Photo: Mikhail Razuvaev / "Kommersant". According to Kommersant, the new governor of St. Petersburg, most likely, will be Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, who had previously worked in Smolny with Vladimir Putin, and had previously studied at the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg University at the same time with Dmitry Medvedev. At the same time, Mr. Kozak can lead the Parties of United Russia from St. Petersburg in the Duma elections. As a priority task, he will have to increase the rating of St.