Vladimir Sukhanov was born in Moscow on February 19
th, 1938. In 1956 he graduated high school and got a job at the Nizhamurstroy trust as a construction worker, where he was sent on a Komsomol ticket. In the period from 1958 - 1962 he served in the Soviet army in the Akhalkalaki mountains (present day Georgia) in the communications units. He was demobilized with the rank of sergeant in the Soviet Army.
After demobilization, he worked as an assistant foreman at a textile factory. In 1965, he was recommended to work in the Moscow
militsiya (police force), where he began as an operative of criminal investigation of the 51
stpolice department of the Pervomaisky district (Izmailovo). At the same time, he did extramural studies at the All-Union Law Institute (now Kutafin Moscow State Law University).
His
militsiya career rapidly developed. In 1969, Sukhanov was appointed to the post of deputy head of the 31
stpolice department of Moscow. After graduating from All-Union Law Institute in 1971, he became Head of the criminal investigation department of the Pervomaisky District Department of Internal Affairs. At the same time, he was elected secretary of the Komsomol organization, party bureau, member of the party committee of the district department. In December 1972, he became the released secretary of the party committee of the Pervomaisky District Department of Internal Affairs.
From 1974 to 1980 he worked as an expert instructor in the department of administrative bodies of the Moscow City Party Committee (MGK CPSU).
In September 1980, he was sent to the post of deputy Head of the Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, which at that moment was headed by Mikhail Iosifovich Shestopalov. In November of the same year, he was elected secretary of the party committee of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Moscow. This period in the life of the Soviet media was known for such personalities as the head of the Moscow police department Vasily Petrovich Trushin,
Yury Mikhailovich Churbanov,
Nikolay Anisimovich Shchelokov and others. One of the important moments in the life of Vladimir Stepanovich was the work in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow with General Alexander Nikolaevich Sterligov, who later became an assistant to the first and only Vice-President of the Russian Federation,
Rutskoy Alexander Vladimirovich.
In connection with the creation of political bodies in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1983, he was sent to work as the head of a group of structures of the Political Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he oversaw the Ministry of Internal Affairs of six union republics and the representative office of the USSR in Afghanistan. For a long time he was considered the main specialist in interethnic relations and in resolving interfaith conflicts of the Soviet period. In difficult historical moments, he supervised the Ministries of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. He was also a member of the government commission to investigate the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
In 1988, by decision of the board of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, he was appointed Head of the political department of the newly created Higher Law Correspondence School of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs (now Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia).
From January to August 1991 he was an assistant to the chairman of the Central Control Commission of the RCP. In the Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of the RSFSR, he worked with General Nikolai Sergeevich Stolyarov, the one who flew to pick up Gorbachev in Faros during the 1991 coup. (Later Stolyarov became deputy chairman of KGB of the RSFSR / Russia).
After the democratic forces came to power, in September 1991,he was appointed to work in the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, where he worked until February 1992.
In 1992, at the invitation of his colleagues at the legal institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, honored lawyers of Russia -
Zorkin Valery Dmitrievich and
Vitruk Nikolai Vasilyevich, Sukhanov came to work at the Constitutional Court of Russia, where he worked until the end of his life. During his time there he became known to the Constitutional Court for his principled position on the merger of the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB, the issue of establishing the national status of the Cossacks of Russia, as well as on many other high-profile legal constitutional disputes.
Married to Lyudmila Vladimirovna Sukhanova (her father Khakhulin Vladimir Sergeevich was the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Mordovian ASSR from 1970 to 1983).
Children: son Daniil Vladimirovich Sukhanov, born in 1975 and daughter Anastasia Vladimirovna Sukhanova, born in 1990.
Hot spots: Afghanistan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Tbilisi, Budzhak, Chernobyl.
