Recently, the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region was replaced . For quite a long time he was Shantsev V.P. This year and. about. Governor became Nikitin G.S.
Family and childhood
Valery Pavlinovich Shantsev was born on June 29, 1947 in the village of Susanino of the same region of the Kostroma region. The name received in honor of Chkalov. Until 1954, he was brought up by his grandmother.
He began to go to school in Moscow, moving to his parents. Received secondary education at school No. 743. The family lived in a hut, therefore V.P. Shantsev can be described as a typical native of the people.
The path to governorship
Valery Shantsev graduated from Aviation College, MIREA and Narkhoz Academy. Work at the plant began with the position of assistant foreman, graduated from the senior engineer-technologist. In 1992, he received the post of vice president of HC Dynamo. In 1994, he became the prefect of the administrative district of the capital Yuzhny.
In 1996, an attempt was made on his life, as a result of which he received many shrapnel wounds, about 50% of the body surface was burned. The assassins were never found.
1999 was marked by the transition to a new position as vice-mayor of the capital. In 2000, he became the first deputy prime minister of the metropolitan government with a very wide range of areas of responsibility: he was responsible for investments, and for culture, transport, trade, construction, sports, education, and the social sphere.
2005 was a landmark year for him. At the suggestion of the President of the Russian Federation, supported by the local parliament, V.P. Shantsev became the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region.
In 2010, he was elected governor of the above region again. This year, he was criticized quite harshly for his inability to protect the area from raging fires. During this year D.A. Medvedev, former president of the Russian Federation at that time, dismissed Yu. Luzhkov, who served as mayor of Moscow. Among other applicants for the post of mayor was considered V.P. Shantsev. In 2011, he headed the regional office of United Russia in the elections, after which he refused the mandate of the deputy.
05/30/2014 V.P. Shantsev resigned, accepted by the president. This step was due to the desire to participate in the autumn elections, in which he won, gaining almost 87% of the vote. After 10 days, he once again took up the post of governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Resignation as Governor
In September 2017, the President of Russia accepted the resignation of the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region V.P. Shantseva at will. This decision was made after a meeting with representatives of the administration of the head of the Russian Federation.
The President took into account his active work and awarded the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, II degree. In addition, from the legislative assembly of the region, which he directed for more than 10 years, V.P. Shantsev was awarded the regional award "For civic valor and honor."
Governor Results
A major project that was embodied in the days of V.P. Shantseva as governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, was the completion of the metro bridge across the Oka River in the regional center. In the same year (2012), the first metro station Gorkovskaya was introduced in the upper part of the city.
Also, a cableway across the Volga River was built between Nizhny Novgorod and Bor. With the advent of Shantsev to the governorship in 2005, the reconstruction of the circus was repeated, which was completed in 2 years, although before that it had been going on for decades.
In 2010, housing for fire victims was introduced at an accelerated pace. Since 2011, an innovative industrial cluster in the field of petrochemicals and the automotive industry has been formed in this subject.
Back in April 2017, he planned to create an information cluster in the region.
Since 2015, preparations have been underway to host the World Cup in Russia, the Nizhny Novgorod stadium has been built with a capacity of 45,000 people. Construction and reconstruction of other training sports grounds is underway.
Under Shantsev, social programs for the construction of housing, including for orphans, were actively promoted, and the problems of deceived equity holders were partially addressed.
However, since 2009, Nizhny Novgorod has lost the status of a cultural settlement due to the demolition of ancient buildings located in the upper part of the city. The demolition of architectural monuments, which previously lost this status, continued further. Activists who tried to resist these actions were detained for hooliganism and subjected to administrative arrest for several days.
In 2017, a campaign began to replace some governors with long experience in managerial activities for young managers. This campaign did not bypass the region in question, which led to the resignation of the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region.
The new governor of the region
Prior to the election of the governor, the subject will be headed by the ex-first deputy minister of industry and trade of our state.
Gleb Sergeevich Nikitin has the degree of candidate of economic sciences. Born 07/24/1977 in Leningrad. He has 2 higher educations - economic and legal. He studied at the Russian Academy of Public Administration and graduated in 2008, received a certificate of "Council", which is a representative of IPMA.
Career of the new governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region
Gleb Nikitin began work with the Property Management Committee of the city of St. Petersburg. At first he worked as a specialist, gradually moving up the career ladder, reaching the head of one of the state property management departments.
Then Gleb Sergeevich Nikitin joined the Federal Property Management Agency in 2004, where until 2007 he headed the department of property of the commercial sector, after which he took the post of deputy head. In this post he oversaw the sale of VTB shares.
In 2005-2006, he took places on the board of directors of several large organizations, including Rosneft, Aeroflot and others.
In 2012, he joined the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, in which he first became deputy minister, and a year later as first deputy. In the same year, he joined the Supervisory Board of the National Association of Investment and Development Agencies.
Thus, the new governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region has managerial experience and at the same time is a fairly young politician.
His personal life is not made public, it is known that he is married and has two children. He has the medal "For Merit to the Fatherland" in the awards, II degree.
The first steps and plans of the new governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region
One of the main reasons for the resignation of V. Shantsev is seen in the fact that he could not settle the conflict between the authorities of different levels in the region and the city. Gleb Nikitin was one of his first decisions to return a single-level management system to Nizhny Novgorod.
According to him, the Nizhny Novgorod region is currently underestimated in terms of investment. Having managerial experience in the ministry and a number of large companies, he is going to attract investment in his area.
The governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin, sees prospects for a large holding, geographically located in the entity he heads - the GAZ Group.
In the free space of this enterprise, he wants to create industrial parks.
He has a positive attitude to the folk arts that are developed in the Nizhny Novgorod region, and believes that the state should provide their support.
Gleb Sergeevich Nikitin is going to review a number of city-planning decisions. He assured that the work related to the preparation of the region for the mundial will be completed on time. In addition, major projects will be carried out to improve the situation on the Volga River.
The acting governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region considers the construction of a high-speed Moscow-Beijing highway, which can provide many jobs, GRP interest, and additional profit, to be promising.
He sees a plus in the fact that he was appointed governor in another region, since he believes that the highest person in the region should be removed from regional obligations and relations.
New Governor Evaluation
The governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin has already received his rating at the Nizhny Novgorod expert club. Hopes are laid on him to return the region to the top ten strongest, his disengagement from local oligarchs was noted. At the same time, economists believed that the development of industry would be the basis for the activities of the interim governor. All experts agreed that it would be necessary to work systematically and a lot with the new governor.
Finally
At the beginning of the XXI century V.P. became the head of the 52nd region. Shantsev, who proved himself to be a fairly strong business executive, but who put the interests of the economy above cultural ones. Presumably, he came into conflict with the local elite, which led to the appointment of a new governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region. He became G. Nikitin. This happened recently, so far it is difficult to judge anything, but the first step to restore order in the city has already been taken.