Sergey Ivanovich Menyaylo (

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: Сергей Иванович Меняйло, os, Меняйло Сергей Иваны фырт; born 22 August 1960) is a Russian politician. He has been acting Head of the Republic of North Ossetia since 9 April 2021. Deputy commander of the

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between 2009 and 2011. He served as the Governor of Sevastopol between 2014 and 2016, but left the post when he was appointed to be a

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of the

Siberian Federal District Siberian Federal District (russian: Сиби́рский федера́льный о́круг, ''Sibirsky federalny okrug'') is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. Its population was 17,178,298 according to the 2010 Census, livi ...

(2016—2021).

Biography

Sergey Menyaylo was born in

Alagir Alagir (russian: Алаги́р; os, Алагир) is an industrial town and the administrative center of Alagirsky District in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia, located on the west bank of the Ardon River, west of the republic's ...

on 22 August 1960 to a Russian father and an Ossetian mother. In 1979, he graduated as a navigational engineer, and served in the

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. In 1990 he was elected a member of the Murmansk Regional Council. In 2008 he participated in the

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. The following year, he was appointed deputy commander of the

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. In April 2010, he was candidate of the

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party for a position in

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. In December 2011, he left military service. On 14 April 2014

Aleksei Chaly Aleksei Mikhailovich Chaly (russian: Алексей Михайлович Чалый; born 13 June 1961) is a businessman and formerly ''de facto'' mayor of Sevastopol. He declared himself mayor in February 2014, amidst the Crimean crisis, after t ...

, the acting Governor of Sevastopol since the beginning of the Crimean Crisis of 2014, resigned his position and asked

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to appoint Menyaylo as the "interim governor" of Sevastopol. That same day he was confirmed in position by a presidential decree. He resigned his position at the end of July 2016, and was later appointed as a Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the

. On 19 September 2021, the parliament elected Menyaylo as the 6th Head of

References

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