Senator from Buryatia Arnold Tulokhonov. Arnold Tulokhonov left the Federation Council: “I’m not Obama, I can’t say a farewell speech

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1971 - Irkutsk State University named after A.A. Zhdanov (geographer-geomorphologist)

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The resignation of Arnold Tulokhonov from the post of senator is a foregone conclusion

Moscow demands resignation of active senator of Buryatia

From informed sources of Baikal-Daily in the government of Buryatia, it became known about the imminent resignation of the senator from the republic, Arnold Tulokhonov.

According to our sources, the initiative for the "voluntary" resignation of the well-known academician and senator comes entirely from Moscow. Therefore, this situation caused great surprise among local political players.

Arnold Tulokhonov will lose his seat as a senator?

At a meeting of the Presidential Council for Science and Education, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to fire officials who became academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The head of state said that the ban on election to academicians and corresponding members also applies to governors, Vesti.ru reports.

Senator Arnold Tulokhonov entered the TOP-20 rating of members of the Federation Council

The representative of Buryatia in the Council of Federations of the Federal Assembly of Russia, Arnold Tulokhonov, ranks 11th in the rating of senators for November. The rating was prepared by Medialogy, Tulokhonov became a "newcomer". He was helped in this by a possible ban on the simultaneous engagement in scientific and state activities, as Vladimir Putin spoke about earlier.

Inform Polis: Deputy Arnold Tulokhonov gave a press conference

This event was organized by the Permanent Delegation of Russia to UNESCO and the Foundation for the Protection of Lake Baikal (FSSOB) with the support of the Government of the Republic of Buryatia, the Russian Geographical Society, the Museum of Oceanography of Monaco, the Monaco Prince Albert II Foundation, Tulokhonov said. He also said that before the start of the conference greetings were read from the elected President of Russia Putin, the President of Mongolia Elbegdorzh and the President of the Republic of Buryatia Nagovitsyn. Vladimir Putin's address emphasized the special role of environmental initiatives in the study and protection of the unique reservoir.

Arnold Tulokhonov was left alone

The only member of the committee who voted against was the Buryat senator Arnold Tulokhonov. According to Taiga.info, Arnold Tulokhonov, at a meeting of the profile committee, reasonably criticized the draft law on the Russian Academy of Sciences, calling it "very raw", and asked to return the document for revision. “My honor and conscience do not allow me to support him,” the senator admitted. According to Tulokhonov's forecasts, the Federation Council will approve the law on September 25, and "there is no chance" that the president will veto it.

“There is no chance that Putin will veto”

- Not. I just spoke and told my point of view. I wrote a five-page analysis of this bill, where I criticized the document. It remains unclear one of the main questions - how can science be developed in Russia if it does not have property? Equally, there is not a single article in the bill that actually asserted the priority Russian science, the need for its development as the main condition for the modernization of the economy and the emergence of our country as a world leader.

Arnold Tulokhonov: "It brings joy to us and benefit to the state"

— Yes, there are a lot of them. We have received fundamental scientific results. For example, at several levels at a depth of 200-800 m, I discovered ancient lake beaches. But after all, pebbles at the bottom cannot form. This discovery is unparalleled and turns geology upside down. It turns out that Baikal was once 800 meters lower and filled up four times after the glaciers melted. This result does not practical value, but opens a new page in the history of Baikal.

The richest people should live in the richest land

Those who are familiar with Baikal through the media will no doubt think about the dives of the Mirs and, of course, about the problem of the BPPM. However, environmental issues do not exhaust the range of problems relating to the Baikal territory, which includes, first of all, such large territorial entities as the Irkutsk region, the Trans-Baikal Territory, as well as the Republic of Buryatia. COPAH.info talks about the priorities, tasks and goals that are important for this region with a person whose extensive list of interests includes everything related to the development of the lands adjacent to Baikal - the director of the Baikal Institute of Nature Management of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Arnold Kirillovich Tulokhonov.

Senator from the Republic of Belarus Arnold Tulokhonov became the only one in the committee of the Federation Council on science who voted against the law on the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences

I asked my colleagues on the committee on science, education, culture and information technology to return this bill for revision to the conciliation commission, where I was ready to take an active part.

The head of Buryatia gave Arnold Tulokhonov the powers of a senator

I think that Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn will find a worthy replacement. And this, most likely, will be a deputy of the People's Khural, and the candidacy will be determined in the next two or three days. I can be excluded from the list of candidates immediately, since I am not a deputy of either the People's Khural, or even the City Council, - Gennady Aidaev emphasized then. Recall that the vacant seat in the Federation Council appeared after Senator Vitaly Malkin wrote a letter of early resignation from the post of senator . Malkin explained his departure from the Federation Council by the “dirty campaign” launched against him from abroad. At the same time, he said that he did not want to thereby "dirty" the Council

Federation.

Arnold Tulokhonov: I will not be silent!

- In my first speech, I noted that the republican budget adopted today is no different from the same twenty years ago. It has no thought. There is no concept of how to earn money, and how to spend it rationally. In addition, take the Russian budget - it is socially protected, not a single social article has been reduced. We have reduced everything. Even Agriculture reduced three times. And there is practically no science at all. There are two articles on applied science. For its development, the government, they say, is developing a concept, territorial planning, design and construction. Moreover, it does all this almost simultaneously, although such work takes a lot of time. And here in one year they want to do everything. The concept was won by the Italians.

Arnold Tulokhonov: the main problem of Baikal is the lack of culture of the population

— Previously, there was no such profession as an ecologist, so I studied geography, graduated from the Faculty of Geography of Irkutsk State University with a degree in geography. Geography is a very broad concept that includes the study of social, natural and many other processes and phenomena. Twenty years ago, with colleagues, I created an institute, and now it is one of the few academic institutions that deals with sustainable development issues or, in other words, understands how to solve modern environmental problems without harming future generations.

Tulokhonov invited Russian scientists to emigrate in the event of a reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences

In the official report on the website of the Federation Council about the meeting of the committee, not a word was said about the speech of Arnold Tulokhonov in connection with the consideration of the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The news reports that committee chairman Zinaida Dragunkina noted the serious changes that the law underwent during its passage in the State Duma: “There was a lot of work. The Duma moved from the third reading to the second, amendments were made, and the document was significantly improved.”

Valentina Matvienko thanked the now former senator from Buryatia for 4 years of fruitful work

Today, the Federation Council prematurely terminated the powers of the Buryat senator Arnold Tulokhonov.

An application was received from Arnold Tulokhonov to resign ahead of schedule at his own request from January 9. The corresponding draft has been prepared, I ask you to support it, - Vadim Tyulpanov, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Regulations and Organization of Parliamentary Activities, read out.

Members of the Federation Council adopted the decision by a majority vote. Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko expressed her gratitude to Arnold Tulokhonov.

Let me thank you on my own behalf. He was a very active, caring senator who reacted vividly to problems and firmly defended the issues of Buryatia. This is a principled, persistent person, he managed to solve the questions posed. We are very grateful to him for his work, - said Valentina Matvienko.

The Chairman of the Federation Council presented Arnold Tulokhonov with gratitude and hugged him.

After that, the former senator made a reply.

I am grateful for the four years that have gone by like a blink of an eye. Of course, I'm not Obama, I can't give a farewell speech. I am not saying that we need to save Syria. We must save Siberia. I didn’t have time to do a lot, I hope I will still help you, - said Arnold Tulokhonov.
In turn, Valentina Matvienko invited Arnold Tulokhonov to continue working in the Federation Council as an expert.

I ask for your consent so that you join the commission of our expert council. So that they can help us in solving problems, - said Matvienko and, having received a positive answer, she continued. - Wonderful. We don't say goodbye. We will continue our joint cooperation.

Recall about the upcoming departure of Arnold Tulokhonov from the post of senator in the Federation Council from Buryatia "Baikal-Daily" in mid-December.

Prior to this, Tulokhonov was mentioned among the academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who were criticized by Vladimir Putin. The President promised to remove from public office all those who combine service with academic activities in the posts of academicians. Shortly before this, Arnold Tulokhonov was just elected an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The deputies of the People's Khural spoke in support of the ex-colleague (Arnold Tulokhonov moved to senators from the republican parliament). And they turned to the head of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko and the head of the presidential administration Russian Federation Anton Vaino, with a statement that Arnold Kirillovich "dignifiedly and professionally performs his work in the Federation Council."

As it became known to Baikal-Daily, with a candidacy for the post of senator in the Federation Council from Buryatia. It will be the deputy of the People's Khural, the general director of the TV company "Arig Us" Tatiana Mantatova.

Thus, the new senator will legally appear in Buryatia in January. Documents on Tatyana Mantatova have already gone to the apparatus of the Federation Council. She herself agreed to the appointment.

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Arnold Tulokhonov was born on September 3, 1949 in the village of Zakuley, Irkutsk Region. Graduated from Irkutsk State University named after Zhdanov with a degree in geographer-geomorphologist. Labor activity began in the Chita branch of the All-Union Research and Design Institute of the gold-platinum, diamond and tungsten-molybdenum industry of the USSR Ministry of Nonferrous Metallurgy.

On his initiative, in 1977, the Small Academy of Sciences was established in Ulan-Ude, which is still operating today, and the Council of Young Scientists of the Buryat ASSR was organized. In 1988, Arnold Tulokhonov was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Presidium scientific center SO AN USSR. In the same year, he organized the Baikal Department of Nature Management Problems under the presidium of the center, which in 1991 was transformed into the Baikal Institute of Environmental Management of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (now the Baikal Institute of Nature Management of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences). Tulokhonov headed the institute from 1991 to 2013, when he left his post and took the senatorial chair.

He was sent to the Federation Council by the head of Buryatia, Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn, after the place of the senator from executive bodies The authorities of the republic were released ahead of schedule by Vitaly Malkin. This was preceded by a loud scandal with the "exposing" of Malkin by oppositionist Navalny, who announced the senator's undeclared real estate abroad and Israeli citizenship. “Well, now thank him (Navalny) to say?” - Arnold Tulokhonov commented on the situation. Already at his first press conference as a senator, one of which - “Buryatia is the face of Russia, not its backside” - became winged.

Doctor of Geography, professor. Member of the expert council of the national award "Crystal Compass".

In 2001-2013 - Director of the Baikal Institute of Nature Management of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2013-2017 - Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the Government of the Republic of Buryatia. Deputy of the People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia IV and V convocations.

Biography

For three years, he completed a large amount of contractual work commissioned by the Baleizoloto plant and put on the balance sheet more than 10 alluvial gold deposits with a total reserve of over 2 tons of metal. The results of these studies formed the basis of the Ph.D. thesis "The main stages of the development of the relief of the Shilka middle mountains and the assessment of placer gold content", which A. K. Tulokhonov defended in 1976 at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics.

On his initiative, in 1977, the Small Academy of Sciences was established in Ulan-Ude, which is still operating today, and the Council of Young Scientists of the Buryat ASSR was organized. In 1986-1988 - Head of the Department of Science of the Buryat Regional Committee of the CPSU. In 1988, A. K. Tulokhonov was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Buryat Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In the same year, he organized the Baikal Department of Nature Management Problems under the Presidium of the Center, which, on his initiative, was reorganized in 1991 into the Baikal Institute for Rational Nature Management of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Today it is the Baikal Institute of Nature Management of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences - the only institute in the system of academic science where natural resource research is inextricably linked with the development of environmentally friendly technologies and the economics of nature management.

Since 1996 - member of the Academy of the Northern Forum (Finland), member of the International Association of Academies of Sciences (MAAN) of the CIS; since 1998 - full member of the Russian Ecological Academy; since 2000 - full member of the Academy of Mining Sciences. He was a member of the editorial board of the journal Region: Sociology and Economics (2000-2004). In 2004, he became the initiator of the creation and chairman of the scientific council of the journal "World of Baikal".

Member of the Academic Council of the Russian Geographical Society (since 2005). In 2008-2010, he was a member of the coordinating council of the Corporation for the Development of Transbaikalia, editor-in-chief of the encyclopedic reference book Baikal: Nature and People, scientific organizer of the International Expedition Worlds on Baikal using deep-sea manned submersibles Mir-1 and "Mir-2", hydronaut "Baikal-2008".

The history of chess has at least one and a half thousand years. Invented in India in the 5th-6th centuries, chess has spread throughout the world, becoming an integral part of human culture. There is an ancient legend that attributes the creation of chess to a certain Brahmin. For his invention, he asked the raja for an insignificant, at first glance, reward: as many wheat grains as there will be on a chessboard if one grain is placed on the first cell, two grains on the second, four grains on the third, etc. It turned out , that there is no such amount of grain on the entire planet (it is equal to 264 − 1 ≈ 1.845 × 1019 grains, which is enough to fill the storage with a volume of 180 km³). So it was, or not quite, hard to say, but, one way or another, India is the birthplace of chess. Not later than the beginning of the 6th century, the first game known to us related to chess appeared in northwestern India - chaturanga. It already had a completely recognizable “chess” look, but fundamentally differed from modern chess in two features: there were four players, not two (they played pair against pair), and moves were made in accordance with the results of throwing dice . Each player had four pieces (chariot (rook), knight, bishop, king) and four pawns. The knight and king moved in the same way as in chess, the chariot and bishop were much weaker than the current chess rook and bishop. There was no queen at all. To win the game, it was necessary to destroy the entire army of opponents. The transformation of chess into an international sport Since the 16th century, chess clubs began to appear, where amateurs and semi-professionals gathered, often playing for a cash bet. Over the next two centuries, the spread of chess led to the emergence of national tournaments in most European countries. There are chess publications, at first sporadic and irregular, but over time gaining more and more popularity. The first chess magazine Palamede was published in 1836 by the French chess player Louis Charles Labourdonnet. In 1837 a chess magazine appeared in Great Britain, and in 1846 in Germany. In the 19th century, international matches (since 1821) and tournaments (since 1851) began to be held. The first such tournament, held in London in 1851, was won by Adolf Andersen. It was he who became the unofficial "chess king", that is, the one who was considered the strongest chess player in the world. Subsequently, this title was challenged by Paul Morphy (USA), who won the match in 1858 with a score of + 7-2 = 2, however, after Morphy left the chess scene in 1859, Andersen again became the first, and only in 1866 Wilhelm Steinitz won the match against Andersen with a score of + 8- 6 and became the new "Uncrowned King". The first world chess champion who officially held this title was the same Wilhelm Steinitz, who defeated Johann Zuckertort in the first match in history, in the agreement on which the expression "world championship match" appeared. Thus, a system of succession of the title was formed on a whim basis: the one who won the match against the previous one became the new world champion, while the current champion reserved the right to agree to the match or reject the opponent, and also determined the conditions and venue of the match. The only mechanism capable of forcing the champion to play with the challenger was public opinion: if a strong, admittedly, chess player could not win the right to a match with the champion for a long time, this was considered as a sign of the champion's cowardice, and he, saving face, found himself forced to accept the challenge. Typically, the match agreement provided for the champion's right to a rematch if they lost; victory in such a match returned the title to the previous owner. In the second half of the 19th century, time control began to be used in chess tournaments. At first, an ordinary hourglass was used for this (the time per move was limited), which was rather inconvenient, but soon the English amateur chess player Thomas Bright Wilson (T.B.Wilson) invented special chess clocks that made it possible to conveniently implement a time limit for the entire game or for a certain number of moves . Time control quickly entered into chess practice and soon began to be used everywhere. By the end of the 19th century, official tournaments and matches without time control were practically non-existent. Simultaneously with the advent of time control, the concept of "time pressure" appeared. Thanks to the introduction of time control, special forms of chess tournaments with a greatly reduced time limit arose: "quick chess" with a limit of about 30 minutes per game for each player and "blitz" - 5-10 minutes. However, they became widespread much later. Chess in the 20th century At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, the development of chess in Europe and America was very active, chess organizations grew larger, more and more international tournaments were held. In 1924, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) was created, initially organizing the World Chess Olympiads. Until 1948, the system of succession to the title of world champion that had developed in the 19th century was preserved: the challenger challenged the champion to a match, the winner of which became the new champion. Until 1921, Emanuel Lasker remained the champion (the second, after Steinitz, the official world champion, who won this title in 1894), from 1921 to 1927 - Jose Raul Capablanca, from 1927 to 1946 - Alexander Alekhine (in 1935, Alekhin lost the world championship match to Max Euwe, but In 1937 he regained the title in a rematch and held it until his death in 1946). After the death in 1946 of Alekhine, who remained undefeated, FIDE took over the organization of the world championship. The first official world chess championship was held in 1948, the Soviet grandmaster Mikhail Botvinnik became the winner. FIDE introduced a system of tournaments for winning the title of champion: the winners of the qualifying stages advanced to the zonal tournaments, the winners of the zonal competitions advanced to the interzonal tournament, and the winners of the best results in the latter took part in the Candidates Tournament, where the winner was determined in a series of knockout games, who had to play the match against the reigning champion. The formula for the title match has changed several times. Now the winners of zonal tournaments participate in a single tournament with the best (by rating) players in the world; the winner becomes the world champion. The Soviet chess school played a huge role in the history of chess, especially in the second half of the 20th century. The wide popularity of chess, active, purposeful teaching of it and the identification of capable players from childhood (there was a chess section, a children's chess school in any city in the USSR, there were chess clubs at educational institutions, enterprises and organizations, tournaments were constantly held, a large amount of specialized literature was published) contributed to the high level of play of Soviet chess players. Attention to chess was shown at the highest level. The result was that from the end of the 1940s until the collapse of the USSR, Soviet chess players almost completely dominated world chess. Of the 21 chess Olympiads that took place from 1950 to 1990, the USSR team won 18 and became a silver medalist in one more, out of 14 chess Olympiads for women during the same period, 11 were won and 2 "silver" were taken. Of the 18 draws for the title of world champion among men in 40 years, only once a non-Soviet chess player became the winner (it was the American Robert Fischer), and twice more the contender for the title was not from the USSR (moreover, the contender also represented the Soviet chess school, it was Viktor Korchnoi, who fled from the USSR to the West). In 1993, Garry Kasparov, who was the world champion at that time, and Nigel Short, who became the winner of the qualifying round, refused to play another match for the world championship under the auspices of FIDE, accusing the federation leadership of unprofessionalism and corruption. Kasparov and Short formed a new organization, the PCA, and played a match under its auspices. There was a split in the chess movement. FIDE stripped Kasparov of his title, and Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman competed for the title of FIDE world champion, who at that time had the highest chess rating after Kasparov and Short. At the same time, Kasparov continued to consider himself a "real" world champion, since he defended the title in a match with a legitimate contender - Short, and part of the chess community was in solidarity with him. In 1996, the PCHA ceased to exist as a result of the loss of a sponsor, after which the champions of the PCA began to be called the "world champion in classical chess." In fact, Kasparov revived the old title transfer system, when the champion himself accepted the challenge of the challenger and played a match with him. The next "classic" champion was Vladimir Kramnik, who won the match against Kasparov in 2000 and defended the title in the match with Peter Leko in 2004. Until 1998, FIDE continued to play the title of champion in the traditional order (Anatoly Karpov remained FIDE champion during this period), but from 1999 to In 2004, the format of the championship changed dramatically: instead of a match between the challenger and the champion, the title was played in a knockout tournament in which the current champion had to participate on a general basis. As a result, the title constantly changed hands and five champions changed in six years. In general, in the 1990s, FIDE undertook whole line attempts to make chess competitions more dynamic and interesting, and thus attractive to potential sponsors. First of all, this was expressed in the transition in a number of competitions from the Swiss or round robin system to the knockout system (in each round there is a match of three knockout games). Since the knockout system requires an unambiguous outcome of the round, additional games in rapid chess and even blitz games have appeared in the tournament regulations: if the main series of games with the usual time control ends in a draw, an additional game is played with a shortened time control. Sophisticated time control schemes began to be used to protect against hard time trouble, in particular, the “Fischer clock” - time control with an addition after each move. The last decade of the 20th century in chess was marked by another important event- computer chess reached enough high level to surpass the human chess player. In 1996, Garry Kasparov lost a game to a computer for the first time, and in 1997, he also lost a match to Deep Blue by a one-point margin. An avalanche-like increase in the performance and memory capacity of computers, combined with the improvement of algorithms, led to the fact that by the beginning of the 21st century, public programs appeared that could play at the level of grandmasters in real time. The ability to connect to them pre-accumulated bases of openings and tables of small-figure endings further increases the power of the machine's play, completely relieves it of the danger of making a mistake in a known position. Now the computer can effectively prompt a human chess player even at the highest level competitions. This resulted in changes in the format of high-level competitions: tournaments began to use special measures to protect against computer prompts, in addition, they completely abandoned the practice of postponing games. The time allotted for a game was also reduced: if in the middle of the 20th century the norm was 2.5 hours for 40 moves, then by the end of the century it decreased to 2 hours (in other cases, even up to 100 minutes) for 40 moves. Current state and prospects After the Kramnik-Topalov unification match in 2006, FIDE's monopoly on holding the world championship and awarding the title of world chess champion was restored. The first "unified" world champion was Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), who won this match. Until 2013, the world champion was Viswanathan Anand, who won the 2007 world championship. In 2008, a rematch between Anand and Kramnik took place, Anand retained his title. In 2010, another match was held, in which Anand and Veselin Topalov took part; Anand again defended the title of champion. In 2012, a match was held in which Anand and Gelfand took part; Anand defended the champion's title in a tie-break. In 2013, Anand lost the title of world champion to Magnus Carlsen, who won the match ahead of schedule with a score of 6½:3½. The championship formula is being adjusted by FIDE. In the last championship, the title was played in a tournament with the participation of the champion, four winners of the challenger tournament and three personally selected players with the highest rating. However, FIDE also retained the tradition of holding personal matches between the champion and the challenger: existing rules, a grandmaster with a rating of 2700 or higher has the right to challenge the champion to a match (the champion cannot refuse), provided that funding is secured and the deadlines are met: the match must end no later than six months before the start of the next world championship. The progress of computer chess mentioned above has become one of the reasons for the growing popularity of non-classical chess variants. Since 2000, Fischer chess tournaments have been held in which the initial arrangement of pieces is chosen randomly from 960 options before the game. Under such conditions, the huge array of opening variations accumulated by chess theory becomes useless, which, as many believe, has a positive effect on the creative component of the game, and when playing against a machine, it significantly limits the advantage of the computer in the opening stage of the game.

Arnold Kirillovich Tulokhonov(b. 1949) - Soviet and Russian scientist, public figure, specialist in the field of physical and economic geography. In 2013-2016, he was a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, was a member of the committee on science, education, culture and information policy. Member of the Academic Council of the Russian Geographical Society and the Presidium of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2001-2013, he was the director of the Baikal Institute of Nature Management of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, since 2016 he has been the scientific director of the BIP of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Deputy of the People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia IV and V convocations.

Biography

Born on September 3, 1949 in the village of Zakuley (now Nukutsky district, Ust-Ordynsky Buryat district, Irkutsk region) in the family of a rural teacher. In 1966, after graduating from the Nukut high school entered Irkutsk State University at the Faculty of Geography. In 1971 he graduated with honors with the qualification "geographer-geomorphologist" and was assigned to work in the Chita branch of the All-Union Research and Design Institute of the Gold-Platinum, Diamond and Tungsten-Molybdenum Industry of the USSR Ministry of Nonferrous Metallurgy. He began his career as a junior researcher.

For three years, he completed a large amount of contractual work commissioned by the Baleizoloto plant and put on the balance sheet more than 10 alluvial gold deposits with a total reserve of over 2 tons of metal. The results of these studies formed the basis PhD thesis"The main stages of the development of the relief of the Shilka middle mountains and the assessment of placer gold", which he defended in 1976 at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

On his initiative, in 1977, the Small Academy of Sciences was established in Ulan-Ude, which is still operating today, and the Council of Young Scientists of the Buryat ASSR was organized. In 1988, A. K. Tulokhonov was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In the same year, he organized the Baikal Department of Nature Management Problems under the Presidium of the Center, which, on his initiative, was reorganized in 1991 into the Baikal Institute for Rational Nature Management of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Today it is the Baikal Institute of Nature Management of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences - the only institute in the system of academic science where natural resource research is inextricably linked with the development of environmentally friendly technologies and the economics of nature management.

In 1988, by the decision of the Higher Attestation Commission, she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Geographical Sciences for the dissertation "The Origin and Evolution of the Relief of Inland Mountains (on the Example of the Mongolian-Siberian Mountain Belt)".

1991-2013 - Director of the Baikal Institute of Nature Management of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

From 1992 to the present - Advisor to the President of the Republic of Buryatia and the Chairman of the People's Khural on environmental issues.

From 1996 to the present - a member of the Academy of the Northern Forum (Finland), a member of the International Association of Academies of Sciences (IAAS) of the CIS.

Since 1998 - full member of the Russian Ecological Academy.

2000-2004 - Member of the editorial board of the journal Region: Sociology and Economics.

From 2000 to the present - a full member of the Academy of Mining Sciences, a confidant of V.V. Putin in the election of the President of the Russian Federation.

2001 - Member of the Presidium of the Political Council of the Buryat regional branch of the party "Unity" (United Russia).

2002 - by the decision of the Higher Attestation Commission, the academic title of professor was awarded.

2003 - elected as a corresponding member Russian Academy Sciences.

2004 - the initiator of the creation and chairman of the scientific council of the magazine "World of Baikal".