Who will become the new rector of Timiryazevka. "Wait!": Dismissed employees of Timiryazevka on the resignation of "Tkachev's girlfriend." From teacher to deputy governor

Disputes over the Timiryazev Academy, headed by the "appointee" Minister of Agriculture Alexandra Tkacheva.

At a meeting of the Moscow City Duma yesterday, January 24, Communist Party deputy Nikolai Zabrilin made a demand. His statement boiled down to the need to urgently dismiss the acting acting rector of the Timiryazev Academy, Galina Zolina.

At the meeting, he said that at a meeting with former and current employees of the Timiryazev Academy, the problems that arose in the academy were voiced.

He said that then, by order of officials, more than 100 hectares of land were transferred for residential development. It is worth noting that before that the areas were used for educational and scientific processes.

After the personal intervention of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the land was returned to the scientists.

- Now a new rector has been appointed there, this has brought additional friction to the work collective. And the residents of the Timiryazevsky district present, the present and current employees of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy asked me to speak from the rostrum of the Moscow City Duma and demand the resignation of the current rector - said Nikolai Zubrilin at a meeting of the Moscow City Duma.

Separately, the deputy dwelled on the "repressions" by law enforcement agencies, which, in his opinion, are a consequence of the fact that students opposed, in their opinion, the illegal actions of the leadership of the academy.

State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Valery Rashkin, shared his opinion on the scandal around the Timiryazev Academy.

- The acting rector of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy Galina Zolina is a "mediocre leader" and she "must leave" - ​​said State Duma deputy Valery Rashkin.

We will remind, yesterday, on January 23, there was a meeting of the Communist Party deputies with the defenders of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.

- If the leader Zolina does not care about her own people, this is not a leader, she must be eliminated. The mediocre leader must leave, - said the deputy of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin.

As "Notebook Krasnodar" wrote earlier, a scandal erupted at the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in Moscow. A group of teachers sharply criticized the actions of Galina Zolina, who was appointed to the post of rector by Alexander Tkachev.

According to the staff of the academy, Galina Zolina not only works without specialized education, but also does everything to ensure that the lands of the academy located in the Moscow region were transferred to private companies for construction.

Note that in a public response to these accusations, Galina Zolina mentioned only one person as the instigator of the riot - Alexander Solovyov, who is the dean of the academy. It became known that the dean was dismissed. According to available information, the decision to dismiss was made after a personal dialogue with the leadership of the academy.

As "Notebook Krasnodar" wrote earlier, Galina Zolina claimed that Alexander Soloviev regularly violated labor discipline.

Recall that a petition appeared on one of the popular Internet sites, which received many supporters. Residents of Russia put their signatures in support of the resignation of the appointee of the Minister of Agriculture and ex-governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Tkachev. We are talking about 2016, when he appointed Galina Zolina to the position of the Timiryazev Academy.

- She had never had anything to do with Timiryazevka and did not even have a specialized education. Why exactly her? An analysis of open sources gives the answer: Zolina is an old friend of Tkachev, she was his deputy when he was the governor, the authors of the petition note.

They say that Galina Zolina, as the rector of the Timiryazev Academy, "is repressing unwanted teachers, and the police are pressing students right in the hostel who spoke out in their defense and went to pickets."

- Timiryazevka has training, experimental and breeding fields of 101 hectares, which are located in a fairly good area of ​​Moscow. These lands are of great (tens of billions of rubles) interest for construction corporations and officials, the authors of the petition say.

Galina Zolina was appointed rector of the Timiryazev Academy

Until today, for a year, she served as the rector of Timiryazevka.

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The appointment of Galina Zolina as the rector of the Timiryazev Russian State Agricultural University-Moscow Agricultural Academy was announced on January 29 at a meeting of the academic council of the university. The order on her confirmation in office 5 days ago was signed by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, State Secretary Ivan Lebedev.

Galina Zolina was sent to Timiryazevka at the very end of 2016 from the post of director of the department of scientific and technological policy and education of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, where she briefly worked under the leadership of Minister Alexander Tkachev (when he was the governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Zolina was his deputy for a number of years).

During her work at the post of acting. Rector at the Timiryazev Academy, significant personnel changes took place, many employees who did not agree with its management decisions were fired. Employees and students of Timiryazevka repeatedly went to rallies in protest against Zolina's leadership methods.

One of the last high-profile stories was He was one of the organizers of protests against the transfer of the experimental lands of the academy for commercial development, and his relationship with Galina Zolina did not work out.

Zolina herself, in a published appeal, denied political persecution of Solovyov and referred to the objective claims of the leadership against him regarding the performance of labor duties.

Galina Zolina worked for many years in the team of the current head of the Ministry of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev. In 1999, she became Deputy General Director of CJSC Firma Agrocomplex, which was then headed by Tkachev. After his election as governor of the Kuban in 2000, she received the position of an adviser on mass media and social policy, and since 2005, she served as vice-governor for social issues.

In 2007, Zolina defended her Ph.D. thesis "Formation of a positive image of the Krasnodar Territory in the media." According to the Antiplagiat system, the originality of scientific work is 30.3%, citation is 10.18%, borrowing accounts for 59.49%.

In March 2015, the Academic Council of Voronezh State University, following the results of defending her doctoral dissertation "Universum of mass media of a social community: an identical image discourse," voted against awarding her the degree of Doctor of Philology with a degree in Journalism.

On April 28, 2015, the new head of the region, Veniamin Kondratyev, announced a personnel reshuffle in the administration of the Krasnodar Territory. Galina Zolina was among the first to resign.

Columnist Angelica Gyurza spoke about Galina Zolina on the pages of Yugopolis in the author's column.

City farming, biohacking, organic products and agritourism - these "professions of the future" lure applicants to the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, where students are being enrolled these days. Meanwhile, after the arrival of a new rector, a friend of the Minister of Agriculture, the famous university has only one name left. Over the past few years, the leadership of the academy got rid of almost all the former teaching staff, many laboratories are closed as unnecessary, water is pouring from the ceilings in dormitories, students and staff who disagree with the policy of the university administration are intimidated, and there is no one else to teach real agricultural disciplines. The Insider spoke with former and current employees of Timiryazevka to find out what was going on there.

How a minister's girlfriend became a rector

In December 2016, the former vice-governor of the Krasnodar Territory, United Russia Party member Galina Zolina was appointed to the post of acting. rector of the Timiryazev Academy, the largest agricultural university in Russia. Zolina never worked in agriculture - she graduated from the correspondence department of the Maikop Pedagogical Institute and taught Russian language and literature.

Zolina became the rector of Timiryazevka when the Minister of Agriculture was Alexander Tkachev, with whom she has a long-standing close relationship. In 1999, she took the post of Deputy General Director for Social Issues of Agrocomplex Vyselkovsky, which was co-owned by father and brother of Tkachev... After Tkachev was appointed head of the region, Zolina became his media advisor, and even later - his deputy for social development.

Zolina is a philologist by education. In 2007, she defended her Ph.D. thesis at the Faculty of Journalism of KubSU and received the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences. Her scientific work was devoted to the most important philological problem - the formation of a positive image of the Krasnodar Territory in the media. According to the Dissernet project, her dissertation consists of borrowings.

In 2015, after the appointment of Tkachev to the post of Minister of Agriculture, Zolina was dismissed from the post of Deputy Governor and after a year and a half she headed Timiryazevka. Immediately become a rector without the prefix Acting she could not, because she did not meet the necessary qualification requirements - for this she must have a specialized experience of at least five years. But three years later, in January 2018, she was approved in the position. During Zolina's work in Timiryazevka, many employees who disagreed with her management decisions were dismissed. Teachers and students of the academy repeatedly went to rallies, protesting against the methods of leadership of the new rector.

["Interlocutor", 11/21/2017, "How Tkachev's girlfriend plowed the agricultural academy": Galina Zolina is an old and close friend and associate of the Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev. They are the same age, they were born in the same village of Vyselki, Krasnodar Territory. [...]
Deputy Tkachev, remember in Krasnodar, kept the edge in tight-knit gloves. Locals compare her sometimes with Furtseva - also from a plow, but gravitating towards culture, then with Khrushchev - with all his quirks. On Krasnodar land, Zolina lined up local media outlets, established ties with the diocese, and even received the Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga for this. After Tkachev moved to Moscow, the new governor fired his predecessor's companion, and she followed her countryman to the capital. After working for some time at the Ministry of Agriculture, Galina Zolina was appointed rector of the Timiryazev Academy. The team received the Varangian coolly. [...]
Timiryazevka thundered in the spring of 2016, when a government commission decided to withdraw 100 hectares of building land from the academy. University employees united and began to fight to prevent the alma mater from being robbed. Putin personally had to intervene in the matter. "Leave Timiryazevka alone!" - was his verdict. After that, the land issue was abandoned, but, as the university suggests, it was not closed.
- This is too tasty morsel. We know that after the scandal, Minister Tkachev had a conversation with the Deputy Prime Minister Shuvalov behind closed doors. It is not known whether they abandoned the initial idea or decided to act differently, but it was at this time that Zolina's candidacy arose, ”says a source at the academy.
First of all, the heads of the most active fighters against the transfer of lands flew off. [...]
Dozens of people, even those who have worked at the university for 20-30 years, left their jobs. New ones were hired instead, many came from Krasnodar. From there, dance and vocal ensembles come along, which perform at university holidays. Now from the Kuban, food is transported to Timiryazevka - from CJSC "Agrocomplex". Of course, the path is not short, but who is counting. - Box K.ru]

"Students are threatened, almost everyone is being followed."

One of the latest high-profile stories was the dismissal of the dean of the Faculty of Agronomy and Biotechnology Alexander Solovyov. He was one of the organizers of the protests against the transfer of the experimental lands of the academy for commercial development. He told The Insider about the reasons for his dismissal:

“From the moment of her appointment, Zolina was faced with the task of getting rid of those who opposed the seizure of land. In a little over a year, she got rid of hundreds of people, and now she is just conducting a sweep among those who did not speak much. After I was dismissed from the post of dean of the Faculty of Agronomy and Biotechnology for far-fetched reasons, it was necessary to organize the presence of two reprimands, which was done. And, despite the fact that the trade union committee unanimously supported me, a dismissal order was issued.

The union members who voted for me were subsequently deprived of all allowances in order to discourage. One of the students was accused of organizing a picket and was fined. By and large, all those who quit, were dismissed, who tried to sue, all lost. As far as I understand, the case is not complete without material remuneration of the judge.

Already recently, the use of the laboratory has been banned, students have ceased to get there and cannot conduct scientific research. Students are constantly threatened. Surveillance is carried out on almost everyone - who writes what on social networks, who has put likes to whom - individual conversations are immediately conducted, intimidated by expulsion. Given that these are students who study normally.

And about. the dean, who came instead of me, immediately told my assistant in the dean's office, student Yekaterina: "We will not work together." All allowances were immediately reduced to her, leaving her on a bare salary - despite the fact that her work requires a lot of time, effort, and most importantly, skills and knowledge. Naturally, she was forced to leave.

When her contract for living in the hostel ended, she was given a week to leave - despite the fact that she lived in the hostel with her daughter. They were simply thrown out of the door.

For teachers who at least once spoke out somewhere or did not support, that is, did not speak out "for" the rector's policy, the allowances were canceled. This is 7 km from the Kremlin, and they act as in Krasnodar during the times of the governorship of Tkachev and the vice-governorship of Zolina. But in our country the authorities do not see anything, in our country "everything is fine."

My former deputy for the faculty Olga Aleksandrovna Shchuklina and the deputy dean for educational work Igor Anatolyevich Zavertkin were fired a day after my dismissal from the position of dean. Shchuklina, when her contract for living in the hostel ended, was given a week to leave - despite the fact that she lived in the hostel with her daughter. They were simply thrown out of the door.

I have no idea how the educational process will now be carried out in the disciplines of our department. There are still teachers at the department, now the load is distributed between them, but, for example, people who had practice have left. Now there is no one to lead the practice. The previously used laboratory is closed. The Vice-Rector for Science, Mr. Belopukhov, says that students do not have to learn methods in practice. Of course, why do we need people who own methods? We do not need them, we only need obedient ones who will only follow the instructions of the leadership. "

"Close Timiryazevka, and give the fields for development"

“One gets the impression that Zolina came in order, in fact, to close Timiryazevka - at least to remove from there the technological faculties, which need fields for training students and performing experiments, and to leave there several faculties such as the humanities and economics. Well, the stop "Timiryazevskaya Academy" will remain, everything else will simply be given away for development.

Over the past year, no funds have been allocated to maintain these territories. They sowed mustard in the fields for visibility, and then they forgot about it. She died. So resistant to everything, but for some reason did not grow. It would be better not to be dishonored, as they say.

And now the heads of the experimental stations were expelled: the field station - Yegor Berezovsky, the vegetable station - Vasily Suddenko, he was in charge for many years. Even at the time when I was admitted to the academic council of the university, Zolina said that we need to build new buildings in order to develop the scientific base, despite the fact that not all buildings are even registered in our country, and we will delimit separate areas. That is, where individual plots are demarcated for building, it will be possible to say: you do not use them effectively, well, why do you need to build, there will be Mr. Shuvalov's companies for building these territories.

All our appeals through the deputies, through the round table in the Moscow City Duma, directly to the president, the president’s representative in the Central Federal District, through the government and the Federation Council - it all went into the sand. ”

"There are almost no living animals left. At least there will be plastic ones."

From an open letter from former and current employees of Timiryazevka to President Putin: “Up to 30% of procurement costs - almost 300 million budget rubles! - last year was spent on numerous pseudo-holidays and PR actions. Last year, 2.6% of the funds allocated to the university were allocated for the maintenance of all experimental fields, gardens, greenhouses, forests and vivarium. "

Against the background of the indifferent attitude of the university administration to the educational process, the reduction of salaries, the deprivation of allowances and layoffs, a festive atmosphere reigns in the academy. For example, the rector Zolina bought plastic vegetables, fruits and plastic animals for more than 0.5 million rubles to decorate the territory and premises. “We have bought about 20 thousand plastic toys to 'decorate' the territory of the academy. At about the same time, water was gushing from the ceiling in student dormitories so that the supplied bucket had to be poured out almost every hour, ”a former employee of the academy told The Insider. “There are almost no living animals left, although there will be plastic ones. And baskets with plastic bell peppers are a great decor, ”he said.

According to a former employee of Timiryazevka, on March 30, shortly after the tragedy in the Kemerovo "Winter Cherry", there was a fire in the hostel:

“The garbage chute was on fire. But the students on several floors were awakened not by the sound of the alarm, but by the smoke. It turned out that a significant part of the residents had already been evacuated, they were dressed and with their belongings on the street. And on these floors there was no signal, and they might not wake up. Fire-fighting systems have not been serviced for a long time, since there is no money for this. But there is money to invite Galustyan and "Tea for Two". And about. Farhad Zagirov, head of the integrated security department of the university, then demanded from students to disseminate comments that the signaling worked, and everything was ok. Threatening students and teachers. There are real bandits in the administration, and they are protected by the Ministry of Agriculture and the governor of the Krasnodar Territory. "

“They spend money on all sorts of nonsense, they just filled up the academy with all sorts of props. From lace curtains to ugly animal figures, ”another academy employee told The Insider. According to the interlocutor, huge amounts of money are spent on concerts and performances. “Everyone is dancing, singing. Millions go to graduation, on September 1, for awards, and are presented with diplomas with cash certificates. The feeling that people just decided to shut their eyes with this nonsense. And the fields are not being developed, a whole year has already passed. "

This information was confirmed by The Insider and Pavel Uglinsky, a chemistry teacher who quit the academy:

“Against the background of all these events, Zolina arranges impermissible expenses on various entertainment events. Concerts, inviting some stars, the Turkish choir ... The toilets were repaired with the involvement of so-called designers. Well, against the background of this - falling ceilings. If earlier all the resources were used to resolve these issues with the involvement of the property fund, now, it turns out, the priorities are different. A person with the education of a philologist, a candidate of sciences, does what he can. In the sixth building, where I worked, it was 12-13 degrees in the laboratory all winter. The premises are not heated, the ceilings are also all leaking, a mess, in general. "

On January 12, 2018, the administration of the Timiryazev Academy filed a lawsuit against a group of university employees, former and current. Eight people were defendants in the claim. Among them are Academy Professor Alexander Soloviev, Associate Professor Olga Shchuklina and Oksana Tarasenkova, former head of the department of protocol events and personnel certification. On January 10, Zolina published an appeal in which she complained about "attempts to discredit the university leadership." In her appeal, she argued that after being appointed to the post of rector at the end of 2016, she discovered numerous financial violations, "which still have to be understood by law enforcement agencies." Zolina also accused Solovyov, the dean of the Faculty of Agronomy and Biotechnology, of “in pursuit of the image of a“ public politician ”he began to move more and more from his main activity” and “repeatedly violated his labor duties”. A week later, Solovyov was fired from the academy. In April, the Koptevsky court rejected the second filing of documents.

The Insider was unable to get a comment from Galina Zolina. Her assistant Galina Tsinamdzgvrishvili at first refused to contact the editorial office with the rector, accusing The Insider of incompetence and “fulfilling the order,” and a week later said that “she no longer works in Timiryazevka”. This development of events surprised The Insider's correspondents, because until recently she expressed complete loyalty and devotion to the Academy to its rector. In one of her last posts, she

Russian State Agrarian University named after Timiryazev - Moscow Agricultural Academy announced the resignation of Galina Zolina from the post of rector. Ms Zolina began to run the university in December 2016, she is considered a member of the team of Alexander Tkachev, who at that time headed the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. Galina Zolina's tenure as rector of Timiryazevka was marked by numerous conflicts with the teaching staff, who objected to plans to transfer experimental fields for development.


The press service of the Timiryazev Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Agricultural Academy reported that Galina Zolina left the post of rector, moving to another job. Ms. Zolina began managing the largest agricultural university in Russia in December 2016, her arrival at the post is associated with the support of the then head of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, Alexander Tkachev. Galina Zolina started her career at Agrocomplex, owned by the Tkachev family, and then for ten years was the vice-governor of the Krasnodar Territory for social issues.

From the text published on the official website of the university, it follows that for 20 months of her work as rector of Timiryazevka Galina Zolina brought positive changes to the work of the educational institution. In particular, the Institute of Economics and Management in the Agroindustrial Complex, the Institute of Mechanics and Energy, as well as the Institute of Land Reclamation, Water Management and Construction have been created in the structure of the Moscow Agricultural Academy. The university updated the material and technical base and created a new information infrastructure, the volume of research work in 2017 amounted to 397 million rubles, which is the highest figure in ten years. “The property complex of the university has not undergone negative changes, the land of the university is safe and sound, the registration of property rights for those real estate objects, the status of which was not previously brought into legal form, continues. The university has said goodbye to semi-underground tenants, ”the press service of the university said.

The mention of the safety of the property complex of the Moscow Agricultural Academy in the announcement of the resignation of Galina Zolina did not appear by chance - her tenure as rector of Timiryazevka was marked by numerous scandalous situations, in the center of which were disputes over the property of the university. As Kommersant previously reported, in 2016, the predecessor of Mrs. Zolina, Vyacheslav Lukomets, announced plans to transfer the experimental fields of the academy, located within Moscow, for commercial development. This was opposed by a group of university professors and students. In November 2017, the teachers had a conflict with the new rector Galina Zolina, who, as Professor Alexander Soloviev said, initiated the dismissal of employees who criticized the rector. In January of this year, the university filed a lawsuit to protect the honor and dignity of former and current employees. At the same time, Galina Zolina published an appeal in which she complained about "attempts to discredit the leadership of the Moscow Agricultural Academy and provocative statements aimed at undermining the reputation of the academy." True, the case did not come to the consideration of the claim in court - in February the court returned the application to the leadership of the Moscow Agricultural Academy.

Anna Perova, Krasnodar

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