The composition of regional governments: the youngest minister is 25 years old, and the deputy governor of the Amur Region is a pensioner

The compositions of regional governments were approved several months ago - after the elections of the heads of regions. We studied them to find out what age people lead the regions, where the youngest and oldest minister work, and which of the regional ministers has been in retirement for several years.

In total, more than a thousand people work in the governments of 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. These are the heads of regions, ministers or heads of departments and departments and deputies of the head of the region, who coordinate the work between different departments. With the rare age of a member of the regional government in Russia - 48 years .

The youngest governments are in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Republic of Udmurtia: there is the average age of the government “total” 42 years . A little older, the current composition of the government in the Nizhny Novgorod region and the Republic of Bashkortostan is 43 years. But the oldest ministers in St. Petersburg: the average age of the minister in the city government is 59 years. The second place by age is divided by the Bryansk and Kursk regions: here the average minister is 57 years old.

The Republic of Komi became a record holder due to the fact that the minister is at the moment, this is Sergey Emelyanov, the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Archival affairs . He was born on September 2, 1993, now he is 25 years old . In total, six months older than him, the Minister of Education of the Tver region Yulia Kovalenko, her birthday April 4, 1993. In addition to them, ministers or heads of departments under 30 years old are in 11 regions.

In the regional governments, there are also officials who are in pre -retirement age (five years before retirement) - there are 10% of the total. In addition, there are two regions in which officials work who have already been retired. For example, in the Amur Region, the head of the department of the agro -industrial complex and the deputy governor, Alexander Vasilievich Nesterenko, born in 1947, is 71 years old . And in the Vladimir region, the Department of Finance, Budget and Tax Policy is led by Vyacheslav Pavlovich Kuzin, who celebrated his 70th anniversary in 2018.

The average age of the Government of the Russian Federation is now 51.25 years, and the oldest minister - Sergey Lavrov - in 2018 turned 68 years old. In early 2013, Vladimir Putin signed a law that increases the maximum age of senior officials from 65 to 70 years. This bill was submitted to the State Duma personally Putin in September 2012. Earlier, judges, prosecutors and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation were also allowed to be in the service until 70 years old.