| Post: | Head |
| Body: | Tambov Oblast |
| Incumbent: | Maksim Yegorov |
| Insignia: | Coat of arms of Tambov Oblast.svg |
| Insigniacaption: | Coat of arms of Tambov Oblast |
| Incumbentsince: | 28 September 2022 |
| Residence: | Tambov |
| Termlength: | 5 years |
| Formation: | 1991 |
| First: | Vladimir Babenko |
The Head of Tambov Oblast (Russian: Глава Тамбовской области) is the head of government of that region of Russia.
In the late 1991, the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin appointed the first heads of the newly established post-Soviet executive authorities in the regions. On 11 December 1991 Vladimir Babenko, chief of Tambov regional hospital and people's deputy of the RSFSR, was appointed head of administration of Tambov Oblast.[1] Later this region refused to rename the office into governor, as most of other oblasts did.
The title of office was changed to head of Tambov Oblast in 2022.[2]
| Portrait | Head | In office | Party | Election | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vladimir Babenko (1931–1996) | 11 December 1991 — 24 March 1995 | Independent | |||
| 2 | Oleg Betin (1950–2023) | 24 March 1995[3] — 29 December 1995 | Our Home – Russia | |||
| 3 | Aleksandr Ryabov (1936–2019) | 29 December 1995 — 26 December 1999 | Communist Party | 1995 | ||
| (2) | Oleg Betin (1950–2023) | 26 December 1999 — 25 May 2015 | Independent | 1999[4] ----2003----2005----2010[5] | ||
| United Russia | ||||||
| — | Aleksandr Nikitin (born 1976) | 25 May 2015 — 22 September 2015 Acting head of administration | 2015----2020 | |||
| 4 | 22 September 2015 — 4 October 2021 | |||||
| — | Maksim Yegorov (born 1977) | 4 October 2021 – 28 September 2022 Acting head of administration | 2022 | |||
| 5 | since 28 September 2022 | |||||