Aleksey Orlov (politician)

Aleksey Maratovich Orlov
Алексей Маратович Орлов
2nd Head of Kalmykia
Assumed office
24 Oct 2010
Preceded by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
Personal details
Born (1961-10-09) October 9, 1961
Elista, Kalmyk ASSR, USSR
Nationality Russia
Political party United Russia
Profession Statesman
Religion Buddhism

Aleksey Maratovich Orlov (Russian: Алексей Маратович Орлов) is a Kalmyk politician who is the current Head of the Republic of Kalmykia which is part of the Russian Federation.

Early life

Orlov was born on the 9th of October 1961 in Elista, the capital of the Republic of Kalmykia. He is ethnic Kalmyk. In 1984, he graduated the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the MFA of the USSR.

Early career

1984 - 1985 he worked as chief inspector of the association, chief inspector of the agency for export of agrarian products "Selkhozprodexport", Moscow. 1986 - 1989 he was a plumber of the Moscow pilot-producing plant "Agregat", Moscow; 1989 - 1991 department manager, then head of the Trade-union center of the MFA service department of the USSR, Moscow. 1991 - 1994 Director General, Vice Manager of the Soviet-Yugoslav Joint Venture Company JSC "Sov-Yug" Moscow. August 1994 - January 1995 he was Vice Manager CJSC "Poisk"; February 1995 - July 1995 Director General of the Russian-Italian Joint Venture Company CJSC "MAG".

Political career

From May 1995 to January 2003 Orlov was Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kalmykia to the RF President and Deputy Chair of the Republic of Kalmykia, Moscow; from January 2003 to October 2010 First Deputy Chair of the Republic of Kalmykia - Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kalmykia to the RF President.[1]

On September 21, 2010 President Dmitry Medvedev proposed his candidature as Head of Kalmykia out of a list of four candidates submitted by the "United Russia" - Party. On September 28 he was confirmed by the legislature, the People's Khural of Kalmykia. On October 24 he took office, succeeding his predecessor Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.[2] He was elected president with more than 80 percent of the vote in 2014.

References

Justin Corfield - The History of Kalmykia: from Ancient times to Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Aleksey Orlov (2015). ISBN 978-1-876586-29-4. This book covers the history of Kalmykia and the Kalmyks, and draws on a long interview with Aleksey Orlov, and also with some of his friends and colleagues in Chapter 5: Aleksey Orlov and the continued development of Kalmykia.

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Preceded by
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
Head of the Republic of Kalmykia
2010–present
Incumbent
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