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Dmitry Petrukhin – biker-circumnavigator, under the flag of the Republic of Kazakhstan crossed 5 continents and 170 countries of the world, 400 thousand kilometers for 15 years, president of the Geographical Society of Kazakhstan, president of the Association of bikers of Kazakhstan, Goodwill Ambassador, honorary deputy of the maslikhat of Almaty, member of the Republican political party "Nur-Otan", public figure.
SINCE 2004, HE HAS HELD MORE THAN 250 PR ACTIONS, PRESS CONFERENCES FOR THE FIRST PERSONS OF STATES, ELITE REPRESENTATIVES OF SCIENCE, CULTURE, BUSINESS, ORDER TO INCREASE THE POPULARITY OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN.
Dmitry Ivanovich Petrukhin was born July 25, 1956 in Krasnoyarsk Krai in the area of the fall of the Tunguska meteorite – the working village Sovrudnik Severo-Yenisei district of the USSR. In a family of hereditary miners.
My father, Ivan Ivanovich Petrukhin, went through the entire Great Patriotic War. As a member of the brass band (trombone) participated in the Victory Parade held on June 24, 1945 in Moscow on Red Square. Then he built mines in Donbass and Kuzbass, in Krasnoyarsk Krai and Karaganda.
Her mother, Alexandra Petrukhina (Bartashevich-Shchors) was a great-niece of Nikolai Shchors, a hero of the Civil War of 1917-1922. After the war she worked with her husband for many years in coal mines as a barrel handler (a barrel handler is a worker who gives signals for lowering and raising the cage).
Collage of the Petrukhin family. Larisa, granddaughter Maria, son Dima, wife Natalia, son Denis.
Brother Igor Petrukhin (born in 1949) – a miner-passer. Sister Rimma (born in 1957) – commodity manager.
Wife – Natalya Vasilyevna.
Children – Dima and Denis
1976 – 1978. – Served in the army in Moscow, in the automobile troops. After his military service, he took a job at the Sokurskaya mine
г. Saran as a mine worker at the mine face.
1982 г. – Graduated from Karaganda Mining Technical School. For 10 years of work underground he advanced from a simple miner to a senior mechanic for maintenance of mining roadheaders. He has a medal of Miner's Glory of the third degree, certificates of honor and was included in the book of honorary miners of the Karaganda basin for rational economic proposals on coal excavation.
In 1991, almost all the mines closed down and Dmitry and his family left Karaganda for Almaty. Dmitry together with his wife Natalia organized a travel agency "Cruise". He graduated from the Academy of Tourism and Sports, specializing in tourism management.
In 2994 there was a legendary acquaintance of Dmitry Petrukhin with Evan McGregor, a Hollywood movie star The guys were traveling on motorcycles in Central Asia, Evan's motorcycle was out of order. Dmitry, helping Evan, heard him say: "Everyone can become a biker, but not every biker can travel halfway around the world. Subsequently, this phrase became a fateful one for Petrukhin.
Placing the Flag of Kazakhstan on his motorcycle, Dmitry Petrukhin announced the start of his round-the-world trip.
His family and close friends – Valikhan Koshumbaev from Almaty, Mukhtar Nurlybaev, Yerzhan Duisekeev, Eduard Smirnov, Alexander Avariy, Vladimir Dubrovin, Vitaly Kim – saw him off, Yuri Kim and Sergey Spitsyn, Yerlan Turgumbayev from Petropavlovsk, Karaganda's Vasily Koval, Bulat Abilov from Astana and Bulat Akhmetzhanovich Koshumbayev and his wife Aunt Tamara from Kokshetau.
Dmitry Petrukhin has planted the flag of Kazakhstan in Alaska in the USA, Cape Horn in Chile, Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, Tasmania Island in Australia, as well as on the Equator in Ecuador, Kenya and Indonesia, Kamchatka in Russia, Honshu Island in Japan, Tenerife Island in Spain, Mayan pyramids in Mexico, Havana in Cuba and in one hundred and sixty other countries of the world.
To Grozny. Check-in to the capital of Chechnya.
Peddler. A little role reversal. Get your pineapples!
