The governor of Belgorod Oblast () is the highest official and the head of the executive power of Belgorod Oblast, a region in Central Russia.
History of office The office of the Head of Administration was introduced in Russia in August 1991 during the downfall of the Soviet Union. Administrations and their Heads were supposed to replace Soviet executive committees (ispolkoms) and their chairmen. The first head of Belgorod Oblast Administration Viktor Berestovoy was appointed by president Boris Yeltsin in November 1991. Two years later he was removed from office for his support of the Supreme Soviet and Vice President Alexander Rutskoy in the 1993 constitutional crisis.
Berestovoy's successor Yevgeny Savchenko, had previously worked as deputy head of the Main Directorate of Crop Production of the Ministry of Agriculture. In office from October 1993 to September 2020, he is the longest-serving Russian governor in post-Soviet history.
List of office-holders
Portrait Name Tenure Time in office Party Election 1 Viktor Berestovoy(born 1948) – 11 October 1993(removed) Independent Appointed –Yevgeny Savchenko(born 1950) – 18 December 1993 Independent →United Russia Acting 2 – 16 June 2012(term end) Appointed
1995199920032007 – – 20 October 2012 Acting (2) – 22 September 2020(resigned) 20122017 – Denis Butsayev(born 1977) – 18 November 2020 United Russia Acting –Vyacheslav Gladkov(born 1969) – 27 September 2021 Acting3 – 13 May 2026(resigned) 2021 –Alexander Shuvaev(born 1981) – 2 October 2026 Acting 4 – present 2026
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