Alexander Mikhailov (politician) explained

Status:Representing the Executive
Term Start:27 November 2018
Term End:4 December 2020
Appointer:Roman Starovoyt
Successor:Grigory Rapota
Office1:Governor of Kursk Oblast
Order1:3rd
Term Start1:18 November 2000
Term End1:11 October 2018
Predecessor1:Alexander Rutskoy
Successor1:Roman Starovoyt
Office2:Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
Term Start2:18 January 2000
Term End2:15 November 2000
Office3:Member of the State Duma for Kursk Oblast
Term Start3:11 January 1994
Term End3:18 January 2000
Predecessor3:constituency established
Successor3:Nikolay Ivanov
Constituency3:Kursk (No. 98)
Birth Date:15 September 1951
Birth Place:Kosorzha, Shchigrovsky District, Kursk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Death Place:Kursk Oblast, Russia
Party:United Russia (from 2005)
Otherparty:CPSU (until 1991)
SPT (1991–1993)
CPRF (1993–2004)
Children:2

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Mikhailov (Russian: Александр Николаевич Михайлов; 15 September 1951 – 4 December 2020) was a Russian politician, who served as governor of Kursk Oblast, a member of the State Duma, and a senator on the Federation Council.

Biography

Mikhailov was born in the village of Kosorzha in the Kursk Oblast on 15 September 1951. He studied mechanical engineering, graduating from Kharkov Institute of Railway Transport Engineers (now the Ukrainian State University of Railway Transport) in the year 1974. As a student, he was a member of the Komsomol. In 1985, he received a Candidate of Science— equivalent to a DPhil or PhD in the Anglosphere, in history from the Rostov Higher Party School.

From the late 1970s until the dissolution of the USSR, Mikhailov held various local offices in the Communist Party. After the ban on the Communist Party in 1991, he joined the Socialist Workers' Party, switching to newly reformed Communist Party of the Russian Federation at its inception in 1993. In 1993 he was elected to the 1st Convocation of the State Duma from the Kursk constituency of Kursk Oblast. He was re-elected from his constituency to the 2nd State Duma in 1995, and in 1999 he was elected as part of the CPRF party list.

Mikhailov resigned from the State Duma in November 2000 to become the Governor of his native Kursk Oblast,[1] an office he held until resigning in 2018.[2] In 2004, he switched to the ruling United Russia political party. A few months after resigning from his position as governor, Mikhailov was appointed a to represent Kursk Oblast in the Federation Council.

Mikhailov died on the way to the hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest at a political event in Kursk on 4 December 2020.[3]

In 2010, Mikhailov became involved in a controversy over antisemitic remarks.[4]

Notes and References

  1. http://russiaprofile.org/resources/whoiswho/alphabet/m/Mikhailov.wbp Russiaprofile.org
  2. Web site: Губернатор Курской области подал в отставку. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 2018-10-11 . ru. 2018-10-11. The governor of Kursk oblast has resigned.
  3. Web site: Энциклопедия: Михайлов, Александр Николаевич . Encyclopedia: Mikhailov, Alexander Nikolaevich . . Информационное агентство России ТАСС . 2024-04-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231203145308/https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/mihaylov-aleksandr-nikolaevich . 2023-12-03 . ru.
  4. News: Russian Jews face new wave of race hatred. Guy . Chazan . 2010-12-03 . 2010-12-29. Telegraph.