Governor of Smolensk Oblast

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.

Governor of Smolensk Oblast
Coat of arms of Smolensk Oblast
Incumbent
Alexey Ostrovsky
since 26 April 2012
Inaugural holderValery Fateyev
Formation1991

List of office-holders

This is a list of governors of Smolensk Oblast:

No.GovernorPartyTenureComments
Heads of Administration of Smolensk Oblast
1 Valery Fateyev
(b. 1946)		 ind. 24 October 1991 — 11 May 1993[1] Appointed by president Boris Yeltsin. Lost 1993 election[2]
2 Anatoly Glushenkov
(1942–2018)		 ind. → NDR 29 April 1993 — 29 May 1998 Elected by popular vote.[3] Lost reelection
3 Alexander Prokhorov
(b. 1953)		 CPRF 29 May 1998 — 24 May 2002 Elected by popular vote. Lost reelection
4 Viktor Maslov
(b. 1950)		 UR 24 May 2002 — 29 June 2005 Elected by popular vote
Governors of Smolensk Oblast
4 Viktor Maslov
(b. 1950)		 UR 29 June 2005 — 18 December 2007 Approved by the legislature. Resigned from office[1]
5 Sergey Antufyev
(b. 1955)		 UR 24 December 2007 — 20 April 2012 Approved by the legislature. Resigned from office[1]
6 Alexey Ostrovsky
(b. 1976)		 LDPR 26 April 2012 — 18 May 2015 Approved by the legislature. Resigned from office to call for an early election[1]
18 May — 28 September 2015 Acting governor
28 September 2015 — 18 September 2020 Elected by popular vote
since 18 September 2020 Reelected[4]

Elections

The latest election for the office was held on 13 September 2015

Candidates Party Votes %
Vladimir Zaytsev Party for Justice! 4,6302.03
Nikolay Kuznetsov Communist Party of the Russian Federation 26,50711.62
Sergey Lebedev A Just Russia 28,32912.42
Yelena Lobanova Civic Platform 12,4225.45
Alexey Ostrovsky Liberal Democratic Party of Russia 148,70065.18

References
  1. "История выборов и назначений губернатора Смоленской области" [History of elections and appointments of the governor of Smolensk Oblast] (in Russian). TASS.
  2. Gubernatorial elections — 1993, politika.su
  3. "Умер бывший губернатор Смоленской области Анатолий Глушенков". Kommersant. 2018-01-16. Archived from the original on 2018-01-17. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
  4. "Островский вступил в должность губернатора Смоленской области" [Ostrovsky took office as Governor of Smolensk Oblast] (in Russian). TASS. 2020-09-18.


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