Pavel Ipatov

Pavel Leonidovich Ipatov Па́вел Леони́дович Ипа́тов
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2nd Governor of Saratov Oblast
In office April 5, 2005 – March 23, 2012
Preceded by	Dmitri Ayatskov
Succeeded by	Valery Radayev
Personal details
Born	(1950-04-12) April 12, 1950 Asbestovskoye, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Political party	United Russia
Profession	Nuclear physicist
Religion	Russian Orthodox Church

Pavel Leonidovich Ipatov (Russian: Па́вел Леони́дович Ипа́тов), Born 12 April 1950, he was the governor of Saratov Oblast until March, 23,2012. He is the first governor appointed by President Vladimir Putin, who replaced a directly elected governor. Ipatov belongs to United Russia. He was previously director of a nuclear-power plant.

Ipatov was born in the village of Asbestovskoye in Sverdlovsk Oblast and studied at the Urals Political College in Sverdlovsk. In 1975 he graduated from the Ural State Technical University with a degree in electrical engineering and joined the power generation industry. During the 1980s he was manager at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant and became chief engineer at the Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant in 1985 and managing director of this plant in 1989. He became deputy managing director of Energoatom in 2002.

He was a deputy on Balakovo city council from 1996 to 2004, before being appointed governor of Saratov Oblast in 2005.

On March, 23,2012, he resigned from the post according to the Decree of the President of the Russian Federationto be replaced by Valery Radaev. The wording in the Decree was «resignation by his own will».

Awards

• Order of the Red Banner of Labour - 1988
• Order of Friendship of Peoples - 1994
• Order of Honour (Russian Federation) - 2000
• Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR - 1991

Sources

• This article is sourced from Russian Wikipedia
• Saratov Governor's Page in Russian