Governor of the Tver Region

From the moment the Kalinin Region was formed in 1935 and until the spring of 1990, the leading role in its leadership was played by the Kalinin Regional Committee of the CPSU (b) -KPSS . From 1985 to May 1990, the first secretary of the Kalinin Regional Party Committee was Nikolai Tatarchuk .

In 1990, there was a sharp decrease in the influence of the one-party system in connection with the abolition on March 14, 1990 of the sixth article of the Soviet constitution , which defined the "leading and guiding role" of the CPSU. Russian regions have actually begun to develop according to the model of a “parliamentary republic”. As a result, the first person in the region was the chairman of the regional council. Since 1987, Vladimir Suslov has been the chairman of the Kalinin Regional Executive Committee. In 1990, he was re-elected chairman of the Kalinin Regional Council.

In May 1990, Nikolai Tatarchuk retired, and Alexander Ilyenkov became the first secretary.

On July 27, 1990, the Kalinin Regional Council of People’s Deputies decided to return the historical name of Tver to the city of Kalinin, and in this regard rename the Kalinin Region to Tver. On July 17, 1990, the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin signed two corresponding decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Council. ^[1] On April 21, 1992, the Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation approved the renaming of the region by amending Art. 71 of the Constitution of the RSFSR of 1978, which entered into force on May 16, 1992 from the date of publication in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

On August 19-21, 1991, during the August coup, the executive committee of the regional council spoke out in support of the legally elected authorities and was able to keep the situation in the region under control and prevent a forceful development of events. On August 21, Vladimir Suslov, chairman of the executive committee of the regional council, stated in the regional press: "Methods for resolving political issues by bringing tanks to the streets are futile." Two days later, the city’s Veche Tver newspaper evaluated Suslov’s speech like this: “It was Suslov who was the first and only leader in the local area who openly, without hiding, without any evasions, assessed the putschists and expressed support for the Supreme Council of Russia from the Tver Oblast Executive Committee. At such an unkind hour, such an act is expensive. ” Veche Tver gave an unpleasant assessment to the chairman of the regional regional council, Mikhail Shestov: “What a miserable and faceless this pupil of the party democracy looked like on Tver! ^[2]

At the initial stage of post-Soviet history, it was assumed that the election of regional leaders would be introduced in all regions. In August 1991, Russian President Boris Yeltsin promised an early election. For the transition period, however, a new institution was created - the head of the regional administration appointed by the president (administration refers to the regional executive body). On October 20, 1991, by decree of the President of the RSFSR, Vladimir Suslov was appointed the head of the administration of the Tver region ^[3] . Following this, the powers of the executive committee of the regional council and its chairman were terminated. The term of office of the head of administration was 4 years.

In December 1995, the first election of the head of the administration of the Tver region took place . They were won in the first round by the head of the administration of Bezhetsk and Bezhetsky district, Vladimir Platov (movement "Democracy").

In the election of the head of administration in December 1999, Vladimir Platov was elected for a second term. December 19, 1999 in the first round received 32.5% of the vote, the closest rival, deputy from the Communist Party Vladimir Bayunov - 22.91%. In the second round, on January 9, 2000, Platov scored 46.55% and bypassed Vladimir Bayunov with a minimum margin (46.02%).

None of the governors of the Tver region was a native of it, the same is true for the former heads of the Kalinin Regional Committee of the CPSU since at least the end of the 1940s. At the same time, the vast majority of the region’s heads did not previously work in the region before being appointed to the post, but held posts in central branch institutions or were engaged in leadership work in other regions.

The procedure for vesting with powers of the governor of the Tver region is established by federal law ^[4] and the Charter of the Tver region .

The organization and conduct of elections is carried out by the election commission of the Tver region.

Elections were held in 1995 , 1999 , 2003 . In 2007 and 2011, the governor of the Tver region was elected president of Russia and approved in his post by the assembly of the Tver region . Once again, direct elections of the governor should be held in 2016. However, in October 2014, the media reported on the possible early resignation of Governor Shevelev and the postponement of elections on a single voting day on September 13, 2015 . ^[5]

• Vladimir Suslov (1991-1995)
• Vladimir Platov (1995-2003)
• Dmitry Zelenin (2003—2011)
• Andrey Shevelev (2011—2016)
• Igor Rudenya (2016 - present)

• About the governor of the Tver region on the portal of the Government of the region