| Valentin Gerasimov | |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Office: | 1st Governor of Kurgan Oblast |
| Term Start: | 24 October 1991 |
| Term End: | 9 August 1995 |
| Office2: | Chairman of the Kurgan Regional Council of People's Deputies |
| Term Start2: | November 1990 |
| Term End2: | 24 October 1991 |
| Successor2: | (acting) |
| Office3: | Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Kurgan Regional Council of People's Deputies |
| Term Start3: | June 1988 |
| Term End3: | 24 October 1991 |
| Office4: | First Secretary of the Kurgan City Committee of the CPSU |
| Term Start4: | 1986 |
| Term End4: | 1987 |
| Office5: | First Secretary of the Pervomaisky District Committee of the CPSU of the city of Kurgan |
| Term Start5: | 1985 |
| Term End5: | 1986 |
| Birth Name: | Valentin Pavlovich Gerasimov |
| Birth Date: | 28 May 1940 |
| Birth Place: | Shumikha, RSFSR, Soviet Union |
| Party: | Our Home - Russia |
Valentin Pavlovich Gerasimov (Russian: Валентин Павлович Герасимов; born on 28 May 1940), is a Russian politician and party figure, who had served as the first Governor of Kurgan Oblast from 1991 to 1995.
Valentin Gerasimov was born on 28 May 1940 into a working-class family in the working village of Shumikha, Shumikhinsky District, Chelyabinsk Oblast, now the administrative centre of the Shumikhinsky Municipal District, Kurgan Oblast. He is Russian.[1] His father died in 1942.
In 1965, he graduated from the with a degree in automotive and tractor mechanical engineering. The same year, he worked at the Kurgan Bus Plant, where he went through all the stages - from design engineer to chief engineer from 1975 to 1979.
In 1967, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Since 1979, he was carrying out party work. He successively held the positions of second secretary of the committee of the CPSU of the city of Kurgan, first secretary of the committee of the CPSU of the city of Kurgan, first secretary of the Kurgan city committee of the CPSU, second secretary of the Kurgan regional committee of the CPSU.
He had been elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR's XI convocation from 1984 to 1989.
In 1985, he graduated from the .
In June 1988, he became chairman of the Kurgan Regional Executive Committee of the Council of People's Deputies.
In April 1990, he was elected a People's Deputy of the RSFSR, was a member of the Communists of Russia faction.
From November 1990 to October 1991, he was chairman of the Kurgan Regional Council of People's Deputies.
On 24 October 1991, Gerasimov became the first Governor of Kurgan Oblast, as was one of the last ones to be appointed head of the administration of the federal subjects of Russia.[2]
He was a member of the Council of the Association for Economic Interaction of Regions and Republics of the Ural Region, and a Member of the Council of the All-Russian Public Movement "Our Home – Russia" party.[3]
On 9 August 1995, on the eve of the parliamentary and presidential elections, Gerasimov was removed from his post, and replaced by Deputy Governor who was appointed governor.
After his resignation, for two compositions, from 1995 to 2003, he headed the Kurgan Regional Electoral Commission.
His father, Pavel, died in 1942.
He has two children, daughter Larisa, (born 1962), and Aleksey (born 1975).