Post: | Governor |
Body: | Smolensk Oblast |
Insignia: | Coat of arms of Smolensk oblast.svg |
Insigniasize: | 125px |
Insigniacaption: | Coat of arms of Smolensk Oblast |
Incumbent: | Vasily Anokhin |
Incumbentsince: | 17 March 2023 |
Termlength: | 5 years |
Seat: | Smolensk |
Formation: | 1991 |
Inaugural: | Valery Fateyev |
Acting: | yes |
The governor of Smolensk Oblast (Russian: Губернатор Смоленской области) is the highest official of Smolensk Oblast, a region in Central Russia. He heads the supreme executive body of the region — the Smolensk Oblast administration.
Alexey Ostrovsky was dismissed in March 2023 and succeeded by Vasily Anokhin.[1]
This is a list of governors of Smolensk Oblast:
No. | Image | Governor | Tenure | Party | Election | ||
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1 | Valery Fateyev (born 1946) | 24 October 1991 – 11 May 1993[2] | Independent | ||||
2 | Anatoly Glushenkov (1942–2018) | 29 April 1993 – 29 May 1998 | 1993[3] | ||||
3 | Aleksandr Prokhorov (born 1953) | 29 May 1998 – 24 May 2002 | 1998 | ||||
4 | Viktor Maslov (born 1950) | 24 May 2002 – 18 December 2007 | United Russia | 2002----2005 | |||
5 | Sergey Antufyev (born 1955) | 24 December 2007 — 20 April 2012 | 2007 | ||||
6 | Alexey Ostrovsky (born 1976) | 26 April 2012 — 18 May 2015 | LDPR | 2012----2015----2020[4] | |||
— | 18 May — 28 September 2015 | ||||||
(6) | 28 September 2015 — 17 March 2023 | ||||||
— | Vasily Anokhin (born 1983) | since 17 March 2023 |
The latest election for the office was held on 13 September 2020
Candidates | Party | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
Aleksandr Bichayev | Communists of Russia | 14,001 | 6.24 |
Olga Kalistratova | A Just Russia | 17,971 | 8 |
Andrey Mitrofanenkov | Communist Party of the Russian Federation | 57,937 | 25.8 |
Alexey Ostrovsky | Liberal Democratic Party of Russia | 126,947 | 56.54 |
The election was held on 13 September 2015
Candidates | Party | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
Vladimir Zaytsev | Party for Justice! | 4,630 | 2.03 |
Nikolay Kuznetsov | Communist Party of the Russian Federation | 26,507 | 11.62 |
Sergey Lebedev | A Just Russia | 28,329 | 12.42 |
Yelena Lobanova | Civic Platform | 12,422 | 5.45 |
Alexey Ostrovsky | Liberal Democratic Party of Russia | 148,700 | 65.18 |