Pavel Ipatov

Pavel Leonidovich Ipatov (Russian: Па́вел Леони́дович Ипа́тов), Born 12 April 1950, is the governor of Saratov Oblast. He is the first governor appointed by President Vladimir Putin, who replaced a directly elected governor. Ipatov belongs to United Russia. He was previously director of a nuclear-power plant.

Ipatov was born in the village of Asbestovskoye in Sverdlovsk Oblast and studied at the Urals Political College in Sverdlovsk. In 1975 he graduated from the Ural State Technical University with a degree in electrical engineering and joined the power generation industry. During the 1980s he was manager at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant and became chief engineer at the Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant in 1985 and managing director of this plant in 1989. He became deputy managing director of Energoatom in 2002.

He was a deputy on Balakovo city council from 1996 to 2004, before being appointed governor of Saratov Oblast in 2005

Awards

• Order of the Red Banner of Labour - 1988
• Order of Friendship of Peoples - 1994
• Order of Honour (Russian Federation) - 2000
• Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR - 1991

Sources

• This article is sourced from Russian Wikipedia
• Saratov Governor's Page in Russian