Governor of Leningrad Oblast

Governor of Leningrad Oblast
Seal of Leningrad Oblast
Incumbent Aleksandr Drozdenko since May 12, 2012
Residence	Saint Petersburg
Term length	Four years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Nikolai Komarov 1927
Formation	1927 as Chairman of Executive Committee of Leningrad Oblast
Website	Government of Leningrad Oblast

The Governor of Leningrad Oblast (Губернатор Ленинградской области) is the head of executive branch for the Leningrad Oblast, considered as Prime Minister of Leningrad Oblast.

The office of Governor is an elected position, for which elected officials serve four year terms. While individual politicians may serve as many terms as they can be elected to, Governors cannot be elected to more than two consecutive terms.

The official residence for the Governor is located in Saint Petersburg. The current Governor is Aleksandr Drozdenko, who assumed office on May 11, 2012.

Governors

Chairman of Executive Committee of Leningrad Oblast

Further information: Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

• Nikolai Komarov / Fyodor Sobinov (1927-1930)
• Ivan Koatskiy (1930-1931)
• Fyodor Czarkov (1931—1932)
• Pyotr Strouppe (1932-1936)
• Alexey Grichmanov (1936-1937)
• Pyoter Tyurkin (1937)
• Anton Nikitin (1937)
• Nikolai Solovyov (1938-1946)
• Ilya Kharitonov (1946-1948)
• Ivan Dmitriev (1948-1950)
• Ivan Petrov (1950-1952)
• Vladimir Ponomaryov (1952-1954)
• Georgiy Vorobyov (1954-1957)
• Nikolay Smirnov (1957-1961)
• Grigoriy Kozlov (1961-1963, 1964-1968)
• Vasily Sominich (1963-1964) / Boris Popov (1963-1964)
• Alexander Shibalov (1968-1980)
• Ratmir Bobovikov (1980-1983)
• Nikolai Popov (1983-1989)
• Yuri Yarov (1989-1991)

Head of Leningrad Oblast Administration

• Alexander Belyakov (1991-1996)

Governor of Leningrad Oblast

• Vadim Gustov (1996-1998)
• Valery Serdyukov (1998-2012)
• Aleksandr Drozdenko (Since May 11, 2012)

Elections

The latest election for the office was held on 13 September 2015

Candidates	Party	Votes	%
Alexander Gabitov	Civic Platform	11,298	1.97
Aleksandr Drozdenko	United Russia	471,145	82.10
Nikolay Kuzmin	Communist Party of the Russian Federation	40,068	6.98
Andrey Lebedev	Liberal Democratic Party of Russia	23,937	4.17
Alexander Perminov	A Just Russia	17,302	3.02

External links

• Government of Leningrad Oblast in Russian