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Leader of the Labor Russia movement

Chairman of the executive committee of the Labor Russia movement, one of the founders of the Russian Communist Workers' Party, organizer of a number of high-profile street actions, including the May Day demonstration in 1993 in Moscow, which ended in clashes between protesters and riot police, which led to a large number of wounded on both sides. After the October events of 1993, he was taken into custody and released from investigation in February 1994 under a parliamentary amnesty. Expelled from the RCRP in 1996. Former deputy of the Moscow City Council. One of the organizers of the never-fulfilled “people’s television”, founder of the newspaper “Molniya”. In 1984-1985 he was a war correspondent for the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company in Nicaragua.

Viktor Ivanovich Anpilov was born on October 2, 1945 in the village of Belaya Glina, Krasnodar Territory. After graduating from 8th grade high school, entered a vocational school in Taganrog, then went to work at a combine plant and began studying at a school for working youth. Served in the army (in the missile forces). In 1968 he entered Moscow State University at the international department of the Faculty of Journalism. In 1972 he joined the CPSU.

In 1973 he graduated from Moscow State University and went to work in Cuba. Returning to his homeland, he worked at the Higher Komsomol School as a translator, then in regional newspapers in the Moscow region. From 1977 to 1984 he was a commentator for the Main Editorial Board of Radio Broadcasting to Countries Latin America State Television and Radio of the USSR. In 1984-1985 he was a correspondent in Nicaragua, where at that time there was Civil War, in 1985 he returned to his homeland and again began working at the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. He left there in 1991.

Political activity started in 1990 - he ran for people's deputies of the RSFSR and for the Moscow Soviet. He didn’t become a deputy, but he was elected to the Moscow City Council. In the fall of the same year, he registered the newspaper "Molniya" (it was published first on behalf of the "Movement of Communist Initiative" - the anti-Gorbachev wing of the CPSU, and since 1992 it began to be called the "central organ" of the Russian Communist Workers' Party). In November 1991, he participated in the founding congress of the RCRP and was elected secretary of the party's Central Committee. He joined the Stalinists.

In May 1991, Anpilov put forward his candidacy for the elections of the mayor of Moscow, but did not collect the required number of signatures for registration. In the same year, he worked as a confidant of Russian presidential candidate Albert Makashov (who ultimately lost the election).

In 1992, Anpilov became one of the main organizers of the Labor Russia movement, and in October of the same year he was elected a member of the Coordination Council and chairman of the movement's executive committee.

In 1991-1993, Anpilov organized a number of mass actions in Moscow: the demonstration on November 7, 1991, the “Hungry Lines” March, the march to The White house, National Assembly, siege of the “empire of lies”, rally of “empty pots”. He was one of the leaders of the unauthorized demonstration on May 1, 1993 in Moscow, during which mass clashes between protesters and police and riot police occurred (several hundred people on both sides were injured).

On September 21, 1993, after Boris Yeltsin’s decree on the dissolution of the Supreme Council, Anpilov called on his supporters to defend this government body. After introduction state of emergency On October 4 he was hiding in Tula region, where he was arrested. In February 1994, together with other opposition leaders from among the White House defenders, he was released from custody under a parliamentary amnesty. In the same year, he was considered by the leadership of the RCRP as a candidate for the presidency of Russia, but later it was decided to abandon this idea.

In 1995, Anpilov ran for deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The block he entered did not overcome the 5 percent barrier. In September 1996, Anpilov was expelled from the RCRP for attempting to oppose his movement to the party (in anticipation of presidential elections Anpilov on behalf of " Labor Russia" signed an agreement on joint actions in support of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, from whom the leadership of the RCWP decided to distance itself). Anpilov's supporters left the RCWP along with him.

In November 1997, Anpilova's Labor Russia entered into a bloc with the Union of Officers of Stanislav Terekhov and the National Bolshevik Party of Eduard Limonov. The association was called the “revolutionary radical opposition.” In the same year, Anpilov took the initiative to create the national communist association “Front of the Working People, Army and Youth for the USSR,” which was supposed to eventually transform into an electoral association. In January 1999, the "Front" adopted the name "Stalin's Bloc: Labor Russia - Officers - for the USSR." The top three on the bloc's list included Anpilov, Terekhov and Stalin's grandson Yevgeny Dzhugashvili.

In September 1999, Central election Committee registered the "Stalinist bloc" to participate in parliamentary elections. As a result, the bloc received only 0.63 percent of the votes.

In March 2001, Anpilov took part in the by-elections to the State Duma in the Kolomna 106th district and received the second result (Gennady Gudkov won). In November of the same year, Anpilov ran for election to the Moscow City Duma in the 29th Solntsevo district and lost again.

In 2002, the Ministry of Justice refused to register Labor Russia as a political party. In mid-2003, Anpilov received an offer from Vladimir Zhirinovsky to enter the top three of the LDPR party list for next elections to the State Duma, but subsequently the LDPR leadership abandoned this idea.

In December 2003, the leader of Labor Russia announced his intention to submit self-nomination documents to the Central Election Commission as a candidate for the post of President of Russia, but later refused to participate in the elections. He motivated his refusal by “certain events” in the camp of Vladimir Putin’s political opponents.

In the summer of 2005, Anpilov announced that he would stand as a candidate in the next by-election to the State Duma. However, by the end of December he had not submitted the documents necessary for registration.

In July 2006, Anpilov took part in the “Other Russia” forum, organized by opposition representatives in opposition to the G8 summit in St. Petersburg. On December 16, Anpilov participated in the “March of Dissent” (an action of the “Other Russia” that united those dissatisfied with the amendments to the electoral legislation). The action took place without incident.

Anpilov is married and has two children. He is interested in Latin American revolutionary song poetry and Russian folk songs, loves the poetry of Lermontov, Yesenin, Garcia Lorca, Guillen, and Byron. Collects dictionaries and Bibles on different languages. Fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

Viktor Ivanovich Anpilov was born on October 2, 1945 in the village of Belaya Glina, Krasnodar Territory. After graduating from the 8th grade of high school, he entered a vocational school in Taganrog, then went to work at a combine plant and began studying at a school for working youth. Served in the army (in the missile forces). In 1968 he entered Moscow State University at the international department of the Faculty of Journalism. In 1972 he joined the CPSU.

In 1973 he graduated from Moscow State University and went to work in Cuba. Returning to his homeland, he worked at the Higher Komsomol School as a translator, then in regional newspapers in the Moscow region. From 1977 to 1984 he was a commentator for the Main Editorial Board of Radio Broadcasting to Latin American Countries of the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. In 1984-1985 he was a correspondent in Nicaragua, where at that time there was a civil war; in 1985 he returned to his homeland and again began working for the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. He left there in 1991.

He began his political activities in 1990 - he ran for people's deputies of the RSFSR and for the Moscow Soviet. He didn’t become a deputy, but he was elected to the Moscow City Council. In the fall of the same year, he registered the newspaper "Molniya" (it was published first on behalf of the "Movement of Communist Initiative" - the anti-Gorbachev wing of the CPSU, and since 1992 it began to be called the "central organ" of the Russian Communist Workers' Party). In November 1991, he participated in the founding congress of the RCRP and was elected secretary of the party's Central Committee. He joined the Stalinists.

In 1991-1993, Anpilov organized a number of mass actions in Moscow: the demonstration on November 7, 1991, the March of “Hungry Queues”, a march on the White House, the National Assembly, the siege of the “empire of lies”, the rally of “empty pots”. He was one of the leaders of the unauthorized demonstration on May 1, 1993 in Moscow, during which mass clashes between protesters and police and riot police occurred (several hundred people on both sides were injured).

On September 21, 1993, after Boris Yeltsin’s decree on the dissolution of the Supreme Council, Anpilov called on his supporters to defend this government body. After the introduction of a state of emergency on October 4, he hid in the Tula region, where he was arrested. In February 1994, together with other opposition leaders from among the White House defenders, he was released from custody under a parliamentary amnesty. In the same year, he was considered by the leadership of the RCRP as a candidate for the presidency of Russia, but later it was decided to abandon this idea.

In 1995, Anpilov ran for deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The block he entered did not overcome the 5 percent barrier. In September 1996, Anpilov was expelled from the RCWP for attempting to oppose his movement to the party (on the eve of the presidential elections, Anpilov, on behalf of Labor Russia, signed an agreement on joint actions in support of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, from whom the leadership of the RCWP decided to distance itself). Anpilov's supporters left the RCRP along with him.

In September 1999, the Central Election Commission registered the "Stalinist Bloc" to participate in the parliamentary elections. As a result, the bloc received only 0.63 percent of the votes.

In 2002, the Ministry of Justice refused to register Labor Russia as a political party. In mid-2003, Anpilov received an offer from Vladimir Zhirinovsky to enter the top three of the LDPR party list in the next State Duma elections, but subsequently the LDPR leadership abandoned this idea.

Anpilov is married and has two children. He is interested in Latin American revolutionary song poetry and Russian folk songs, loves the poetry of Lermontov, Yesenin, Garcia Lorca, Guillen, and Byron. Collects dictionaries and Bibles in different languages. Fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

Russian political figure. Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the political movement “Labor Russia”. Public politician, organizer and active participant in numerous rallies. Supported the annexation of Crimea to Russian Federation.

Viktor Anpilov was born on October 2, 1945 in the village of Belaya Glina, Krasnodar Territory. He graduated from secondary school No. 9 in 1960. From 1964 to 1967 he served in the missile forces of the Russian Armed Forces, Carpathian Military District.

After demobilization, he went to Moscow, where he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University. After receiving his diploma, he went to Cuba as a translator at the Ministry of Merchant Marine. After returning to his homeland, he worked as a translator at the Higher Komsomol School, and then at regional newspapers in the Moscow region.

From 1977 to 1984, Anpilov worked as a commentator for the Main Editorial Office of Radio Broadcasting to Latin American Countries of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. Until 1985 he was a correspondent in the Republic of Nicaragua. In the same year he returned to Moscow, where he again began working at the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. Resigned in 1991.

In 1990, Anpilov was elected as a deputy of the Moscow Council from the Solntsevo electoral district No. 401. He ran for the Communist political party "Moscow". In the fall, he founded the free newspaper Molniya, published by the Movement of Communist Initiative.

Viktor Ivanovich took part in the founding congress of the Russian Communist Workers' Party. In 1991, he was elected secretary of the central committee, head of the Moscow city party committee. Five years later, he was expelled from the RCRP for attempting to oppose his movement to the party. On the eve of the presidential elections, on behalf of Labor Russia, he signed an agreement on joint actions in support of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov.

In 1992, Viktor Anpilov was one of the founders of the socio-political movement “Working Russia”. He held the post of Chairman of the Executive Committee. Public politician, organizer and participant in numerous anti-Yeltsin rallies from 1992 to 1993. During the October events of 1993, he acted on the side of the Supreme Council.

In December 2003, Anpilov announced his intention to submit self-nomination documents to the Central Executive Committee as a candidate for the post of President of Russia. Later he refused to participate in the elections. Participated in the “March of Dissent”.

Together with party members from Labor Russia, on February 4, 2012, Anpilov came to a rally in support of Vladimir Zhirinovsky. He explained his choice in favor of Vladimir Volfovich as the desire of the presidential candidate to proclaim a Parliamentary Republic.

In 2014, he supported the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation. In the fall of 2017, he came out in support of Pavel Grudinin with the aim of nominating him as a presidential candidate, who was subsequently nominated by the Communist Party of Russia. On January 7, 2018, on the capital’s Red Square, Viktor Anpilov was detained by police for a single picket in support of a communist candidate.

On January 13, 2018, Viktor Ivanovich Anpilov was urgently hospitalized at the Sklifosovsky Moscow City Research Institute of Emergency Medicine with a stroke. He was in a coma for two days.

Viktor Anpilov died January 15, 2018 at the age of 72 due to a stroke. He was buried in the Tuapse cemetery in the Krasnodar region.

Family of Viktor Anpilov

Brother - Anatoly Ivanovich.

Wife - Vera Emelyanovna Anpilova (married since 1976).
Daughter - Anastasia, graduated from the Institute foreign languages named after Maurice Thorez.
Son - Sergei.

10:18 — REGNUM In Moscow, at the age of 73, the leader of the Labor Russia movement, Viktor Anpilov, died. The cause of death was stroke.

Viktor Ivanovich Anpilov was born on October 2, 1945 in the village of Belaya Glina, Krasnodar Territory, he was the youngest of six children in a peasant family. The future politician graduated from a vocational school in Taganrog with a degree in mechanics in 1962, then entered the school for working youth.

In 1973, Anpilov graduated from the international department of the Faculty of Journalism of the Moscow state university them. M. V. Lomonosov. Before and in parallel with his studies, he worked as an assembly mechanic at the Taganrog Combine Harvester Plant and served in the army.

Anpilov joined the CPSU in 1972 and retained his party card. The politician did not leave the party until its liquidation in 1991. Since 1967, he worked as a correspondent for the newspaper “The Path of October” in the Beloglinsky district of the Krasnodar Territory, and then, from 1974 to 1978, as a correspondent for the regional newspaper “Leninets” in the Leninsky district of the Moscow region.

Since 1978, Anpilov has been a correspondent and then a political commentator for the Main Editorial Office of Radio Broadcasting to Latin American Countries of the USSR State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting (Gosteleradio). During the period of active hostilities between the leftist movement and the opposition in Nicaragua, Anpilov worked in this country as a correspondent for the USSR State Committee on Television and Radio Broadcasting.

In 1990, Anpilov put forward his candidacy for the elections of people's deputies of the RSFSR in the RSFSR in the Nizhny Novgorod national-territorial district No. 3 (Moscow). He lost this election to TV journalist Vladimir Mukusev.

Anpilov was elected as a deputy of the Moscow City Council of People's Deputies for the Solntsevo district, and was a member of the communist faction "Moscow". In the same 1990, Anpilov founded the newspaper “Molniya” (published from 1992 to 1996). A year later, he initiated the creation of the Labor Moscow movement and the Labor Russia movement.

The politician became known primarily for organizing mass communist demonstrations and protests in Moscow. In 1991, he became the first secretary of the organizing committee of the Moscow Organization of Communists of Russia.

He was a prominent public politician, organizer and active participant in numerous anti-Yeltsin rallies in 1992-1993, at which he called for the overthrow of the regime. Including May 1, 1993, when mass demonstrations led to riots.

In May 1991, Anpilov put forward his candidacy for the post of mayor of Moscow, but was unable to collect the required number of signatures. In 1993, he was one of the organizers of the Second Congress of the Communist Party of the RSFSR, at which the simultaneously created Communist Party of the Russian Federation was declared “revisionist.”

In October 1993, Anpilov, together with members of the Labor Russia movement, participated in the defense of the White House. After the defeat he was able to escape, but was later arrested and subsequently released under an amnesty. In 1995 he ran for State Duma Russian Federation of the 2nd convocation according to the list of the electoral bloc “Communists - Labor Russia - For Soviet Union“, however, did not get into the Duma - the bloc was unable to overcome the 5% barrier.

In the 1996 presidential elections, Anpilov, on behalf of the Labor Russia movement, supported the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov. In 1999, he ran for the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the third convocation, headed the list of “Stalin’s bloc - for the USSR” and again the bloc was unable to overcome the barrier, gaining only 0.61%.

On March 18, 2001, he participated in the by-election of a deputy of the State Duma of the 3rd convocation in the 106th Kolomna single-mandate electoral district. 13% of voters voted for him, but Gennady Gudkov won in this district. In 2006-2007, he took part in meetings and rallies social movement"The Other Russia". Participant of numerous “Dissent Marches”.

In 2007, Anpilov stated that Labor Russia was refusing to cooperate with the Other Russia, organized by Garry Kasparov, Lyudmila Alekseeva and Georgy Satarov with the participation of Mikhail Kasyanov and Eduard Limonov. The reason given was the reluctance to participate in “senseless, unprogrammed, unsystematic actions.”

On February 9, 2012, Viktor Anpilov was registered as a confidant of the Russian presidential candidate, leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky. In the fall of 2017, the politician supported the candidacy of Pavel Grudinin in the presidential elections from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Anpilov was hospitalized at the Research Institute of Emergency Medicine named after. N.V. Sklifosofsky January 13 at in serious condition. He suffered a massive stroke.

Viktor Anpilov wrote two books of memoirs - “Our Struggle” (2002) and “Comprehension of Freedom” (2010). He had a great command Spanish, spoke English and Portuguese. His favorite poet was Federico García Lorca, whose lyrics he often read for friends.

Anpilov Viktor Ivanovich

1960 - graduated from school No. 9 in the village of Belaya Glina, Krasnodar Territory.
1960 - entered a vocational school in Taganrog, graduating from school with a degree in mechanics, worked until 1964 as a fitter at the Taganrog Combine Harvester Plant. At the same time as working at the factory, he studied at the school for working youth
1964-1967 - compulsory military service
1973 - graduated from the international department of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University
After graduating from university, he went to work in Cuba as a translator at the USSR Ministry of the Navy.
After returning to the USSR, he worked as a translator at the Higher Komsomol School, then in regional newspapers in the Moscow region.
From 1977 to 1984 he was a commentator for the Main Editorial Board of Radio Broadcasting to Latin American Countries of the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. In 1984-1985 was a correspondent in Nicaragua, returned to his homeland in 1985 and again began working at the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, from where he left in 1991.
In 1990, he was elected as a deputy of the Moscow City Council from the 401st Solntsevsky electoral district of Moscow, and became a member of the Moscow faction of communists.
In the fall of 1990, he founded the newspaper Molniya, published by the Movement of Communist Initiative.
Participant in the founding congress of the Russian Communist Workers' Party (RCWP), elected Secretary of the Central Committee (1991), head of the Moscow City Party Committee. In October 1996, he was expelled from the RCRP for attempting to oppose his movement to the party (on the eve of the presidential elections, Anpilov, on behalf of Labor Russia, signed an agreement on joint actions in support of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov).
One of the founders of the socio-political movement “Labor Russia” (1992), chairman of the executive committee.
Organizer and active participant in numerous anti-Yeltsin rallies in 1992-1993, at which he called for the overthrow of the regime.
During the October events of 1993, he was an active participant on the side of the Supreme Council.
Arrested October 7, 1993
February 26, 1994 - released under amnesty
In 2006-2007, he took part in meetings and rallies of the public movement “The Other Russia”
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the socio-political movement “Labor Russia” (1992-2012)
Honorary Chairman of the Labor Russia movement (2012-2018)
Died on January 15, 2018 in Moscow. After cremation, the ashes are buried in the Tuapse cemetery in the Krasnodar Territory

Married since 1976, his wife is Vera Emelyanovna Anpilova. Daughter - Anastasia, son - Sergey.

On March 18, 2001, he participated in the by-election of a deputy of the State Duma of the 3rd convocation in the 106th Kolomna single-mandate electoral district. 13% of voters voted for him (Gennady Gudkov won in this district).