Governor of Ivanovo Oblast
Governor of Ivanovo Oblast | |
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Residence | Ivanovo |
Nominator | Political parties |
Term length | 5 years |
Inaugural holder | Adolf Laptev |
Formation | 1991 |
Website | ivanovoobl.ru |
The governor of Ivanovo Oblast (Russian: Губернатор Ивановской области) is the highest official of Ivanovo Oblast, a region in Central Russia. He heads the government of Ivanovo Oblast and is elected by direct popular vote for the term of five years.
History of office[]
Until the spring of 1990, the regional committees (obkom) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union enjoyed the unlimited power over de iure institutions, such as regional Soviet and its executive committee (ispolkom). With the abolition of the Article 6 of the Soviet Constitution, which defined the "leading and guiding role" of the CPSU in country's politics, the chairman of the Soviet became the senior official in the region. Most of the regional party bosses began to be elected as speakers, until in the fall of 1990, the RSFSR authorities prohibited combining the posts of party and Soviet leader. Many of the first secretaries of the CPSU obkoms resigned from their party posts and focused on their work as speakers of the Soviets.
From 1990 to 1994, Vladislav Tikhomirov was the chairman of Ivanovo Oblast ispolkom. In March 1990, Tikhomirov was elected chairman of the Soviet, and on June 2, he succeeded Mikhail Knyazyuk as the first secretary of the CPSU regional committee. However, in August he left this position.
In late 1991, at the beginning of the radical reforms, the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin had virtually unlimited powers to form executive branch of the regions. He introduced the post of Head of Administration instead of chairmen of ispolkoms. So on 24 December 1991, 56-year-old Adolf Laptev was appointed head of administration of Ivanovo Oblast, previously worked as the first deputy chairman of Ivanovo Oblast ispolkom under Vladislav Tikhomirov.[1]
In January 1996, Laptev resigned due to deteriorating health. Since February 1, Vladislav Tikhomirov was appointed head of administration, who was the chairman of the since 1994. On December 1, the first gubernatorial election took place in Ivanovo Oblast, which was won by Vladislav Tikhomirov. His term of office was four years. In the new Charter of Ivanovo Oblast, adopted in 2000, the terms of office of the governor and the legislature were extended to five years.
From 2005 to 2012 governor of Ivanovo Oblast, as well as heads of other Russian regions, was not elected by popular vote, but approved by Ivanovo Oblast Duma from the list of candidates proposed by president of Russia.
List of officeholders[]
Governor | Party | Tenure | Comments | |||
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Heads of Administration of Ivanovo Oblast | ||||||
1 | Adolf Laptev (1935–2005) |
independent | 24 December 1991 — 22 January 1996 | Appointed and dismissed by president Boris Yeltsin | ||
2 | Vladislav Tikhomirov (1939–2017) |
independent | 1 February 1996[2] — December 1996 | Appointed by president Boris Yeltsin | ||
Governors of Ivanovo Oblast | ||||||
2 | Vladislav Tikhomirov (1939–2017) |
Our Home – Russia | December 1996 — 27 December 2000 | Elected in 1996, lost reelection in 2000 | ||
3 | Vladimir Tikhonov (b. 1947) |
Communist Party | 27 December 2000 — 20 December 2005 | Elected in 2000 | ||
4 | Mikhail Men (b. 1960) |
United Russia | 23 December 2005 — 16 October 2013 | Approved by the legislature in 2005 and 2010. Moved to the federal government as minister of construction | ||
— | (b. 1958) |
United Russia | 16 October 2013 — 19 September 2014 | Appointed by president Vladimir Putin as acting governor | ||
5 | 19 September 2014 — 10 October 2017[3] | Elected by popular vote. Resigned from office | ||||
— | Stanislav Voskresensky (b. 1976) |
United Russia | 10 October 2017 — 10 October 2018 | Appointed by president Vladimir Putin as acting governor | ||
6 | since 10 October 2018 | Elected by popular vote |
References[]
- ^ "Указ Президента РСФСР от 24.12.1991 г. № 309 О главах администраций Ивановской и Пермской областей" [Decree of the President of the RSFSR of December 24, 1991 No. 309 On the heads of administrations of Ivanovo and Perm Oblasts]. kremlin.ru (in Russian).
- ^ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 01.02.1996 г. № 133 О главе администрации Ивановской области" [Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 01.02.1996, No. 133 On the head of the administration of Ivanovo Oblast]. kremlin.ru.
- ^ "О досрочном прекращении полномочий Губернатора Ивановской области, Указ Президента РФ от 10 октября 2017 года №477" [On the early termination of powers of the Governor of Ivanovo Oblast, Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of October 10, 2017 No. 477] (in Russian). docs.cntd.ru. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
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