Head of the Sakha Republic

Head of the Sakha Republic
Ceremonial Badge of the Head of the Sakha Republic
Standard of the Head of the Sakha Republic
Incumbent Aysen Nikolayev since May 28, 2018
Residence	Yakutsk
Inaugural holder	Mikhail Nikolayev
Formation	December 20, 1991

The Head of the Sakha Republic (Russian: Глава Республики Саха (Якутия), romanized: Glava Respubliki Sakha (Yakutia); Yakut: Саха Өрөспγγбγлγкэтин Ил Дархана; Ил Дархан, romanized: Sakha Öröspüübülüketin Il Darkhana; Il Darkhan) is the highest office in the Sakha Republic. The term of office is five years.

History[]

The office was first introduced in 1991. Before April 2014 it was known as the President of the Sakha Republic.

First presidential elections in Yakutia, they took place on 20 December 1991. Yakutia inherited the Soviet electoral system with no real multi-party system to be established. There were only two candidates in the election. The chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Yakut ASSR Mikhail Nikolayev won, gaining 76.7% of the vote. Nikolayev was reelected in 1996 and succeeded by his former vice president Vyacheslav Shtyrov in January 2002. Five years later Shtyrov's appointment for second term proposed by president Vladimir Putin was approved by the State Assembly of Yakutia. After his resignation in May 2010 president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev appointed prime minister of the region Yegor Borisov as acting president. He was inaugurated on 17 June 2010. Since the beginning of Borisov's second term in 2014 the President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) became known as the Head of the Republic.

List of office-holders[]

#		Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Election	Term of office		Party	Vice President
	1		Mikhail Nikolayev (1937–)	1991	December 20, 1991	January 21, 2002	Independent	Vyacheslav Shtyrov (1991–1997)
				1996				(1997–2002)
	2		Vyacheslav Shtyrov (1953–)	2002	January 27, 2002	May 31, 2010	Independent	(2002–2007)
				2006			United Russia	Yevgeniya Mikhaylova (2007–2010)
	3		Yegor Borisov (1954–)	2010	May 31, 2010[1]	May 28, 2018	United Russia	Dmitry Glushko (2010–2014)
								Position abolished
	4		Aysen Nikolayev (1972–)		May 28, 2018[2] (Acting); September 27, 2018	present	United Russia

The latest election for the office was held on 9 September 2018.

Candidates	Party		Votes	%	Map
Aysen Nikolayev		United Russia	229,314	71.4
Viktor Gubarev		CPRF	38,648	12.03
Vladimir Bogdanov		A Just Russia	21,139	6.58
Gavril Parakhin		LDPR	19,962	6.22

References[]

External links[]

• glava.sakha.gov.ru – official web portal of the Head of the Sakha Republic (in Russian)