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The head of the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defense was on the military TU-154 that crashed on Sunday morning near Sochi Russian Federation Anton Gubankov. He was born in 1965 in Leningrad. Graduated from the French department of the Faculty of Philology of St. Petersburg State University. Then he worked as a journalist for several years. He collaborated with both city publications - “Nevskoe Vremya”, and federal ones - “Izvestia” and “Soviet Russia”. It is noteworthy that for two years, from 1988 to 1990, Gubankov worked in Syria as a military translator.
“Anton Gubankov is a man whom everyone knows in St. Petersburg,” the deputy said about him State Duma Sergei Boyarsky. - In the summer of 2016, we filmed the program “Characters” - about him as a character in the life of our city. This was the last time we saw and communicated with him. He did a lot for St. Petersburg and in Lately He said that he really misses his hometown.
In the early 90s, Anton Nikolaevich came to television. He headed the information service of the Channel 5 television company, worked as a news anchor, and produced original programs. Press Secretary of St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko Andrei Kibitov called him “his teacher.”
“It was he who hired me to work at the editorial office of the Vesti-Petersburg information program. He was an excellent journalist, the most intelligent Petersburger. He was my friend. He left three children. He did a lot for Russian culture and Russian journalism. He trained many correspondents whom we all know and see on our TV channels,” Kibitov wrote on his Instagram.
In 2008, Gubankov was invited to Smolny. He joined the Culture Committee, where he worked for three years. Most of his colleagues spoke positively about his endeavors. For example, under Gubankov, the “Culture Nearby” program was launched in the city. Soloists of leading St. Petersburg theaters performed in open areas in residential areas of the city. The program was very popular - hundreds of citizens gathered for such concerts.
Anton Nikolaevich is a true Petersburger, whom the whole city knew. A man about whom one cannot say “was.” By his presence nearby, he instilled in those around him a sense of style and respect for St. Petersburg identity. During his work on the Culture Committee, significant and interesting city projects were implemented. The day before, the city leadership opened the House of Journalists on Nevsky Prospekt. Portrait of Anton Nikolaevich - bright and handsome man, a true professional in television - on the wall among the winners of the Golden Pen award,” said Deputy Chairman of the St. Petersburg Press Committee Kirill Smirnov.
In 2012, after Georgy Poltavchenko assumed the post of governor, Gubankov left his post in the Committee and moved to the Government of the Moscow Region. Until January 2013, he headed the department responsible for cultural policy. After the regional governor, Sergei Shoigu, went to work at the Ministry of Defense, Anton Gubankov followed his boss - he headed the Department of Culture in the ministry.
In his new post, Gubankov was remembered for his creativity. For example, I once rapped about serving in the army. In 2014, he became the author of the lyrics to a song dedicated to “Polite People.”
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In addition, Gubankov was one of those people in the Ministry of Defense who oversaw the repair of the cruiser Aurora and its return to its eternal mooring. According to colleagues, he was remembered for his professionalism and caring attitude towards one of the main shrines of the city.
“I knew him back in the days when he worked as a correspondent,” says captain first rank, advisor to the governor of St. Petersburg Igor Kurdin. “But we started communicating a lot right when the repairs to the Aurora began.” Sometimes it was difficult to work with him. But what I always liked about him was that he was not one of those officials who didn’t want to listen to anyone. On the contrary, you could talk to him and convince him of something. Three days ago, he and I discussed the opening of a new exhibition on the cruiser. Who could have known that this would happen? Anton was his own. He was a real Petersburger.
On Sunday, museum staff installed a photograph of Gubankov in one of the halls of the Aurora. They bring flowers there.
The city Union of Journalists also expressed condolences.
“We bow our heads to the memory of everyone who was on that plane, and endlessly mourn Anton, a man who did so much for St. Petersburg journalism and culture, a man full of strength and creative ideas, a faithful friend of many of us. In our Union of Journalists he was a generator interesting ideas and undertakings, his opinions and assessments were always accurate and fair,” it is written on the organization’s website.
Early on the morning of Sunday, December 25, Anton Gubankov died. He was in that TU-154 that took off from Adler to Latakia and disappeared from radar at 5.27 am Moscow time.
The Ministry of Defense plane was flying to an air base in Syria with an extensive humanitarian program: 64 musicians from the Ensemble named after. Alexandrova - choir, accordion players, balalaika players led by the team leader Valery Khalilov, Doctor Lisa, nine journalists with television and photo cameras.
Anton Nikolaevich Gubankov, who has been responsible for all cultural work of the Ministry of Defense for the last two and a half years, preferred large-scale, well-developed and spectacular projects. This is a personality trait that does not depend on the position. Do this do this.
In general, in order to come to the Ministry of Defense and literally tell the local personnel from the doorstep that from each employee, if he considers himself a patriot, not only honest service is required, but also “a good dose of creativity and creativity,” you must agree, you must have enough audacity, excitement and self-confidence. You can imagine how surprised the officials in uniform were. And the fact that after two years of Gubankov’s hard work in the main military department of the country, it announced the transformation of the cultural department into the department of culture in connection with “a significant increase in the volume of tasks set by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in the development of the humanitarian sphere of the Armed Forces,” indicates that the ambitions of the “chief of culture” (this is exactly the non-standard sign that hung on the door of his office) of the Ministry of Defense were justified.
TU-154 was heading to the site of hostilities to congratulate Russian soldiers on the New Year. If the operation had been successful, it would have been an event comparable to the performance of Gergiev's orchestra in Palmyra. And this is not the place to discuss whether this war is necessary and whether it was necessary to fly there. Because the text is not about war. It is about a man who was able to conceive and implement grandiose projects and, with his presence, radically change the meaning and reputation of the place he occupied.
The Ministry of Defense here, perhaps, may seem to some to be a not very successful example. But, on the other hand, who and when in our memory knew the name of the person heading the local cultural department? Apparently, only the directors of subordinate institutions - the Russian Army Theater and the Ensemble named after. Alexandrova. The Soviet era taught us that the “cultivation” of personnel is carried out by political workers, whose job is ideological education. And here is Gubankov with his romantic ideas of the pre-revolutionary “color of Russian culture in uniform”, with the established festival of military bands, the military KVN, the Prize for the development of the army theme and military-patriotic traditions in culture. At the grand open air on Frunzenskaya Embankment, both the stars of the Mariinsky Theater and the St. Petersburg Billy’s Band sang in the final concert of the “Army of Russia” festival, and the show was organized by Dance Open, which has the best open airs on Dvortsovaya.
And this is only half of what Gubankov planned in his post, as it now turns out. One thing is that in the Theater Russian Army at Gubankov’s invitation, Milena Avimskaya, the same one who created the ON Young Directing Laboratory in St. Petersburg, came to work. The theater, from which nine-tenths of the young St. Petersburg directors, now known throughout theatrical Russia, came from, says that having taken the general position, Gubankov did not at all intend to change his former, civil preferences, of which St. Petersburg is well aware.
Because the most incredible, brilliant and successful career leap in the fate of Anton Gubankov was his move from St. Petersburg RTR to the chairmanship of the Culture Committee. Before this, everyone, of course, had seen it on television and remembered the charming presenter with excellent diction and a subtle ironic smile, which revealed Gubankov as a person playing a role, and not stupidly pronouncing someone’s text. But only after taking up the position of chief cultural officer in St. Petersburg in June 2008, he seemed to find himself at home, having received that measure of freedom, authority and means that allowed him to significantly bend the surrounding reality to himself. And he began to act.
Here it must be said right away that Anton Nikolaevich Gubankov never was and did not want to be ideal, but he was very impressed by being modern, productive, loved and chic. And he succeeded in doing this much more often than his ill-wishers would have liked. At first it was difficult to get used to the fact that the former cultural department was now dominated by a sort of dandy in London shirts of different colors, with high collars and cuffs, in which elegant cufflinks sparkled instead of banal buttons. During the years of the Soviet regime, a stylish official turned into an oxymoron. Gubankov, a collector and general gourmet in the field of arts, graduated from the French department of the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad University, coming from an intelligent St. Petersburg family (mother is an artist, father is a philosopher, teacher at the Theater Academy) brought to the historical mansion on Nevsky, 40, a type of communication on the verge of secular and businesslike: a cup of tea with first-class chocolate on the table did not at all prevent the interlocutors from resolving issues, because for the first time in decades, a person was sitting in a high office who was ready to make decisions, and not provoke the bureaucratic red tape many times described by the classics.
Under Anton Nikolayevich Gubankov, who worked (which is of fundamental importance) in close conjunction with the then governor Valentina Matvienko, projects appeared in the city that previously it was useless to mention in the Culture Committee: the Museum Olympus award and the St. Petersburg theater award for young people “Breakthrough” ", festivals "Diaghilev P.S." and “The Master’s Disciples”, the “Petersburg Ambulance” project, which carries out cultural events in hospitals and hospices, the image project “Children’s Petersburg” began to be held annually in European capitals, in the already mentioned ON Laboratory. The non-stop theater produced dozens of performances by young directors who Previously, there was nowhere to go in the city, in the TPAM project (Andrei Moguchy's Theater Laboratory), for budget money, young people, under the guidance of an experienced director, were engaged in the process, research - and no one twisted their arms, demanding an indispensable result.
But most importantly, the work of the Culture Committee under Gubankov has become systematic. The project of regular subsidies to non-state theaters, left to Gubankov by his predecessor, was brought to fruition - and dozens of independent groups began to create one after another artistic works, which were sent to the Golden Mask and European forums and thereby did not allow those financed from the budget to sleep peacefully theater hospitals. Moreover, Gubankov made decisions within literally ten minutes, accurately determining which of the projects was viable and which was not. And he almost never missed a beat: to this day, all the projects he blessed are alive and gaining momentum, and subsidies to non-theaters remain the envy of Muscovites, who attribute the flourishing of the young creative theater in St. Petersburg to this regular support from the city.
In a word, for once, St. Petersburg culture was led by a cultured man, who, at the same time, sitting in a respectable chair, remained first and foremost a man. “You could stop by and talk to him,” I hear now from bankers, and from directors, and from crazy experimental directors. What's true is true. Anton Nikolaevich (nobody called him anything else on the committee, not even long-time friends and colleagues) really valued dialogue, because he wanted not only to lead culture, but also to feel it. Any adventures took place with him. At some ceremony, he could, at the request of the organizers, appear from a hatch or from the ceiling - and not look funny. He could organize a “Christmas tree” for journalists in his own office and play the role of Santa Claus himself - and it never occurred to anyone to behave familiarly with him. He was able to come on a weekend to open an exhibition (for example, dedicated to the nominees for the Breakthrough Award) on the way from the dacha, with his son, in a Fronder white sweater - and communicate easily, with knowledge of the matter, completely captivating the young heroes of the opening day in “Floors”.
It was easy to work with him: do projects, communicate, make friends. He adored his family to such an extent that he could not help but brag to his friends about his clever son, his youngest daughters, whom he and his wife raised to be perfect princesses.
A liberal, artistic, ambitious chairman was no longer needed in St. Petersburg in October 2011, when the political trend in the country began to change noticeably, when professionalism receded not even into the background, even into the tenth place, and officials, including cultural ones, began to be selected according to the principle of compliance with the ideals of the ruling party. Let’s not count now how many cultural projects were implemented in the city after Gubankov left for Moscow - Anton Nikolaevich would not have liked that, but the comparative result is already obvious. But here’s a paradox: a new type of official with all his remarkable baggage of cultural knowledge and managerial skills, with all his moderate eccentricity and sometimes immoderate creativity in the capital was in demand not by the Ministry of Culture, which, before all others, turned into a nomenklatura structure with a Soviet-era flavor, but by the Ministry defense
In these new proposed circumstances, Gubankov played his role brilliantly, adding a homeopathic dose of postmodern banter to every public speech, getting a thrill primarily from the game, and not from “special zeal.” Although it is unlikely that his new colleagues could appreciate the beauty of this game. Those who could remained in St. Petersburg. But the head of the cultural department of the Ministry of Defense invited them to cooperate invariably and regularly, which undoubtedly only benefited the army: there is no such thing as too much culture. And yet, the absurdity of the fact that St. Petersburg dandy Anton Gubankov was forced to put on a military uniform can only be overcome by the incomprehensible catastrophe of his absurd death on a Ministry of Defense plane, which, after refueling, could not stay in the air for more than seven minutes. But this is a completely different topic.
Everlasting memory.
Zhanna Zaretskaya, Fontanka.ru
Above the Black Sea became one of the most famous St. Petersburg journalists, who in last years Anton Gubankov was the head of the Department of Culture of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Izvestia spoke with those who knew him well.
We communicated closely when I was the chairman of the Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg, and he was my deputy,” said CEO Investigative journalism agency Andrey Konstantinov.
According to him, already in his new position as an employee of the Ministry of Defense, Gubankov flew to Syria many times, bringing a variety of artists there, including those not in any way connected with the military department, for example, singer Vasily Gerello.
Issues of leisure for our military personnel are actually very important work,” Konstantinov emphasized. - I know this very well from my experience as a military translator. When people are far from home and do not the simplest work, they do not serve 24 hours. It is very important to think about what to do with them during non-working hours, what mood they will be in, etc. Only with the help of this understanding will they feel the care of their native country; all this greatly affects the morale of the serviceman. Anton was indeed performing a very important task.
Andrei Konstantinov added that he knew the family of his deceased comrade very well. The children of Konstantinov and Gubankov even went to one kindergarten. And now the general director of AZHUR can only express words of sympathy and support to Marina, the wife of Anton Gubankov and the family of his deceased colleague.
Of course, a terrible tragedy occurred... The only thing I would like to add is that for any man, one circumstance is probably very important. If he dies while doing the work he serves, it can be called tragic, but worthy man death,” he concluded.
Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, ex-dean of the Faculty of Journalism of St. Petersburg State University Marina Shishkina did not wait for Anton Gubankov at their traditional meeting during the New Year holidays.
What can you say other than words of shock? Anton Nikolaevich was an extremely professional person. Wherever he worked, starting with the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, then in the St. Petersburg Committee for Culture, then in the Ministry of Culture of the Moscow Region, then in the Ministry of Defense, everywhere this man retained the reputation of a high professional, said Marina Shishkina. - And even “putting on a general’s uniform,” he remained a man of culture.
Shishkina also noted such a quality of Anton Gubankov as the ability to do everything beautifully.
This showed up in everything. The furnishings in his office, at his home, some everyday little things, everything was very aesthetically pleasing... And his death is a very big loss both for our city (however, his departure to Moscow was already a loss), and for culture, for the country as a whole,” noted Marina Shishkina.
Another person who knew Anton Gubankov very well is the general director of the Leningrad Regional Television Company Andrei Radin.
“To be honest, I’m in a state of shock right now, I can’t believe it... There were two people on board the plane whom I knew, one of them was Anton,” Radin told Izvestia.
He shared his memories of starting his journalistic career with Gubankov on Leningrad television in the early 1990s. They worked in the same newsroom. After which life separated colleagues from different media - Gubankov worked at Vesti, Radin - at NTV.
Andrei Radin emphasized that now the last thing I would like to say is some kind of banality, but noted that everyone who knew Anton considered him the highest professional.
In my opinion, for the late 1990s - early 2000s, he was the best news anchor in the St. Petersburg area. And as a boss, he had a special style of leadership; the team did not fear him, but respected and loved him. The guys who once worked under his leadership at Vesti, almost all of them are now employed either in key positions in the city media or work on federal channels,” he said.
Radin noted that, as a human being, he feels very sorry for Anton’s mother, his wife and children. He knows them well and can only offer words of deep sympathy for their loss.
Anton Gubankov was 51 years old. He was born on January 29, 1965 in Leningrad. In 1987 he graduated from the French department of the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad University. Since the mid-1980s, he was a correspondent for the Leningrad University newspaper and published in other publications.
This current business trip to Syria was far from his first. Moreover, he had already worked in this country in the late 1980s.
Since the early 1990s, he was a correspondent for the Nevskoe Vremya newspaper, then a presenter at Radio Russia at VGTRK, headed the information service of Channel 5 radio, was a presenter at Inform-TV, and headed the information service of the St. Petersburg Directorate of VGTRK, RTR office in St. Petersburg, the Vesti-Petersburg program.
In 2008–2011, he was chairman of the St. Petersburg Culture Committee.
In 2012–2013, he headed the Ministry of Culture of the Moscow Region.
Since 2013 - Director of the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defense.
Gubankov Anton Nikolaevich
Anton Nikolaevich Gubankov was born on January 29, 1965 in the city of Leningrad. In 1987 he graduated from the philological faculty of Leningrad state university, and in 2011 - graduate school at St. Petersburg State University. While studying at the university, he began working as a correspondent for the Leningrad University newspaper. Periodically published in such publications as Izvestia and Soviet Russia.
In the early 90s, after working for the first independent St. Petersburg newspaper Nevskoe Vremya, Gubankov found himself on television and radio. Since 1992 - presenter of the Radio Russia program on RTR. Since 1993 - head of the information service of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Channel 5". A year later, he began hosting programs and live broadcasts on Channel 5 and the Rossiya TV channel.
Work on a TV channel
Having worked in television for about 14 years, in June 2008 Anton Nikolaevich became chairman of the Committee on Culture of the Government of St. Petersburg. At the same time, he joined the Presidium of the Coordination Council of the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Board of the department. Gubankov was the initiator of many cultural projects in the northern capital, including the Museum Olympus award, the St. Petersburg Cultural Forum, which today has acquired a federal scale.
In 2012-2013 he worked as Minister of Culture of the Moscow Region. After this, Anton Nikolaevich Gubankov headed the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Head of the Culture Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
As director of the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, he led the Russian Army Theater, the Alexandrov Ensemble, the Central Museum and Cultural Center of the Armed Forces, the Grekov Studio of Military Artists, and dozens of museums in Moscow, St. Petersburg and various regions of the country.
For four years, Gubankov was involved in raising the level of culture of military personnel, enhancing patriotic traditions and increasing the prestige of the army.
Gubankov Anton Nikolaevich died very tragically on December 25th.
The tragic death of Gubankov
He was on board a Tu-154 plane that crashed. This plane was flying to the Khmeimim airfield in Syria to congratulate the Russian military personnel there on the New Year.
25.12.16 memoryIn a plane crash over the Black Sea, two St. Petersburg journalists who worked in Moscow were killed - the head of the culture department of the Ministry of Defense Anton Gubankov and the correspondent of Channel One Dmitry Runkov. Both were well known in our city: Anton Gubankov headed the St. Petersburg “Vesti”, and later went into power - he became the chairman of the Committee on Culture of the St. Petersburg Administration, and Dmitry Runkov worked on the 100TV and “St. Petersburg” channels. How did their friends and colleagues remember them?
About Anton Gubankov
Andrey Kibitov, press secretary of the governor of St. Petersburg, a former well-known television journalist (according to a publication on Facebook):
Anton Nikolaevich Gubankov died in a terrible plane crash on the Black Sea. Head of the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Anton Nikolaevich was my teacher in television journalism, it was he who hired me to work in the editorial office of the Vesti - Petersburg information program. He was an excellent journalist, the most intelligent Petersburger. He was my friend. He left three children.
He did a lot for Russian culture and Russian journalism. He trained many correspondents whom we all know and see on our TV channels. After graduating from the University, he began his work as a military translator in Syria. Today he also flew to Syria.
We will all remember him. It would probably not be an exaggeration to say that the whole of St. Petersburg knew him. And all of St. Petersburg today mourns Anton Nikolaevich. Everlasting memory!
Andrey Radin, famous television journalist and media manager, head of the LOT television company, former general director and Chief Editor 100 TV:
I knew Anton Gubankov since 1994 - I worked with him on Leningrad Television. I also know his wife, mother and three children. His death is a loss not only for his colleagues, but primarily for his family.
Anton Gubankov was not just a good professional, but above all a very a good man. Everyone loved and adored him - he constantly helped someone: theaters, artists, journalists. He was a very educated and creative person. He always had a lot of ideas in his head. This applied to both work in journalism and work on the Culture Committee. This is a big loss for St. Petersburg and the whole country.
Irina Nacharova, press secretary of the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum, formerly press secretary of the Committee on Culture:
I was Anton Gubankov’s press secretary when he worked in the Culture Committee. Shocked by his death: such people should not die so early.
He was a man of colossal potential and dazzling charisma. When he left the post of head of the committee, he said that he did not hold on to his place, that the main thing for him was to have time to do something in this place. And he, working on television, in the Committee for Culture, in the Ministry of Defense, managed to do a lot: most people will not manage as much in 90 years as he did in his 50s. And he always remained a Petersburger - even after moving to Moscow to work.
Oksana Galkevich, TV presenter (according to a post on Facebook):
It seems that now Anton Gubankov will call and say - with his usual irony, low voice: “Oksana Glebovna, what are you really doing. I'm fine." We planned to meet in the near future - with our old composition - “Vesti - Petersburg”. We called each other and texted. But his schedule was very difficult, and everything was postponed endlessly. Now forever. It's simply impossible to believe. He was a very bright man.
Elena Babich, public figure, former deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg:
Anton Gubankov and I often crossed paths when he was chairman of the Culture Committee, and I was a deputy of the Legislative Assembly. He is a very responsive, attentive, cheerful and optimistic person. It wasn’t like you approached him and he let everything go. It was easy and simple to be around him - all problems seemed to be solved by themselves. Officials are usually scolded, but not a single bad word can be said about Anton Gubankov. I don't know people who wouldn't love him.
Anton Gubankov was talented in everything - both as a journalist and as a leader. Few people know that he wrote poetry. He is the author of the lyrics to the song “Polite People.” But since he was a modest person, he did not talk about it.
The last time we met him was absolutely by chance this summer on Nevsky. He was with the child. And I was so happy to meet: “Lena, hello!” And it was so touching and sincere, we stood and talked. He said that he misses St. Petersburg, since it is his hometown. Anton Gubankov has held very high positions in recent years, but there was no arrogance in him. He acted like an old acquaintance... I just can’t believe his death.
About Dmitry Runkov
Elizaveta Grivenkova, production editor of the Online47 portal, former correspondent for channel 100TV:
This morning I was woken up by my father’s call “Dimka is dead.” I was just supposed to take up duty on the news feed. It was impossible to believe these words. I didn’t raise my hand to write that he died. It is incredibly difficult to write about the death of a colleague or friend. Dimka was an amazing person. Very smart, beautiful. It was always very interesting and very comfortable to work with him. It so happened that my father was his boss, and we were colleagues at the time of 100TV. He is in regular news, I am in economic news. We often met in the Legislative Assembly, on trips and joked a lot. And Dima was very kind. No matter how many jobs we changed, we crossed paths with Chapygin at the television center and chatted, and after these conversations there was always a very bright feeling in my soul. This is a huge loss for all his colleagues and friends.
Alexey Kasyanov, television cameraman, former cameraman for channel 100TV:
We met Dimka at 100TV in the newsroom. And they became friends very quickly. We tried to go to filming together. A tandem of cameraman and correspondent is rare, but on the set we understood each other perfectly.
Dimka is Samoyed by nature. He is always dissatisfied with something and strives for some kind of ideal. And even if you tell him that the plot is good, he will always say that it could have been done better. Another funny moment: even though we were going to film a sewer, or on a “parquet” in Smolny or ZakS, he always dressed for filming as if he were going to a parade. He was always sure that a correspondent should look good. Even if it was minus 30 outside, he was always wearing a coat and no hat. Some said it was snobbery. And I knew that under this mask there was a subtle, vulnerable soul, and Dima Runkov was a good, faithful friend. They say that men don't cry, but I'm crying now...
Prepared by Olesya GORDEEVA,
Internet magazine "Interestant"
Updated and expanded at 10:31 p.m.