Yevgeny Borisovich Komarov (russian: Евге́ний Бори́сович Комаро́в; born 10 April 1942), is a Russian statesman and political party manager. He served as the 1st Governor (Head) of the
Murmansk Oblast from 1991 to 1996.
Biography
Yevgeny Komarov was born in a small village of
Bolshoye Kuznechkovo on 10 April 1942.
In 1961, he graduated from the Rzhevskoe Railway School, after which he got a job as a foreman for repairing the track at the station of the Kolsky District of the Murmansk Oblast. He went to the
Soviet army
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by conscription in the same year, serving in the Murmansk Oblast.
From 1964, he worked as an electrician at the Pechenganikel Mining and Metallurgical Combine. A year later, in 1965, he entered the CPSU.
From 1972, he began his employment on the party work in
Pechenga, and then in the Kovdorsky District Committee of the CPSU.
In 1982, Komarov became chairman of the executive committee of the Kovdorsky District Council of People's Deputies, and in 1984 the first secretary of the Kovdorsky District Committee of the CPSU. In 1985, he graduated from the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute. And in 1988, he became secretary and member of the bureau of the regional party committee.
On 11 October 1990, by a resolution of the
Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR
The Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (russian: Верховный Совет РСФСР, ''Verkhovny Sovet RSFSR''), later Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation (russian: Верховный Совет Российской Федерации, ...
, Yevgeny Komarov was approved by the chairman of the RSFSR State Committee on the Social and Economic Development of the North.
Governor of Murmansk Oblast
By decree of the President of the
RSFSR of November 7, 1991, Yevgeny Komarov, at the age of 49, was appointed head of the administration of the Murmansk Oblast, by
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
. He took office on November 10, 1991. In December 1996, he lost the election to
Yury Yevdokimov
Yury Alekseyevich Yevdokimov (russian: Юрий Алексеевич Евдокимов, born 10 December 1945) was the Governor of Murmansk Oblast, Russia. He became the governor in 1996 and was reelected with a large overall majority on March ...
(in the first round, he won first place among 8 candidates (31% of the vote), in the second round he received 40.64%, giving Evdokimov less than 3%).
In 2000, he ran for governor against Yedokimov again, but unsuccessfully lost the election once again, gaining only 3.37% of the vote.
Паспорт Мурманской области
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References
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1942 births
Living people
People from Kuvshinovsky District
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Members of the Federation Council of Russia (1996–2000)
Governors of Murmansk Oblast
Electricians
Soviet Army personnel