Vladimir MARKIN: everything I did and do is creativity

Birth and family

Vladimir was born on May 8, 1959 in the village of Bolshevo (this is a junction railway station in the Mytishchi district of the Moscow region).

His mother, Vera Georgievna, worked as a primary school teacher at school. Dad, Nikolai Markovich, was an engineer by profession and worked as a foreman in the technical control department. Volodya also has an older brother, Anatoly, now he is also a professional musician.

When the boy was five years old, the family moved to the city of Pushkino in the Moscow region, where the future musician spent his childhood and teenage years.

Vladimir Markin now

Today, Vladimir Ivanovich Markin continues to work at RusHydro and has become a member of the company’s board since February 2020.

In the same 2020, he was awarded two medals of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation “For purity of thoughts and nobility of deeds” and “Valor and courage.”

Vladimir Markin on the eve of the 2018 World Cup

Since he is the chairman of the RFU committee, he had plenty of work on the eve of the 2018 World Cup. British fans reported that they were ready to start World War III in Russia, but Markin hastened to dissuade them. He said that English fans would not be able to riot during the championship; they would not even be able to fight. Everything will be nipped in the bud.

As a result, the championship took place without major incidents or glitches. Security at the World Cup was at the highest level, facilitated by advanced technologies and interaction with law enforcement agencies of other countries.

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School years

At the age of seven, Volodya, as expected, went to secondary school No. 1 in the city of Pushkino. Their class was extremely friendly; they still hold a class reunion once a year.

His first teacher was his mother. The kids in the class were jealous, the teacher was also my mother, it was great. In fact, Volodya did not see any advantages in this, because his mother asked and demanded many times more from him than from other children. But thanks to this, Markin studied well. Until the seventh grade, he was an excellent student, and he graduated from the ten-year school with only two “B’s” in his certificate.

Since childhood, Volodya was fascinated by radio engineering and design. One day he collected radio transmitters so that he could communicate with his friends. But the invention turned out to have some sad consequences. The guys never managed to talk, but when the radio transmitters were turned on, the TVs in the whole house stopped working.

At the age of fourteen, Volodya read in “Young Technician” how to make a moped out of an old bicycle by attaching scooter wheels with reinforced spokes to it. He liked the idea and brought it to life. There was even a buyer for the designed equipment. Markin trustingly handed over the moped; they promised to bring him the money in two days. Only he is still waiting for them, this was the first time Volodya was cheated out of money.

Singer Vladimir Markin: “Thanks to tea, at 94 years old, I look 65!”

Having congratulated the chain of large supermarkets on its anniversary, he spoke to Rostovites on the Left Bank of the Don. And at the same time I talked with KP.

- How do you our city?

- Rostov-papa! And that's it. In fact, this is not the first nor the last time I’ve been here and I can state that Rostov is still the leader in the number of beautiful girls. Plus, every time I come here I have more and more friends and reasons to come here. I have part of my business in Rostov.

— What will you do while you are in Rostov?

“You won’t believe it, I’ve already managed to go to the market and buy some cool bream.” I will destroy them and other varieties of fish. I really love dried bream, I already have a whole refrigerator full of them.

— Will you just walk around the city?

- As soon as we eat enough fish, of course I’ll go for a walk!

— You look very good: pumped up, tanned, so athletic. Do you go to the gym? Do you do fitness?

- Only tea! I drink my tea. I have never been addicted to anything harmful - neither alcoholic drinks nor cigarettes. And even instead of milk, my mother taught me to drink tea from childhood. First to black, later to green. Maybe it’s really thanks to tea that, at 94 years old, I look 65 years old. (Laughs.)

- Why tea and not coffee or something else?

- Because I understand him, I love him. There are a lot of fakes on our Russian market. What is called Ceylon tea and everything that is generally called tea in our country is not always a truly high-quality product. Many promoted Western brands are just brands, a powerful advertising campaign. And just as I have been promoting good songs all my life, I am now promoting real, high-quality Ceylon tea and am ready to answer for it with my name.

— Does the tea business bring you more money than the stage?

— So far it brings me only expenses. In order to overtake foreign representatives, you need to invest a lot. It is necessary not only to release a good product, but also for this product to be noticed, at least tried, and then loved. Naturally, you can’t escape competition. I think that there will be some profit in a year and a half, not earlier.

— How do you feel about the partnership with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper?

- Why not? “Komsomolskaya Pravda” is a well-promoted brand that has always conveyed only the truth.

-Are you amorous?

- Oh, well, you asked. Any artist is in love. It used to be that I would come to a concert in Rostov, see your girls and immediately fall in love. But after 15 seconds I understand that I have a beloved wife at home, and this amorousness quickly passes. Real feelings that should be present in the family take over.

- What kind of girls do you like?

— Cheerful, mischievous, with a sense of humor, but shy. And also with taste, so that they are not loose and at the same time know their worth.

— Would you take the cheerful girls with you from Rostov?

- Well, of course. They will collect tea from my plantations. (Laughs.)

— Do you have any favorite places in our city?

— As in any city I come to on tour, there is very little time to explore beautiful places. Therefore, you need to at least have time to see your friends, and where this happens is no longer important. Of course, I want to sit in some less noisy place, quietly, with bream under my arm. But since I don't sleep much at night, I slept the whole way on the way to the hotel. Sometimes, of course, I jumped on bumps, but the car they met me in was good, so bumps on the roads didn’t bother me much.

— How do you feel about today’s pop performers?

— I divide all music into two parts: the one that I like and the one that I don’t like. "Tasty or tasteless." The first one is one that is made in different genres, but turns out very nice.

— Have you ever wanted to play hard rock?

— I recently registered on the Odnoklassniki website and heard a lot of flattering reviews from my classmates and school graduates, those who are a little younger. They reminded me that, it turns out, at school, in the vocal-instrumental ensemble that I once created, I performed compositions by Led Zeppelin and songs by the group Quin. By the way, I’m going to make a separate concert program of songs by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep pirple.

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Singer and producer Vladimir Markin visited Rostov. Having congratulated the chain of large supermarkets on its anniversary, he spoke to Rostovites on the Left Bank of the Don. And at the same time I talked with KP.

Passion for music

At the age of thirteen, an exemplary pioneer, school drummer and bugler Volodya Markin went to Czechoslovakia. The group went big, it was fun, on buses and in the evenings they often sang songs with a guitar. The observant Markin noticed that boys who can play the guitar receive special attention from girls. That’s when Volodya had the desire to pick up a guitar and learn to play.

Despite the fact that his older brother studied accordion at a music school, Vladimir mastered musical instruments on his own (guitar and keyboards).

In high school, he already played in the school ensemble “Silhouettes”. The children performed at school parties, performing musical compositions by the group “Time Machine”, aspiring singers Alla Pugacheva and Yuri Antonov, and, of course, Western classical rock musicians “Deep Purple”, “Slade”, “Queen”.

After school, Vladimir, on the advice of his parents, became a student at the Moscow Energy Institute; the faculty was chosen as electromechanical. Although music fascinated him more and more every day, he had to get a serious profession. Although his creative nature still made itself felt: Volodya headed the cultural work on the course, and then began to work part-time at the All-Union Research Institute of the Forestry Industry, where he led an amateur art group.

During my student years I tried to find time for music, but it didn’t always work out. In addition to studying from the first year, Markin worked nights and evenings, mastered so many specialties that he will never go hungry:

• mason and carpenter;
• draftsman-detailer;
• installer and concrete worker;
• piano tuner;
• seamstress-motorist;
• Electrical Engineer.

At one time he even worked as a packer at the Malyutka factory.

First business

Volodya began his path in business while studying at the Moscow Energy Institute.

His friend Lyoshka sewed jeans for himself from canvas, which in those years were impossible to buy; even if they were obtained from speculators, the trousers were incredibly expensive. Vladimir asked his mother to also sew him jeans from canvas. To which she answered her son: “Well, Lyoshka sewed it himself, and you can sew it.”

Volodya bought a tarpaulin and took out his mother’s sewing machine. I ripped open my old trousers, trying to make denim patterns, then I took patterns from Lyoshka and sewed my first jeans. He liked the experience gained and the result obtained, and Markin decided to put this business on stream.

Although music seemed to be his life’s work, Vladimir mentally understood that he would not make a big fortune with it yet. Therefore, he set up an entire sewing workshop at home, for which he bought six industrial machines. His clandestine jeans production workshop could compete with a clothing factory; up to twelve pairs of trousers were made in one night.

Volodya established sales of finished products through consignment stores, where no one could even imagine that the jeans were not real. The trousers were sewn professionally and were of excellent quality. Now this kind of production would be called private entrepreneurial activity, but then such a business was prohibited; Markin could be convicted under three articles at once. At that time, real jeans cost speculators from 150 to 250 rubles, and Markin sold his for 130-140 rubles.

He obtained the material through connections, but the funny thing is that Vladimir sewed his signature jeans from high-quality Soviet corduroy, which he bought from Mongolian students at a price of 15 rubles per meter. The chain was long: Mongolian students took fabric from their train conductors, conductors purchased corduroy from wholesalers in Mongolia, and they, in turn, received the material directly from warehouses, where the fabric was supplied from the Soviet Union at a price of 3.20 rubles per meter.

This is the path the fabric took until it fell into the hands of Markin, during which time the price increased five times. Nevertheless, the business was put into operation and was successful; in total, Vladimir produced about two thousand pairs of trousers. But one day in one day he saw his jeans on three people at once - in the subway, at the institute and on the train. Volodya realized that the matter had acquired an industrial scale, it was time to stop before he went to prison. Although such a jeans business gave the aspiring musician Vladimir Markin the opportunity at that time not to think about money at all.

Vladimir Markin: biography

Vladimir Markin is a Russian statesman, until 2016 he was the “voice” of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Since 2011, he has covered the work of the federal department. Before the RF IC, he conducted journalistic activities and was a producer for the Russian television channels NTV and Rossiya.

Vladimir Markin

After leaving the post of head of the media relations department, he was appointed first deputy general director of PJSC RusHydro.

Professional path

In 1980, Volodya went to the Alushta health and sports camp (from the Moscow Energy Institute). Since 1981, he began working there in a brigade of cultural traders. This was his first job, where he stayed for six whole years. It was here, in Alushta, that Markin proved himself as a singer, organizer and leader, and met musicians, television directors and editors. I also received an interesting offer - to join the musical group “Magic Twilight”.

With this group, Markin not only performed at camp evenings, but also appeared on television in the program “Jolly Fellows.” Later, he took part in the filming of the Morning Mail program, where he performed the song “I’m ready to kiss the sand,” which became his calling card and made him famous throughout the country.

Having received a higher technical education, Markin went to work at the institute's Palace of Culture. Here he created the musical group “Difficult Childhood”, which included three people - Markin himself, musician and showman Sergei Shustitsky, and the creator of the TV series “Jolly Fellows” Andrei Knyshev. They toured the country and quickly gained popularity with songs performed by Markin:

• "Purple Haze";
• "Princess the Unsmey";
• “The cutest one in the yard”;
• "White bird cherry";
• "Brownie";
• "Bells".

Over time, the show group “Difficult Childhood” grew into a theater, then into a company, now it is a whole corporation, which includes an advertising and holiday agency, the House of Culture of the Moscow Energy Institute, and the Lilac Fog pavilion-restaurant. The “Difficult Childhood” holding has its own recording studio and television editing room. Markin and his corporation do a lot of charity work, for example, they allocated a large sum of money for the construction of a shelter for homeless animals.

In the early 2000s, the singer moved away from music; now he can be seen as a presenter at the “Disco of the 80s”.

In the late 1990s, Vladimir led several television projects:

• on the RTR channel the music and entertainment program “Lilac Fog”;
• the television program “Bingo Show” (its co-host was actress Ksenia Alferova);
• KVN was invited to the games of the Major League as a member of the jury.

In recent years, Markin has become involved in social and political activities. Since 2012, he has represented the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the Municipal Assembly of the Vykhino-Zhulebinsky district of Moscow. In 2016, in the elections to the State Duma, he was a candidate in district No. 199 and took 6th place.

Career

After graduating from Moscow State University, Vladimir Markin returned to his native Chelyabinsk and got a job as a correspondent for a local newspaper. But after a couple of years he finally moved to the capital and became a radio presenter on All-Union Radio. He hosted the programs “Man and Law” and “Time, Events, People.”

In 1991, he was invited to work for the Central Television of the USSR, which after the collapse of the Union became known as the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, where he worked for the next 6 years and gained experience as a TV presenter. At the same time, Vladimir Markin appeared on television screens as the author and TV host of the talk show “Career”, in whose studio he hosted political, public, cultural and scientific figures of the country, including the ex-mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak and film director Eldar Ryazanov.

In 1997, Vladimir Ivanovich temporarily left television and went to work for the Reform international foundation, where he received the position of director of public relations. In his post, Markin also oversaw issues related to socio-economic reforms and privatization in Russia. Having shown professionalism in the work of the Reforma Foundation, Vladimir Ivanovich was appointed Deputy Minister for Information and Press Affairs of the Moscow Region, after which in 2001 he returned to television and became a producer for the NTV and Rossiya television channels.

Official representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin

As a journalist, Vladimir Markin was included in the TOP 50 people of 2011 who contribute to the information benefit of the population, in which he took 9th place according to the version, and in the same year he became newsmaker of the year among Russian journalists.

In 2007, the biography of Vladimir Markin took a political course, and the journalist’s career radically changed its direction. Vladimir Ivanovich became the main “supplier” of news for the Investigative Committee under the Russian Prosecutor’s Office, making the department an “open structure” that closely cooperates with the media. In September 2010, by order of the then current Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation was liquidated, and on its basis the Investigative Committee for Criminal Cases was created, in which Markin also became the head of the public relations department.

Vladimir Markin commented on investigations of high-profile criminal cases

Vladimir Markin’s comments about investigations into high-profile criminal cases were actively discussed among the population and in the “corridors” of power. He successfully copes with his duties and is distinguished by particular professionalism in his position, showing remarkable calm and resistance to various provocations and criticism regarding the work of the investigative authorities.

The achievements of Vladimir Markin in his position were of considerable importance for the country. Thanks to him, the RF IC became the leader of Russian law enforcement agencies mentioned in the media according to the positive index. The work of the government agency began to be widely and objectively covered in the press, which made it possible to create a stable opinion in society about the principle of the inevitability of punishment and become a powerful means of crime prevention.

Official representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin

In his work, he showed uncompromisingness and was not afraid to discipline officials of the highest rank. At the same time, he realized that the lack of control on the Internet could be used by various forces to discredit both the country’s leadership and individual government departments.

Vladimir Ivanovich considered that the presence and participation of official representatives of law enforcement agencies on the Internet is simply necessary. He created Twitter, where he personally informed users on behalf of the Investigative Committee. Soon comments on sports-related topics began to appear on his microblog; he paid close attention to the successes and failures of the football team, the doping scandal, and the Olympics. Markin also spoke unflatteringly about the adventures of football players Pavel Mamaev and Alexander Kokorin in Monte Carlo.

In the summer of 2011, Vladimir Ivanovich Markin decided to participate in the primaries. He applied for inclusion in the list of the United Russia party from the Volgograd region as a representative of the All-Russian Popular Front.

As Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported, Markin wanted to become a deputy in order to lobby the interests of the Investigative Committee in the Duma, as opposed to Alexander Khinshtein, who was known as a lobbyist for the Prosecutor General’s Office. Khinshtein regularly criticized the work of the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin.

One way or another, the Prosecutor General’s Office soon found violations in Markin’s actions. Allegedly, by law, he does not have the right to participate in public associations and organizations, since he is an active employee of the RF IC.

Vladimir Markin, Margarita Simonyan and Tina Kandelaki

As a result, in May 2013, a representative of United Russia stated that Markin was not included in the party list, as he decided to continue working in the Investigative Committee.

On October 12, 2020, Major General of Justice Vladimir Markin took office as First Deputy General Director of RusHydro, the largest energy company in Russia. Markin’s responsibilities included managing the administrative and economic complex of the company, as well as interaction with the media and authorities.

Major General of Justice Vladimir Markin

In the same month, Vladimir Markin was elected chairman of the Russian Football Union (RFU) committee on safety and work with fans.

Personal life

The singer does not like to talk about his personal life. He has been happily married for many years. Thanks to his marriage, Markin became the brother-in-law of singer Sergei Minaev, because their spouses are sisters. Vladimir has a daughter.

The family has everyone's favorite, the cheerful and funny Yorkshire terrier Boniface (to his friends, just Bonya). At night the dog rouses everyone to go to bed, and gets them up in the morning. He is so affectionate that there is always a line in the family who will go for a walk with Bonka. And in the morning, whoever wakes up first walks the dog.