The Governor of Saint Petersburg () is the head of the executive branch of Saint Petersburg City Administration. The governor's office administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within all districts of the City of Saint Petersburg. The governor's office is located in Smolny Institute and appoints many officials, including deputy governors and directors (heads of city departments). History Under the Soviet regime, until 1991 the head of the city administration was called chairperson of the executive committee. Between 1991 and 1996, the head of the administration was called mayor after which they were called Governor. Between 1991 and 2006 the mayor/governor was elected by direct vote of city residents. Between 2004 and 2014, the governor was nominated by the President of Russia and approved (or disapproved) by the City Legislative Assembly,Text of Russian Federal Law of 2004 (in Russian) and since 2014 the governor has been elected by popular vote of city residents.
List of heads of administration of Saint Petersburg
Chairpersons of the Executive Committee (1917–1991)
Portrait Name Term of office Political party Took office Left office Time in office 1 Nikolay Chkheidze 12 March 1917 22 September 1917 Menshevik 2 Leon Trotsky 25 September 1917 26 December 1917 Bolshevik → Communist Party 3 Grigory Zinoviev 26 December 1917 2 August 1920 — Grigory Zinoviev 2 August 1920 12 July 1926 Communist Party — Nikolay Komarov 12 July 1926 7 January 1930 — Ivan Kodatsky April 1930 13 December 1931 4 Ivan Kodatsky 13 December 1931 January 1937 Communist Party 5 Vasily Shestakov January 1937 March 1937 6 Aleksey Petrovsky September 1937 October 1938 7 Alexei Kosygin October 1938 6 January 1939 8 Pyotr Popkov 6 January 1939 9 March 1946 9 Pyotr Lazutin 11 March 1946 22 February 1949 10 Pyotr Ladanov 2 March 1949 June 1954 11 Nikolay Smirnov June 1954 17 June 1962 12 Vasily Isayev June 1962 August 1966 13 Aleksandr Sizov August 1966 December 1972 14 Vasily Kazakov January 1973 June 1976 15 Lev Zaykov June 1976 26 April 1983 16 Vladimir Khodyrev 26 April 1983 13 June 1990 17 Aleksandr Shchelkanov 18 June 1990 28 June 1991
Governors of Saint Petersburg (1991–present) Portrait Name Term of office Political party Election Took office Left office Time in office — Anatoly Sobchak 26 June 1991 5 June 1996 Independent 1991 1 Vladimir Yakovlev 5 June 1996 16 June 2003 Independent 19962000 — Alexander Beglov 16 June 2003 15 October 2003 United Russia – 2 Valentina Matviyenko 15 October 2003 22 August 2011 Independent → United Russia 20032006 —Georgy Poltavchenko22 August 201131 August 2011 United Russia– 3 31 August 2011 5 June 2014 2011 —5 June 201424 September 2014– (3) 24 September 2014 3 October 2018 2014 — Alexander Beglov 3 October 2018 18 September 2019 – 4 18 September 2019 Incumbent 20192024
Timeline
Latest election
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! style="text-align:left;" colspan=2| Candidate ! style="text-align:left;"| Party ! width="75"|Votes ! width="30"|% |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Alexander Beglov (incumbent) | style="text-align:left;"| United Russia | | 59.80 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Maksim Yakovlev | style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party | | 18.34 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Pavel Bragin | style="text-align:left;"| The Greens | | 11.79 |- | style="background-color:"| | style="text-align:left;"| Sergey Malinkovich | style="text-align:left;"| Communists of Russia | | 8.06 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Valid votes | | 97.98 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Blank ballots | | 2.02 |- style="font-weight:bold" | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Total | | 100.00 |- | style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="6"| |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Turnout | | 37.50 |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Registered voters | | 100.00 |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source:
See also Mayor of Moscow List of heads of Moscow government Governor of Sevastopol (Russia) Saint Petersburg City Administration Saint Petersburg Police
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