Vladimir Gilep was the first deputy minister of culture of Belarus for 15 years and until recently headed the Belarusian Cultural Foundation for 22 years. Photo: Archive of Vladimir Gilep
YASIR ARAFAT CLIMBED INTO THE GUERILLA DUGOUT
Vladimir Gilep was the country's first deputy minister of culture in the 80s and 90s, then headed the Belarusian Cultural Foundation for 22 years, and remained the editor-in-chief of Krayaznachay Gazeta for many years. He started at the historical museum, where he rose to the post of deputy director, then became deputy director of the Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War.
In addition to the development of the exhibition, he oversaw the Mound of Glory, the construction of a cemetery for burned villages, walls of concentration camps and revived villages in Khatyn. And within the walls of the museum I often met with the powers that be.
I remember how the leader of Palestine carefully examined the exhibition Yasser Arafat, who was accompanied by the first secretary of the Belarusian Central Committee Petr Masherov. Arafat stopped near every exhibit, even climbed into a partisan dugout!
Gilep was also responsible for Cuban leader Fidel Castro's visit to the museum and the Mound of Glory.
He came to Minsk unexpectedly - he remembered in Moscow that once in Cuba he promised “partisan Masherov” to visit the BSSR. I reared up the headquarters of the Belarusian Military District - they were looking for a TT pistol as a gift to Castro. The weapon was in my safe for two days. And after the excursion, the veterans presented him with this present with a full magazine of ammunition.
And on the Mound of Glory, Castro and Masherov climbed to the top and talked. Suddenly Fidel steps over the concrete barrier and walks down the lawn in combat boots. Masherov, in a suit and elegant shoes, hesitated for a moment, but followed him - carefully so as not to slip.
Castro looked around, saw that Masherov could not keep up with him, returned and took him by the arm. And below, Pyotr Mironovich showed the guest: they say, look what a road we have trodden.
Vladimir Gilep also took part in organizing the visit of the US President to Minsk Richard Nixon in the summer of 1974.
Nixon arrived in Belarus for a day, and Khatyn was included in the program. A communications station with the White House arrived with the president; his guards were scattered around the memorial, which was surrounded by Soviet intelligence services along the perimeter. While Nixon was inspecting the complex, in addition to him and his wife Pat, Masherov and our officials, fake tour groups were also walking there.
Meanwhile, Gilep sat at the table outside where the American leader was supposed to sign the book of honored guests, and signed a Soviet pen so that it would not dry out under the scorching sun.
But Nixon took out his pen in a box with the inscription “President of the United States of America” and made a short note, then his wife signed it.
By the way, Nixon left a box with a pen on the book of honored guests, and Vladimir Alexandrovich had to try to ensure that the souvenir from America did not end up in someone’s pocket, but in the museum’s funds. And after returning to America, Nixon resigned as president after the Watergate scandal...
TOOK PARTY CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MASHEROV EVERY MONTH
There was a period in Vladimir Alexandrovich’s career when he worked as an instructor in the cultural department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus - 35-year-old Gilep was transferred from the post of deputy director of the historical museum in 1974. Before his appointment, he had a conversation with Masherov.
They don’t believe me, but he talked to me for two hours - this was the case with everyone who came to the Central Committee apparatus, even if it was to take the place of an ordinary instructor, like me. Pyotr Mironovich bombarded him with questions. The main task he set was to increase the number of museums: then there were about fifty of them throughout the republic, with all their branches.
But in order to open a local history museum even in the regional center, a decision was required from the bureau of the CPSU Central Committee. And the new instructor suggested creating museums of folk glory. They were opened by the decision of the Belarusian Central Committee. “And after five years they became full-fledged local history specialists,” recalls Gilep.
Vladimir Gilep’s archive contains a photo of the laying of land from burned villages.
He met with Masherov personally every month - Vladimir Aleksandrovich was for some time the treasurer of the party bureau of the apparatus of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus.
Pyotr Mironovich’s salary then was 650 rubles, I had to come and receive party contributions from him against signature - 6.5 rubles. The head of a department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus received 300 rubles, an instructor - even less, and my friend, a high-level milling machine operator at an automatic lines factory, received 400. Although a lot was compensated by the order tables, the opportunity to go to resorts on discounted vouchers, which I, by the way, had little of enjoyed it. Miskhor was dear to me, I was interested in the prospect of moving the grave of Maxim Bogdanovich to his homeland.
And once Gilep accompanied Masherov when he showed partisan places to the director Elem Klimov. The director was passionate about the idea of a film about the burning of a Belarusian village based on the script by Ales Adamovich “Kill Hitler” - the title eventually changed to “Come and See”.
Masherov's assistant Victor Kryukov the day before he conveyed a request to finalize the route for the helicopter and fly with the first secretary. We took off at 10.30 am: Masherov, his security guard, Klimov, Petrashkevich, me and the pilots - by the way, only Muscovites flew the helicopter of the candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee.
The first stop was Khatyn. In the Vitebsk region, in Osovets, they sat down to show Klimov the partisan Vitebsk Gate, through which Belarusians were drafted into the army even under occupation. A meeting between Masherov and collective farmers was also planned there. The first secretary was late for it, saw the collective farmers already warm and was upset: “Why didn’t they wait? And I would have a drink with you.” The local “zhanchynka” answers him: “So you’re sleeping in the middle of nowhere!”
Masherov took Klimov to a place where he could tell him something. For example, we landed at the bridge over the Drysa, the demolition of which he led and where he was seriously wounded.
In Rossony, Masherov brought everyone to his mother’s grave... Then there was lunch at the district committee. I see an empty chair next to Masherov. Grandma comes in:
He looked back:
Oh, mom! Mom... Hello, my dear! “And I brought you a gift,” and takes out a scarf.
Pyotr Mironovich said that the woman hid him from the Germans in the basement of her hut. Sat down:
I found the formator at the Kupala Theater. We arrived at the medical commission. Masherov was lying on the morgue table. But the formator, approaching the table, said: “This is not Masherov.” Indeed, it is impossible to recognize - the dynamic impact during the accident in which Masherov died was such a force that the bones of his face came out of place. Then they called a surgeon, and he corrected it as much as possible...
But the mask remained in the sculptor’s workshop. Masherov is unrecognizable on it. Therefore, Anikeichik sculpted the monument for the grave based on a photo.
And that same Rossony house was eventually covered with slate after Masherov’s funeral.
Secretary of the Central Committee Alexander Kuzmin asked me after the farewell ceremony: “Take the car, go to Rossony, there will be no secretary of the district committee there. So that they don’t even lay a finger on anything there. Otherwise, the same secretary will turn everything upside down tomorrow: they say, today it’s Masherov, and tomorrow it’s someone else.” So this house was preserved, and the Museum of the Military Commonwealth also has a Masher exhibition.
Twenty-eight-year-old Anatoly Zemlyanka, or Tolik Taimulla, as he calls himself, lived and studied in Noyabrsk, and practiced karate. But, unfortunately, this is not what “glorified” his hometown.
Recently, video footage of the murder of Russian Chechen Magomed Khasiev spread all over the world. A resident of Noyabrsk stood behind him with a knife in his hand and killed his former compatriot, says the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov.
He has already promised to find and punish the killer of Khasiev, who, perhaps, himself once fell for the bait of recruiters of the ISIS organization banned in Russia:
We will make every effort to establish the truth. If he was not an Islamic State militant, those responsible for his execution will receive their well-deserved punishment where they least expect it.
Residents of Noyabrsk are now experiencing a real shock. Many of them knew Zemlyanka as an incredibly kind and strong young man. As they say, nothing foreshadowed such a terrible transformation.
An ex-girlfriend told KP-Yamal that Tolya was a very good boy, and he was probably “zombified.”
“It all started in Tyumen,” many note. They say: for two years the young man studied at a branch in his native Noyabrsk. He mastered the senior course program in Tyumen from 2006 to 2009. There he continued to engage in sports - Kyokushinkai karate. Professionals didn’t particularly remember him.
“KP-Yamal” talked with athletes, some said that he completely lacked healthy aggression, others could not remember him at all.
One of the November coaches who worked with Zemlyanka in the same gym, Artyom Silin, recalls:
In the old Olympian gym in Dorstroy, I had to train with him on Sundays. He was incredibly physically developed. I remember him as very friendly and smiling, so, you know, a typical big, good-natured guy. In sparring, despite being two or three times superior in physics, I tried not to hurt anyone. I, then still a young coach, mentally put an end to him due to the complete lack of combat aggression. Just like that.
In the entire history of classes in Tyumen, two people from karatekas were recruited into ISIS, according to our information. One of them is originally from a Muslim family, from the Caucasus, the other is Russian. While communicating with them during classes and competitions, we were unable to determine that something was wrong with the guys. It's just not visible. We don’t know how this happens, we are encountering this for the first time,” shared one of the members of the Tyumen regional federation.
In Noyabrsk, no one noticed the young man’s attraction to Islam either. Even the Muslims themselves.
I don’t know Anatoly Zemlyanka,” a representative of the Muslim religious organization “Nur” told KP-Yamal. “I only read about the fact that the young man is from Noyabrsk on the Internet. It is very sad that people from Yamal go to Syria and commit terrorist acts. We cannot call such people Muslims, because the Koran says: if you kill one person, it means you killed all of humanity. Therefore, when they speak in the name of Islam, it is a lie; Islam does not teach murder.
On his VKontakte page, the newly minted “devout Muslim” is replete with quotes from holy books about the meaning of life and “pure Islam.” Clearly he was also concerned about relationships with women. Judging by the records and quotes from the holy books, he clothed all Muslim women with a kind of romantic aura. In 2011, he wrote: “There are fewer and fewer friends, but those who remain are getting closer.” And almost immediately the recordings end.
In 2013, Anatoly left for ISIS. Neither the prosecutor's office, nor the investigative committee, nor the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug police are giving any comments about this now. The official website of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug says that in 2015 alone, 3 criminal cases were opened in the district against local residents who went to fight on the side of the radicals in Syria.
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This has been our war for a long time
Tatiana TELPIS
One can argue a lot about whether we did the right thing by coming to the aid of Syria. I think a lot out loud on the couch about whether this will lead to a third world war. Isn't it better to sit out in the hut on the edge? But it is no longer possible to deny that ISIS has declared war on Russia. He announced it to us even before the explosion of our liner over the Sinai (224 victims). Although some don’t even consider THIS to be something out of the ordinary. “What did ISIS do to us that was so terrible, besides seducing Varvara Karaulova?” - this question was asked somewhere, it seems, even in the comments on our website. So here it is. Karaulova Varvara is no less scary than a liner over the Sinai. She, and also Magomed Khasiev, Tolya Zemlyanka and faceless hundreds of other Russian citizens who - our special services openly admit - stood up for ISIS. And against Russia.
As they demonstrated in this video.
They also showed how they can turn ordinary Russian guys into outright zombies. Ready to kill and die for the sake of an idea.
According to preliminary information dated October 20, 2016, a native of Noyabrsk Anatoly Zemlyanka, better known as the executioner of ISIS (the organization is banned in the Russian Federation) Jihadi-Tolik, was eliminated as a result of a special operation in Iraq. According to law enforcement sources, a Russian who joined the ranks of extremists was killed during the battle for Mosul (Iraq).
An executioner from the terrorist organization "Islamic State" put on the international wanted list by Interpol ( IS, ISIS, banned in Russia) Anatoly Zemlyanka(Islamic names “Taymullah” and “Asadullah”) became imbued with the ideas of jihadism not somewhere in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan, but in his own Yamal region. Which, however, is little surprising: Since the beginning of the 2000s, the oil and gas north of Russia has been featured in FSB analysts as a zone of expansion of Wahhabi ideas, under the influence of which the mainly Slavic population of the region falls.
Beginning: "The Boy Who Makes You Laugh"
The press reconstructed the path of Anatoly Zemlyanka’s transformation into a jihadist through social networks (including his personal VKontakte page). Zemlyanka was born in 1987. Until the age of 15 he lived in Belgorod. At the beginning of the 2000s, Anatoly’s parents moved to Yamal, to Noyabrsk. Here Anatoly went to tenth grade. Former classmates remember him as an ordinary guy his age, with more than average academic success, but kind and cheerful. “There are people who make everyone laugh, that’s how he was,” his former classmate recalls Anatoly’s school years. “In general, he was good, kind, played sports - an ordinary guy.”
According to a former classmate, Tolya loved to tease teachers, giggling in the back desk during lessons. Also, Tolya Zemlyanka’s school comrades at the time recall that Tolya was a fan of the group “Rammstein”. Tolik's main hobby was sports. In his senior year, Tolik went to the “rocking room” and began attending the Thai boxing section at the city club “Bailong”. In terms of sports, the boy turned out to be the same as at school: good-natured, funny, but with average inclinations that did not even allow him to hope that he would become a promising athlete. Former Zemlyanka coach Oleg Zinner admitted to reporters years later: despite the fact that Anatoly was pumped up, he used him as a sparring partner for “stronger fighters.” “He is a tall, handsome guy, very pumped up, but as an athlete he turned out to be rather weak and rotten. Another, after defeat, on the contrary, will gather himself and rush into battle for revenge, but he immediately gave back. Not a fighting character,” says the sports mentor. Zinner also said that in terms of training, Tolya was inconsistent, “he came from time to time for one and a half to two years.”
Having passed school with grades in grades, in 2004 Anatoly Zemlyanka entered the Financial and Economic Institute (FEI) of Tyumen State University, the department of customs affairs. Together with him, his former classmate joined the “customs officer”: the one who told about Tolik’s addiction to giggling during lessons. According to her admissions, Tolya’s behavior “at the university” changed little after school. In classes, he liked to climb to the very back of the classroom and tease the lecturers with funny remarks, which greatly amused his fellow students and drove the teachers crazy. In terms of studies, he is a typical average person, with a strong dependence on mood. I could study well, I could study poorly. Anatoly studied his first two courses in Noyabrsk, where the branch was located. In his junior year, as people who knew him recall, the guy began to look into the city mosque for the first time.
"Taimulla"
According to those who knew him at school, this was unusual for him. Tolik's teenage passion for the music of Rammstein was caused by the external style of the German group, reminiscent of the black SS uniforms and the ideas of “blood and soil”. Good-natured Tolya liked the greeting “Heil Hitler”, was impressed by the ideas of skinheads and really did not like the fact that many people from the Caucasus and Central Asia live in Yamal. But he still did not become a complete skinhead. In the fall of 2006, Tolya transferred from the November branch of the IPPE to Tyumen. There he settled in an apartment, which he rented with two fellow students. In Tyumen, Zemlyanka continued training in Thai boxing, and at the same time began to master Kyokushinkai karate. Tolya’s former karate mentor Artem Silin admitted: having taken a closer look at the tall visiting student, he immediately gave up on him due to the complete lack of combat aggression, which is necessary for every serious karateka. But in general, Silin says, Zemlyanka was a strong, and at the same time kind and smiling guy, a typical “healthy, good-natured guy.”
Until his fifth, final year, Anatoly Zemlyanka’s life in Tyumen fit into one cycle. In the morning he came from his outskirts of Tyumen to the center for classes at the “university”, in the evening he left for training, and then home, to an apartment in an area called “Defense” in the city. During the holidays, the young man left Tyumen, and after the holidays he came back. After finishing my fourth year, a lot has changed in Anatolia. In October-November 2008, he told his friends that he had become a Muslim and now goes by the name Taimulla. Tolik-Taymulla made new friends - ethnic Muslims from his Oborona district, who were not university students, but came to Tyumen to earn money. Together with new friends, Taimulla attended Juma prayers and other prayer meetings on Fridays. However, the Muslim Tolik did not break off relations with his study friends, except that he asked to be called by his Muslim name. He asked his kyokushinkai coach Artem Silin to do the same.
Where exactly and why student Tolik Zemlyanka became a Muslim, none of his acquaintances can say for sure. His former Thai boxing coach, Oleg Zinner, suggests that the transformation of Anatoly into Taimulla most likely occurred during his summer vacation in Noyabrsk. Specifically, in the mosque, where, as his friends recall, Tolik first began to look in at school. As the trainer suggests, those who converted Anatoly to Islam most likely began to process him in a radical Islamist way. “Anatoly has always been weak psychologically. So Anatoly was processed psychologically, all his complexes were taken into account, and he felt like a hero,” says Oleg Zinner. “Terrorists recruit the young and beautiful to make them leaders, the picture of the movement.” Anatoly Zemlyanka disappeared from the sight of his university comrades immediately after graduating from his native land, in 2009. Nobody knew what happened to him, and few were watching. Yesterday's students began an independent life, full of much more important concerns.
It is known that after receiving his diploma, Zemlyanka settled in his native Noyabrsk, with the Muslim organization “Yamalo-Nenets Kazyat”, located on Khvoinaya Street, building 13. At the end of 2012, Anatoly-Taymulla Zemlyanka became one of the leaders of “Ikhsan” - a city Muslim organization, registered under the auspices of the Yamalo-Nenets Kazyat. One of the actual owners of Ikhsan was the head of the kazyat, Mirsang Davlavtov, a native of Tajikistan who settled in Noyabrsk in 1999. Ihsan's office was located in a private apartment. Davlatov also introduced Zemlyanka into the leadership of the Iman organization, the representative office of the Kazyat in the Vyngapurovsky microdistrict of Noyabrsk.
On the "true path"
The newly minted Muslim leader Anatoly Zemlyanka registered on the VKontakte network under the nickname “Tolik Asadulla** Taimulla.” A typical post on the account wall dated December 8, 2010: “And let not the armies of the infidels seem great to you. Truly, how many times have we already defeated them, and how many times have they retreated!” Textual analysis showed from which source the young Muslim took these words - from the brochure “Jihad is the true way to establish the power of Allah.” This book, which abundantly quotes the ideologists of Wahhabism and the Muslim Brotherhood, is distributed in all Wahhabi communities in Russia. The summary of the book can be summarized as follows: since real Muslims are waging jihad in Iraq, Muslims in Russia are obliged to wage jihad in Chechnya, Dagestan and other regions of Russia, and those who evade jihad are non-Muslims. The goal of Islam, as the brochure says, is to build a single “Islamic state” (!) in the world, where there will be only two nations - Muslims and non-Muslims.
The question of how this piece of terrorist literature fell into the hands of a young neophyte is more appropriate to address it to teachers and mentors - the leaders of the Yamalo-Nenets kazyat Mirsang Davlatov And Vildan Akhmatshin. The Noyabrsk prosecutor's office asked the kazyat a similar question. On May 29, 2013, the prosecutor's office issued a warning to the chairman of the Yamalo-Nenets kazyat, Mirsang Davlatov, about the inadmissibility of carrying out extremist activities. He, in turn, went to court with a statement about the illegality of the warning. However, the Noyabrsky City Court denied the head of the organization. In August of the same year, an appeal was filed again in court, this time on behalf of the acting chairman of the kazyat Rafisa Kormurzina. At the same time, in confirmation of his powers, the court was presented with the minutes of the meeting of the local organization “Ikhsan” - the same one whose leaders included Anatoly - Taimulla - Asadulla Zemlyanka. The court rejected the appeal. On October 16, 2014, the Ihsan organization was liquidated by a court decision for repeated gross violations of laws on the activities of religious and non-profit organizations.
Translated into ordinary Russian, Ikhsan could not explain to the court why it did not bring its statutory documentation in accordance with the law, did not declare its financial statements as required, and at the same time ignored the decisions of the authorities. The defendant in the liquidation of Ikhsan was the Yamalo-Nenets Kazyat, which itself was in limbo by that time. From 2011 to 2014, the organization’s leaders practically did not leave the courts, where they acted mainly as defendants in the claims of others. Kazyyat was charged with distributing extremist materials and violating laws on the activities of non-profit organizations.
Taimulla Zemlyanka, former Anatoly, avoided judicial red tape. In 2014, he was already in Syria, where he went “to jihad” back in 2013. In Syria, the former good-natured, big man Tolik turned into a jihadist. At the beginning of December, Anatoly Zemlyanka - the eternal middle peasant in life - finally became famous. A video has circulated throughout the world's media in which a 28-year-old native of Yamal beheads on camera another Russian Muslim - Evgeny Yudin, who converted to Islam under the influence of his adopted Chechen mother, and then, like Zemlyanka, went to seek his fortune in ISIS. People who knew Zemlyanka at school and university are still in a state of shock. Yes, they guessed that their former study comrade on the Islamic topic might have gone crazy, this was evidenced by Zemlyanka’s “contact”, chock full of nasheeds, posters and videos with calls for jihad and the caliphate. “Our people” even gave Zemlyanka the nickname “Tolya Jihadist.” But no one believed that this good man of yesterday would be able to cut off heads. After all, quite harmless pictures appeared on the Jihadist’s contact wall, like photos of girls kissing with the inscription “I’m a normal person: I see lesbians, I like them.”
Qui prodest
Many people are to blame for the transformation of yesterday’s student Tolik, who loved to make everyone he knew laugh, into an ISIS executioner. First of all, Zemlyanka himself. But no one becomes a jihadist just like that. Leading experts in Islamic studies have long revealed that the Tyumen region, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug have long ago turned into a hidden incubator for growing jihadists. The largest Muslim organization in this vast region, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Tyumen Region (DUMTO), takes an openly pro-Wahhabi position, focusing on preachers from Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Yamalo-Nenets kazyat, where the Muslim formation of Zemlyanka took place, belongs to the “diocese” of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Asian Part of Russia (DUMACHR). Personality of the head of the DUMACHR Nafigully Ashirova no additional comments are needed: just read the “Voice of Islam” website published by Ashirov. By the way, both Ashirov and the head of the DUMTO Galimzyan Bikmullin are members of the leadership of the Council of Muftis of Russia. This disposition led, in particular, to the fact that during the years of the Chechen wars, practically legal hospitals and rehabilitation centers for militants of “Ichkeria” operated in Yamal.
In August 2003, the weekly magazine AiF-Siberia published an interview Ildara Ziganshina, plenipotentiary representative in the Tyumen region mufti Talgata Tadzhutdina. Ziganshin stated that there are more than 80 Muslim communities in the Tyumen region, and all of them are under the influence of the Wahhabis, who spread their influence from the North Caucasus. Since then, the number of adherents of radical forms of Islam in the region has only increased, and their influence on the mood of the Muslim Ummah has only intensified.
Most of the imams that Bikmullin and Ashirov installed in their mosques in the Tyumen-Yamal region came from Central Asia, mainly from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In FSB reports they are identified as activists of Hizb-ut-Tahrir, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and other terrorist organizations operating in Central Asia. The date of arrival of these people in Russia is the same in each case - the 1990s, the period when the Central Asian regimes intensified their policy of eliminating Islamist formations in their republics. But even in those parishes where the imam of the mosque is not a Wahhabi, the Wahhabi influence exists and is even growing stronger. The oil and gas fields of the North are constantly in need of cheap labor, and among the flow of workers who go to the “north” there are always adherents or preachers of jihadist ideologies. The Far North of Russia is the most convenient place to get lost. To the number of existing adherents are added those who have joined the ideas of jihad and caliphate while serving sentences in prisons in the Tyumen region, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
Anatoly Zemlyanka, who became a Muslim “at the hands” of pro-Wahhabi leaders, could not help but avoid the corresponding ideological indoctrination. As a result, the newly minted Russian Wahhabi ended up in the ranks of ISIS. Even if there had been no Zemlyanka, another similar Russian guy from this oil and gas region could have taken his place. Preachers of jihadism view Russians (as well as Ukrainians and Belarusians) as empty vessels that can be filled with anything. Or like dough from which you can sculpt anything. For example, a terrorist - a suicide bomber or an executioner.
About the death of Anatoly Artemov, who was known to a wide audience for his roles in such TV series as “Streets of Broken Lanterns”, “Secrets of the Investigation”, “Sea Devils”, “Highway Patrol”, “Opera” and “National Security Agent”. Artemov died at the age of 77 after a short illness.
Artemov was born in Komsomolsk on March 20, 1942. He graduated from the Shchepkinsky School (workshop of N.A. Annenkov), after which he collaborated with theaters in Samara, Perm, Omsk, Voronezh, Murmansk and Nizhny Novgorod.
After moving to St. Petersburg, the actor played in the Youth Theater, the Bolshoi Drama Theater and the Alexandrinsky Theater, but his career was most closely connected with the Youth Theater on Fontanka, where he worked for 30 years.
Artemov met the artistic director of the institution, People's Artist of Russia Semyon Spivak, while working in the Young Theater drama ensemble in 1986. Three years later, when Spivak became the main director of the Youth Theater on Fontanka, Artemov decided to stay and work with him, thereby becoming an important part of the team for many years.
Actor Anatoly Artemov
Press service of the Youth Theater“I worked in many theaters: both in the capital and in the peripheral ones. There were gossip, intrigues, and conspiracies everywhere. We have a very friendly team, we are a family. And theater without intrigue,” Artemov said in an interview News Agency .
Among the works that the artist singled out for himself as his favorites were his roles in the plays “A Bourgeois in the Nobility” and “Tango” (both 1989).
“With boundless respect for each of his characters, Anatoly Ivanovich knew how to make them textured, extraordinary, and memorable, be it the father of Joan of Arc, a simple peasant from The Lark, or the rich merchant Belugin from Love’s Lace,” the statement says.
The theater also emphasized that Artemov managed to endow the images he took on with “wisdom and conscience.”
In April 2014, Artemov celebrated his anniversary of cooperation with the Youth Theater on Fontanka, playing Joe Stoddard in the play “Our Town” based on the play by Thornton Wilder, who called the purpose of the play the search for “the highest criteria for the smallest manifestations of everyday life. The directors and directors were:
“The role of the gravedigger in “Our Town” became metaphorical: critics wrote that Artemov in this performance was able to personify a “reflection of passing time”, of the fact that people are given so little...,” the theater noted.
Artemov himself, after 25 years of work in the Fontanka theater, admitted that if he had the opportunity to start life again, he would not want another profession.
“I would become an actor, only more successful: I would not miss the opportunities that fate provided me,” he said.
Speaking about the main traits that an actor should have, Artemov named luck, trust and understanding. Among the characteristics that were inherent to him, his colleagues especially highlight his thirst for life and work. In particular, they noted that the actor did not hesitate to say that he was “crazy” before going out to the audience.
Also, colleagues expressed admiration for the fact that Artemov “could not exist” without work, and even during his illness he was eager to be on stage as soon as possible and called the theater “his friend,” emphasizing that friends are known in trouble.
In 2015, answering a question about how the theater had changed during his work there, the actor replied that the main change for him was that he “stopped playing big roles.”
The management of the Youth Theater expressed deep condolences to the artist’s family and friends. It is reported that the date and place of farewell will be announced separately.
28-year-old Daesh executioner Anatoly Zemlyanka left for Syria from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in June 2013. Anatoly Zemlyanka became the hero of a video in which he cut off the head of 23-year-old Magomed Khasiev.
The other day, ISIS (Daesh) distributed a video in which they executed a Russian and threatened Russia with attacks in good Russian.
It turned out that in the video, 23-year-old Magomed Khasiev was executed in Syria by 28-year-old Anatoly Zemlyanka.
The man is on the federal wanted list. It is known that Zemlyanka left the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in June 2013. In Noyabrsk he is survived by his parents and brother Taras Zemlyanka.
28-year-old Daesh executioner Anatoly Zemlyanka, nicknamed Jihadi-Tolik, graduated from school No. 3 in the city of Noyabrsk, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
Anatoly Zemlyanka moved from Noyabrsk to Tyumen in 2006. In the regional capital, Anatoly Zemlyanka studied at a university and practiced karate.
The latest entries are dated 2011. Zemlyanka’s latest status: “A man’s tears are the tears of a lion!”
Taras Zemlyanka, brother of Daesh executioner Anatoly, told law enforcement officers that he had not communicated with him for a long time. In addition, Taras did not even know that his brother Anatoly Zemlyanka went to Syria to fight on the side of the militants.
On December 2, NBC reported the execution of 23-year-old Magomed Khasiev from Chechnya by IS militants. The recording of the murder was made public on the Internet. Extremists accused the executed man of espionage.
According to Israeli media, before his death, the captive admitted that he had transmitted information to Moscow from Syria and Iraq about Russian citizens who had joined the ranks of the militants of the Islamic State group banned in Russia.
It is noted that Magomed Khasiev’s childhood name was Evgeniy Yudin. He lived in a shelter in Grozny. He came to the boarding school from the Chelyabinsk region, and was later adopted by a lonely resident of Chechnya and given a new name in honor of her father.
According to some reports, when the boy was little, his parents were deprived of parental rights due to alcoholism. They moved to Chechnya from the Urals. The child ended up in an orphanage.
In the seventh grade, the boy was taken in by a Chechen family from the village of Bratskoye. Here he converted to Islam and chose a new name for himself - Magomed Khasiev.
According to mk.ru, after the change of faith, his blood family abandoned him.
However, he also did not live long in the Chechen family - he left his guardians and went back to the boarding school. Here he completed his studies and went to Maykop to presumably enter the Maykop Polytechnic College (department of jurisprudence).
He lived in his own apartment, which his adoptive mother later bought for him. But there were problems with my studies. Expelled from one college, studied somehow in the second, often got into fights and various stories.
And in February 2015, Magomed was put on the federal wanted list. According to law enforcement officials, Khasiev took part in hostilities in Syria on the side of Daesh.
