Zaldostanov biography. Surgeon. Dossier of Novaya Gazeta. Biography and family

05.03.2020

winners of the second competition for the distribution of presidential grants in 2017 for a total amount of almost 4.5 billion rubles. During the distribution of grants, an uncertain situation developed around Alexander "Surgeon" Zaldostanov and his movement "Night Wolves". First, the media reported that the odious bikers, who regularly received presidential funding in recent years, were deprived of money. True, it turned out that this is not entirely true.

The Night Wolves were given nothing directly. But they gave the organizations affiliated with them "Russian Motorcyclists" - it is personally led by Zaldostanov - and the Federation of Motorcycle Tourism. Head of the Presidential Grants Fund Ilya Chukalin in the end, he even stated that the system of distribution of money needs to be improved so that NGOs affiliated with each other could not submit parallel applications.

The “Surgeon” itself proved that the Kremlin still needs patriotic motorcyclists who are ready to follow the president even to the Donbass, even to Syria. How bikers in Russia became a political tool - Renat Davletgildeev.

This path was long from the informals - through the kings of the roads - to the government offices. Alexander Zaldostanov, "The Surgeon", did what, it seems, no biker in the world could do - he broke into big politics. It doesn't matter what role. Still, not everyone can boast of communicating with Putin on “you” and being on the sanctions lists. The life of the "Surgeon" is the story of how an anarchist and pacifist who denies state institutions became the bearer of the very idea of power. In all its Machiavellian sense.

1989 year. The Soviet Union confidently flies into hell, young people in the streets are either breaking dancing or walking in leather jackets with spikes and dyeing their hair blue. About them - the last generation of the Soviets, the book "Accident" by Yuri Korotkov and the film "Accident - the daughter of a cop", which became a hit of the year and went to all cinemas. This handsome guy in the group of informal people approached by the policeman in the film is Sasha Zaldostanov.

One of the leaders of the then youth crowd in Moscow, the first Soviet punks, hippies and nethers. Inhabitant of the Arbat and courtyards of Novokuznetsk. Defender against gopniks from Lyubertsy. It was he, a big fan of fighting, who taught not to run away from amateurs, but, on the contrary, to look for them around the city and beat them themselves.

A motorcycle lover Java, one of the first biker clubs of the Union "Night Wolves" "Surgeon" established in the same year, on May 31, 1989. In the early 1990s, he briefly left to gain experience in Berlin. Returning, he transferred to Moscow the realities of the German bike club "Sexton". In the 1990s, the Moscow club was named after him - to this day the headquarters of the wolves.

What Zaldostanov and his comrades did in the era of the primitive accumulation of capital, history is silent. Either he protected retail outlets, or he was engaged in racketeering, stuffing his fist on the Lyubertsy. However, the former did not differ much from the latter.

Over the years, the power of the Night Wolves has grown. By the end of the nineties, deputies, businessmen, governors, show business stars came to them at a strip show in Nizhniye Mnevniki. Great fans of motorcycles and fireworks were, for example, , Vladimir Zhirinovsky and George Boos. And, of course, no Yav - bikers traveled on Harleys along Leninsky Prospekt, gathered for gatherings on Sparrow Hills in front of the Moscow State University, becoming something of a visiting card of the city.

But the heyday of wolves happened at Vladimir Putin. Then - and a turn towards a new ideology for the world bike scene of "autocracy, Orthodoxy and nationality." For faith, the tsar and the fatherland, Russian motorcyclists went somewhere in the midst of the second term. And at the same time they deleted the word "biker" from their dictionary. No anglicisms - Holy Russia and a cross on the jacket. Somewhere between the skull and Putin. The latter - could not help but appreciate such efforts.

In 2009, for the first time, "Night Wolves" held not even a run, but a religious procession through Sevastopol. These "tanks" entered there 5 years before the annexation of Crimea. A couple of months later, Vladimir Putin arrived at Sexton. Get to know real Russian patriots. In 2010, Russian motorcyclists entered Sevastopol with him.

Since then, friendship with Vladimir Putin has been Zaldostanov's main asset. “He calls me Sasha and refers to you,” the “Surgeon” likes to say in an interview. And it's true. No misters".

As a result, Zaldostanov, once an informal biker and fighter against gopniks, is Putin's confidant in the presidential elections. Laureate of the Order of Honor. Co-chairman of the Anti-Maidan movement, called upon to fight the "orange threat".

The political views of the "Surgeon" are as indefinable as those of the whole country. Vinaigrette from Putin, God, Stalin and war. After the events in Ukraine, the “Surgeon” with its views on life came in handy for the Kremlin more than ever: I recruited volunteers for the Donbass, I sent bikers to Syria, I beat agents of the fifth column on the street. However, in fact, the circle is closed. Only before there were Lyubertsy, but they became Navalnov.

Alexander Sergeevich Zaldostanov(according to some sources, the correct spelling of the surname is Zaldastanov), nickname - Surgeon - the legendary Soviet and Russian biker, founder and leader of the biker movement in Russia and the oldest Russian biker club "Night Wolves". He is also the head of the public non-profit organization Russian Motorcyclists, operating under his club; President of the Russian Association of Bikers; general director of the Bike Center at the club in Moscow and representative office in Russia of the club "Sexton".

Childhood and youth

Alexander Sergeevich Zaldostanov was born January 19, 1963 in the city of Kirovograd in the Ukrainian SSR. His parents were doctors, besides him, the family also had an older sister Anastasia, she also became a doctor and went to live and work abroad. Mom, Lyubov Vasilievna, worked as a resuscitator and was a deeply religious person, she also tried to raise her children in the spirit of the Orthodox religion. Also, this woman had two paradoxical qualities: she was a staunch supporter of the policies of Joseph Stalin, but at the same time a categorical opponent of the ideology of communism.

Alexander Zaldostanov in his youth

Young Alexander, surrounded by doctors, also intended to become a doctor. He entered the 3rd Moscow Medical Institute, graduated from it and residency in 1984, became a certified maxillofacial surgeon. However, there is other information, according to which Zaldostanov did not finish his studies at the medical institute. According to the rules of that time, after graduating from high school, Alexander was assigned to a dental hospital and had to work in his specialty. At first, this happened, he was even predicted a good career in this area. But Zaldostanov was too freedom-loving and unformatted for Soviet society to live his whole life as an ordinary doctor of those years. The rebellious disposition and passion for motorcycles and heavy metal soon manifested themselves so much that the young man left the post of maxillofacial surgeon and medicine in general. There was no more professional work in Alexander's life, he completely devoted himself to his hobby, which turned into his lifestyle.

The beginning of the biker journey

1983 can be considered the beginning of the biker career of Alexander Zaldostanov. In that year, the guy, while still studying in an internship, bought his first motorcycle. It was the famous Czechoslovak "Java", which became one of the symbols of its time. Riding on his own "iron horse", the young man was distracted from the gray reality and working days. Being desperate and arrogant by nature, Alexander easily made acquaintances with like-minded people, including the "Black Aces" - informal groups, which included not only bikers, but also lovers of heavy music and just lovers of having fun, or even fighting in your pleasure. The head of this youth formation was Rus Tyurin.

"Black Aces" could not fail to notice such a bright personality as Alexander Zaldostanov. More and more lovers of drunkenness and revelry gathered near him, and soon our hero, known among the informals under the nickname "Sasha Dentist", received a more respectable name - Alexander the Surgeon. The whole company of his friends began to be called "Surgery".

The rise and rise of the Night Wolves

The prerequisite for creating his own biker club, which later became legendary, was Alexander Zaldostanov's move to West Germany. This happened because of the marriage of our hero to a German woman named Matilda in 1985. Life in a foreign country was not cloudless for the Soviet guy. He had to engage in a wide variety of activities in order to be able to provide for himself and his wife. Zaldostanov worked in West Germany as a watchman, as a sitter, as a concierge, as an auto mechanic, and as a doorman. It was at the position of a doorman in one of the nightclubs - the institution was called "Sexton" - that he met with representatives of the famous Hells Angels motorcycle club. These people made such a strong impression on the young Soviet biker that he was set on fire with the idea of creating the same movement and the same organization in his homeland. This is what he did in 1989, when he returned to the Soviet Union. The grouping of bikers was called the "Night Wolves", and Alexander Zaldostanov himself, since then called almost everywhere the Surgeon, became its head.

1993 - a new stage in the biker movement in Russia. Alexander the Surgeon defeated Alik Goch - the leader of the Rostov motorcycle association "Cossacks", thus "monopolizing" the entire Russian biker environment. Our hero was then thirty years old. Since then, none of the representatives of this trend in Russia could create their own groups or perform other significant actions for this area as a whole, without enlisting the approval of the Night Wolves and the Surgeon himself.

Suddenly, a new problem arose for Zaldostanov. He himself and his new offspring needed money, and the biker, who was not working anywhere, had none. In order to get a source of permanent income, Alexander and his “brothers” founded a rock club, which they named the same as a similar institution in West Germany, where the Surgeon worked as a doorman (and also a bouncer) - “Sexton”. This place went down in history as the center of frantic revelry and brawls, drinking parties and fights. Things were going great, but in 1995 the rock club suffered misfortune - it burned down. "Wolves" did not lose heart and laid the foundation for a new event - a biker show, which they began to hold every year with the involvement of participants from different countries, that is, Russian bikers entered the international level.

Alexander Zaldostanov head of the "Night Wolves"

Life after the accident

1999 is a new starting point in the life of Alexander Zaldostanov. When he was riding his motorcycle, the front brakes suddenly jammed. There was a serious accident, due to which the Surgeon even fell into a coma. The man remained in such a grave condition for two weeks. Having come to his senses and recovered, Alexander changed a lot in his outlook on life. He turned into a very religious person, he decided to live the rest of his life as befits a true Orthodox Christian. The surgeon became a frequent parishioner in churches, began to communicate with the clergy. One of them was a priest, but at the same time an actor, director, screenwriter, and in the past a well-known brawler and informal. He and Zaldostanov became close and found a common language. Okhlobystin began to visit Sexton, and to do this more and more often, and eventually joined the ranks of the Night Wolves, because Ivan Ivanovich is also a motorcycle enthusiast. Another innovation in the life of the Surgeon was his rejection of motorcycles of foreign firms. After coming out of a coma, he began to drive the domestic Ural, which caused considerable surprise among some members of the community.

It would seem that such an event as attracting Ivan Okhlobystin to his company, a personality popular in various circles, should further rally the Wolves and elevate their own leader, the Surgeon, in their eyes. However, it turned out quite the opposite. Zaldostanov's excessive religiosity turned some of the bikers against him. A split occurred among the Night Wolves: some of them remained loyal to the Surgeon, despite his new thinking, and some left the organization. And there were so many who broke away that they were able to create their own biker groups. All this led to the fact that the "Night Wolves" ceased to be monopolists in the motorcycle world of Russia. But the creator and ideological inspirer of this movement did not seem to be particularly worried about such changes. He focused on rebuilding the Sexton Club, which was to become a major biker hub.

Alexander Zaldostanov - Surgeon

Views and social activities of the Surgeon

Alexander "Surgeon" Zaldostanov actively participates in the public life of the country. At the same time, he does not get tired of repeating that he has nothing to do with politics and does not want to have one. However, no one can fail to notice the influence exerted by the Night Wolves on the masses. There is hardly a person who has never heard of this biker club and its controversial leader. Moreover, it should be noted that the Surgeon is trying to promote patriotism, respect for the motherland and its history among the population and especially young people, and also instills the Orthodox faith. For such hard and fruitful work in 2013, Zaldostanov was awarded the Order of Honor.

The Night Wolves club often arranges various events, especially those dedicated to various significant dates from the country's history. For example, on the anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Sevastopol, motorcycle shows, rallies, and festivals are held. Zaldostanov is also known as a participant in religious processions, where he moves in the same column with the rest of the believers. This causes strong indignation among a significant part of the bikers, but the Surgeon does not change his beliefs. Also, an ambiguous reaction is due to the friendship of the Surgeon with the President of the Russian Federation. The head of state visited the Sexton club three times, and also participated in motorcycle races in 2010 and 2011.

"Night Wolves" and Putin V.V.

Surgeon's personal life

The personal life of Alexander "Surgeon" Zaldostanov remains almost completely a mystery behind seven seals. Despite his publicity and eccentricity, a man does not like to spread on such a private topic. Even journalists managed to find very little information about the Surgeon's relationship with women. It is known for certain that in 1985, at the age of twenty-two, the guy married a German woman. The girl's name was Matilda, she was a journalist from the Federal Republic of Germany. As it turned out, the family of Zaldostanov's chosen one was not easy: the girl's father was the director of the Mercedes-Benz branch in the city of Stuttgart. After getting married, the young people went to live in West Berlin. But family life did not work out. The most likely reason is the difficult financial situation of Alexander and Matilda. Despite the status of his father-in-law, Zaldostanov was not lucky enough to use his help, but had to work hard himself in Germany in order to feed himself and his wife. Thus, the details of Alexander's life with his German wife are unknown, only the fact that in 1989 the marriage broke up and our hero returned home to the Soviet Union is undeniable.

In the future, the Surgeon's relationship with women was not commented on by the biker himself, and only occasionally mentions of them appeared in the press. Whether any of what was written was true - one can only guess. For example, once in several publications there were suggestions about the close relationship between Zaldostanov and the infamous ballerina.

The surgeon is also a father - he has a son, George, already quite an adult guy. Sometimes information about other children of Alexander "pops up", both about sons and about daughters. Moreover, Zaldostanov turned out to be a caring dad, he does not renounce his offspring, does not deny paternity, but, on the contrary, helps children in every possible way.

surgeon now

In 2016, a scandal erupted around the statement of the Surgeon, in which he criticized the artistic director of the Satyricon Theater Konstantin Raikin, who supports the abolition of censorship in Russia. The statements of two celebrities raised a wave of resonance in society. The words of the Surgeon were quite harsh and based on the fact that excessive freedom never brought to good, because it is precisely with freedom that the devil always tempts people. Two warring camps were formed: some became opponents of Zaldostanov in this decision of his, others ardently supported the biker's position. Among the like-minded surgeon was, in particular, the Chechen head. He argued that complete permissiveness in society in general and art in particular can lead to very deplorable consequences: the promiscuity of young people and insulting the feelings and beliefs of religious people. The conflict of the parties reached such a point of intensity that even representatives of the authorities intervened in the matter. The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation advised the Surgeon to make a public apology. But the famous "night wolf" did not want to give in and give up his words.

In May 2018, Alexander Zaldostanov again declared himself as a shocking person. Then the inauguration of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin was held, and the Surgeon appeared at it in a very extravagant form. He did not have any headgear, which is uncharacteristic for a biker, and under the traditional jacket of an informal motorcyclist, a white turtleneck was visible.

The surgeon rides a motorcycle in the wrong form: without a mandatory helmet. Also, despite many years of driving experience, he constantly violates the rules of the road, and he does it consciously. Because of this, the biker is constantly at odds with law enforcement.

Alexander Zaldostanov acted in films several times. In 1989, it was an episodic role in the sensational drama film Crash - the Cop's Daughter. In 1992, he also played bit parts in Luna Park and Dancing Ghosts.

In the modern encyclopedia, you can safely add a new article "Biker Alexander Zaldostanov (surgeon)". The biography of this legendary personality is very blurry and consists of separate fragments. In our article, we will try to put together disparate facts and learn more about the Russian biker, nicknamed the "surgeon".

"At the Dawn of History"

In an ordinary family that lived and worked in Kirovograd (Ukraine), on January 19, 1963, the son Alexander was born. Almost nothing is known about his parents and childhood. It was possible to find only such information: father - Sergey Zaldostanov, a doctor; mother - a doctor, Orthodox faith, anti-communist. Honors Stalin, his portrait still hangs in her house. In response to the negative towards the legendary general secretary, he gives an unequivocal answer: "Breshut!"

Sasha has a sister who has also mastered the profession of a doctor. Currently lives and works abroad.

Alexander Zaldostanov studied in Kirovograd, rested in children's pioneer camps in Sevastopol. Baptized. Orthodox Christian.

He left to receive higher education in the capital of Russia. In 1984 he graduated from the 3rd Moscow Medical Institute and residency in the specialty "maxillofacial surgeon".

Hobby that determined fate

Immediately after the residency, Alexander Zaldostanov, a surgeon by profession, got a job at a regional dental clinic. Patients loved the long-haired, handsome dentist who got into his own office through the window so that the authorities would not notice the delay.

During the day - the life of an average Soviet citizen, at night - a fashionable leather outfit, hanging out with friends, listening to banned rock music, drunken brawls. The pugnacious informal was noticed and introduced to Rus Tyurin, the leader of the Black Aces metal gang. He liked Sasha the dentist and began to play the role of an information front worker under the leader, to communicate with the press.

Many "aces" rode around Moscow on motorcycles, and Alexander Zaldostanov in 1987, under the influence of rocker friends, bought himself a "Java".

Ambitious, charismatic, unstoppable in battle, fearless Zaldostanov gained more and more friends-fans in his circle and eventually created his own grouping "Surgery". He knocked out the habit of others to call him Sasha the dentist and took on the nickname "surgeon". Having passionately fallen in love with motorcycles, he turned from a metalworker and a gopnik into a biker.

The "pernicious" influence of the West

The hero of the article liked to communicate with journalists. He felt confident with the microphone and boldly looked into the lenses. It is noteworthy that Alexander Zaldostanov, who was identified in 1989, met his future wife just during the interview. The German journalist's name was Matilda. She was the daughter of the director of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Stuttgart.

Having tied the knot, Alexander Zaldostanov and his wife left for a Russian biker who earned a living by participating in theatrical athletic shows, posing as a model, moonlighting as an auto mechanic and watchman.

Later he got a job as a dorman (something like an errand concierge) in the Sexton nightclub, which had a notorious Satanist membership and drug den. There he met the "Hell's Angels" - members of one of the world's largest motorcycle clubs. Apparently, it was from them that Sasha learned the basic knowledge about the structure and hierarchy of the bike club.

Returning to Moscow in the early 90s, the "surgeon" devoted himself entirely to the biker business.

Through hardship to the stars

Alexander Zaldostanov is a winner in all fights from his youth. And now he has confidently removed his only serious competitor, Alik Goch, the leader of the Kozaki biker group, from the path, pushing him to Rostov-on-Don. From that time to the present day, the Night Wolves club of motorcycle fans created by the "surgeon" holds a monopoly in Moscow, harshly cracking down on rivals.

Bikers behaved independently, sometimes even aggressively. Without a silencer, they rushed around, arranged motorcycle races with burning torches, and aerobatics was to rush past the traffic cop and kick the baton out of his hand with his foot.

In addition, the "wolves" clearly identified areas of protection - points of sale for clothing for rockers, music stores, several cafes.

"Surgeon" and his associates became co-owners of the Moscow rock club, which Alexander Zaldostanov called "Sexton". Music, striptease and drugs are closely intertwined here. The club burned down in 1995.

Crucial moment

In 1999, the most famous Russian biker had a serious accident. Having received a severe head injury, Alexander was in a coma for two weeks.

Returning to the world, the legendary man in Mnevniki, together with his comrades-in-arms, built a base. The style is post-apocalyptic. A lot of damaged iron, a sign "Do not fit - it will kill you!" and the massive wreckage gives the impression that the inhabitants of this "bike house" survived a nuclear war. On the territory there is a profitable shop, a bar and the sexton club. In addition, legal money is brought in by regular, with scope and aplomb, bike shows.

Public activities and awards

In recent years, the course of the "eternal" president of the bike club, Alexander Zaldostanov, has changed dramatically. Now the "Night Wolves" promote Orthodoxy, carry the Russian flag on their Harleys, take patronage over the third-graders of the Sevastopol school, give a children's fountain to Volgograd and plan to launch the production of Russian motorcycles that will be cooler than the Harley-Davidson.

For such a moral and ideological orientation, Alexander Zaldostanov was honored with friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and in 2013 he was awarded the Order of Honor, including for youth.

Truth and myths

They say that...

A little more about personal

After the divorce from Matilda, according to rumors, Zaldostanov had several more official wives and many mistresses. There is definitely a son Gosh. They say that Gosha has brothers. Alexander recognized all the children and participates in their upbringing.

Zaldostanov has already tried to attach one of his sons to the biker business. Unfortunately, everything ended in failure - the boy was seriously injured in both legs. During the operation, a titanium plate was inserted into him. On this occasion, the father complains that now his son will not be drafted into the army.

Alexander Zaldostanov, whose family is his bikers and whose house is a bike center, avoids any questions about his personal life. He immediately takes the topic back to its usual course - a bike show, friendship with the president, Orthodoxy and patriotism.

"Moscow's comsomolets"

Alexander Zaldostanov. Photo Zen.yandex.ru

Another "family" scandal of an all-Russian scale flares up. This time, the leader of the motorcycle club " Night Wolves» Alexander Zaldostanov.

Former model Natalya Lebedeva accused the famous biker of not paying child support to his two daughters for many years. “I have in my hands a court order dated June 3, 2013, according to which the Surgeon must pay for the maintenance of his children every month in the amount of 1/3 of the salary or other income. And the bailiffs tell me that he is unemployed, that they allegedly did not find any property and even housing from him, that all the multimillion-dollar state grants that are openly written about on the Internet and that the Night Wolves received have nothing to do with Zaldastanov personally " .

According to the woman, for some reason the bailiffs did not find income from the Surgeon, so Natalya decided to make a video message on the Internet and came to MK with her misfortune.

Alexander Zaldostanov

“I'm tired of waiting by the sea for the weather. Surgeon makes a political career tied to patriotism, youth, children. He receives awards for this from the hands of the president. But what example does he set for the younger generation if his two daughters live practically in poverty. The younger one is so similar to him in appearance ... The older one is poured out in character. They had to change several schools, because they threw in the back: “Ah! Daughters of the Surgeon! You can’t explain to anyone why he, without hesitation, threw them out of his life.

We meet with Natalya Lebedeva in an inexpensive cafe near three railway stations. She did not stay in Moscow for long, she permanently lives 160 kilometers from the capital, in godforsaken Lukhovitsy. He makes money by sitting with other people's children and cleaning other people's apartments. “I have a huge cleaning career now,” she chuckles bitterly. - At first I washed workshops at an aircraft factory, then chain stores, now I clean rich houses. The owners, fortunately, do not suspect who I am, otherwise they would probably raise my salary or, conversely, fire me.

“I have nothing to hide,” says Natasha. I have also made mistakes in my life. But there is a law, and it must be followed. As I was told, Sasha is already allegedly declaring that he has not heard of me or the girls. It’s just ridiculous ... ”- she reaches for a bag containing documents proving the relationship of her daughters with Alexander Zaldostanov, two certificates of paternity, the same court order for alimony, general family pictures when they were still together, her personal photos - from the portfolio of the once first beauty of Udmurtia, then a fashion model Fashion houses of Vyacheslav Zaitsev. Young, happy, in love...

Natalia Lebedeva

“I was three centimeters taller than Sasha”

Natalia's modeling career began at the age of fourteen in her native Izhevsk. "At 16 I had to go to" Miss Russia", but they sent another, thieves, girl," she sighs. There was no one to take care of me. My dad died when my mom was pregnant with my little brother, and I was only five. This event left a strong imprint on my mother's character. For her, the main thing was always how to survive, how to feed us, where to get money. I don't blame her, she pulled us alone. I had to grow up early. Perhaps, precisely because the image of the father was never correctly formed, I was looking for him in other men. Sasha, Surgeon, became for me both dad and brother, the most beloved and dear person - everything in the world.

- Did you meet him in Moscow?

Yes, I wanted to be a star. Tatyana Koltsova, the owner of the Red Stars agency, which was booming at the time, noted with regret that I was very beautiful, but too tall, my height was 186 cm, this is already a podium version, and I have to go to Slava Zaitsev. My mother and I, having flown in from Izhevsk, went to look for Zaitsev in his Fashion House. The guards didn’t want to let me through, you can’t even imagine what a line of applicants there was! But when they heard that I was from the Red Stars, I was invited to the casting. Then I worked at fashion shows of Bosco Fashion Week, Kenzo, Dior, Alexander McQueen, Nina Ricci, Hugo Boss, Valentin Yudashkin. Starred in clips of Dima Malikov and Dominic Joker. And once my face graced the cover of the anniversary magazine Rabotnitsa. I was promised a great future.

90s. The very first beauty contests, the first Russian top models. Most of them, by the way, arranged their future quite well - they married oligarchs, bathed in luxury.

I would not say that absolutely everyone was lucky. Remember Sveta Kotova, "Miss Russia-96", who became a mistress killer Solonik, her dismembered remains were later found in a suitcase in Greece. I knew her well. So not everyone is lucky. But there were also those who really found themselves rich husbands and patrons. Well-known representatives of show business, producers, artists, TV presenters also looked after me. But I met Sasha. And that's it. It happened in a closed nightclub, where I ended up almost by accident. My girlfriend and I madly wanted to get there, we had to be led by one guy whom we did not know. He was a biker. We called him everywhere, but to no avail. We go to McDonald's - and suddenly we see that his motorcycle is standing in front of the door ...

- Was it the surgeon?

Yes, Sasha. He instantly stood out from the crowd. Clinging. All in leather, long hair, motorcycle goggles. It was love at first sight. We went to the same pretentious club, he was with some girl, he came with her - he left with me. He was 33, I was 17. From that moment on, no one else existed for me in the world. He called me "Natasha in the pocket" - he took it and put it, and carried it. Like I'm a little, unintelligent girl. He gave me everything that I lacked - the feeling that I was absolutely protected. Once, when I was still working as a model, a conflict arose with my production director, he insulted me - so Sasha almost killed him.

By the way, were you the same height?

Sasha is three centimeters lower. He is 183 cm. But he has specific biker shoes with very thick soles, so it was not noticeable.

- Was he a famous biker in those years?

He was a star among his own. After, as I believe, he was spoiled by universal fame, acquaintance with the powers that be, money. Money is always a strong indicator of a relationship. But when we met, Sasha was a beggar. He is actually a doctor by profession. And "Night Wolves" was originally called "Surgery", because during the day he worked in a clinic, and at night he rode a motorcycle. It was a real drama for his mother when he finally left the profession. He was never a home person, he liked club life, Moscow at night. I was madly in love, and I had to adapt.

Still all together. With eldest daughter

- Did you continue your modeling career?

Sasha banned. He told me that I still won’t achieve anything, I won’t realize myself, that I can’t imagine anything of myself without him. He found support in my mother. When I was offered a modeling contract in Paris, they both told me not to dare to think about it. “You can’t imagine how hard it was for me to let you go alone to Moscow at the age of sixteen,” my mother burst into tears. “I won’t survive if you go to France.” “Either me or Paris,” Sasha echoed her. I chose Sasha and stayed. Because I was sure that this was once and for all.

He liked big gestures. Once at Zaitsev's show, I walked out at the very end with a huge bouquet of roses in my hands. And suddenly these roses were stolen from me. Seeing my sobs, Sasha asked what had happened. “Stay here and don't go anywhere,” he ordered me and ... disappeared. He returned about an hour later and immediately asked me to open the trunk of his car. I open it, and there is a sea of flowers.

“He has always been married. Maybe now too.”

- Why didn't you officially get married?

So he was already married. Didn't you know? He signed for fun, for fun, back in the 80s with a rich German woman. She was struck by his intellect, sense of humor, male charisma. She proposed to him, he agreed, the bride arranged a chic wedding, all the stars of the then world rock performed there, she gave him a Harley - just a fairy tale about Cinderella in the masculine form and nothing more - after painting, they threw a luxurious banquet and ... never saw more. I don't know if the relationship ended or not. But they definitely did not have common children. And there were children from one girl, and one child was born when we already met with him. I don’t know if he helped them, I was always presented in such a way that they didn’t need anything from him. Sasha was engaged in son, I will not lie.

And when did you get pregnant?

After four years of marriage. To be honest, Sasha did not want children. He was infuriated that I would not be able, as before, to hang out with him at parties. But the doctors told me that if I had an abortion, then I might not have children at all. My mother came from Izhevsk, looked at how Sasha returned at two in the morning, then snored all day while I was tiptoeing, and said: “Pack your things. If needed, he will come." And I went to Izhevsk for preservation. There were no mobile phones, I stupidly lay in the hospital, worried, suffered, cried and painted his portraits ...

- Are you good at drawing?

I graduated from art school with honors. My higher education is psychological. I also have three languages - English, French and Italian. But who needs them in my current cleaning career?

- Beloved man met you after discharge with a child?

Sasha paid for my stay in a separate room and the birth itself. But he did not consider it necessary to fly in for discharge. Daughter Anya (the names of the children have been changed. - E.S.) was born in April 2000. Sasha immediately made it clear that he was ready to take me back, but not the child.

Once Natasha was the first beauty of Udmurtia

- That is, in the birth certificate of a girl in the column "father" there was originally a dash?

Yes. And I've come to terms with it. I just asked Sasha not to call us anymore. I think that it was spurred on by the fact that I left him - he began to beat the thresholds, his friends rang, they told me that I was a fool ... In general, I returned. In Moscow, we moved to his apartment on Sokol - by the way, Anya is now registered there. At first, my daughter stayed with her mother, I again took care of Sasha's affairs, escaped to Izhevsk for the weekend, visited the child. In 2001, he officially acknowledged his paternity, and we took Anya home. But he never gave her his last name. Oddly enough, but gradually he became attached to his daughter, played with her, walked, read books. I even woke him up in the middle of the night to rock her. He could be a good father if he wanted to. Suddenly, he was struck by the topic “let's get married urgently”, he ordered rings, a dress for me, a tuxedo for himself ... Everything seemed so real, and suddenly one day he comes and declares from the threshold: “I changed my mind about getting married.” I calmed down again. Again, night parties, goddesses, garages ... He was already building his own bike center, where he spent the day and night. I also went to this garage with Anya, slept on some construction boards ... By the way, in those grandiose shows that he staged, the bike shows of 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, my ideas were invested, as well as In creating a clothing brand for motorcyclists, I also took part in directing productions, I persuaded girls, my girlfriends, models to participate in the show. In his famous laser show, I did sketches for 3D animation, after which I received an offer from “ Cirque du Soleil"- they offered to cooperate with them, I told Sasha about this, he immediately said:" I am your producer, and all negotiations should be conducted only with me. Of course, he would not let me go anywhere ... In relations with him, I lost faith in myself. I didn’t remember who I was before we met, but I saw who I became - “Natasha in the pocket” ... I came to their biker gatherings, where he talked with his fans, approached the security guard, and if he suddenly did not recognize, then she said: “I am a female surgeon” - this was the password.

- Did you live at his expense?

No. I was selling clothes from China. Wandered here and there. She earned herself. When the second daughter, Nastya, was born, I was overwhelmed by wild fatigue. My mother didn't want to help me. It was very difficult for me. He could spend whole evenings broadcasting how brilliant he is, the best, and I had to agree. After one sleepless night with my daughters, I could not stand all this tirade and passed out in the middle of his speech, I just fell asleep. I remember the icy shower that he poured over me, then I ended up on the balcony - and it was winter ... I never saw him like that ... And in the morning he didn’t remember anything at all.

- Did you file a complaint with the police?

"Betrayed by my best friend"

In 2006, I nevertheless delivered an ultimatum: “Sasha, I give you six months. Either you divorce this German woman of yours and we register our relationship, or I'm leaving. He was furious, because he thought that I had another man, shouted that a piece of paper from the registry office did not mean anything to him ... According to his concepts, I was almost an old woman - 27 years old. I understood that sooner or later someone would move me from the position of "Natasha in the pocket", but I could not imagine that it would be my best friend, also a former model. I left him as a result of another scandal in what I was. The surgeon ordered me: "I got up and went out." And I got up and went, in jeans and a T-shirt, with two children in my arms. One is five, the other is three. All their clothes, toys, my things remained in that our apartment on the Falcon. Maybe they are still there. But do you know what was the most terrible thing in this situation? That his entourage, which yesterday still looked into my mouth, immediately forgot about me. As if the girls and I never existed in the life of the Surgeon. This ex-girlfriend of mine, who moved to live with him, also had two daughters. Many, I think, did not even understand that something had changed: as it was - a wife, a tall model, and two girls - it remained so. Isn't it all the same?

- Where did you begin to live?

I had nowhere else to go but to bow to my mother. Of course, I told Anya and Nastya that dad loves them, that it so happened that we don’t live together anymore, but that doesn’t mean anything. The older one was especially hurt. They are so similar. Mother-in-law tried to reconcile us, she always took my side, but to no avail. She recently died. I visited her until the very end. But I digress, sorry. At first, we didn't need money. Enough of my savings. But in order to earn normally, it was necessary to return from Izhevsk back to Moscow. The girls temporarily stayed with their grandmother. In Moscow, I met my second husband Alexei.

For active work on the patriotic education of children and youth, Alexander Zaldastanov received the Order of Honor

- Married out of spite?

It was Sasha who was sure that I would no longer arrange my personal life. But Alex immediately accepted my girls, we bought a summer house, a car, went to rest ... Finally, I officially became a wife. But here another unforeseen problem arose. My mother called Sasha and said that his daughters would be raised by a strange man. Hearing about my wedding, Sasha exploded ... Shortly after that, as I found out much later, Sasha and Alexei met ... Knowing Sasha's character and his love for theatricality, for effects, I can only imagine how it was ... Our relationship with Alexei broke. He was scared and completely shut himself off from me. I didn’t understand what happened ... No, he didn’t leave me, in fact we lived for another 12 years, I gave birth to two more daughters from him, but all this was no longer the same. Not what I expected, what he wanted. Everything was bad. The girls moved in with their grandmother again. Zaldastanov promised his mother that he would continue to help her financially only if my husband and I were not next to my daughters. Mom agreed to these conditions, and when I flew in again, there was a terrible scandal, returning to Moscow, I ended up in intensive care ... My third daughter, Dasha, was born with big health problems. She still hasn't fully recovered yet. Alexei did not support me in this situation, but took the fishing rods and went fishing. What was left for me to do alone and without help? To be honest, I retreated, for the next four years I lived with my daughters in different cities. I was simply not allowed to see them.

But did you even fight?

I didn't have the strength. I could not leave my youngest daughter for a long time, not a single nanny wanted to stay with her. It was clear that we had no future with Alexei. It can also be understood. He wanted a normal full-fledged family, but got Santa Barbara. But we couldn’t part completely with him - in 2010 I tried to start everything from scratch, for myself personally, flew away to live and work in another country, but my husband and I had a farewell night of love - and our the youngest daughter, Vera. She became my salvation. Otherwise, I would just go crazy. In the meantime, Aleksey lost his business, it is possible that he was set up, we had to hastily sell everything and move to live in Lukhovitsy in an unfinished house. Alexei asked to give him a divorce, but then I would have found myself without a livelihood with one sick child and another very small one. And Anya and Nastya did not have a mother at all. All I was allowed to do was talk to them on the phone. "Mom, we're fine," - that's all my girls answered. At some point, I can only assume, Sasha stopped giving money to my mother, if they had any at all, perhaps when he realized that he had finally bent me. The girls at school were whispered in the back: there are the daughters of the Surgeon, Putin's friend. Everyone in Izhevsk knew that they were the daughters of a famous biker, but in fact we were rogue. They had to change schools. They were ashamed and embarrassed to constantly feel this attention on themselves. But the same thing started at the new school. Where did you know? After all, girls from birth have my last name. In the end, I couldn't resist.

Looking for your money

In 2013, I filed for alimony, sent a court order to Moscow by mail to bailiffs - no answer, no greetings. They said that they could not get through to him, that they could not find his property, that he did not have any property and accounts at all. He seems to be the general director of the Night Wolves, but he doesn’t have a salary there either. How does the Surgeon, having, according to open sources, shares in the business and non-profit organizations, everywhere passes as unemployed? He receives state grants, this is no secret to anyone, and Wikipedia says about it, but where is this money? From the explanations of the bailiffs, I realized that no one intends to look for anything. As a result, after five years he was charged a fine for non-payment - 67 thousand. And once again this year, his chief accountant transferred 15,675 rubles to us. And it's all.

The eldest, Anya, graduated from high school and came to me in Moscow to enroll. But it is still registered with dad on the Falcon. He did not let her into the apartment. We wrote a statement to the police. At that time, Anya was 17 years old, she, as a minor, should have access to her housing. In response, the surgeon seemed to give an explanatory note that he was in hostile relations with me and did not intend to let anyone in. Anya says: "Mom, I don't care, I'll live on the street." She also has a great character. Now she is 18, and according to the law, her own father can discharge her at any time. And then she just turns out to be a bum. Anya did not enter the university, she did not have enough scores for the Unified State Examination, now she is preparing again, but for now she works on shifts, removes garbage in the cabins of aircraft left after the arrival of passengers, together with labor migrants - Uzbeks, Tajiks, Kyrgyz.

- You must be joking?

Yes, everything is fine. In the process of cleaning, she puts headphones in her ears and listens to lectures. Hands are busy, head is free. The fact is that she does not want to enter anyhow, she dreams of becoming a bioengineer, for this she needs to retake the exams well. She needs time to get ready. She is capable, she can. But you also need to live on something.

So she doesn't talk to her father? Does he ask for help?

He himself almost stopped communicating with her when she moved in with me. Until the age of twelve, he took her with him to bike shows, she even learned how to cook metal, ride motorcycles ... But all this was a long time ago. Now, from time to time, he takes to her to read some kind of moralizing in the Orthodox style, as he now fell in love with. If Anya needs something, she texts him: “Daddy, the Mother of God told you to tell me that I want to eat.” And he answered her: "Repent."

There is a court order, but there is no alimony, according to Natalia Lebedeva.

- And what about the youngest, Nastya?

There are big problems here. That's why I decided to turn to the newspaper for help. Nastya continues to live in Izhevsk with her grandmother. Sasha has not been there for a long time. But he allegedly sent his authorized representative there ... What kind of person is this? Why should a 15-year-old girl communicate with a stranger? I'm going to file a police report because I just don't know what to do. Tear her away from school, hide her? I can’t take my daughter, and I have nowhere to go - to Lukhovitsy, to an unfinished house, from where we can’t part with our now ex-husband Alexei.

- Do you feel anything for the surgeon? Fatigue? Maybe anger?

All I want is to protect my children. I want the law of the Russian Federation to be carried out with respect to them. I want them to eat their fill so that they can study normally. While the Surgeon arranges luxurious holidays for other people's children in orphanages, his own, legally recognized by him, do not have the most necessary. He does not see himself. What he became. If in the days of our youth he was surrounded by amazing, smart, enthusiastic people, now there are hypocrites in his retinue. He has forgotten how to listen to the truth. He only wants to hear compliments. But how much is possible?

I understand that something needs to be done with my own life. Somehow get out of this hole, where my children and I ended up not only through my fault, because I'm not yet forty years old - I can, I'm strong, especially since Anya is already with me ... I got a job teaching modeling art at a television school. So far, this is for several hours a week, since it is difficult to get from the far suburbs. I also photograph in the fashion genre, last year my work was published in a London online publication with an audience of one and a half million readers and in a French magazine. I took a camera on credit, I take my younger children to school in the morning and take photographs ... As a mother, I simply cannot set my daughters up, I cannot remain a cleaner of public toilets until retirement. And very often Anya and I sit on the sofa and talk about dad. For her, this is important. “Mom, maybe he’s just joking? she asks me. “Maybe he will now open his eyes, wink at us and say that he is just fooling around, but in fact he loves us and everything is fine?”

A family

I grew up in a family of doctors. Father - Sergey Zaldostanov - a doctor, went through the Great Patriotic War. Mother is also a doctor.

Honors Stalin, his portrait still hangs in her house. In response to the negative towards the legendary general secretary, he gives an unequivocal answer: "Breshut."

Alexander has a sister, also a doctor, of course. Currently lives and works abroad.

In 1985, Zaldostanov married a German journalist, Matilda, the daughter of a factory director. "Mercedes-Benz" in Stuttgart. They subsequently divorced.

Zaldostanov tried to attach one of his sons to the biker business. Unfortunately, everything ended in failure - the boy was seriously injured in both legs. During the operation, a titanium plate was inserted into him. Alexander Zaldostanov, whose family is his bikers and whose house is a bike center, avoids any questions about his personal life. He immediately takes the topic back to its usual course - a bike show, friendship with the president, Orthodoxy and patriotism.

Biography

After graduating from school, he chose the profession of a doctor and left to receive it in the capital. Graduated in 1984 3rd Moscow Medical Institute and residency. He worked in a dental clinic as a surgeon, specialized in post-traumatic facial deformities.

During the day he led the life of an ordinary Soviet citizen, at night - leather clothes, hanging out with friends, listening to banned rock music, drunken brawls. The pugnacious informal was noticed and introduced Rus Tyurin- leader of the metalworkers "Black Aces".

He liked Sasha the dentist and began to play the role of an information front worker under the leader, to communicate with the press. At that time, many rode around Moscow on motorcycles and Alexander Zaldostanov in 1987, under the influence of rocker friends, bought his first motorcycle "Java".

Ambitious, charismatic, unstoppable in battle, fearless Zaldostanov gained more and more friends-fans in his circle and eventually created his own group "Surgery", and took the nickname "surgeon" for himself. Passionately in love with motorcycles, the long-haired guy from a metalworker and gopnik turned into a biker.

Alexander liked to communicate with journalists. He felt confident with the microphone and boldly looked into the lenses. Thus, he met his future wife, just during the interview. The German journalist's name was Matilda.

She was the daughter of the manager of the Mercedes-Benz factory in Stuttgart. With his wife, Alexander Zaldostanov went to West Berlin. There he made a living by participating in theatrical athletic shows, posing as a model, moonlighting as an auto mechanic and watchman.

Later he got a job as a dormen (something like a concierge on errands) in a nightclub "Sexton", which was notorious for being Satanist members and a drug den. There he met "Hell's Angels"- members of one of the largest motorcycle clubs in the world. Apparently, it was from them that Sasha learned the basic knowledge about the structure and hierarchy of the bike club. Returning to Moscow in the early 90s, the "surgeon" devoted himself entirely to the biker business.

Alexander Zaldostanov fought a lot and successfully from his youth. And now he has confidently moved his only serious competitor out of the way - Alika Gocha, the leader of a biker gang "Cossacks", pushing him to Rostov-on-Don.

From that time until today, the club of motorcycle fans created by the Surgeon "Night Wolves" holds a monopoly in Moscow, harshly cracking down on rivals. His bikers behaved independently, sometimes even aggressively. Without a silencer, they rushed around Moscow at night, arranged motorcycle races with burning torches, and aerobatics was to rush past the traffic cop and kick the baton out of his hand.

In addition, the "wolves" "roofed" - points of sale of clothes for rockers, music stores, several cafes. The surgeon and his associates became co-owners of the Moscow rock club, which Alexander Zaldostanov called "Sexton" in honor of the German in which he worked. Music, striptease and drugs are closely intertwined here. This club burned down in 1995.

In 1999, the Surgeon had a serious accident. Having received a severe head injury, Alexander spent two weeks in a coma. Returning to the world, he Mnevniki built a base together with his comrades-in-arms. The style is post-apocalyptic. A lot of damaged iron, a sign "Do not fit - it will kill you!" and the massive wreckage gives the impression that the inhabitants of this "bike house" survived a nuclear war.

On the territory of the base there is a profitable shop, a bar and a new club "Sexton". In addition, legal money is brought in by regular, with scope and aplomb, bike shows.

In recent years, the course of the "eternal" president of the bike club, Alexander Zaldostanov, has changed dramatically. Now the "Night Wolves" promote Orthodoxy, carry the Russian flag on their Harleys, take patronage over third-graders Sevastopol school, give Volgograd a children's fountain and plan to launch the production of Russian motorcycles, which will be cooler "Harley Davidson".

In the statutes of almost all motorcycle clubs in the world there is one general rule - do not get involved in politics. The surgeon, on the other hand, flirts with the authorities in every possible way - after several meetings with Vladimir Putin calls him a friend and regularly invites the president to Night Wolves motorcycle festivals.

Vladimir Vladimirovich even rode several times with a convoy of bikers, although for the sake of the head of state's safety they put him behind the wheel of a more stable tricycle. In response, Putin awarded the Surgeon Order of Honor(2013), a copy of which the leader of the "Wolves" now always wears on his leather vest.

In December 2014, by USA economic sanctions were imposed on the club "Night Wolves", including on the "Surgeon" personally, in connection with the policy of the Russian Federation in the east of Ukraine.

In January 2015, along with the actor Mikhail Porechenkov, member of the Federation Council Dmitry Sablin and world champion in fights without rules Julia Berezikova became the initiator of the creation of a movement whose goal is to counteract attempts to repeat Maidan in Russia.

Alexander is also an actor: in 1989 he played a cameo role in the film "Accident is the daughter of a cop". In 1992, he played in episodes in the films Luna Park and Dancing Ghosts.

Rumors, scandals

It is said that while working as a dentist, he collected beads from human teeth. At first I wore them myself, then I gave them to a friend of a fashion designer Egor Zaitsev. The biker either confirmed this information in the media, emphasizing that the teeth were carious, then denied it with a laugh, pointing to Zaitsev's fantasies.

In the dashing 90s, dozens of gangs operated in Moscow, but not one of them could capture the whole city. What the bandits did not succeed in, the Surgeon and his "Night Wolves" managed to accomplish. For several years, not a single new motorcycle club could appear in the capital of Russia without the knowledge and approval of Zaldostanov, and those who dared to disobey, the wolves dealt with quickly and mercilessly.

However, the Surgeon did not succeed in holding everything in his hands for a long time - in the late 90s, fan clubs of various motorcycle models began to appear, which were no longer possible to influence.

Also, new motorcycle gangs gradually began to be organized by bikers who left the Night Wolves as a result of several splits. Disillusioned with their leader, they no longer asked his opinion about whether they could open their own club.

It would seem that the division of territory and the "protection" of clubs are all things of bygone days, however, more recently, in October 2012, the Night Wolves staged an attack on a small Zelenograd club "Three Roads".

The composition of the participants in the massacre was unequal from the very beginning - 50 "wolves" against 7 "three-roaders". However, the latter put up a worthy rebuff.

The conversation in raised tones turned into a brawl, and then shots rang out from both sides, as a result of which one of the “wolves” received a bullet in the stomach and died in the hospital, and the representative of the “Three Roads” accused of murder is still in jail. According to rumors, Alexander Zaldostanov himself did not participate in these events, but at that moment he was in Zelenograd.

The club "Sexton" The surgeon simply took away from his friends: they built it together, and then it turned out that, according to the documents, Sasha is the sole owner. There was a conflict, a showdown and a break with old comrades.

There is evidence that Zaldolstanov was an agent KGB. Nothing has been confirmed. But the opposite has not been proven either.

In April 2015, the Night Wolves organized road trip to Berlin, however, the bikers faced obstacles from the Polish authorities. On April 30, Alexander Zaldostanov announced that Russian bikers managed to enter the territory of the European Union.

May 12, 2015 government Sevastopol leased 267 hectares of land with a lake near Balaklava to the Night Wolves bike club for ten years. The rent for the plot was set at a minimum - 0.1% of the cost (1.4 billion rubles) per year.

The low price was due to the fact that the project conceived on the site for the construction of a sports and patriotic center for extreme sports is "non-commercial" and "socially significant for the development of the city." On May 22, deputies of the Legislative Assembly criticized the government's decision and demanded that it be suspended.

The speaker stated that "Night Wolves" should participate in the competition on a general basis, and their project should go through public hearings. Then the decision was suspended. However, at the end of July, restrictions on the document were lifted. Such a step in the government was explained by the fact that the "Night Wolves" regularly pay for the lease of land.

In November 2016, the leader of the Night Wolves motorcycle club wrote a letter to the President of Russia to supplement the existing state emblem with "the braces of the Soviet generation."

Biker invited Vladimir Putin to consider adding the Russian coat of arms with the Victory star and a frame of ears of corn.

"The coat of arms of Russia is a symbol of the state, a sacred sign of our past and future victories. First of all, we must consolidate the continuity of our state. The current emblem - a double-headed eagle - is a continuity from the Russian Empire. But we must also show that we come from the USSR - from Gagarin's throw into space, the first satellite, the mighty Soviet army and, of course, the titanic, sacred victory in the Great Patriotic War. And the symbol of this heroic deed - the star of Victory - was reflected on our coat of arms", - Zaldostanov explained in an interview with RT.