(Anatolij Rechmedin)

b. 1939, April 28 in Plyskiv, Vinnytsia oblast. (father / mother)

Anatolij graduated from Kyiv State University in 1961. Then he first worked as a journalist and later as an editor in several newspapers in the Bukovina area. In the early 1970s he started to work for the district committee of the Communist party in Chernivtsi. Between 1974 and 1976 he studied at the Highest Party School (Vyshaya Partijnaya Shkola) in Moscow. In October of 1976 Anatolij and his family moved to Moscow where he got a job in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He started his career there as a referent of the Letters' section of the Common Department where he later became the head of it.

After the Soviet Union had collapsed he worked in the Presidential Administration for a while and in 1993 got a job at the Administrative Department of Sberbank Rossii (Savings Bank of the Russian Federation) from where he retired in 2003. He was responsible for the Charity Committee of the bank and also for answering customers' letters.

In 1966 he was married to Hanna Otsabera.

Anatolij Rechmedin has written four books. In 1977 he published a book about the city of Storozhynets in Bukovina. And in 2004 he published a book about his uncle Valentyn Rechmedin. In 2005 he published two books: one with memories from his time in the Central Committee and one about the Ukrainian poet Anatol Olijnyk.

Children:

Aleksandr, b. 1966, August 21 in Hlyboka, Chernivtsi oblast.

Alla, b. 1976, July 4.


Anatolij Rechmedin together with his daughter Alla in August 2003.
Photo: Håkan Henriksson 2003.

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