Farid Mukhametshin should not be confused with Farit Mukhametshin.
Farid Mukhametshin | |
Office: | Prime minister of Tatarstan |
Term Start: | January 16, 1995 |
Term End: | May 28, 1998 |
Predecessor: | Mukhammat Sabirov |
Successor: | Mintimer Shaimiev (acting) |
President: | Mintimer Shaimiev |
Office1: | Chairman of the State Council of Tatarstan |
Term Start1: | May 27, 1998 |
Birth Date: | May 22, 1947 |
Birth Place: | Almetyevsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, USSR |
Party: | Tatarstan – New Age[1] |
Farid Khayrullovich Mukhametshin (Tatar: Фәрит Хәйрулла улы Мөхәммәтшин|translit=Fərit Xəyrulla ulı Möxəmmətşin; Russian: Фарид Хайруллович Мухаметшин; born May 22, 1947, in Almetyevsk, USSR) is a Russian politician and a former prime minister of Tatarstan. He is an ethnic Tatar.
Mukhametshin was elected in March 1994 to the upper chamber of the Federal Assembly of Russia.[2]
He was chairman of the Supreme Council and State Council of Tatarstan Republic from July 1991 to January 1995. He is the current chairman of the State Council of Tatarstan Republic since May 27, 1998.[3]