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Andrey Vitalyevich Nelidov
Андре́й Вита́льевич Нели́дов
Head of the Republic of Karelia
In office
June 30, 2010 – May 22, 2012
PresidentDmitry Medvedev
Preceded bySergey Katanandov
Succeeded byAlexander Khudilainen
Personal details
Born (1957-06-12) June 12, 1957 (age 67)
Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
NationalityKarelian
Political partyUnited Russia
ProfessionIndustrial Engineer

Andrey Vitalyevich Nelidov (Template:Lang-ru) is the former Head of the Republic of Karelia in Russia. He came into power after Sergey Katanandov left office in 2010 for personal reasons, but resigned in 2012.

Biography

Andrei Nelidov is an industrial engineer. His career began in 1996 as vice-governor of Leningrad Oblast and Chairman of the Committee on Forestry. For a while, he was president of the White Sea-Omega Shipping Company. In 2001, he returned as a member of the Parliament of the Leningrad Oblast. In 2004, Nelidov was Vice-President of the Parliament. Following the resignation of Sergei Katanandov, Nelidov came in office in June 2010, initially as an acting president. On July 2010, he was nominated as the new Head of the Republic of Karelia. He resigned on May 2012.[1]

In 2013, he became the director of the Kizhi State Open-Air Museum of Cultural History and Architecture.[1]

On 2 March 2018 he was sentenced to eight years in jail and fined 25.7 million roubles for accepting a 4.6 million rouble bribe in 2015.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Нелидов Андрей Витальевич биография и пресс-портрет". whoiswho.dp.ru. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
  2. ^ Бывшего главу Карелии приговорили к восьми годам колонии за взятки