Vladimir Kolesnikov has vast experience in various positions in the internal affairs bodies and in the prosecutor's office. He took part in the disclosure of high-profile cases that caused a public outcry. Kolesnikov has repeatedly opposed the abolition of the death penalty in the country, considering this step unreasonable and premature.
From the biography of Vladimir Ilyich Kolesnikov
The future Russian statesman and politician was born in Gudauta (Abkhazia) on May 14, 1948. In 1965, Vladimir began his career as a laborer, and then as a fitter-adjuster of a local winery. Then he entered the law faculty of Rostov State University, which he graduated in 1973. In the future, Kolesnikov continued his education - the Ministry of Internal Affairs Academy was behind him. He graduated in 1990, after which he returned to Rostov-on-Don for further service.
Vladimir Ilyich has a twin brother, Victor. Vladimir Ilyich is married, he has two sons.
Career of Vladimir Kolesnikov
Since 1973, Kolesnikov serves in the internal affairs bodies. He started by working in one of the Rostov regional police departments. He was an investigator, and the deputy head of the criminal investigation department had grown up. Subsequently, he became deputy head of the Department of Internal Affairs, was responsible for the criminal police service. In 1990, he participated in the detention of the serial killer Chikatilo.
Until August 1991, he was a member of the CPSU. The immediate boss of Kolesnikov arrested members of the Emergency Committee Valentin Pavlov and Anatoly Lukyanov. Vladimir Ilyich himself was a member of the group that was detaining another member of the Emergency Committee - Boris Pugo. However, he managed to shoot himself.
During the so-called constitutional crisis in October 1993, Kolesnikov led a detachment of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who stormed the city hall building. The operation lasted about half an hour; about three hundred people were involved in it.
Since 1995, Vladimir Ilyich headed the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Two years later he became a member of the commission of the Security Council of Russia. Here he was responsible for economic security issues.
Since 1998, Kolesnikov is the first deputy head of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs. Two years later, he filed a resignation report and became an adviser to the Russian prosecutor general. Kolesnikov has repeatedly spoken about the prematureness of the abolition of the death penalty in the country.
In April 2002, he was appointed Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia. He was in charge of cases that caused a great public outcry. After the resignation of Vladimir Ustinov from the post of prosecutor general in 2006, Kolesnikov also left the civil service.
