocket” of the project
Small detail... Law " About the centers of historical heritage of the presidents of the Russian Federation who ceased to exercise their powers " signed by the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev on May 13, 2008, i.e. on the first day of his presidency (!) . This, of course, says a lot... By the way, on the same day, the newly-minted President Dmitry Medvedev signed his first Decree, which instructed his Presidential Administration to establish a non-profit organization - the B.N. Yeltsin Presidential Center Foundation, identifying the main source of funding for the fund as in addition to charitable contributions and profits, non-refundable subventions from the federal budget. By the same decree, D. Medvedev endowed the fund with state property. In Moscow, the foundation was given a complex of buildings at the Dolgorukov (Bobrinsky) estate on Malaya Nikitskaya 12, where Rosokhrankultura was previously located, consisting of three impressive buildings.
The purpose of the fund was determined - “ preservation, study and comprehension (!)the historical heritage of Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin in the context of political and historical events of the 90s “, the fund’s task is to build the “Yeltsin Center” in the historical homeland of B.N. Yeltsin in Yekaterinburg (why not in the village of Budka?) with the opening of a museum of the first president and an archive named after him. The opening of the Yeltsin Center was originally planned for February 1, 2011, on the day of the former president’s 80th birthday. For this purpose, in 2009, by order of D. Medvedev, the necessary billion rubles were transferred to the fund’s accounts. The missing amount was supposed to be collected from philanthropists.
Where do the billions go...
But everything turned out to be more complicated and more expensive... They “swallowed” the first billion and didn’t choke - they didn’t even start building Yeltsin’s center on it. Allegedly, the money was spent on the restoration of Moscow property transferred to the B.N. Yeltsin Presidential Center Foundation, on the restoration of the complex of buildings of the Dolgorukov (Bobrinsky) estate on Malaya Nikitskaya 12... The money did not reach the Urals...
“The Family” prepared a new construction estimate and, under the pretext of “making it in time for the 80th anniversary of B.N. Yeltsin,” began to lobby in a new way for a construction project worth already 2 billion rubles. The new governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Alexander Misharin, was involved in this process. In March 2010, A. Misharin met with Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin on this matter. As a result of the meeting, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the allocation of another 2 billion rubles for the construction of the Yeltsin Center for the 80th anniversary of the first President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin. The address of the future facility was also determined - this is the unfinished Demidov business center on Boris Yeltsin Street, a rather “controversial” facility that they wanted to build for the 2008 SCO summit and which after the summit turned into another long-term construction.
But these 2 billion rubles also disappeared before reaching the construction site... They allegedly used them to build a memorial complex to B.N. Yeltsin next to the same Demidov business center. On February 1, 2011, on the day of B.N. Yeltsin’s 80th birthday, under conditions of strict “cordonation” of the holiday from the people, the opening of the complex took place in a narrow circle of “celestials” with the participation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
The cost of a 10-meter stele made of white Chinese marble caused a shock even in the presidential administration of the Russian Federation. The vague explanations of the family of B.N. Yeltsin and the sculptor Georgy Frangulyan that the extraction of such a piece of marble required extremely expensive Chinese manual labor, that billions were spent on transporting marble from China to Moscow, and then to the Urals, only caused smiles among specialists. Especially for those who remember that the largest deposits of this very marble are located in the Urals. One way or another, another 2 billion people's rubles passed by the construction site. The issue of ownership of the unfinished building was not even resolved...
And then, in May 2012, the President of the Russian Federation changed. Dmitry Medvedev is concerned about his own “legacy”. Back on May 5, 2012, Life News reported that in 2013, the Dmitry Medvedev Historical Heritage Center would begin work in St. Petersburg. This publication was reported to the publication by a source in the leadership of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, who expressed their readiness to disseminate the “accumulated experience” in the interests of D. Medvedev. The Internet was “exploded” with jokes that the main exhibit of Dmitry Medvedev’s museum could be the fourth generation iPhone, which Steve Jobs himself gave to Medvedev... Jokes aside, but Dmitry Medvedev continued to lobby for the eternal construction of the Yeltsin Center even after leaving the post of president...
Loan under Boris Yeltsin...
With the resignation of Dmitry Medvedev from the presidential post and the subsequent resignation of Governor Alexander Misharin, the family’s access to “free” (non-refundable) subventions from the federal budget seems to have become more difficult... The search for other sources of financing began... The search was crowned with success. We decided to “credit” under the name of B.N. Yeltsin.
In December 2012, not even a month had passed since the approval of the budget of the Sverdlovsk region for 2013, as new Governor of the region E. Kuyvashev, who owes his appointment to the outgoing president Dmitry Medvedev, urgently convenes an extraordinary session of the Sverdlovsk Legislative Assembly. There is one question on the agenda: Medvedev urgently gives the region a targeted loan for the construction of a certain tennis center named after B.N. Yeltsin in Yekaterinburg on Yasnaya Street, if you don’t vote urgently, then the money will go past the “cash register”...
None of the sensible arguments of a number of deputies had any effect, although they openly stated that the “tennis center” project is a scam, it is only a pretext for another corruption scheme. But an obedient majority of deputies from United Russia ensured the necessary voting result, and a federal loan of 2 billion rubles went to the regional budget, supposedly for the construction of a tennis center named after B.N. Yeltsin.
Indeed, the tennis center turned out to be a complete scam, even the lands for the proposed project belonged to third parties and were allocated for other purposes. Just 3 months later, in March 2013, Governor Evgeny Kuyvashev came to the regional Legislative Assembly with new changes to the budget. He proposed that the targeted federal loan received by the region for the construction of a “fake” tennis center be redirected to lending to the Yeltsin Center.
Heated battles broke out... Deputies directly accused the governor of violating the current legislation and implementing a obviously criminal scheme. The governor could not explain the complex financial chain. No one has ever understood why to lend to a federal structure, which is the B.N. Yeltsin Presidential Center Foundation established by the Presidential Administration, according to such a strange scheme: a federal loan to the regional budget for non-existent purposes (tennis center) - a regional loan to the federal structure through MUGISO and an increase in the authorized capital of the GUPSO “Administrative Directorate of MUGISO”? Why didn't the federal government issue this loan directly to its federal entity? Even the regional prosecutor’s office expressed its doubts about the legality of such a scheme... At the same time, no one, including the Minister of Finance of the Sverdlovsk Region Galina Kulachenko, could explain anything about the terms of the loan. There were some vague assumptions that the region would not have to repay this federal loan, since it would be replaced with a gratuitous subvention.
The deputies were indignant. The head of the Communist Party faction in the Legislative Assembly directly stated: “ This is an example that corruption has finally won in our country. We are simply being drawn into complicity in all this... Alive and drunk Yeltsin was cheaper for Russia " His colleague also supported him. Andrey Alshevskikh: « This budget is full of dark and dirty deeds. " Vice-Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Georgy Persky suggested that these 2 billion rubles would be used to buy out from UMMC the unfinished business center “Demidov” with an area of 22 thousand square meters, and this is not just a memorial center, but some kind of shopping center named after B.N. Yeltsin. Galina Kulachenko outright lied, declaring that “ the money will go towards equipment and improvement of this center ».
Everything was decided by the obedient majority of deputies from the United Russia party. The illegal scheme was approved. As the opposition warned, the entire loan was used to buy out the unfinished Demidov business center. The money was passed through MUGISO and its Administrative Directorate, while no evidence of an increase in the authorized capital of the directorate by 2 billion rubles was provided, most likely, and could not be provided, because The directorate could not have assets worth this amount. The federal loan was never replaced with a non-repayable subvention, and in December 2015, i.e. in a month, the region will have to return it. To date, the Yeltsin Center has not returned the loan to the regional budget.
Thus, by 2013, 5 billion rubles of people’s money had already dissolved in the Yeltsin Center, including 2 billion rubles that will have to be returned to the residents of the Sverdlovsk region.
Bottomless Barrel
Having spent 5 billion rubles of people's money, by 2014 the Yeltsin Center was left with the unfinished Demidov business center. New injections were needed. And they continued...
According to our data, which has not yet been confirmed, in 2014 the Yeltsin Center was nevertheless allocated another federal subvention in the amount of 2 billion rubles, but it was not spent on repaying the loan received from the budget of the Sverdlovsk region. The money was used to complete the construction of the business center.
In addition, we know that at least 2 billion rubles collected from “charitable” organizations passed through the accounts of the Yeltsin Center. They say that the father of Russian oligarchs Anatoly Chubais and a member of the “Yeltsin family”, son-in-law of Valentin Yumashev and the aluminum king of Russia Oleg Deripaska are responsible for replenishing the account from benefactors. But this money was not used to pay off the loan; it was also “used” for the construction of the Demidov glass skyscraper.
We know that in March of this year the presidential administration held a special meeting on the Yeltsin Center, at which promises were made to repay the loan from the Sverdlovsk regional budget, but the money never arrived. Rumor has it that a new round of work with “philanthropists” has been organized in the Sverdlovsk region through the regional union of industrialists and entrepreneurs. They are allegedly guaranteed some kind of protection and are ready to provide “cheap” loans in exchange for “charity” in favor of the Yeltsin Center. There is information that we urgently need to collect another 2 billion rubles for subsequent settlements with the budget of the Sverdlovsk region.
In addition, we have information that in December 2015, the Yeltsin Center expects to receive another non-refundable subvention in the amount of 2 billion rubles from the federal budget. If all our calculations are accurate and all the expectations of the Yeltsin Center come true, then by the beginning of 2016, up to 13 billion rubles could pass through the Center’s accounts, of which up to 7 billion rubles could be non-refundable subventions from the federal budget, up to 4 billion. rubles from “philanthropists” and 2 billion rubles from borrowed funds from the budget of the Sverdlovsk region.
Even if the borrowed funds are repaid by the end of the year, the Yeltsin Center will cost 11 billion rubles of public money. And these are not final expenses, given that on November 25, most likely, there will be the opening of the next “unfinished project.”
There is a real danger that the Yeltsin Center will turn into a bottomless barrel of memory of the first president of Russia...
Who really controls the Yeltsin Center?
Formally, a state solution to a specific problem was found: the state established a fund, the state builds and opens this very “Yeltsin Center”.
But, in fact, everything turned out to be wrong... The governing bodies of the fund were determined to be its board of 7 people, the chairman of the board and the executive director; to support the activities of the fund, a board of trustees of 14 people was formed. And, if in the fund’s board of trustees, headed by the head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergei Ivanov, there is at least some parity between statists and social activists (statists - S.B. Ivanov, S.K. Shoigu, S.E. Prikhodko, A.A. .Gromov, I.R.Kholmanskikh, E.V.Kuyvashev, E.V.Roizman, social activists - N.I.Yeltsina, T.B.Yumasheva, A.B.Chubais, A.S.Voloshin, M.E. Shvydkoy, V.N. Shevchenko, G.B. Volchek), then the real governing bodies represented by members of the fund’s board (A.A. Drozdov - chairman of the board, A.S. Voloshin, D.V. Molchanov, A.A. Oslon, M.E. Shvydkoy, V.N. Shevchenko, V.B. Yumashev) and executive director A.A. Drozlov (who is also the chairman of the board) were completely handed over to the “family” of B.N. Yeltsin. Moreover, the executive director of the state-owned Yeltsin Center previously headed the private Yeltsin Foundation, which we will discuss below.
In fact, formally a state fund with state funding was deliberately turned into a private shop for the Yeltsin family.
Private “pocket” of the project
Long before the creation of the state Foundation “Presidential Center B.N. Yeltsin”, the private Foundation “First President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin” was created in November 2000. Its founders are T.B. Yumasheva (daughter of B.N. Yeltsin and his adviser), V.B. Yumashev (husband of B.N. Yeltsin’s daughter, former head of President Yeltsin’s administration) and A.B. Chubais (father of the Russian liberal democracy). This fund is headed by the daughter of the former president and at the same time the director of the fund, Austrian citizen Tatyana Yeltsina-Khairullina-Dyachenko-Yumasheva. The executive director of the fund until 2011 was the same Alexander Alekseevich Drozdov, who is now the chairman of the board and executive director of the state Foundation “B.N. Yeltsin Presidential Center”. Currently, the executive director of the private Foundation of the First President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin is Evgeniy Stepanovich Volk, little known to the public.
The goals of the private fund, stated back in 2000, are practically the same as those of the state fund - “ preservation, study and understanding of the historical heritage of B.N. Yeltsin in the context of political and historical events of the 90s ».
The people are the same, the goals are the same, even the names of the funds are indistinguishable at first glance, moreover, persons affiliated with these funds deliberately call both funds the same in interviews - the Yeltsin Foundation... What is the difference then? In the sources of replenishment of these funds-pockets. The money of exclusively sponsors goes into one pocket, and the state’s money also goes into the other. Both of these pocket funds are sewn onto one “jacket” of the B.N. Yeltsin family in its broad sense. All this allows for the transfer of funds from one pocket to another and allows solving problems not stated in the foundation documents.
Liberal lining
It is necessary, of course, to distinguish the face of the project from its real interests. It is naive to even assume that the face of the project, Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina, has some secret interests. She is a decent person, interested in only one thing - preserving the good memory of her husband and first President of the Russian Federation, Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin. She is extremely sincere in all her manifestations - is she interested in the construction of the Yeltsin Center, is she involved in the formation of exhibits of the future museum and archive, is she rewarding talented Russian youth, is she organizing volleyball and tennis tournaments in memory of her husband... There are no complaints about her... But She is not the one who controls the activities of these funds, she is not the one who deals with financial issues, and she is not the one who deals with the ideology of the funds.
For example, it is unlikely that she even knows that the quiet and inconspicuous executive director of the private Foundation of the First President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin, Evgeniy Stepanovich Volk, is at the same time the founder and chairman of the board of trustees of the International Friedrich von Hayek Foundation and heads the Russian branch of the Heritage Foundation ( The Heritage Foundation).
Among the partners of the Hayek Foundation are a number of American and European organizations involved in “preaching” Western values, liberalism and democracy. The website of the Hayek Foundation itself states that " The main goal of the foundation is to disseminate knowledge in the Russian Federation about the attractiveness of modern capitalism ", and the goal of the fund is stated " popularization of the ideas of neoliberalism " On the same website of the Hayek Foundation, one of the main headlines is an appeal from the foundation’s presidium entitled “ Who will stop Putin? ”, and the topics of other articles and speeches follow the same logic. And the Heritage Foundation is, in general, an American non-governmental research and educational center in the field of public policy, which has a significant impact on the formation of US domestic and foreign policy. It is this organization that annually publishes the “index of economic freedoms,” where “undemocratic Putin’s Russia” ranks 140th out of 178 countries, together with Burundi. It is these foundations that finance and train personnel for the “anti-Putin opposition” in Russia. It is these funds that finance various NPOs recognized in Russia as “foreign agents.” It is these foundations that finance programs to revise the history of Russia, to “de-Stalinize” it.
Ralph Oppelbaum's company, which won the competition to equip the Yeltsin Center, is from the same cohort. It's no secret that she is close to the intelligence services of the United States and Israel. The fact that such structures are engaged in “equipping” the Center, located within walking distance from the residence of the regional governor, government buildings and the Legislative Assembly of the region with modern “electronics,” should cause concern to the Russian intelligence services.
Thus, a system of communicating vessels is built: foreign funds - private Russian funds - state Russian funds. This system makes it possible to engage in purely anti-Russian politics under the guise of Russian jurisdiction and even at the expense of the Russian budget.
In this regard, the question is: won’t the Russian government, for our money, under the guise of the Yeltsin Center, get another hotbed of liberalism in Russia? It is no coincidence that there are rumors that the Center may be headed by Gennady Burbulis, known to everyone for his merits in the destruction of the USSR. 
A modern museum equipped with last word technology, as well as a large cultural and educational center in Yekaterinburg. It attracts intelligent, cultured and progressive people. He has no equal either in Yekaterinburg or in the Urals as a whole. Installations, videos, objects that simulate the environment, interactive exhibits that interact with the visitor - all this arouses admiration and remains in the memory for a long time.
The Yeltsin Center opened on November 25, 2015. The location of the Yeltsin Center is no coincidence. Sverdlovsk region- birthplace of B.N. Yeltsin, and his political career began in Sverdlovsk.
History of the Yeltsin Center
The Yeltsin Center building has a complicated history. Its construction began in 2006 by entrepreneur Mars Sharafulin as the largest business center in Yekaterinburg with the Demidov Plaza congress hall. It was planned to be used during the 2009 SCO summit, but the facility could not be completed on time. In 2008, the building was taken over by UMMC, but construction soon stopped.
In 2011, the Yeltsin Center bought part of the Demidov business center for 2 billion rubles. In the spring of 2013, work began on the creation of the Yeltsin Center. In total, the costs of creating the Yeltsin Center amounted to 7 billion rubles, of which 2 billion were received as a loan from the budget of the Sverdlovsk region.
The creation of the museum's exhibition was carried out by the American Agency of Museum Design of Ralph Appelbaum, which won the competition. Director Pavel Lungin also took part in the development of the concept of the museum (exhibition “Seven Days”):
“When I visited the site of the future museum, I saw an unfinished mass of a building with a round washer in the middle, where the wind was blowing. I realized that the puck should be cut like a pie - into seven days, seven moments in life. I wanted to take difficult days, when Yeltsin was in critical situations, because it is part of his character to overcome crises. The result is a story about seven days that changed Russia. Each room is one day, and in each there is information around this day, which at the same time tells a story from the life of Boris Nikolaevich.”
During the first year of operation of the museum, more than 250 thousand people visited it.
The Yeltsin Center is actively criticized by many people (99% of whom have never been there), and this is aggravated by state propaganda. It is now very fashionable to criticize Yeltsin, the 90s and Freedom in general among poorly educated people.
Boris Yeltsin Museum
At the entrance to the Yeltsin Center, the first exhibit is greeted - the Chaika car, which Boris Yeltsin once drove. Near the ticket office there is a stand with gifts for the first president.
The Boris Yeltsin Museum itself consists of nine halls. Let's look at each of them.
Labyrinth
Before entering the Labyrinth of History, visitors are shown a cartoon about the history of Freedom in Russia.
In the Labyrinth itself a chronicle appears Russian history from 1914 to 1987, and also tells about the history of the Yeltsin family.
Presented here archival photographs, posters, stills from feature films those years.
At the end there is a letter from M.S. Gorbachev, in which the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU, Boris Yeltsin, demands that the process of perestroika be accelerated.
The exhibition “Seven Days That Changed Russia” is dedicated to further events. Its concept was invented by director Pavel Lungin.
"Seven days that changed Russia"
The exhibition “Seven Days” tells about the stages of creation new Russia. She talks about major events: from the October Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee in 1987 to Yeltsin’s voluntary resignation as president. Seven metaphorical days are Russia’s path from totalitarian state to parliamentary and presidential elections, to freedom of speech and private property.
In each room there are cabinets with screens where you can view documents, listen to speeches, and memories.
The first day. "We are waiting for changes!"
At the beginning, the Marble Hall of the Kremlin is reproduced with the coat of arms of the USSR, a podium and carpet paths, where on October 22, 1987 B.N. Yeltsin made his famous speech at the plenum of the CPSU Central Committee. You can stop and listen to the audio recording of the speech.
Portraits of members of the Politburo also hang here. You can turn them over and read critical statements about Yeltsin's speech.
Next - about the Moscow period of Yeltsin’s life. Here, unexpectedly, a real trolleybus appears with Moscow views from the window (Yeltsin sometimes went to work by public transport). You can sit there and watch a short film about Boris Yeltsin. The stands clearly tell about cultural life and the atmosphere of that time (late 1980s - early 1990s) - about rock music, theaters, festivals, etc. You can even watch a concert by Viktor Tsoi.
Second day. August putsch
Suddenly you find yourself in a typical Soviet apartment. On the calendar August 19, 1991. The ballet is shown on TV Swan Lake" Suddenly the phone rings and they talk with alarm about what is happening on the streets of Moscow.
Having opened the door, you find yourself on the barricades around the White House... On big screen show what was happening at that time in the center of the capital. And at the stands there are speeches by the organizers of the putsch GKChP.
The museum also displays a large historical tricolor flag, raised over the Kremlin on December 25, 1991. He became a symbol of resistance to the State Emergency Committee during the August putsch.
Day three. Unpopular measures
You find yourself in a store from the early 1990s with empty shelves. There is a food crisis in the country. There is only Far Eastern seaweed salad and birch sap in a large glass jar.
There are also holographic copies of members of Gaidar’s government talking about economic prospects, privatization checks and even an economic game.
Things from a bygone era evoke nostalgia: Tetris, tape recorders and VCRs, video and audio cassettes, the Dandy console; TV shows broadcast programs and series from the 1990s.
Day four. Birth of the Constitution
Despite winning the 1993 referendum, the country finds itself on the brink civil war. There is a coup attempt. The museum reproduces the studio of the Ostankino television center, which was stormed by the rebels.
Day five. "Vote or lose"
Story presidential elections 1996 and a difficult election campaign. Old computers, telephones with stories from those days, campaign materials and an election ballot. You can also see dolls from the program of the same name on the then, present NTV.
The story also tells about the bloody war in Chechnya.
Day six. Presidential Marathon
Here we talk about Boris Yeltsin's heart surgery. Next is a recording studio where you can listen to Yeltsin’s speeches or record your own. Diagrams with economic indicators of Russia (the country experienced a default in 1998). In this room there is a window from which you can see the Church on the Blood, standing on the site of Ipatiev’s house, which was demolished by Yeltsin’s decision (when he worked as secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee).
Information about possible successors President, a “nuclear suitcase” is also presented.
Day seven. Farewell to the Kremlin
The presidential office in the Kremlin has been recreated. B.N.’s New Year’s address sounds. Yeltsin in 1999, in which he gave up power...
In the cabinet behind the glass: employment history first president, pension certificate, award certificates.
The last room where you can listen to speeches of famous people about Freedom. There are five pillars with screens, divided thematically: “Freedom of enterprise”, “Freedom of movement”, “Freedom of assembly and association”, “Freedom of thought and speech”, “Freedom of conscience”. You can also write down your appeal in a special booth.
In the center of the hall on the second floor of the museum, on the so-called “presidential square”, Boris Nikolaevich himself sits on a bench in life size. Near bronze monument You can take a photo or a selfie.
A more or less careful acquaintance with the museum takes at least 4-5 hours. And to see everything that is in the museum (including numerous audio, video, various materials), then the whole day is not enough. The museum leaves a lasting impression. The only minor disadvantages include the idealization of Yeltsin’s image.
What else?
| Yeltsin Center | |
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| Date of foundation | November 25, 2015 |
| Location | Ekaterinburg, st. Boris Yeltsin 3 |
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Yeltsin Center- a public, cultural and educational center opened in Yekaterinburg in 2015 with the participation of the B. N. Yeltsin Presidential Center Foundation in the Yekaterinburg City quarter.
The Yeltsin Center was created in accordance with the 2008 law “On the centers of historical heritage of the presidents of the Russian Federation who ceased to exercise their powers” - to preserve, study and publicly present the legacy of the first president of the Russian Federation “in the context modern history fatherland, the development of democratic institutions and the construction of the rule of law." The founder of the center is the administration of the President of the Russian Federation, its head Anton Vaino heads the board of trustees. Many of the center's projects were initiated by the private Yeltsin Foundation, formed in 2000, headed by the daughter of the first president, Tatyana Yumasheva.
One of the main facilities of the center is Boris Yeltsin Museum, dedicated to the modern political history of Russia and the personality of the first president of Russia.
Also in the center there is an art gallery, a cinema and conference hall, a bookstore, a cafe, an archive, a library, a scientific amusement park, a coworking space and other organizations. The center regularly hosts lectures, concerts, exhibitions, festivals and various public events. A documentary film center operates in the cinema hall.
The center was opened in accordance with adopted in 2008 federal law No. 68 “On the centers of historical heritage of the presidents of the Russian Federation who have ceased to exercise their powers.” 7 billion rubles were allocated from the budget for its construction.
By the end of 2017, the Presidential Administration, within the framework of the federal targeted investment program, will reconstruct the Dolgorukov-Bobrinsky estate in Moscow - an architectural ensemble of the 18th-19th centuries, which includes Main house with ceremonial interiors, the Coach House, East and West wings, a fence with a gate and sculptures of Helen and Paris in the front yard. After reconstruction, a public museum and exhibition space will be created in the estate, where changing exhibitions will be located and chamber evenings will be held; some of the premises will reflect the Moscow period of the life of the first president, as well as the historical “Pushkin trace”. The building will be designed for 69 employees, 40 visitors to the exhibition complex, 8 library readers and 65 seats catering
Boris Yeltsin Museum
The museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 21:00. The ticket price is 200 rubles, for privileged categories of citizens - 100 rubles.
The museum consists of 9 halls:
- Labyrinth - the history of Russia from 1914 to 1987 and the history of the Yeltsin family.
- Day four. Birth of the Constitution
- Day five. "Vote or lose"
- Freedom Hall
- Museum exposition
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Hall "Labyrinth"
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Main hall of the museum
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The first day. "We are waiting for changes!"
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Second day. August putsch
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Second day. August putsch
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Day three. Unpopular measures
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Day six. Presidential Marathon
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Day seven. Farewell to the Kremlin
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Freedom Hall
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Having learned from Pierre the details of Anatole's marriage, pouring out her anger on him with abusive words, Marya Dmitrievna told him what she had called him for. Marya Dmitrievna was afraid that the count or Bolkonsky, who could arrive at any moment, having learned the matter that she intended to hide from them, would challenge Kuragin to a duel, and therefore asked him to order his brother-in-law on her behalf to leave Moscow and not dare show himself to her on the eyes. Pierre promised her to fulfill her wish, only now realizing the danger that threatened the old count, Nikolai, and Prince Andrei. Having briefly and precisely stated her requirements to him, she released him into the living room. - Look, the count doesn’t know anything. “You act like you don’t know anything,” she told him. - And I’ll go tell her that there’s nothing to wait for! “Yes, stay for dinner if you want,” Marya Dmitrievna shouted to Pierre.Pierre met the old count. He was confused and upset. That morning Natasha told him that she had refused Bolkonsky.
“Trouble, trouble, mon cher,” he said to Pierre, “trouble with these motherless girls; I'm so anxious that I came. I'll be honest with you. We heard that she refused the groom without asking anyone anything. Let’s face it, I was never very happy about this marriage. Let's say he good man, but well, there would be no happiness against her father’s will, and Natasha would not be left without suitors. Yes, after all, this has been going on for a long time, and how can it be without a father, without a mother, such a step! And now she’s sick, and God knows what! It’s bad, Count, it’s bad with daughters without a mother... - Pierre saw that the Count was very upset, he tried to shift the conversation to another subject, but the Count again returned to his grief.
Sonya entered the living room with a worried face.
– Natasha is not entirely healthy; she is in her room and would like to see you. Marya Dmitrievna is with her and asks you too.
“But you are very friendly with Bolkonsky, he probably wants to convey something,” said the count. - Oh, my God, my God! How good everything was! – And taking up the rare whiskey gray hair, the count left the room.
Marya Dmitrievna announced to Natasha that Anatol was married. Natasha did not want to believe her and demanded confirmation of this from Pierre himself. Sonya told Pierre this as she escorted him through the corridor to Natasha’s room.
Natasha, pale, stern, sat next to Marya Dmitrievna and from the very door met Pierre with a feverishly shining, questioning gaze. She did not smile, did not nod her head to him, she just looked stubbornly at him, and her gaze asked him only about whether he was a friend or an enemy like everyone else in relation to Anatole. Pierre himself obviously did not exist for her.
“He knows everything,” said Marya Dmitrievna, pointing at Pierre and turning to Natasha. “Let him tell you whether I was telling the truth.”
Natasha, like a shot, hunted animal looking at the approaching dogs and hunters, looked first at one and then at the other.
“Natalya Ilyinichna,” Pierre began, lowering his eyes and feeling a feeling of pity for her and disgust for the operation that he had to perform, “whether it’s true or not, it shouldn’t matter to you, because...
- So it’s not true that he is married!
- No, its true.
– Was he married for a long time? - she asked, - honestly?
Pierre gave her his word of honor.
– Is he still here? – she asked quickly.
- Yes, I saw him just now.
She was obviously unable to speak and made signs with her hands to leave her.
Pierre did not stay for dinner, but immediately left the room and left. He went around the city to look for Anatoly Kuragin, at the thought of whom all the blood now rushed to his heart and he had difficulty catching his breath. In the mountains, among the gypsies, among the Comoneno, it was not there. Pierre went to the club.
In the club everything went on as usual: the guests who had come to dine sat in groups and greeted Pierre and talked about city news. The footman, having greeted him, reported to him, knowing his acquaintance and habits, that a place had been left for him in the small dining room, that Prince Mikhail Zakharych was in the library, and Pavel Timofeich had not arrived yet. One of Pierre's acquaintances, between talking about the weather, asked him if he had heard about Kuragin's kidnapping of Rostova, which they talk about in the city, is it true? Pierre laughed and said that this was nonsense, because he was now only from the Rostovs. He asked everyone about Anatole; one told him that he had not come yet, the other that he would dine today. It was strange for Pierre to look at this calm, indifferent crowd of people who did not know what was going on in his soul. He walked around the hall, waited until everyone had arrived, and without waiting for Anatole, he did not have lunch and went home.
