Vasily Starodubtsev

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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.

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

Biography

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Born into a peasant family, he began his political career at the age of 16 as an ordinary collective farmer and later became a collective farm foreman in the Lipetsk region. Since 1949, he was a commodity manager and foreman of the Construction and Installation Department No. 22 in the city of Zhukovsky (Moscow district). At the same time, he studied at flight courses at his local flying club.

After his graduation, he was drafted into the Armed Forces and, between 1951 and 1955, he served in military aviation units, flew as a flight mechanic on combat aircraft, and was transferred to the reserve with the rank of second lieutenant.

Since 1955, he was a bulk carrier, a mining machine operator at Mine No.36 of the Stalinogorskugol Trust in the city of Novomoskovsk (Tula region). From 1959 to 1965, he studied at the Voronezh Agricultural Institute, and became a "scientific agronomist-economist". In 1966 he graduated from the All-USSR Correspondence Agricultural Institute with a degree in economics and organization of agriculture.

From 1964 to 1997 he became the chairman of the collective farm "Lenin" in the Novomoskovsky district.

Among his awards were Hero of Socialist Labour title, three Orders of Lenin, USSR State Prize, Order of the October Revolution, Order of the Badge of Honour. He had Candidate of Sciences degree in agriculture and was a corresponding member of VASKhNIL.

Starodubtsev was a member of the Federation Council of Russia (1993–96; also in 1997–2001 as a region governor) and of the State Duma (2007–11).

Starodubtsev was a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

References

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  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)
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Government offices
Preceded by Governor of Tula Oblast
1997–2005
Succeeded by