Anatoly Glushenkov Explained

Anatoly Glushenkov
Office:2nd Governor of Smolensk Oblast
Term Start:29 April 1993
Term End:29 May 1998
Predecessor:Valery Fateyev
Birth Date:20 November 1942
Birth Place:Sokolovo, Smolensky District, Smolensk Oblast, Russia, U.S.S.R.
Death Place:Smolensk, Russia
Alma Mater:Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation
Native Name Lang:ru

Anatoly Yegorovich Glushenkov (Russian: Анатолий Егорович Глушенков, 20 November 1942 – 16 January 2018) was a Russian politician who served as the Governor of Smolensk Oblast from 1993 to 1998. Notably, Glushenkov was the first popularly elected Governor of Smolensk Oblast.[1]

Career

Glushenkov, a manufacturer and then-head of a refrigerator factory in Smolensk, was elected Governor on Smolensk Oblast on 25 April 1993, becoming the first democratically elected governor of the region.[1] Glushenkov defeated incumbent, Governor Valery Fateyev, a member of Democratic Choice of Russia who had been appointed Smolensk Oblast's governor by President Boris Yeltsin.[1]

Governor Glushenkov served in office for one term from 1993 until 1998.[1] In May 1998, he lost re-election to Alexander Prokhorov of Communist Party of the Russian Federation.[1]

Shortly after leaving the governor's office, Glushenkov moved to Moscow.[1] He was elected to the national Federation Council, where he chaired the Committee on the Commonwealth of Independent States.[1] He retired from politics during the late 2000s.[1]

Death

Anatoly Glushenkov died in Smolensk on 16 January 2018, at the age of 76.[1]

Notes and References

  1. News: Умер бывший губернатор Смоленской области Анатолий Глушенков . . 2018-01-16 . 2018-02-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180117071723/https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3521690 . 2018-01-17 . live.