Worldwide Guide to Women in
Leadership
Russian Local Leaders
Also see
Russia Ministers,
Leaders in the Former USSR and
Female Presidents of Unterstate Entities
1938-39
Chairperson of the Executive Committee Mariya Alekseyevna Mironova, Kamchatka
oblast
She lived (1900-19..)
1964-69 Chairperson of the Executive Committee Yekaterina Yegorovna Tomilina,
Komi-Permyak autonomous okrug
She
lived (1923-92).
1971-77 Chairperson of the Executive
Committee Tatyana Semyonovna Yeryomina, Taymyr (Dolgano-Nenets) autonomous okrug
She lived (1931-2005)
1988-91 Chairperson of the Executive Committee Galina Alekseyevna Troshkina,
Khakass Autonomous Oblast
Khakass
S.S.R. was declared in 1991 as a split from Krasnoyarsk kray.(b. 1943)
2013 Acting Prime
Minister Irina Maryash, Kabardino-Balkariya
(b. 1967-)
Reperesentatives of the Government of Russia
1921 Representative of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party in Irkutsk
Praskovia Gedymin-Tiudesheva
Later she was Representative in Ulan Ude. She lived (1883-1975)
Around 1993 Representative of the Russian President Tamara A. Poluyektova, Kalningrad Oblast (Region)
Around 1993 Permanent Representative in Moskva Alexandra G. Balenko, Kamchatka Oblast
Around 1993 Permanent Representative in Moskva Yelena A. Kucherova, Novgorod Oblast
Around 1993 Permanent Representative in Moskva Nina M. Mikhailova, Novosibirsk Oblast
Around 1998 Representative of the President Tamara Teventiyevna Karyakina, Iver Oblast
Around 1998 Plenipotentiary of the
President of the Russian Federation
in the Arkhangelsk Oblast
Marina Belogubova
Vice-Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Arkhangelsk Oblast
ca.1991-98
2000-? Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative
of the President in the North-Western Federal Region
Lubov Pavlovna Sovershayeva
Vice-Governor and Chairperson of the Committee of
Management of the Region State Propertyof the Leningrad Union/St.
Petersburg 1996-2000
2003 Representative of the
President North-West Russia
Federal District
Valentina Matviyenko
First secretary of the Communist Committee of the Krasnogvardeiski
District in Leningrad 1984-86,
Deputy Chairperson of the Executive Committee
1986-89, Deputy Chairperson the Leningrad Council of the People's Deputies,
Ambassador 1991-95 and 1997-98 before becoming Vice-Premier and since
2003 Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1949-).
Republic of Adygeya
Around 2004-
Chairperson of the Council of Representatives of the State
Council Khassay
Tatiana Petrova
2016- Acting Prime Minister
Natalya Shirokova
Vice-Premier for a number of years.
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Circa 1991-98
Vice-Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Marina Belogubova
Around 1998 Plenipotentiary of the
President of the Russian Federation
in the Arkhangelsk Oblast
Circa 1998- Vice-Chairperson of the Government in Social Sphere Tamara Rumyantseva
Briansk
1960-67
Chairperson of the Executive Committee
Domna Pavlovna Komarova
She was 1. Secretary of the Communist Party 1948-60 and Russian Minister of
Social Affairs 1967-ca.84. (b. 1920-).
Republic of
Bashkortostan (Bashkiria)
1976 Minister of Petroleum Zola Casanova
1990-91 Vice-Minister of Health Mini Minikhazievna Nazmetdinova
Republic of Buryatia
-2004- Minister of Economic Development and Foreign Relations Tatyana G. Dumnova
Republic of Chechenia (Russian Administration)
Circa 2005- Vice-Chairperson of the Government Belkis Baidayeva
Republic of Chuvashia
1937-38 Chairperson of the
Executive Committee Zoya Ananevna Andreyeva
1938-55 Chairperson of the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet
Vice-Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Russia 1958-59. She
lived (1899-1983)
2001-04 Prime Minister Natalya Partasova
She was 1st Deputy Prime Minister when she became chief of the government. (b. 1957)
2010 Acting Prime Minister Nina Suslonova
2010-11 Prime Minister
Former
Minister of Health and Social Affairs.
Chukotka
Okrug (Autonomous
District)
1961-70 Chairperson of the Executive Committee Anna
Dmitriyevna Nutetegryne
(b. 1930- )
1970-80 Chairperson of the Executive Committee Lina Grigoryevna Tynel
(b. 1932-)
1980-90 Chairperson
of the Executive Committee Nadezhda
Pavlovna Otke
(b. 1941-)
Around 2001-
Vice-Governor
Irina
Panczenko
Responsible for finance.
Republic of Daghestan
1957-62 Chairperson of the Council of Ministers Rosa
Abdul-Basyrovna El'darova
1962-69 Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
Circa 1993 Minister of Information N.N.
1996- Vice-Chairperson of the State Council Taiga Takibat
Circa 1998- Minister of Tourism and Youth Surd
Z. Suleimanova
Circa 1998- Minister of Culture Naiad Abdulgamidova
Republic of Ingushetia
2005- First Deputy Prime Minister Khava Yevloyeva, Ingushetia
2008 Acting Prime Minister (12.03-14.03)
Continued as Social Affairs Minister
after her appointment as Vice-Premier.
Ivanovo Oblast
1985-87
Chairperson of the Executive Committee Zoya Pavlovna Pukhova
(b. 1936-)
The Jewish Autonomous Region
Circa 2000- Vice-Chairperson of the Government Maria M. Zhirdetskaya
Kabardino-Balkariya
2013 Acting Prime Minister Irina Maryash
(b. 1967-)
Kaluga Oblast (Region)
1963-76 Chairperson of the Executive Committee Aleksandra Ivanovna
Demidova
Repulic of Kalmykia
2011- Prime Minister Lyudmila Ivanova
Finance Minister until
her appointment
Kamchatka oblast
1938-39 Chairperson of the
Executive Committee Mariya Alekseyevna Mironova
She lived (1900-19..)
Republic of Karelia (Was part of Russia 1956-1991)
Circa 1995-2000 Chairperson of the Chamber of the Representatives Valentine N. Pimento
Circa 1995- Chairperson of the House of Representatives N.V. Kotsyuba
Circa 1998- Substitute of the Minister of Foreign Relations
Galina Stephovna Michailova
Khakass Autonomous Oblast
1988-91 Chairperson of the Executive Committee Galina
Alekseyevna Troshkina
Khakass
S.S.R. was declared in 1991 as a split from Krasnoyarsk kray.(b. 1943)
Khabarovsk Krai Oblast (Sibiria)
1987-92 Vice-Chairperson of the Executive
Committee Iraida Ivanovna Strelkova
1992- Vice-Governor and Chair of the Social Issues Committee
Circa 1993-? Vice-Governor Ilina Tylkova
1994-2002 Vice-Governor and Chairperson
of the Committee on State Property Management
2002- Deputy Chairperson of the Government and Minister of Property Relations
Galina Alexeevna Gromova
She was Chairperson of the Okhobsk District Executive 1985-91 and in charge of the
Committee of Management of the Region State Property. (b. 1946-)
Khanty-Mansi Okrug
1969-82 Chairperson
of the Executive Committee Antonina Georgiyevna
Grigoryeva
She lived
(1918-98).
1982-87
Chairperson of the Executive Committee
Valentina Pavlovna Telenkova
(b. 1939-)
2010- Governor Natalya Komarova
Republic of Komi Komi-Permyak autonomous okrug
1964-69 Chairperson of the Executive Committee
Yekaterina Yegorovna Tomilina
She lived (1923-92).
1998-? Deputy Head of the Government G. V. Butireva
2016- Acing Chairperson of the Government Larisa
Maksimova
She was 1. Deputy Government Chair.
Koryak Autonomous Okrug
1985-87 Chairperson of the Executive Committee Valentina Ivanova Uspenskaya
1987-90 Chairperson of the Executive Committee
Valentina Tadeyevna
Bronevich
1996-2001 Governor
Before becoming governor she was Chairperson of the local Executive Committee. She is the only female leader of a territorial unit in Russia.
(b. 1956-)
Kostroma Oblast
Circa 1998 Head of the Regional Representation in Moskva Galina Mikhalovna Pshenitsyva
Lipetok Oblast
1997/98- Vice-Governor and Chairperson of the Education Committee Ludmilla Kurakova
Republic of Mari-El
Circa 1998 Permanent Representative in Muskrat Elena Anatoliyevna Skorobogatova
Republic of
Mordovia (Mordvinia)
1947-4? Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
Vera Petrovna Lemnoza
1963-71 Chairperson of the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet Yefimiya Davydovna
Yaskina
Яскина Ефимия (Афа) Давыдовна was
Minister of Social Security 1971-78. She lived (1919-2012)
Federal City of Moscow
1917 Chairperson of the Council of National Economy Inessa
T. Armand
She lived (1874-1920)
1917 Secretary of the Presidium of the
City
Soviet Sofia Nikolajevna Smidovich
Another version of her surname is Smidovitj.
She lived (1872-1934)
1917-18 Chairperson of the City Soviet
Executive Comittee Iraida Ulianova
1918 Commissar of City Economy of Kolomna
1954-57
1. Secretary of the Communist Party Yekaterina Alekseyevna Furtseva
Later Minister of Culture. She lived (1910-74)
Murmansk Oblast
Circa 1998- Vice-Governor L.A. Chistova
2012 Acting Governor Marina Vasilievna Kovtun
2012- Governor
Member of the local administration for a number of years,
1. Deputy Chairperson of the Duma from 2011.
Republic of
North Ossetia
(Autonomous Republic)
1949-54 Vice-Minister of Finance Tamara Soltnovna Khetagurova
1958-59 Minister of Finance and Vice-Premier
1959-62 Chairperson of the Council of Ministers
1962-74 Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
(b. 1913)
2005- Speaker of the Duma Larisa Khabitseva
Oblast of Penza
2009-11 Chairperson of the Regional Government Olga Kuzminichna Atyukova
Afterwards Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian President in the
Central Federal District
Republic of Tartastan (Proclaimed Sovereignty in August 1996)
1992-? Vice-Chairperson of the Parliament Filia Valeviava
Around 2000 Permanent Representative in Uzbekistan Umida L. Sabirova
Taymyr (Dolgano-Nenets) autonomous okrug
1971-77 Chairperson of the Executive
Committee Tatyana Semyonovna Yeryomina
She lived (1931-2005)
Tannu Tuva (Tyva)
Independent 1921-44, People's Republic 1926 and incorporated in the USSR as an
Autonomous Republic in 1944
1942-44 Chairperson of the Presidium of the Little Hural Khertek Anchimaa-Toka
1944-1961
Deputy Chairperson of Oblast
Executive Committee
1961-1972 Deputy
Chairperson of the Council of Ministers
Khertek Amyrbitovna was married to
the First Secretary of the Tuvinian People's Revolutionary Party Salchak
She had held various jobs in local
administration and the party administration, Chairperson of the
Women Department of the Central Committee of
the Tuvinian People's Revolutionary Party
1938-1940. Married to the First Secretary of the TPRP, Salchak Kalbakkhorekovich
Toka in 1940.
She lived (1912-2008).
1962-80
Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Autonomous Republic Baykara Sozhulbeyevna
Dolchanmaa
(B. 1916-)
Saint Petersburg Oblast (Formerly Leningrad)
1967-? 1st Deputy Chair of the Executive
Committee of the Leningrad City Council Anna Boikova
First Secretary of the
Kuibyshev district committee of the CPSU (Leningrad) 1956-63. She lived
(1918-2001)
1976-? Vice-Chief of Government Nathalie G. Eliseeva
1986-89 Deputy Chairperson of the Executive Committee
Valentina Matviyenko, Leningrad
2003 Representative of the
President North-West Russia
Federal District
2003-11 Governor of Saint Petersburg
First secretary of the Communist Committee of the Krasnogvardeiski
District in Leningrad 1984-86 and then
Deputy Chairperson the Leningrad Council of the People's Deputies,
Ambassador 1991-95 and 1997-98 before becoming Vice-Premier. (b. 1949-).
1996-2000 Vice-Governor of the Leningrad Union/St.
Petersburg Lubov Pavlovna Sovershayeva
Also Chairperson of the Committee of Management of the Region State Property.
From 2000 Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative
of the President in the North-Western Federal Region
2001- Vice-Governor and Chairperson of the Press
and Public Relations Committee Irina Petrovna Potekhina
In 1993 headed the representative office of the Komsomolskaya Pravda in
North-West Region.
2002- Vice-Governor and Chairperson of the
Administrative Committee Anna Borisovna Markova
Until 1999 Head of the Internal Affairs Department of Kolpino Region and
1999-2002 head of the Administration of Frunzensky District of St. Petersburg.
2003 Candidate for Governor.
Sverdlovsk Oblast (in the Ural Region)
1997/98- 1. Vice-chairperson of the Government for Economics and Finance G.A. Kovaleva
Ulyanovsk Oblast
Vladimir Oblast
2013- Acting Governor Svetlana
Orlova
Deputy Chairperson of the
Federation Council
2004-13.
Yakutia (Sakha Republic)
1948-59 Chairperson
of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
Sofiya P. Sidorova
1959- 1963
Chairperson of the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
Mariya Dmitriyevna Nartakhova
1963-79
Chairperson of the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
Aleksandra Yakovlevna Ovchinikova
(b. 1914-)
Until 1985
Chairperson of the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
Ye.N. Gorokhova
1985-8? Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Lyuliya Nikolayevna
Grigoryeva
1993-? Permanent Representative in Moskva Zoya A. Kornilova
2010-16 Chairperson of the Government Galina I. Danchikova
Deputy Minister of Finance 1993-2001, Acting Minister of Finance 2001-02, 1st
Deputy Official Representative of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Moscow
2002-07, Deputy Chairman of the Government responsible for Foreign Relations,
Finance, Economy and Small Business. (b. 1954-)
Yaroslavl Province (oblast)
Around 2001-
Vice-Governor
Irina
Il'ichna
Skorokhovdova
2007-2008 Chairperson of the Regional Government
Irina Ilyinichna Skorokhodova
Zabaikalsky kray
2016-
Acting Governor Natalya Zhdanova
Former Chair of the local Parliament.v
Last update 11.11.16