Viktor Ishayev

Viktor Ishayev
Виктор Ишаев
Minister for Development of the Russian Far East and Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District
In office
21 May 2012 – 31 August 2013
PresidentVladimir Putin
Prime MinisterDmitry Medvedev
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byYury Trutnev (as Envoy)
Aleksandr Galushka (as Minister)
Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District
In office
30 April 2009 – 21 May 2012
PresidentDmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin
Preceded byOleg Safonov
Succeeded byYury Trutnev
1st Governor of Khabarovsk Krai
In office
1 November 2001 – 30 April 2009
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byVyacheslav Shport
Head of the Administration of Khabarovsk Krai
In office
24 October 1991 – 1 November 2001
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice restyled
Personal details
Born
Victor Ivanovich Ishayev

(1948-04-16) 16 April 1948 (age 76)
Sergeyevka, Yaysky District, Kemerovo Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyUnited Russia
Other political
affiliations
CPSU (19??–91)
SpouseLyubov Ishayeva
Alma materNovosibirsk Institute for Engineers of Water Transport

Victor Ivanovich Ishayev (Russian: Виктор Иванович Ишаев, born 16 April 1948) is a Russian politician. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.[1]

He had been the Presidential plenipotentiary envoy in the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia from 2009 to 2012, the governor of Khabarovsk Krai from 1991 to 2009, and a Deputy of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2001.[2]

On 21 May 2012, he was appointed as Minister for Russian Far East in the Dmitry Medvedev's Cabinet.

On 28 March 2019, he was arrested in Moscow on charges of abuse of power and embezzlement.[3]

  1. ^ О присвоении классного чина государственной гражданской службы Российской Федерации Ишаеву В.И. (Decree 548) (in Russian). President of Russia. 15 May 2009.
  2. ^ A member of the Supreme Council Bureau of the United Russia Party Viktor Ishayev assigned a plenipotentiary envoy in the Far Eastern Federal District (in Russian)
  3. ^ "Former Khabarovsk Region governor detained in Moscow – source". TASS. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2019.