Yevgeny Savchenko - Governor of the Belgorod Region, who four times in a row held the position of head of the region. Belgorod residents several times in a row chose Savchenko's candidacy to guide the region.
Governor's education
The current governor of the Belgorod region celebrates his birthday on April 8, and he was born in 1950. The small village of Krasnaya Yaruga earlier in the Kursk region, and since 1954 in the Belgorod region, became the small homeland of Yevgeny Stepanovich. The first educational institution that Yevgeny Savchenko graduated from was a technical school in Stary Oskol, which is now the Russian Geological Prospecting University. He received his next diploma in 1976 in Moscow, at the Academy of Agriculture. In 1988 he received the title of Doctor of Economics in the Rostov Higher School of Economics.
Start of work
The first place of work of the current governor was the Rakityan collective farm, where he held the position of chief agronomist. Then he worked as the head of the Rakityan department of agriculture and the director of the seed farm. Since 1990, for several years he was the CEO of Russian Seeds.
Political career
Since 1980, Yevgeny Savchenko worked in the district and regional bodies of the CPSU and was appointed first deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Rakityan Council. In 1985 he became the first secretary of the Shebekinsky city committee and instructor of the CPSU Central Committee. In 1989, he joined the Council of People's Deputies. 1993 was the starting point in Savchenko's career. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin temporarily appointed him to the post of head of the administration of the Belgorod region, instead of the dismissed Viktor Ivanovich Berestovoy. A month later, a decree was signed confirming Evgeny Savchenko in this position. Since 1999, the head of administration becomes the governor, winning the election with a huge margin from the competition. For the post of governor of the Belgorod region fought Mikhail Beskhmelnitsyn and Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who collected 19% and 17% of the vote respectively. Yevgeny Savchenko - Governor of the Belgorod Region - came out the winner with 55% of the vote. In 2003, he received the mandate of a deputy of the State Duma, but refused it, and again won the election, receiving 61% of the vote. Savchenko received the third term of governorship by raising the question of trust before the president of the Russian Federation ahead of schedule. In 2007, the President of the Russian Federation appointed Evgeny Savchenko the governor for the next term one more year before the end of the term. In the fourth election of the head of the region in 2012, the Belgorod governor Yevgeny Savchenko won again.
Governor's activity for the benefit of the region
Since 1999, Evgeny Savchenko (Governor of the Belgorod Region) takes up his direct duties. His first action to improve the situation in the region is the signing of a resolution on providing assistance to insolvent agricultural enterprises. In 2000-2003, large agricultural holdings began to open in the region, attracting investment, and thereby raising agricultural production from its knees. During his tenure as head of the region (over 20 years), Yevgeny Savchenko, Governor of the Belgorod Region, raised the region’s economic performance several times. Belgorod is one of the most developed regions of Russia.
Political scandals
The governor’s activities are not without scandals. Back in the 80s, Savchenko was caught in the illegal trade in cars. Declared income often does not coincide with the scope of the rest of $ 50,000, which the governor can afford. The business of governor's daughter Olga Savchenko is also blamed on him. A school of foreign languages was opened, in which Belgorod University employees were sent for training . A large shopping and entertainment complex is functioning, including, in addition to entertainment, a supermarket and boutiques, several clothing stores owned by the daughter of the governor.
A noisy scandal occurred in the Belgorod region when Elena Baturina, the wife of Yuri Luzhkov, appeared there and began to buy land and plants in the Belgorod region. She was opposed by the heads of six Belgorod regions, the showdown reached the president and the prosecutor general. Baturin sponsored the Liberal Democratic Party, which, accordingly, also entered into conflict. Vladimir Volfovich insulted Yevgeny Stepanovich and wished to go to jail, for which he paid a fine for moral damages in the amount of half a million rubles by judicial recovery. Yevgeny Savchenko is also reproached for developing the network of his relatives in the ruling circles. Aunts, nieces, sons-in-law and godfathers are rumored to occupy most of the dominant posts in the region.
Nevertheless, no matter what rumors and scandals surround the head of the region, the region holds the first places in terms of amenities and economic development. The governor’s last demand was to raise the minimum wage at enterprises to 22,000 rubles.