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