Shilo Taganrog Biography

In a word, a typical "capercaillie". It seems that the murder is one of those who will never be disclosed. And yet we will try to offer our versions, why on October 30, the mayor of Taganrog, Sergei Ivanovich Shilo, was shot in many ways controversial, ambiguous. The first version. To free from the "dad" the day before the funeral of Sergei Ivanovich in one of the offices of the city administration, an influential official said: "Tomorrow there will be many tears, but some will have tears of joy." Later, when we recalled Sergei Shilo with one of the local entrepreneurs, he dropped the phrase: “I think that on the night of GO on October 31 there were many business representatives who, having learned about the death of Sergei Ivanovich, could not hide joy.

After all, the possibilities that they did not dream of him unexpectedly fell upon them! People who knew the awl well say: he was what is called - a strong leader. His hypostasis manifested itself in the years, which today are called "dashing." But they were "dashing" in the capitals. And Taganrog, even in E, was a quiet city, and he was called “red” in criminal circles: law enforcement agencies here reliably controlled the situation.

As for the urban economy and business, which in E only began to form, these spheres and processes in them were strongly controlled by the Taganrog mayor himself. Even then, long before the famous period of “stability”, he built his own power vertical, and in addition to it, a system for managing the process of privatization of Taganrog enterprises and the formation of a large Taganrog business.

The strategic goal was to make control over significant objects of the Taganrog industry to local entrepreneurs, but that a large business does not feel too free and always remember who and what he owes. We must pay tribute to Sergey Ivanovich: having passed the party and executive school, he learned to pursue a personnel policy. In the leadership, such a complex structure as a city, it is important that there are people that you can trust in key links, primarily in economics and business.

At the same time, Sergey Shilo could always use his influence, for example, to assist the development of some areas and “field” others, for which, from the point of view of the mayor, time has not yet come. Therefore, when on the sidelines they said that Sergey Shilo controls the city business, this was partly the case. Consider more specifics, the unspoken traditions of Taganrog, in which a lot is built on personal relations, direct agreements.

You have to be a very naive leader in order not to understand this and not use it in managerial work. And Sergey Ivanovich was not a naive person. The mayor wanted to "subtly manage" business and economics, to influence who comes to leading posts in economic and economic structures. It goes without saying that all these people owed him: career growth, material income, prestigious position in society.

But this addiction, as we can assume, has a weighing someone. Or maybe she did not allow her to turn into full power. Another thing is possible: someone could seriously be afraid that he was losing the location of the mayor, and after this may lose his place, profitable business, radiant prospects for further enrichment or political growth. Is it impossible to assume that once these fears and dependence for someone filled the bowl of patience?

And since the bets were high, the only way to solve could be a complete getting rid of such control and such dependence. The second version. The war for the port in X unfolded the privatization of state property. Sergei Shilo wanted the process of privatization in Taganrog to go in the interests of the city and local structures. He needed this to fulfill a big dream about creating a free economic zone in Taganrog.

Sergei Ivanovich, in his plans, saw Taganrog in the city in a certain sense “independent” and self -sufficient and, as much as possible, independent of regional and federal structures. In order to do this, he made efforts in two directions. First of all, attracting the most influential entrepreneurs of Taganrog, he did everything possible so that these people could participate in the acquisition of Taganrog enterprises on a priority basis.

On the other hand, he very successfully established connections with influential Russian officials. Which could support both the “independent” process of privatization in Taganrog and strategic plans for economic isolation at the federal level. But the trouble is: Taganrog and his varnish pieces have already become interested in third-party business structures. In this regard, the “dispute of business entities” for the Taganrog trading port is indicative.

The head of the port was a young protege of the Taganrog mayor. Not without the influence of Sergei Shilo, a project for the construction of a powerful coal terminal in the Mius estuary has already begun to be carried out.I myself witnessed how the Federal Minister of Coal Industry flew in a helicopter and, together with the director of the Taganrog Port and the mayor of Taganrog, scored the first pegs at the construction site, near the Beglitsky braid.

But these grandiose plans were not destined to come true, because fuss for third-party business structures began around the port. Despite this, Sergei Ivanovich continued to bend his line. His last press conference, at which he, in particular, said that a control package of shares of the Taganrog Port, can acquire a large Taganrog entrepreneur. I do not exclude that at that time Sergey Shilo was fully “included” his ties at the top in order to prevent the port of the “alien” structures.

And at this moment it may be a random coincidence? The version is third. Politics once, talking with one of the former officials of the Taganrog administration, influential close close to Sergey Shilo, I heard the following: “In the higher authorities of Sergei Ivanovich, they did not like. He was too independent and independent. And often he did what some especially did not like: he sought to solve problems without observing subordination.

” The relationship between Sergei Shilo with individual higher organizations was really tense. There is also an opinion that there was a certain number of influential people, including in a large Taganrog business who did not want him to remain at his post. The controlled mayor in the administrative vertical is more preferable, there are fewer problems with him, he cannot, in case of something, to compete.

And Sergey Shilo assertively and even defiantly drawn a line of embedding into federal political structures, which could give him greater administrative weight and greater invulnerability. I well remember our joint trip to Rostov, to meet with Yuri Luzhkov, who presented his party “Fatherland”. As you know, together with Evgeny Primakov, he was then a real contender for the successors of Boris Yeltsin.

Sergei Shilo, apparently, then made a bet on Luzhkov. As further political events showed in vain. Generally speaking, all these movements and inconvenient initiatives of Sergei Shilo, aimed at acquiring Taganrog of greater independence, naturally could not be liked by everyone. He was often criticized for Napoleonic plans with the SEZ and the Black Sea Club and advised more to deal with everyday economic problems.

But it was also impossible to remove Sergei Shilo from Taganrog.

Firstly, he enjoyed the support of the population and won the elections, and secondly, at that time he was the only alternative to the Candidate of the Communist Party, which was constantly “seating” for Taganrog, whose victory could not be allowed at all. But by the year the situation has changed significantly. By this time, Sergei Shilo, remaining the mayor of Taganrog, was already largely isolated from the city government.

A little more, and it is quite legitimate, in the elections, they could be replaced by the mayor. And suddenly this murder happens! I want to emphasize right away: in no case I do not claim that Sergei Shilo could “order” based on the change of power. But there are too many coincidences ... about what a cementing figure Sergey Shilo was in Taganrog is convincingly evidenced by further events.

As a result of his death, Taganrog entered the political chaos for a year, a large redistribution of property and a series of new custom -made killings began. Large representatives of the grain business, influential immigrants from law enforcement agencies lay under bullets, and someone was behind bars for a long time. During the mayor, a scandalous struggle unfolded. But even when everything was settled, the city did not benefit from this.

The farther, the more and more people began to come to the city leadership, to put it mildly, “gray” and faceless. And against their background, the personality of the first mayor of Taganrog Sergey Shilo today looks much more advantageous. Despite all his eccentricities and mistakes.