Putin fired Poltavchenko from the post of Governor of St. Petersburg

Putin's meeting with Poltavchenko and Beglov. Photo from the Kremlin website

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Georgy Poltavchenko to head the united shipbuilding corporation. The proposal to become the Acting of St. Petersburg received the plenipotentiary representative of the president in the NWFO Alexander Beglov.

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• The election of the governor of St. Petersburg will be held next year on a single voting day on September 8.
• The term of office of Poltavchenko, which led the city since 2011, expired in 2019. The United Shipbuilding Corporation is the largest shipbuilding holding in Russia, 100% belongs to the state. The revenue in 2017 amounted to 326 billion rubles, net profit - 5.9 billion rubles.
• Who led the Northern capital? The acting St. Petersburg was born on May 19, 1956 in Baku (Fontanka.ru draws attention to the fact that the governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko was also born in Baku). In 1983, Beglov graduated from the Leningrad Engineering Institute, in 2003-the North-Western Academy of Public Administration. Honored Builder of the Russian Federation. In 1999-2002 he served as head of the territorial administration of the resort administrative district of St. Petersburg. In 2002–2003-the vice-governor of St. Petersburg, the head of the office of the administration of St. Petersburg, and after the resignation of Vladimir Yakovlev, executed the powers of the governor of St. Petersburg. In 2003-2004, he became the first deputy authorized representative of the President in the North-Western Federal District. In 2004-2008 - Assistant President, Head of the Presidential Control Department. Since May 12, 2008 - Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. Back in 2011, after the departure of Valentina Matvienko, Beglova was called one of the main applicants for the post of governor of the city, but this place was occupied by the envoy to the Central Federal District Georgy Poltavchenko. And in the Central District, in turn, in 2012 Vladimir Putin appointed Alexander Beglov.
• Detail. According to Vedomosti, Poltavchenko and his shifter on Wednesday evening arrived in the Hermitage, where Putin’s meeting with Austria Chancellor Sebastian Kurtz should take place. Poltavchenko appeared in front of reporters half a minute before a resignation message appeared. When asked whether the rumors of his departure were true, he suggested that reporters watch TV. Beglov to the question of whether he will go to the polls, he only asked: "To which?"

Context

• The resignation of the Governor of St. Petersburg continues the series of permutations, which Vladimir Putin made in the last week. At the end of September, he fired three governors-Kabardino-Balkaria, the Astrakhan region and the Primorsky Territory. The position of Governor of Primorye, Putin, was proposed by the governor of the Sakhalin Region Oleg Kozhemyako, the governor of the Astrakhan region Alexander Zhilkin was replaced by the native of the FSO and, according to The Bell, the former presidential guard Sergei Morozov, and instead of the head of Kabardino-Balkaria Yuri Kokov, an employee of the Kremlin administration of Kazbek Kokov, the son of the former head of the republic Valeria Kokova. We wrote more about these rearrangements here . And the day before, the Governor of the Kurgan Region Alexei Kokorin and the Governor of the Lipetsk Region Oleg Korolev, who has been ruled by the region since 1998, had their authority. They will be replaced by the deputy governor of the Tyumen region Vadim Shumkov and a native of Sberbank Igor Artamonov.
• The resignation of Poltavchenko was called among the possible. Among other heads of regions, which in the near future they can leave their posts, the Vedomosti newspaper was called Alexander Mikhailova (Kursk region), Alexander Berdnikova (Altai Republic), Marina Kovtun (Murmanskaya), Rustem Khamitova (Bashkiria), Andrei Bocharova (Volgograd Region), Natalya Zhdanova (Trans -Baikal Territory), Yuri Berg (Orange Berga) area).