Svetlana Orlova (politician)

Svetlana Orlova
Светлана Орлова
Orlova in 2018
Auditor of the Accounts Chamber of Russia
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 November 2018
Preceded by	Bato-Zhargal Zhambalnimbuyev
Governor of Vladimir Oblast
In office 23 September 2013 – 8 October 2018
Preceded by	Nikolay Vinogradov
Succeeded by	Vladimir Sipyagin
Governor of Vladimir Oblast (acting)
In office 24 March 2013 – 23 September 2013
Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council
In office 14 January 2004 – 24 March 2013
Preceded by	Andrey Bikharev
Succeeded by	Yevgeny Bushmin
Russian Federation Senator from Kemerovo Oblast
In office 24 November 2001 – 17 September 2013
Succeeded by	Sergey Shatirov
Member of the State Duma
In office 11 January 1994 – 18 January 2000
Constituency	Arsenyev (1995–2000)
Personal details
Born	Svetlana Yuryevna Pavlova (1954-10-23) 23 October 1954 (age 70) Obluchye, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	United Russia

Svetlana Yuryevna Orlova (Russian: Светлана Юрьевна Орлова; born 23 October 1954), is a Russian politician, who is currently the auditor of the Accounts Chamber of Russia since 23 November 2018.

She served as the governor of Vladimir Oblast from 2013 to 2018. She is known for losing in the second round of the governor's elections in 2018, losing 37.46% and 57.03%, respectively, to the candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Vladimir Sipyagin.^[1]

In the past, she was the deputy chairman of the Federation Council from 2004 to 2013,^[2] and a member of the State Duma of the 1st and 2nd convocations from 1993 to 2000. From 2012 to 2018, she was a member of the Bureau of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party.^[3] On the basis of the decision taken by the delegates of the XVIII Congress of the "United Russia" party held on 7–8 December 2018, she was expelled from the Supreme Council of the party.^[4]