Pavel Nikolayevich Balakshin (russian: Павел Николаевич Балакшин, born 10 July 1936) is a Russian politician. He was the first

Head of Administration Head of Administration (russian: Глава администрации, ''Glava administratsii'') is the one of the official titles for appointed or elected head of a local government in Russian Federation. In many Federal Districts, regions and c ...

of his home region,

Arkhangelsk Oblast Arkhangelsk Oblast (russian: Арха́нгельская о́бласть, ''Arkhangelskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes the Arctic Ocean, Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land ...

, from 1991 to 1996.

Biography

Pavel Balakshin was born in the village of Dementyevo, Kotlassky District, Northern Krai (now Arkhangelsk Oblast) in a Russian working-class family. He began his career in 1952 at the Mir

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. He worked as a beacon, sailor, helmsman in the Northern river Shipping Company, then as a locksmith on the railway. From 1955 to 1958, he served in the Soviet Armed Forces as a mechanic of radar equipment. In 1959–85 he was working at the Kotlas Pulp and Paper Mill in Koryazhma. From 1987 to 1990 he was director general of Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill,

Novodvinsk Novodvinsk (russian: Новодви́нск) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in the north of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Northern Dvina, south of Arkhangelsk. Population: History It was founded ...

.Honorary Citizens of the city of Arkhangelsk: Balakshin Pavel Nikolayevich
''Administration of Arkhangelsk'' From 1990 to 1991 — Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Arkhangelsk Regional Council of People's Deputies. On 19 September 1991, by the Decree of the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, Balakshin was appointed head of administration of Arkhangelsk Oblast. In December 1993 he was elected a deputy of the Federation Council of the first convocation from Arkhangelsk Oblast. During Balakshin's administration, in 1995, dismantling of nuclear submarines in Severodvinsk began along with removal of radioactive waste from the harbor. In January 1996 he became a member of the second Federation Council. He was elected a member of its Committee on Federation Affairs,

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and Regional Policy. On February 21, Balakshin was ousted from his post by presidential decree "for gross violations when using targeted loans, allocated for the delivery of products to the regions of the Far North." On 15 March 1996, Balakshin was removed from the Federation Council. On 8 December 1996 Pavel Balakshin became the first mayor of Arkhangelsk to be directly elected. He had occupied this position for the next four years.

Awards

* Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 4th class (6 January 1999) — for services to the state, high achievements in production activities and a great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between the nations * Honorary Citizen of the city of Arkhangelsk (28 April 2011)Pavel Nikolayevich Balakshin is assigned with the title of the honorary citizen of Arkhangelsk
/ref> * Order of the Red Banner of Labor * Order of the October Revolution * USSR State Prize in science and technology (1982, as a part of collective) — for the development of new technologies for the production of paper and cardboard

References

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