Sergey Filatov came to power in the early 1990s from the productive sector: he was an electrical engineer by training. He worked in his specialty for more than a dozen years, rising from assistant foreman in a rolling mill to head of the electric drive and automation design and engineering department.
In 1990, Sergei Filatov was elected a people’s deputy of the RSFSR with the support of the Democratic Russia movement. In 1991 he was already secretary of the Presidium, and then first deputy chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR.
“My choice has always been on the side of Yeltsin and the reforms,” he said in an interview many years after leaving big politics. In fact, the active and impetuous career of Sergei Filatov in power did not make any sharp ideological turns. During the State Emergency Committee coup in August 1991, he directed the deputy headquarters for the defense of Government House. In October 1993, already head of the administration of the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, he participated in negotiations with representatives of the rebel Supreme Council in the Saint Daniel Monastery, mediated by the then primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, Alexy II. .
After three years of work on Staraya Square, Filatov left the post of head of the Kremlin administration, but remained in the team; in 1996 he became deputy head of the all-Russian headquarters for the presidential elections and was a member of Boris Yeltsin’s election team. campaign council.
In addition, Sergei Filatov headed the working commission to finalize the draft Constitution, which was adopted in the all-Russian vote on December 12, 1993. He was also at the origins of the creation of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly.
The politician finally abandoned public service in 1997 and dedicated the following years to social and cultural activities at the head of the Fund for Socioeconomic and Intellectual Programs.
On the unique contribution of SA Filatov in the formation of young writers – Pavel Basinsky, p. eleven.
