Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn

Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Nagovitsyn (Russian: Вячесла́в Влади́мирович Нагови́цын; Russian Buryat: Вячеслаав Наговиицын, Wyaçĭesláw Nagowícïn); born March 2, 1956 in Glazov, Udmurt ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian politician, Senator from Buryatia since 2017, previously he was the Head of the Republic of Buryatia, a federal subject of Russia. He held the office from July 10, 2007 to February 7, 2017. Nagovitsyn is a member of the United Russia party and resigned from office after he decided against running for a third term.[1]

Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn
Вячеслав Наговицын
Senator from Buryatia
Assumed office
22 September 2017
2nd Head of the Republic of Buryatia
In office
10 July 2007 – 7 February 2017
DeputyVladimir Agalov
Preceded byLeonid Potapov
Succeeded byAlexey Tsydenov
Personal details
Born (1956-03-02) March 2, 1956
Glazov, Udmurt ASSR, RSFSR, USSR
Political partyUnited Russia
ProfessionMechanical Engineer

Biography

Nagovitsyn was born in Glazov, a village in Udmurtia. He spent most of his life in Tomsk. In 1978, he graduated from Tomsk Polytechnical Institute, specialising in Mechanical Engineering. He had, during university, received higher education in economics. Nagovistyn took a series of low paying jobs until he was employed as an engineer. In 1986 he was appointed as the chief engineer of a factory in Tomsk, later becoming the general director. He began his political career in December 1999, when he became Mayor of Tomsk for a short period of time. Since 2002 he has been the Chairman of the Co-ordination Council Forestry and Agriculture. In 2007 he was nominated and elected president of Buryatia.

He is married and has two sons and one daughter. He also has two grandchildren.

References
  1. Наговицын объяснил свое решение об отставке с поста главы Бурятии (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 2017-02-07.
  • Biography of Nagovitsyn(in Russian, Russian Buryat, and English) (in Russian, Russian Buryat, and English)
  • Official Site (in Russian, Russian Buryat, English, and Russian) (in Russian, Russian Buryat, English, and Russian)
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