Aleksey Orlov (politician)

Aleksey Maratovich Orlov (Russian: Алексей Маратович Орлов, Oirat: Орлов Алексей Маратович, Orlov Aleksey Maratoviç) is a Russian politician, who serves as Russian Federation Senator from Kalmykia since 2019. He previously served as Head of Kalmykia from 2010 to 2019.[1]

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Maratovich and the family name is Orlov.
Aleksey Orlov
Алексей Орлов
Russian Federation Senator
from Kalmykia
Assumed office
23 October 2019
Preceded byYury Bikyukov
2nd Head of Kalmykia
In office
24 October 2010 – 20 March 2019
Preceded byKirsan Ilyumzhinov
Succeeded byBatu Khasikov
Personal details
Born (1961-10-09) 9 October 1961
Elista, Kalmyk ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Kalmykia, Russia)
Political partyUnited Russia

Early life

Orlov was born on 9 October 1961 in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, to an ethnic Kalmyk family.

In 1984, he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the MFA of the USSR.

Early career

From 1984 to 1985, Orlov worked as chief inspector of the association for the export of agrarian products "Selkhozprodexport", Moscow. In 1986, he began work as a plumber at the Moscow plant "Agregat". In 1989, he became department manager, and later the head of the Trade-union center of the MFA service department. In 1991 he began to serve as Director General, Vice Manager of the Soviet-Yugoslav Joint Venture Company JSC "Sov-Yug" , a position which he held until 1994. From August 1994 to January 1995, he was Vice Manager at CJSC "Poisk". From February 1995 to July 1995 he worked as Director General of the Russian-Italian Joint Venture Company CJSC "MAG".

Political career

From 1995 to 2010, Orlov served in different roles as a liaison between the government of Kalmykia and the office of the President of Russia.[2]

On September 21, 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev nominated Orlov to be Head of Kalmykia from a list of four candidates proposed by his ruling United Russia Party. On 28 September he was confirmed by the republic's legislature, the People's Khural of Kalmykia. He took office the following month, succeeding Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.[3] After Russia re-adopted direct popular elections for Governors, he announced his ultimately successful run for re-election 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.

  1. "Путин назначил главой Калмыкии кикбоксера Бату Хасикова". meduza.io. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
  2. "Alexey Orlov as Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kalmykia to the President of the Russian Federation" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 18 September 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
  3. "Medvedev proposes candidature of Aleksey Orlov to Head of Kalmykia, RIA Novosti" (in Russian). 21 September 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
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