Georgi Sergeevich Poltavchenko

Georgi Poltavchenko

Georgy Poltavchenko ( Russian Георгий Сергеевич Полтавченко , scientific. Transliteration Georgy Sergeevič Poltavčenko , Azerbaijani Georgian Poltavçenko *, 23. February 1953 in Baku , Azerbaijan SSR ) is a Russian politician and was governor of Saint Petersburg .

education

Poltavchenko's family moved to Leningrad when he was seven years old. In 1970 he graduated from the Leningrad Physical and Mathematical School No. 211. Poltavchenko studied and graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instruments. In 1976 he completed his studies as a mechanical engineer (instruments for air traffic and space medicine), and then worked as an engineer in a military company. As early as 1978 his company assigned him as a full-time secretary to the Communist Youth Association Komsomol in Leningrad's Nevsky District.

job

1979–1980 he trained at the KGB University in Minsk. He then began his professional career at what was then the KGB. Here he quickly became head of department, head of the KGB in Vyborg and then worked for the KGB in Leningrad and the Leningrad region . 1990-1993 he was a member of the regional parliament of the Leningrad region. After the task of tax collection by the KGB successor service FSB , he became head of tax investigation from 1992 to 1993 and from 1993 to 1999 in the rank of lieutenant general of the police (in the source renta.ru: Colonel General of the Police) head of the tax police in St. Petersburg .

politics

Medvedev and Poltavchenko on August 30, 2011

The then President Vladimir Putin appointed him in 1999 as the representative of the Russian President in the Leningrad region , and later as Governor General for Central Russia . He was also confirmed in office by the subsequent Russian President Dmitri Medvedev . In this capacity he was a member of the Russian Security Council . On August 30, 2011, he was appointed acting governor of St. Petersburg and proposed to the city parliament for election.

Of 52 members of the Legislative Assembly, 37 voted in favor of Georgi Poltavchenko, who was proposed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to succeed Valentina Matviyenko; five deputies abstained. He was inducted into office on August 31, 2011.

St. Petersburg and Moscow are the two Russian cities with federal subject status. Their governors are more comparable to the position of the Governing Mayor or First Mayor or Mayor and President of the Senate of the German city-states Berlin, Hamburg or Bremen. Poltavchenko is considered a follower of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

He resigned prematurely in October 2018. In December 2018 he was elected President of the Board of Directors of USC .

Positions

homosexuality

St. Petersburg passed a law before the Russian Federation that criminalizes propaganda for homosexuality . City Governor Georgi Poltavchenko clearly supported the initiative.

Private life

He is married to Ekaterina Leonidovna Poltavchenko and has one son (* 1985). His hobbies are basketball and tennis. He was temporarily chairman of the St. Petersburg Basketball Association. Poltavchenko is an avowed member of the Russian Orthodox Church .

supporting documents

^ Daily newspaper TAZ : Homosexuals in St. Petersburg. Propaganda banned with immediate effect. "Propaganda for homosexuality" is now a criminal offense in St. Petersburg. The authorities decide on a case-by-case basis what propaganda is. Oppositionists are outraged. , March 1, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME	Poltavchenko, Georgi Sergejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Полтавченко, Георгий Сергеевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian governor of Saint Petersburg
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Baku , Azerbaijani SSR

[1] Daily newspaper TAZ : Homosexuals in St. Petersburg. Propaganda banned with immediate effect. "Propaganda for homosexuality" is now a criminal offense in St. Petersburg. The authorities decide on a case-by-case basis what propaganda is. Oppositionists are outraged. , March 1, 2012.