That's why the hard-drinking President Yeltsin only had three fingers on his left hand (Photo). Little-known facts from the life of Boris Yeltsin

There is a well-known expression in the Russian language, or rather, a verbal screen: “contradictory personality.” For example, Leo Tolstoy - great writer, humanist and philosopher. At the same time, the count did not miss a single peasant skirt. He knocked up girls for no reason - that’s the basis for declaring him a “controversial personality.” That is, there seems to be reason to call a person dishonest, but other merits outweigh this dishonesty. And Peter the Great was dubbed controversial, and Ivan the Terrible, and Joseph Stalin. In general, if conscience does not allow you to directly call him an enemy and a tyrant, the definition of “controversial personality” is used.

The situation with the first president of Russia, Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1931 - 2007), is even more complicated. Everyone admits that he is a very controversial person. One problem is that there are very few positive things among Yeltsin’s contradictions. On the other hand, Yeltsin is firmly inscribed in the current political paradigm. Throw you out of the modern building Russian politics Boris Nikolayevich - it turns out that all the pillars of modern Russian industry are people who managed to receive unprecedented preferences from the always half-drunk president. The same applies to most politicians and artists. Shout “And the king is naked!” Only a few were able to, and even then some of them, like Alexander Korzhakov, took revenge on Yeltsin for his disgrace.

Most likely, we will never know what motivated Yeltsin in the historical era of 1987 - 1993. But whatever the motives of Boris Nikolaevich’s actions, his actions directly contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the establishment of oligarchic rule in the vastness of Russia. Only in the 21st century did the country begin to gradually recover from the consequences of the rule of its first president. Here are some facts from the biography of B. N. Yeltsin, illustrating his movement to power and behavior on political Olympus.

1. Boris Yeltsin’s father was a stern, if not cruel, man. His arsenal of punishments included not only flogging with a belt, but also standing in a drafty corner of the barracks throughout the night. However, the severity of punishments helped little in the matter of education.

2. Boris studied well, but received a certificate of completion of the seven-year school only through the regional department of education. At the certificate presentation ceremony, he began to criticize one of the teachers, for which the certificate he had just been awarded was taken away.

3. Yeltsin’s father served time for anti-Soviet agitation, but Boris, filling out hundreds of questionnaires, managed not to mention this even once. Where the inspectors looked remains a mystery and gives rise to very bad suspicions. Moreover, “enemies of the people” were not only in Yeltsin’s family tree.

4. While studying in Sverdlovsk, Yeltsin devoted a lot of time to sports, but did not ask for any concessions in his studies.

5. During the distribution work, the future chief builder of the USSR received driver, mason, tower crane operator, etc. certificates within a year - a total of 12 specialties. He learned to sip a glass in parallel with his acquisition of working professions.

6. Yeltsin’s wife Naina was actually named Anastasia. This was written down both on the birth certificate and in the passport. However, her father immediately began calling her Naya, and gradually everyone got used to the name Naina. The wife of the future president changed her passport details only in the 1960s.

7. After the birth of his first daughter, Yeltsin was terribly upset, and his wife directly told the doctors at the hospital that her husband would not let her go home. After the birth of his second daughter, Yeltsin declared: “I won’t give birth again!”

Yeltsin and daughters

8. Working as director of a house-building plant, Yeltsin appeared at home very rarely. It got to the point that when the family went to celebrate receiving the award at a restaurant, neighbors in the building where the Yeltsins received an apartment congratulated Naina on the fact that she managed to find a husband and father for her daughters.

9. Both of Yeltsin’s daughters have children from their first marriages (Elena’s daughter and Tatyana’s son), “registered” with their second husbands. The names of Sergei Fefelov (Elena’s first husband) and Vilena Khairullina (Tatiana’s first passion) have been erased from the family chronicle.

10. The first house, which was built under the leadership of Yeltsin the foreman, still stands in Yekaterinburg. His address is Griboyedov Street, 22.

11. When Yeltsin was already working as director of a house-building plant, a five-story building built by Yeltsin’s DSK collapsed in Sverdlovsk. Severe punishment followed - instead of the promised Order of Lenin, Yeltsin received the Order of the Badge of Honor.

12. Yeltsin was protected by the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Yakov Ryabov. Having dragged Yeltsin to the post of first secretary of the city committee of the CPSU, Ryabov himself was forced to fight Yeltsin’s rudeness and rudeness, but it was too late.

Yakov Ryabov

13. Having become the first secretary of the regional committee, Yeltsin acquired unprecedented popularity for those years, hosting a weekly live television program dedicated to the fight against shortcomings. Viewers could call directly on air, and the first secretary would solve problems over the phone on the spot.

14. Under Yeltsin, a metro, several theaters, a Youth Palace, a House of Political Education and a number of others appeared in Sverdlovsk public buildings. It was in Sverdlovsk that the first MHCs appeared - youth housing complexes, built by the hands of future residents in their free time from work. Now this may seem crazy, but in those years it was one of the most realistic ways to quickly get an apartment.

Sverdlovsk Palace of Youth

15. By order of Yeltsin, Ipatiev’s house was demolished, in the basement of which they were shot royal family and servants. Formally, Borin Nikolaevich carried out the decision of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, but it was adopted in 1975 and the then first secretary Yakov Krotov found an opportunity not to implement it. Yeltsin, apparently having discovered the paper with the decision, demolished the famous mansion in 1977.

16. In 1985, Yeltsin began the conquest of Moscow, first becoming the head of the construction department of the Central Committee, and then the secretary of the Central Committee. It was actively promoted by Vladimir Dolgikh, Yegor Ligachev and Mikhail Gorbachev himself. Subsequently, they all suffered seriously from Yeltsin’s rancor. And already in December, Yeltsin became the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee. Impressive climbing speed career ladder— three positions in 8 months.

17. Under Yeltsin, 1,500 stores were opened in Moscow, food fairs appeared for the first time, and City Day was celebrated (1987).

18. Yeltsin’s fall, which actually turned out to be a rise, began on October 21, 1987. He spoke at the Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee, after which they began to slowly push him into the shadows, first by removing him from his post as head of the Moscow City Committee. However, these “repressions” turned Yeltsin into a folk hero.

19. One of the interviews given by Yeltsin “in disgrace” was reprinted in 140 Soviet newspapers and magazines.

20. In the first elections of people's deputies of the USSR, Boris Yeltsin received more than 90% of the votes in Moscow electoral district No. 1. Since politics in Russia has always been done and is being done in the capitals, after such a result of the main oppositionist M. Gorbachev and his comrades it was already possible to pack up their things and move from the Kremlin. But the agony continued for another year and a half.

21. The Yeltsin family first received and then privatized a state-owned dacha in the village of Gorki-10. Maxim Gorky once lived at this dacha.

22. On September 9, 1987, Boris Nikolaevich either fell on the scissors or attempted suicide. And on September 28, 1989, a story occurred with the alleged abduction of Yeltsin and throwing him off the bridge in a sack. After two decades, such adventures look funny and childish, but in the late 1980s the whole country was worried about Yeltsin. “The machinations of the Kremlin and the KGB,” the opinion was almost unanimous.

23. At the end of May 1990, after three voting attempts, Yeltsin was elected head of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR. Two weeks later, the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Russia was adopted, and Soviet Union completely went downhill.

The post of Chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR was only a springboard

24. Yeltsin became President of Russia exactly one year after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence - June 12, 1991. He received more than 57% of the votes. A year later, the number of Yeltsin supporters decreased by 2.5 times - Gaidar reforms began.

25. During the so-called putsch of 1991, Yeltsin’s main guard, Alexander Korzhakov, persistently suggested that his ward take refuge from the all-powerful KGB and special forces in the American embassy. However, Yeltsin showed courage and categorically refused to leave the White House. Now we know that the intentions of the Emergency Committee were not bloodthirsty, but in those days there were tanks on the streets of Moscow.

26. When Boris Yeltsin was recording on television the famous decree No. 1400, which allowed him to forcefully disperse the Supreme Council, the teleprompter in the studio malfunctioned. Yeltsin was not embarrassed by this. Technical difficulties, as he would write later, helped him calm down.

27. On September 22, 1993, the Constitutional Court of Russia, by a vote of 9 to 4, declared Decree No. 1400 unconstitutional, and its signing was an action sufficient to remove Yeltsin from the post of president. From the moment this decision was made public, all of Yeltsin’s actions were formally illegal. However, the parliament was shot, and Yeltsin's power after that became almost absolute.

28. “Operation Sunset is not a clever Russian intelligence operation. This is what Yeltsin’s security chief, Alexander Korzhakov, and his subordinates called the actions of diluting vodka with water and then restoring the integrity of the cork on the bottle intended for Yeltsin. The President was amazed that modern vodka was drunk better than Soviet vodka.

29. On June 30, 1995, after Shamil Basayev and his gang seized the hospital in Budyonnovsk, at a meeting of the Security Council, Boris Yeltsin resigned as president. His comrades persuaded him to remain in his post.

30. It is believed that in 1994 - 1996, Yeltsin suffered five heart attacks in a short time, turning into a ruin by the 1996 elections. However, former Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ryzhkov claimed that two heart attacks happened to Yeltsin back in Sverdlovsk.

31. Yeltsin’s victory in the second round of the 1996 elections was ensured, among other things, by the insane lies of the media. Evgeny Kiselev on NTV provided filming of Yeltsin’s staged meetings with workers, peasants, youth and other segments of the population. And at one of the real meetings (in Krasnodar), Yeltsin was offered to resign. Boris Nikolaevich, apparently remembering his triumphant experiences of communicating with the crowd, loudly asked who agreed with such a proposal. The answer was monosyllabic: “Everything!” But thanks to the media, cash injections to the oligarchs and falsifications, Yeltsin won 53.8% of the vote.

There are actually a lot of people in the world who want and dream of becoming presidents. someone wants to rule a small enclave, while others dream of deciding the fate of hundreds of millions.
All people are different, and when they become presidents, people change even more. Some become a bright and charismatic leader, while others degenerate into a dictator, depriving people of their lives for no reason or no reason.
But among them there are figures to whom everyone has very different attitudes - for example, Muammar Gaddafi and Boris Yeltsin.
In today's collection of facts you will learn 15 facts from the life of Gaddafi, 10 facts from the life of Yeltsin, and a few facts in general from the life of presidents.
In addition, at the end, you will find amazing phenomena for which science has yet found explanations and some Internet records:

15 facts from the life of Gaddafi:

Worldwide famous leader Jamahiriya, former colonel and commander-in-chief of the Libyan army Mummar Gaddafi was defeated on October 20, 2011 by the joint actions of the troops of the liberation movement and NATO. The colonel was detained in his hometown of Sirte, captured by Libyan rebel troops. According to the Transitional National Council, the ex-dictator died from his wounds shortly after his arrest.

1.The exact date of birth of Muammar Gaddafi is unknown; some of his biographers claim that he was born in 1940. Gaddafi himself claims that he was born on June 19, 1942 in a Bedouin tent 30 kilometers south of the city of Sirte.

2. Muammar Gaddafi has not held a single government position in Libya since 1979, which did not prevent him from being the head of state.

3. Among the first reforms that Muammar Gaddafi made after coming to power was the reform of the calendar: the names of the months of the year were changed.

4.In 1981, the Americans accused Mummar Gaddafi of preparing an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Although the terrorists listed on the American list, who allegedly prepared the assassination attempt, belonged to one of the anti-Libyan organizations, Gaddafi was assigned the status of “terrorist number one.”

5. On April 15, 1986, American planes bombed the residence of Muammar Gaddafi in the suburbs of Tripoli. The Libyan leader himself survived, but 101 Libyans were killed in the bombing, including Gaddafi’s one-and-a-half-year-old adopted daughter.

6. In 1998, near the Libyan-Egyptian border, unknown persons fired at Muammar Gaddafi, but the main bodyguard Aisha covered the Libyan leader and died; seven more guards were injured. Gaddafi himself was not seriously injured and received a slight wound to the elbow.

7. Muammar Gaddafi was married for the second time. After the coup in Libya in 1969, he divorced Fatima, the daughter of General Khalid, one of the close associates of the former Libyan monarch Idris. His second wife was a nurse from the military hospital, Safiya.

8. In everyday life, Muammar Gaddafi is unpretentious and leads the life of an ascetic. At one time I even became interested in vegetarianism. He does not drink coffee, tea or alcoholic beverages, does not smoke, and eats very little, mostly simple food.

9. During his visit to the Apennines in November 2009, Muammar Gaddafi called several hundred attractive Italian women to his residence in Rome and tried to convince them to convert to Islam, and one of the main arguments in favor of this was his assertion that Christianity is based on fraud.

10.Muammar Gaddafi is depicted on Libyan banknotes in denominations of 1 and 50 dinars.

11.According to Muammar Gaddafi, the birthplace of the popular carbonated drink Coca-Cola is Libya. In 2006, he even demanded royalties from the Coca-Cola company.

12. Muammar Gaddafi declared the English playwright William Shakespeare an Arab emigrant, and, according to him, Shakespeare’s name in his homeland, from where he left for England, was Sheikh Zubair.

13.Muammar Gaddafi, according to the American magazine Parade, in 2003 ranked eighth in the top ten worst dictators of our time.

14.Muammar Gaddafi supported the actions of the State Emergency Committee during the August 1991 coup in Moscow.

15. Muammar Gaddafi is an honorary doctor of the Belarusian state university computer science and radio electronics.

10 interesting facts about Yeltsin

Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin - first president Russian Federation. During his presidency, many, sometimes funny, stories happened to him, which did not escape the attention of the media and remained in the memory of many people. Many facts are also known from Yeltsin’s personal life even before he became head new Russia. Today's selection contains 10 facts from the life of Boris Yeltsin.

1. In November 1987, after Yeltsin sharply criticized Gorbachev’s policies, he was removed from the post of first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU. Immediately after this, he was taken to the hospital, where, according to some reports, he tried to commit suicide with office scissors.

2.According to Yeltsin himself, when he worked as a foreman at a construction site, criminals were given his subordination. He refused to close their orders for work not done, after which one of the criminals ambushed him with an ax and demanded to close the orders, threatening to kill him if he refused, to which Yeltsin answered him: “Get out!”, and the criminal had no choice but to throw the ax and follow in the direction indicated by Yeltsin.

3.according to numerous testimonies of people who worked with Yeltsin, he abused alcohol. When he asked the guards to run for vodka, they went to Korzhakov, who allegedly secretly diluted the vodka and sealed the bottle using a machine that was seized from counterfeit vodka dealers and given to the police museum, and later to Korzhakov. After heart surgery, doctors forbade Yeltsin to drink a lot.

4. Once, when he was president, Boris Yeltsin pinched the side of one of the Kremlin stenographers during an official ceremony; this episode was shown on television.

5. According to Yeltsin himself, while working as a driver on the BKSM-5 tower crane, he negligently forgot to secure the crane after a working day, at night he discovered that it was moving, climbed into the control cabin and stopped the crane at the risk of his life.

6. Yeltsin was missing two fingers on his left hand. He lost them as a child in the explosion of a grenade that he and his friends stole from a military warehouse. In general, as a child, Yeltsin was terribly pugnacious. In one of the district-to-district fights, his nose was broken with a shaft.

7. At the age of 35, Yeltsin worked as the chief engineer of the Sverdlovsk DSK. At the end of the five-year plan, he was to be nominated for the Order of Lenin. However, the award ceremony did not take place: on the eve of the approval of Yeltsin’s candidacy, an almost completed five-story building, which was being built by the structure headed by Yeltsin, collapsed. #1849

8. In 1990, the plane in which Yeltsin was flying to Spain had an accident. He made a very hard landing, as a result of which Boris Nikolaevich received a serious spinal injury. Later there was a lot of talk about the fact that this accident was arranged by the KGB.

9. After Yeltsin’s death, at a meeting of the State Duma, the communist faction refused to honor the memory former president getting up.

On February 10, 2011, in honor of the 80th anniversary of the birth of the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, a 10-meter monument was inaugurated in his homeland in Yekaterinburg.

Some facts from the life of presidents:

The first aircraft of the President of the Russian Federation was assembled in 1995 for Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin. The cost of the aircraft was about $300 million, with about $40 million spent on finishing the interior. The second, “Putinsky” Il-96 (b/n 96016) took off on April 21, 2003. Tuning the aircraft by the English company Diamonite Aircraft Furnishings cost Russian taxpayers $17 million.

How the president is elected in Switzerland

Swiss presidents are elected at a joint meeting of the two houses of the local parliament from seven members of the federal council (government), and for a term of only one year. By tradition, the next president of the country invariably becomes the vice president.

The President is also a man

During a meeting with his Chilean counterpart during an official visit to Chile on April 12, 2011, the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, stole a protocol pen. Vaclav Klaus took the pen while Sebastian Piñera gave his speech dedicated to the development of relations between European and Latin American states. Klaus's act was caught on television cameras.

Symbols of the President of Ukraine

The symbols of the Ukrainian president include: the presidential sign, the standard, the official seal and the mace.

Monument to Yeltsin in Yekaterinburg

On February 1, 2011, in honor of the 80th anniversary of the birth of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin, a 10-meter monument was inaugurated in his homeland in Yekaterinburg.

Russian President Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev has a complete collection of Deep Purple albums....

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On December 12, 2003, the ex-president of Azerbaijan died in Cleveland after a long and serious illness...

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In the feature film The Simpsons Movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger is the President of the United States...

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While serving in the KGB, Vladimir Putin had the nickname "moth"....

While serving in the KGB, Vladimir Putin had the nickname “moth.”

Einstein could become the head of Israel

Albert Einstein refused to become President of Israel in 1952. At the same time, he bequeathed all rights to his works and the use of his image to the University of Jerusalem.

The most versatile president in the world is Jean-Bertrand Aristide (Haiti). Knows 7 languages, writes music, plays guitar, piano, saxophone and drum.

The only US President who was not married

The only US president who was not married is James Buchanan. He was once engaged, but his bride broke off the engagement and died soon after.

American President Andrew Jackson believed that the Earth was flat...

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Marijuana in the Washington Garden

George Washington grew marijuana on his Mount Vernon plantation.

William Harrison's inauguration ceremony (1841) was held on an extremely cold day. New pre...

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The magazine "New Scientist" has compiled a list of the TOP 7 most strange, defying logic and in no way scientifically explainable phenomena of the human body, which, however, are documented in detail and are being studied by leading scientists and specialists in different points globe.

Riddle No. 1. Allergy to water

Since the human body is 60% water, it seems extremely strange to be allergic to water. Allergy sufferers, of course, can drink it, but the moment water comes into contact with the skin, for example, after a short bath or shower, their skin becomes covered with red spots and itching begins. Doctors dubbed this condition aquagenic urticaria and described it in detail back in 1964, but they still cannot explain it. Perhaps the cause of the development of this type of allergy is a cytotoxic response of the skin to contact with water or hypersensitivity to water ions.

Riddle No. 2. Chimera people

Modern methods of artificial insemination, in addition to the obvious advantages, also have their disadvantages. One of the disadvantages is the spread of such an unusual phenomenon when a woman turns out to be a human chimera (represents two people in one), that is, in fact, the fruit of the fusion of two fraternal twins, resulting from different maternal eggs of twins. It's as if a genetic test shows that she is not the mother of her children. Such situations have been recorded in several countries around the world.

Riddle No. 3. Foreign Accent Syndrome

In 1941, a Norwegian woman emerged from shock after being wounded during a bombing and began speaking her native Norwegian language with a strong German accent. However, she never studied German and did not understand it at all. Previously, psychologists assumed that the roots of the syndrome must be sought in the subconscious, but now they have changed their minds and believe possible reason damage to the speech parts of the brain, strokes, injuries or trauma.

Riddle No. 4. Morgellons disease

Riddle No. 5. The Madness of King George

The British King George III suffered from severe mental illness, due to which he often had to be put in a straitjacket. At that time, doctors thought that he had an ineradicable genetic disease, porphyria, but in 2005, as a result of a study of the king’s hair, it was concluded that his body contained a high concentration of arsenic. It is obvious that the medicines used to treat the monarch contained arsenic and only aggravated his illness.

Riddle No. 6. stinking finger

In 1996, the scientific world could not understand why a 29-year-old man’s finger, which had been accidentally pierced by a chicken bone five years earlier, began to exude an unbearable stench. At the same time, the smell was clearly audible at a fairly large distance, and it was completely impossible to examine the patient in a closed office. No ultra-modern antibiotics helped the unfortunate man. The most amazing thing is that after some time the disease suddenly disappeared on its own.

Riddle No. 7. Tree Man

The arms and legs of a man from the Dede estate from West Java in Indonesia look like branches, and he himself looks more like some kind of tree than a person. Fortunately for the patient, this mystery was finally solved recently. A rare type of immunodeficiency is to blame for his condition, which allows the papillomavirus, which causes warts, to escape from the control of the body's immune system and create such eccentricities.

Some Internet records

Records are set not only in the offline environment, i.e. in our real life, but also on the boundless online spaces of the Internet. How much does the most expensive domain name cost? What is the size of the smallest page on the smallest website on the web? Who was the participant of the largest Internet conference? Answers to these and other questions in today's selection of Internet records.

1.The smallest Internet pages are located at www.guimp.com.

2. One of the most expensive domains in history, www.diamond.com, was sold for $7.5 million. The site located at this address is dedicated to jewelry and jewelry. The domain www.vodka.com was sold for $3 million and redirected to the Russian Standard website; currently there is a web community on this domain. #4266

3. The largest Internet provider serves more than 42 million users, this is the Japanese company NTT DoCoMo.

4.The largest Internet cafe of all time opened on November 28, 2000 in New York and consisted of 628 computers.

5. The largest fine on the Internet is $107.7 million. American opponents of abortion were punished for creating a website on which they posted photographs of doctors who performed abortions, marked “wanted.”

6.The largest online auction, eBay, was registered in 1995. The most expensive lot at the auction was an oil refinery factory, but at that time not a single bid was made, and the factory remained unsold. The most expensive lot that was sold was a Gulfstream V jet, it was bought for $40 million.

7.The largest-scale Internet interview was with Paul McCartney in 1997 during the presentation of the album “Flaming Pie”; during the online broadcast he received about 3 million questions, but answered only 200.

Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin- first president of the Russian Federation. He was a very bright figure in politics and in life, but during his presidency many, sometimes funny, stories happened to him, which did not escape the attention of the media and remained in the memory of many people. Many facts are also known from Yeltsin’s personal life even before he became the head of the new Russia. Today's selection contains 10 facts from the life of Boris Yeltsin.

In November 1987, after Yeltsin sharply criticized Gorbachev's policies, he was removed from his post as first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU. Immediately after this, he was taken to the hospital, where, according to some reports, he tried to commit suicide with office scissors. #1850

According to Yeltsin himself, when he worked as a foreman at a construction site, criminals were given his subordination. He refused to close their orders for work not done, after which one of the criminals ambushed him with an ax and demanded to close the orders, threatening to kill him if he refused, to which Yeltsin answered him: “Get out!”, and the criminal had no choice but to throw the ax and follow in the direction indicated by Yeltsin. #1839

According to numerous testimonies of people who worked with Yeltsin, he abused alcohol. When he asked the guards to run for vodka, they went to Korzhakov, who allegedly secretly diluted the vodka and sealed the bottle using a machine that was seized from counterfeit vodka dealers and given to the police museum, and later to Korzhakov. After heart surgery, doctors forbade Yeltsin to drink a lot. #1843

Once, when he was president, Boris Yeltsin pinched the side of one of the Kremlin stenographers during an official ceremony; this episode was shown on television. #1845

According to Yeltsin himself, while working as a driver on the BKSM-5 tower crane, he negligently forgot to secure the crane after a working day, at night he discovered that it was moving, climbed into the control cabin and stopped the crane at the risk of his life. #1847

Yeltsin was missing two fingers on his left hand. He lost them as a child in the explosion of a grenade that he and his friends stole from a military warehouse. In general, as a child, Yeltsin was terribly pugnacious. In one of the district-to-district fights, his nose was broken with a shaft. #1848

At the age of 35, Yeltsin worked as the chief engineer of the Sverdlovsk DSK. At the end of the five-year plan, he was to be nominated for the Order of Lenin. However, the award ceremony did not take place: on the eve of the approval of Yeltsin’s candidacy, an almost completed five-story building, which was being built by the structure headed by Yeltsin, collapsed. #1849

In 1990, the plane in which Yeltsin was flying to Spain was involved in an accident. He made a very hard landing, as a result of which Boris Nikolaevich received a serious spinal injury. Later there was a lot of talk about the fact that this accident was arranged by the KGB. #1854

After Yeltsin’s death, at a meeting of the State Duma, the Communist faction refused to stand in honor of the former president. #1852

On February 1, 2011, in honor of the 80th anniversary of the birth of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin, a 10-meter monument was inaugurated in his homeland in Yekaterinburg. #2722

February 1, 2011. Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina gives a speech at the opening ceremony of the monument to Boris Yeltsin in Yekaterinburg. The memorial symbolizes the powerful nature of the first president of Russia.

Two people, two destinies. One became a famous Estonian singer and TV presenter, the other became the President of Russia. One dedicated his life to art, the other to the destruction of Russia and the genocide of Russians. What unites them, according to Estonian scientists?

The first is called Kalmer Tennosaar, the second is Albert Tennosaar. The first remained Calmer until his death, and the younger brother received a new name in Russia - Boris Yeltsin!

Facts and evidence from Estonian scientists.

Unusual behavior for a Russian by Boris (Albert):

In an article by V. Mamakin in the magazine “New Dialogue” No. 2, 1994, where the author, a former one of the heads of the security service of the RSFSR, recalls Yeltsin’s visit to Estonia in 1991. Yeltsin flew there by plane and decided to go back by car. And according to Estonians, here’s why:

“The three of us pressed together on backseat- Boris Nikolaevich is in the center, there are bodyguards on both sides: Sasha Kerzhakov and me. We were almost on the Leningradskoye Highway, when suddenly Boris Nikolaevich woke up from his nap and said only one word: “Tartu!” We tried to dissuade him at first, but the boss remained adamant: “If we are already in Estonia anyway, then we are going through Tartu!” We knew. , that in such cases it is better to unconditionally carry out the order, and in front of Maardu our escort turned to the poop. Not far from Tartu there is a place called Kiidjärve. The car slows down, and then Boris Nikolaevich gives the order to stop. He gets out of the car. He reaches the mill and stops. It takes a minute. He stands there for five minutes... Then he comes back, presses himself into the seat and says only one word: “Let’s go...” Sadly, without Gagarin’s daring... An hour later we were already taking off from the Tartu airfield.”

Why Kiidjärve? In the dark, when there was nothing to see and when he didn’t meet anyone, when every minute was worth its weight in gold? But because both brothers were born there! And Culmer and Albert. Culmer was born in 1928, and Albert in 1933... They were the sons of a local miller...

The fate of Albert (Boris).

June 41st... Estonian communists and the local NKVD carried out the deportation of criminal elements and, in part, the evacuation of children and women away from the border. Albert Tennosaar also fell under such an evacuation... At the age of 7, in this way, cut off from the rest of the family, partly by accident, as a street child, he was put on a carriage heading to the East, to safety and a future... Boris's temporary neighbor in the carriage, Leida Rääpso recalls:

“One incident happened in Priozersk, which I will not forget until death... In our carriage there was a lively boy with beautiful curls, who sang and played all the way with his Mickey Mouse cut out of plywood. And in the evening. when the train was about to start, this Mickey slipped out of the poor girl’s hands and fell out of the carriage. The kind Russian soldier picked up the toy and handed it back to the baby, smiling. However, unfortunately, the other soldier did not see this and pushed heavy door carriage. The boy's fingers were between the door and the wall. extended towards the toy, and they were interrupted and crushed by the door... The brush turned into a bleeding lump. At the next stop, in Kondopoga, he was taken from the carriage. His name was either Albert or Alfred..."

But everyone remembers that Yeltsin was missing several fingers... And how did he himself explain this injury? Here's from his book about himself:

“I lost two fingers during the Great Patriotic War, when I climbed into a military warehouse and stole two RGD-33 combat grenades from there. And he wanted to find out how they worked and what was inside them so much that he started hitting one of them with a hammer.”

To be honest, I believe more in the version of the Estonian researchers... And in general, the official memoirs of Boris Yeltsin are rather fragmentary and cardboard, as if they were invented without filling in the gaps about his childhood....

However, Estonian scientists easily found the facts in the Russian archives. For example - “Map medical examination student." The first entry was made on December 6, 1941 at the distribution center for children and youth in Konovo. We can read that Albert weighed 27.6 kg and was 132 cm tall (such a tall height is typical for an Estonian boy.) His skin was covered in insect bites, etc. The next recording was made the following fall, already 1000 kilometers from Konovo, in the Perm (Molotov) region, in orphanage No. 22 in the city of Yeltsy. And the name Albert Tenozar was crossed out with a chemical pencil and a new name was written in its place... “Yeltsin Boris Nick.”

Yeltsin's longtime assistant, Lev Sukharev, writes in his book “Three Years with Yeltsin”:

“Yeltsin loved to sing and all the words, to the last, were in his head...”

And he recalls his first meeting with Yeltsin:

“Yeltsin arrived to work at the State Construction Committee. The new minister was dressed in an elegant blue suit, a snow-white shirt and a BLACK tie around his neck!” (author - colors of the Estonian flag)

And Yeltsin himself writes in his memoirs about how he did not like it when his wife Anastasia changed her name to Naina. Yeltsin really disliked this name:

“For a long time after she changed her name, I called her not Naina, but “girl!”

Why didn’t Yeltsin (Tennosaar) like the harmless name? But because subconsciously, fearing to be caught in Estonianness, Boris heard in the name Naina, the Estonian word Naine, meaning “wife, woman”...

Kalmer Tennosaar died at the age of 75 in Estonia... His younger brother Albert, under the name Boris, died in Russia at the age of 76... paber.ekspress.ee/Arhiiv/1998/53/Aosa/Fiktsioon.html

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1. Yeltsin was missing two fingers on his left hand. He lost them as a child in the explosion of a grenade that he and his friends stole from a military warehouse. In general, as a child, Yeltsin was terribly pugnacious. In one of the district-to-district fights, his nose was broken with a shaft.

2. At 35, Yeltsin worked as the chief engineer of the Sverdlovsk DSK. At the end of the five-year plan, he was to be nominated for the Order of Lenin. However, the award ceremony did not take place: on the eve of the approval of Yeltsin’s candidacy, an almost completed five-story building, which was being built by the structure headed by Yeltsin, collapsed.

3. In November 1987, after Yeltsin sharply criticized Gorbachev's policies, he was removed from the post of first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU. Immediately after this, he was taken to the hospital, where, according to some reports, he tried to commit suicide with office scissors.

4. In 1989, Yeltsin made his first private visit to the United States. Western media wrote that in Baltimore, having descended from the plane along the ramp, he suddenly turned to the wheel of the plane and urinated on it. After that, without wiping or washing his hands, he went to shake hands with those who greeted him.

5. The famous phrase “Boris, you’re wrong!” was pronounced by Ligachev. He accused Yeltsin of the fact that it was his fault in Sverdlovsk region Food stamps were used at the time.

6. In 1990, Yeltsin had an accident during his visit to Spain. He made a very hard landing, as a result of which Boris Nikolaevich received a serious spinal injury. Later there was a lot of talk about the fact that this accident was arranged by the KGB.

7. At the end of 1991, it was not Yeltsin who congratulated the people of Russia on the New Year, but the famous satirist Mikhail Zadornov. According to Zadornov himself, they explained to him that Yeltsin was working with documents, and “he would work with them binge all holiday week.”

8. Yeltsin's love for playing spoons was often demonstrated by him both in Russia and abroad. Alexander Korzhakov says that in 1992, during a visit to Kyrgyzstan, Boris Yeltsin used the head of Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev to play spoons.

9. Many people remember Yeltsin as a person who was fond of alcohol. History includes cases when he snatched the baton from the conductor in Germany and began conducting the orchestra himself, or how he “slept through” a meeting with the President of Ireland. Bill Clinton said of Yeltsin: “We must never forget that drunk Yeltsin is better than most of the non-drinking alternatives.”

10. After Yeltsin’s death, at a meeting of the State Duma, the communist faction refused to honor the memory of the former president by standing.