Governor of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
{{Short description|Highest-ranking official in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia}}
{{Infobox Political post
| post = Governor
| body = the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
| insignia = Coat of arms of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.svg
| insigniasize = 125px
| insigniacaption = Coat of arms of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
| imagesize = 150px
| image = Maria Kostyuk, 2024.jpg
| incumbent = Maria Kostyuk
| incumbentsince = 5 November 2024
| acting = y
| style =
| termlength = Four years, renewable once
| residence = Birobidzhan
| formation = 1991
| inaugural = Nikolay Volkov
| website = [http://www.eao.ru/ Government of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast]
| status =
}}
The Governor of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast ({{langx|ru|Губернатор Еврейской автономной области}}) is the head of executive branch for the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, considered as Prime Minister of the Jewish Autonomous 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 Birobidzhan. The current Governor is Rostislav Goldstein. He was appointed as acting governor in December 2019 and elected by popular vote in September 2020 for full five-year term.
Governors
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No.
! Image ! Governor ! Term of office ! colspan=2|Party ! Election |
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rowspan=2|1
| rowspan=2|80px | rowspan=2|Nikolay Volkov | rowspan=2|14 December 1991 — 24 February 2010 |style="background: {{party color|Independent politician}};"| | rowspan=2|1996 ---- ---- |
style="background: {{party color|United Russia}};"|
| rowspan=7|United Russia |
2
|80px |Alexander Vinnikov |24 February 2010 — 24 February 2015 |style="background: {{party color|United Russia}};"| |2010 |
—
|rowspan=2| 80px |rowspan=2|Alexander Levintal |24 February 2015 — 22 September 2015 |rowspan=2; style="background: {{party color|United Russia}};"| |rowspan=2|2015 |
3
|22 September 2015 — 12 December 2019 |
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|rowspan=2| 80px |rowspan=2|Rostislav Goldstein |12 December 2019 — 22 September 2020 |rowspan=2; style="background: {{party color|United Russia}};"| |rowspan=2|2020 |
4
|22 September 2020 — 5 November 2024 |
—
| 80px | Maria Kostyuk |since 5 November 2024 |; style="background: {{party color|United Russia}};"| | |
Chairmen of Executive Committee (before 1991)
- Iosif Liberberg (1934–1936)
- Mikhail Kattel (1936–1937)
- Miron Geller (1937–1938) (acting)
- Nikolay Bigler (1938–1939) (acting)
- Mikhail Zilbershteyn (1940–1947)
- Mikhail Levitin (1947–1949)
- Lew Benkovich (1949–1955)
- F.T. Klimenko (1955–1961)
- Grigory Podgayev (1961–1962)
- Andrey Okovitov (1962–1971)
- Sergey Duvakin (1971–1985)
- Mark Kaufman (1985–1990)
- Boris Korsunsky (1990–1991)
Elections
= 13 September 2020 =
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!Candidates !Party !Votes !% | |
Rostislav Goldstein
|self-nominated |align=right|76,275 | align=right|82.50 |
Vladimir Dudin
|align=right|6,533 | align=right|7.07 |
Alexander Krupsky
|Communist Party of Social Justice |align=right|3,957 | align=right|4.28 |
Roman Kuzemsky
|align=right|1,171 | align=right|1.27 |
Boris Tikhonov
|align=right|1,984 | align=right|2.15 |
= 13 September 2015 =
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!Candidates !Party !Votes !% | |
Vladimir Dudin
|align=right|895 | align=right|2.14 |
Konstantin Lazarev
|Communist Party of the Russian Federation |align=right|6,018 | align=right|14.37 |
Alexander Levintal
|align=right|31,577 | align=right|75.42 |
Pavel Malyshev
|Liberal Democratic Party of Russia |align=right|1,633 | align=right|3.90 |
Tatyana Odyriy
|Party of Pensioners' of Russia |align=right|682 | align=right|1.63 |
External links
- [http://www.eao.ru/ Government of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208170116/http://www.eao.ru/ |date=2015-12-08 }} in Russian
{{Governors of federal subjects of Russia}}