Nikolay Tsukanov

{{Short description|Russian politician (born 1965)}}

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| name = Nikolay Tsukanov

| image = Nikolay Tsukanov 2019-11-22.jpg

| caption = Tsukanov in 2019

| office1 = 5th Russian Presidential Envoy to the Ural Federal District

| term_start1 = 26 June 2018

| term_end1 = 9 November 2020

| president1 = Vladimir Putin

| predecessor1 = Igor Kholmanskikh

| successor1 = Vladimir Yakushev

| office2 = 6th Russian Presidential Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District

| term_start2 = 28 July 2016

| term_end2 = 25 December 2017

| president2 = Vladimir Putin

| predecessor2 = Vladimir Bulavin

| successor2 = Alexander Beglov

| office3 = 5th Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast

| term_start3 = 28 September 2010

| term_end3 = 28 July 2016

| predecessor3 = Georgi Boos

| successor3 = Yevgeny Zinichev (acting)
Anton Alikhanov

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1965|3|22}}

| birth_place = Lipovo, Russia, Soviet Union

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| alma_mater = Saint-Petersburg State Agrarian University

| spouse =

| profession = Psychologist, businessman, Electrical engineer

| party = United Russia

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| native_name_lang = ru

| native_name = {{nobold|Николай Цуканов}}

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Nikolay Nikolayevich Tsukanov (born 22 March 1965) is a Russian politician, psychologist, businessman, electrical welder, former governor of Kaliningrad Oblast, and, between July 2016 and December 2017, President Vladimir Putin's plenipotentiary envoy to the Northwestern Federal District. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.{{cite act|type=Decree|index=719|date=28 December 2016|legislature=President of Russia|title=О присвоении классных чинов государственной гражданской службы Российской Федерации федеральным государственным гражданским служащим Администрации Президента Российской Федерации|language=ru|url=http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?searchres=&bpas=cd00000&a3=102000503&a3type=1&a3value=&a6=102000070&a6type=1&a6value=&a15=&a15type=1&a15value=&a7type=1&a7from=&a7to=&a7date=28.12.2016&a8=719&a8type=1&a1=&a0=&a16=&a16type=1&a16value=&a17=&a17type=1&a17value=&a4=&a4type=1&a4value=&a23=&a23type=1&a23value=&textpres=&sort=7&x=62&y=17}}

Nikolay Tsukanov was born in 1965 in the village of Lipovo, in the Gusev area of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Upon graduating from school in 1980 he entered a local special professional technical college (SPTU)) and obtained a specialist degree as an electrical welder. He served in the Soviet army from 1983 to 1985, in a space communications guard battalion stationed in Czechoslovakia.

At age 14 Tsukanov began working as a combiner's assistant, later becoming an electrical welder at the Micromotor factory in Gusev. After 1985 he began to gain prominence as a local Komsomol leader. In the early 1990s he became a relatively successful businessman, graduating in 1999 from the Higher School of Privatization and Entrepreneurship with a specialism in law. In 2002 he became a degree candidate in psychology.

In 2005 Tsukanov was elected mayor of Gusev, going on in 2009 to become head of the Gusev municipal area, a position in which he successfully improved living conditions within the rather economically depressed area. In March 2009 he became chairman of the Council of municipal formations of Kaliningrad Oblast. In 2010 he was elected secretary of the local political council of the United Russia party, and on 28 September 2010 he became Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast.

On 26 June 2018, Tsukanov replaced Igor Kholmanskikh as the presidential envoy to Ural Federal District.{{cite web|url=https://meduza.io/news/2018/06/26/igor-holmanskih-uvolen-s-posta-polpreda-prezidenta-v-uralskom-federalnom-okruge|title=Игорь Холманских уволен с поста полпреда президента в Уральском федеральном округе|date=26 June 2018|publisher=Meduza|language=Russian|accessdate=27 June 2018}}