Anatoly Guzhvin Explained

Anatoly Guzhvin
Nationality:Russian
Order:1st
Office:Governor of Astrakhan Oblast
Successor:Alexander Zhilkin
Birth Date:25 March 1946
Birth Place:Akhtubinsk, Astrakhan Oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Death Date: (aged 58)
Death Place:Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia
Profession:Electrical Engineer
Party:United Russia
Native Name Lang:ru

Anatoly Petrovich Guzhvin (Russian: Анатолий Петрович Гужвин; March 25, 1946 – August 17, 2004) was a Russian politician and governor of Astrakhan Oblast.[1]

Career

Between 1988 and the breakup of the Soviet Union, Guzhvin was a regional deputy in the Soviet Supreme Council. He assumed the governorship of the Astrakhan Oblast region in 1991, and re-elected on December 11, 1996.[1] He was a member of the United Russia party.

Death

He died of a heart attack aged 58 while holidaying in the resort town of Sochi on the Black Sea.

References

  1. Web site: Persons - NUPI . 2006-02-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060505144809/http://www.nupi.no/cgi-win/Russland/personer.exe?657 . 2006-05-05 .