Aleksandr Viktorovich Nazarov (Russian: Александр Викторович Назаров; born on 24 February 1951) is a Kazakh-born Russian statesman. He served as the first Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and as the Auditor of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation.

Biography

Aleksandr Nazarov was born on 24 February 1951. He began to work in government posts in 1983. From 1991 to 2000, he served as the first Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. During his leadership in Chukotka, there was a sharp decline in industrial production, the population decreased several times, and most of the workers' settlements were eliminated. The name of the governor appeared in several cases related to tax and financial offenses - non-return of loans, illegal sale of quotas for the extraction of aquatic biological resources, and misappropriation of budget funds. Immediately before the next gubernatorial elections in 2000, Nazarov was summoned for questioning by the Federal Tax Police Service, shortly after which he withdrew his candidacy. According to Lyudmila Ainana, the author of the

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textbook, the famine in Chukotka continued until the end of the 1990s. From 1996 to 2000, Nazarov worked as an official member of the

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. From 2002 to 2003, he was the Representative of the administration of the Chukotka Autonomous Region in the Federation Council. And from 1996 to 2003, he was chairman of the Committee on the Affairs of the North and Indigenous Peoples. Nazarov is also a member of the

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(PACE). In 2002, Nazarov submitted a request to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation to verify the legitimacy of the Baker-Shevardnadze agreement of 1990 on the division between the

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and the

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of the

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, according to which the USSR lost about 200 thousand km² of sea territory. According to Nazarov, “ Shevardnadze wanted to give the whole Chukotka to the States ” and allegedly “ managed to prevent <...> a catastrophe: we also wanted to take almost the whole of Chukotka".Грани. Ру, 04.09.2002
/ref> Nazarov has been awarded the Order of Honour, the

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4th degree, the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, 4th degree, the award for Services to Chukotka, the Certificate of Honor of the Federation Council.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nazarov, Aleksandr 1951 births Living people Members of the Federation Council of Russia (after 2000) Governors of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug People from Pavlodar Region Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) Members of the Federation Council of Russia (1996–2000) Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Our Home – Russia politicians