Nikolay Nikolayevich Tsukanov (born 22 March 1965) is a Russian politician,

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, businessman, electrical welder, former governor of

Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast (russian: Калинингра́дская о́бласть, translit=Kaliningradskaya oblast') is the westernmost federal subject of Russia. It is a semi-exclave situated on the Baltic Sea. The largest city and administr ...

, and, between July 2016 and December 2017, President

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's plenipotentiary envoy to the Northwestern Federal District. Nikolay Tsukanov was born in 1965 in the village of Lipovo, in the Gusev area of

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. Upon graduating from school in 1980 he entered a local special professional technical college (SPTU)) and obtained a specialist degree as an electrical welder. He served in the

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from 1983 to 1985, in a space communications guard battalion stationed in

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. At age 14 Tsukanov began working as a combiner's assistant, later becoming an electrical welder at the Micromotor factory in Gusev. After 1985 he began to gain prominence as a local

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leader. In the early 1990s he became a relatively successful businessman, graduating in 1999 from the Higher School of Privatization and Entrepreneurship with a specialism in law. In 2002 he became a degree candidate in

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. In 2005 Tsukanov was elected mayor of Gusev, going on in 2009 to become head of the Gusev municipal area, a position in which he successfully improved living conditions within the rather economically depressed area. In March 2009 he became chairman of the Council of municipal formations of

. In 2010 he was elected secretary of the local political council of the

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party, and on 28 September 2010 he became Governor of

. On 26 June 2018, Tsukanov replaced

Igor Kholmanskikh Igor Ryurikovich Kholmanskikh (russian: Игорь Рюрикович Холманских; born 29 June 1969) is a former Russian government appointee and former factory worker. He served as the presidential envoy to Ural Federal District, and a m ...

as the presidential envoy to Ural Federal District.

References

External links

Official website of the Government of Kaliningrad Oblast
(in Russian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Tsukanov, Nikolay 1965 births Living people 1st class Active State Councillors of the Russian Federation Governors of Kaliningrad Oblast People from Gusev United Russia politicians 21st-century Russian politicians Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class Recipients of the Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow