The ex-governor of the Chelyabinsk region died

The former governor of the region Peter Sumin died in Chelyabinsk. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the former first deputy head of the region Andrei Kosilov. “Sumin died in the hospital after a long illness,” the agency’s interlocutor said. At about one in the morning on January 6, Sumin's heart stopped, Kosilov added.

Peter Sumin headed the Chelyabinsk region since 1996. In April 2010, when his term of office expired, he asked not to consider his candidacy for a new governor's term.

Sumin was born in 1946 in the village of Verkhnyaya Sanarka, Troitsky district of the Chelyabinsk region. After graduating from high school in 1964, he entered the Metallurgical Department of the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute. From 1969 to 1980 he worked at the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant.

In 1989 he was elected chairman of the Chelyabinsk Oblast Executive Committee, and in 1991 he became chairman of the Chelyabinsk Regional Council of People's Deputies. In 1993, he won the first election of the head of the administration of the Chelyabinsk region, gaining more than 50 percent of the vote. However, the results of the elections were canceled, despite the decision of the Constitutional Court on the recognition of the legality of their results, and until October 1993 there were actually two administrations in the region - Peter Sumin and Vadim Solovyov. In October 1993, President Boris Yeltsin confirmed Solovyov’s powers.

Since December 1995, Sumin was a deputy of the State Duma of the second convocation. He worked in the Duma Committee on Budget, Taxes, Banks and Finance, took part in the work of the independent deputy group "Narmotics". In December 1996, he was elected the governor of the Chelyabinsk region. Later he was re -elected for a new term. In 2005, the powers of the governor were extended for another five years.