Viktor Tolokonsky

Виктор Толоконский6th Governor of Krasnoyarsk KraiIn office
12 May 2014 – 27 September 2017Preceded byLev KuznetsovSucceeded byAleksandr UssPresidential Envoy to the Siberian Federal DistrictIn office
9 September 2010 – 12 May 2014PresidentDmitry Medvedev
Vladimir PutinPreceded byAnatoly KvashninSucceeded byNikolay RogozhkinGovernor of Novosibirsk OblastIn office
14 January 2000 – 9 September 2010Preceded byVitaly MukhaSucceeded byVasily YurchenkoMayor of NovosibirskIn office
March 1996 – January 2000Preceded byOffice establishedSucceeded byVladimir Gorodetsky Personal detailsBorn (1953-05-27) May 27, 1953 (age 71)
Novosibirsk, RussiaPolitical partyUnited RussiaAlma materNovosibirsk State University of Economics and ManagementProfessionPolitician

Viktor Aleksandrovich Tolokonsky (Russian: Виктор Александрович Толоконский, born 27 May 1953) is a Russian politician. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.^[1]

Biography

He graduated from the Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management with specialist degree in economics in 1974.

In 1993, he was elected as the head of the Novosibirsk administration, and as mayor of the Novosibirsk city when this position was established in 1996.

He served as mayor until 2000, when he was elected as governor of Novosibirsk Oblast. In 2003, he was reelected. On 6 July 2007, Russia's President Vladimir Putin reappointed him for further five-year term.^[2] As a governor, he also had a seat on the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation til 2001 when the new law regulating the order of the formation of the Federation Council entered into force.

In 2010, Tolokonsky resigned as governor and was appointed to the Presidential Envoy to the Siberian Federal District. He was in office til 2014 when he became a governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai. In 2017, he retired from that position voluntary.

He was a member of the Presidium of the State Council from 2002 to 2003, in 2008, and from 2015 to 2016. Also, as a Presidential Envoy to the Siberian Federal District, he was a member of the Security Council of Russia from 2010 to 2014.

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