Mashkovtsev, Mikhail Borisovich

Born on January 1, 1947 in Minsk . His father, Mashkovtsev, Boris Mikhailovich, died in 1991 , his mother, Shatz Shifra Mendelevna.

Education and Work

He studied at the Kaczynski Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots from 1966 to 1969 , graduated from the Faculty of Radio Electronics of the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation in 1974 .

He began his career as a turner of the design and technology bureau of machines of chemical fibers in Leningrad (1965-1969). Since 1974 he worked as an engineer at the Research Institute of High-Power Radio Engineering named after Comintern (Leningrad).

In 1978 - 1980 he was a geophysicist of the Polar Geophysical Expedition, from 1980 to 1986 he was a geophysicist of the North Pacific Geological Prospecting Expedition of the Sevmorgeologiya association. From 1986 to 1990 - engineer of the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky production site of the Yakutsk plant for the maintenance and repair of computer technology.

Political activities

From 1990 to 1991 - Second Secretary of the Petropavlovsk City Party Committee. In 1990 he was elected to the city council, in 1991-1993. - Member of the Small Council of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka City Council. From 1994 to 1995 - Assistant Deputy Chairman of the State Duma G. Seleznev . In March 1995 he was elected a deputy, in April - the chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Kamchatka Region. From January 1996, he was ex officio member of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, was deputy chairman of the Committee on Science, Culture, Education, Healthcare and Ecology.

In 1997, at the regular elections of the representative body of the Kamchatka region, he was elected to the regional council. On December 17, 2000, in the second round of the gubernatorial elections, he gained 46% of the votes cast and won a rival, the former First Vice-Governor B. Sinchenko (42% of the votes). On December 19, 2004 he was elected Governor of the Kamchatka Region for a new term. In May 2007 he resigned from the post of governor (of his own will), on May 23 the resignation was accepted by the President of the Russian Federation. By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 4, 2007, he was included in the consultative commission of the State Council of the Russian Federation.

In 2008, the Communists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region joined the interregional public organization ^[2] .

Secretary of the Communist Party of Russia Central Committee for ideological work. In the elections to the State Duma (2016), he was on the federal part of the party’s party list and ran in the single-mandate constituency No. 45. ^[3]

Nominated as a candidate for governor of St. Petersburg by the Communist Party of Russia in the 2019 elections .

Criminal cases of Mashkovtsev

On October 27, 2003, a criminal case was initiated against Mashkovtsev on the fact of abuse of power and abuse of office. It was stated that in 2002, during the salmon fishing season, the governor issued an order for unlimited fishing, which caused damage to Russia's resources. In August 2004, he was charged, but he won the gubernatorial elections again, and the case was closed in 2005 .

Widowed, has two daughters. He met his wife during his school years. Tatyana Borisovna Mashkovtseva was the director of the 34th city school of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and taught English at the same school. Tatyana Mashkovtseva died in the summer of 2007. Daughters of the Mashkovtsevs Elena and Victoria also became teachers. Hobbies: tourism , chess , preference , collecting songs of bards.