
The mayor of Kursk Nikolay Ovcharov resigned . He held this position since 2008.
The acting mayor of Kursk was appointed Deputy Ovcharov Sergey Malakhov, Kursk Izvestia reports.
Direct elections of the mayor of the city were canceled in 2007. Since 2008, Ovcharova was appointed mayor of Kursk three times, for the last time - in 2017 for a five -year term.