Vasily Starodubtsev

Vasily Starodubtsev
Василий Стародубцев
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
In office
24 December 2007 – 30 December 2011
Succeeded byOleg Lebedev
2nd Governor of Tula Oblast
In office
31 March 1997 – 29 April 2005
Preceded byNikolai Sevryugin
Succeeded byVyacheslav Dudka
Member of the Federation Council from Tula Oblast
ex-officio as Governor
In office
16 April 1997 – 25 December 2001
Preceded byNikolai Sevryugin
Succeeded byAnatoly Vaskov [ru]
In office
11 January 1994 – 15 January 1996
Serving with Alexander Titkin [ru]
Preceded byoffice established
Succeeded by
Member of the State Committee on the State of Emergency
In office
19 August 1991 – 21 August 1991
PresidentGennady Yanayev
Personal details
Born25 December 1931
Volovchik, Volovsky District, Central Black Earth Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died30 December 2011(2011-12-30) (aged 80)
Novomoskovsk, Russia
Political party
Other political
affiliations
Agrarian Party of Russia (1993-2004)
Children
  • Alexander
  • Natalya
EducationVoronezh Agricultural Institute (DPhil)
Occupation
Military service
Allegiance Soviet Union
Branch/serviceSoviet Air Force
Years of service1951-1955
RankJunior lieutenant

Vasily Alexandrovich Starodubtsev (Russian: Василий Александрович Стародубцев; December 25, 1931 – December 30, 2011)[1] was a Soviet and Russian politician and governor of Tula Oblast from 1997 to 2005.[2][3] He was also the Chairman of the Peasants Union of the USSR, during which he served as a member of the State Committee on the State of Emergency in the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.[2] He was a leader of the Agrarian Party of Russia.

  1. ^ "Умер член ГКЧП Василий Стародубцев". lenta.ru (in Russian). 30 December 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  2. ^ a b Specter, Michael (25 March 1997). Regions Defy Yeltsin to Start Talk of a More Perfect Union, The New York Times (noting recent election of Vasily Starodubtsev to replace Nikolai Sevruygin as governor)
  3. ^ (26 September 2010). Умер Геннадий Янаев, «несбывшийся» президент СССР, Газета по-киевски (Kiev Gazette) (in Russian) (noting he was governor from 1997 through 2005)