Vasily Alexandrovich Starodubzew

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Vasily Alexandrovich Starodubzew

Vasily Alexandrowitsch Starodubzew ( Russian Василий Александрович Стародубцев ; born December 25, 1931 in Volovchik, Lipetsk Oblast , † December 30, 2011 in Novomoskovsk , Tula Oblast ) was a Soviet and Russian politician. From 1964 to 1997 he was chairman of the "Lenin" kolkhoz in Novomoskowsk district in Tula Oblast. From 1986 he was also chairman of the council of collective farms of the USSR, from June 1990 to August 1991 chairman of the farmers' union of the USSR. During the August coup he was a member of the putschist groupState Committee for the State of Emergency , after the failure of the coup, Starodubzew was arrested and released in June 1992. From 1993 to 1995 Starodubzew was a member of the Federation Council . In March 1997 Starodubzew was elected governor of Tula Oblast, in April 2001 he was re-elected. After the abolition of direct elections for governors, he was replaced by Vyacheslav Dudka in April 2005 . In December 2007, Starodubzew moved into the Duma for the KPRF . In 2011 he was re-elected to the Duma, but died just nine days after the constituent session.

Starodubzew was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor , among other things . He was also awarded the Order of Lenin three times, as well as the Order of the October Revolution and the Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union .

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