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Two Governors Resigned: Their Biographies and Paths in Politics
On November 4, National Unity Day, two Russian governors resigned at once. The head of the Tambov Region, Maxim Egorov, left his post. Vasily Golubev, who has headed the Rostov Region since 2010, also announced new appointments. Read more about their biographies and political paths in the URA.RU article.
Maxim Egorov was born on May 23, 1977 in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). After graduating from the Volga State Academy of Water Transport, he worked in the administration of the Leninsky District of Nizhny Novgorod. After working for five years at Nizhnovenergo, he moved to Moscow to work at the Federal Customs Service. In 2016, he became an adviser to the governor of the Tyumen region, the head of local government in government bodies. In 2018, after working as an adviser to the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation, he took the position of deputy minister. Since 2019, he has worked as a state housing inspector.
In October 2021, he was appointed acting governor of the Tambov region. On the single voting day, September 19, 2022, he won the gubernatorial election from the United Russia party, gaining 84.95% of the vote. Egorov explained his resignation by a "new mission" at the federal level in the country's leadership. According to him, over the past few years, the Tambov region has become his home. "I am a true Tambov resident, I am glad that the "Tambov wolves" are now our comrades," Egorov said.
Rostov Governor Vasily Golubev also announced his resignation. He is a native of Rostov, born on January 30, 1957 in the village of Ermakovskaya, Tachinsky District, Rostov Region.
In his youth, he worked as an electrician's apprentice at a mechanical plant and as a warehouse operator at the Vostochnaya mine of the Rostovugol association. In 1975, he entered the Moscow School of Business. S. Ordzhonikidze. In Moscow, he held various positions in his specialty, and in 1989 he became the responsible organizer of the department of organizational, party and personnel affairs of the Moscow regional committee of the CPSU. In 1997, he graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. He is a candidate of legal sciences and a doctor of economic sciences.
In 1999, after several party appointments, he became Deputy Governor of the Moscow Region. From 2000 to 2003, he served as First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Moscow Region. Until 2010, he headed the Leninsky District of the Moscow Region in the city of Vidnoye and served as Governor of the Rostov Region before returning to his homeland. He was elected for a second term in 2015 and was again elected as a regional representative with 65.53% of the vote on September 13, 2020, a single voting day in Russia. Golubev has been a member of the Supreme Council of United Russia since 2017. According to him, the decision to resign was made in connection with a transfer to another job. “New things and tasks lie ahead. But wherever I work in the future, my main priority will always be the support and development of my beloved Rostov Region,” Golubev said.