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There is a new leader in Kamchatka

Yesterday, President Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of Kamchatka Governor Mikhail Mashkovtsev. He appointed Vice-Governor Alexei Kuzmitsky as the new head of the region. Now it is Mr. Kuzmitsky who is the main candidate for the post of head of the Kamchatka Territory, which will be formed on July 1 of this year as a result of the unification of the Kamchatka region and the Koryak Autonomous Okrug.

The resignation of Mikhail Mashkovtsev was expected. Back in mid-March, he announced that he was not going to apply for the post of head of the Kamchatka Territory .

Among the contenders for his place, many candidates were named, for example, the former presidential envoy to the Far East, Konstantin Pulikovsky, in 2005 offered to head the region to entrepreneur Viktor Vekselberg , and in February of this year, such an offer was made to Roman Abramovich, who chose to remain the head of Chukotka. As a result, the choice fell on 40-year-old Alexey Kuzmitsky, who appeared in the region only in 2005. According to Mr. Mashkovtsev, he chose the vice-governor on the personal recommendation of Vladimir Putin.

Mr. Kuzmitsky graduated from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute in 1992, from the St. Petersburg Academy of Engineering and Economics in 1999, and from the North-Western Academy of Civil Service in 2003. He worked as an adviser to the general director of OJSC Russian Institute of Radio Navigation and Time, and as head of the financial department of the National Fish Resources company under the State Fisheries Committee. In the region, Mr. Kuzmitsky oversaw local government, that is, he was actually responsible for the administration’s communications with the heads of the city and districts, which should help him in preparing the political ground for the parliamentary elections.

The head of regional programs of the Foundation for the Development of Information Policy, Alexander Kynev, in a commentary to Vremya Novostei, recalled that in almost all cases in modern Russia, acting. became governor, but in Kamchatka the issue was not completely resolved. “Since the regional parliament elections will be held at the end of the year, and only after that a governor will be appointed, Mr. Kuzmitsky will have to rule the region for a long time, and his future appointment will depend, in particular, on the results of the elections to the regional council,” the analyst explained .

Daria GUSEVA