Ivan Ivanovich Indinok (Russian: Иван Иванович Индинок; 6 August 1938 – 14 June 2025), was a Russian politician who served as the second Head of Administration of

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from 1993 to 1995. He also served as the Head of

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from 1991 to 1993. Indinok died on 14 June 2025, at the age of 86.

Biography

Ivan Indinok was born in Kozlovka, in

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on 6 August 1938. He graduated from Tomsk Polytechnic Institute in 1962. He held various engineering positions at the enterprises of the military-industrial complex in Novosibirsk since 1962. From 1972 to 1981, he was a senior engineer, the head of the laboratory, and secretary of the party committee of NPO Vostok.

Political activity

From 1981 to 1988, he was the second, then the first secretary of the Zayeltsovsky district committee of the

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, the second secretary of the

city party committee. In 1988 he was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Novosibirsk City Council. In April 1990, Indinok was replaced by Oleg Semchenko. From 1988 to 1990, he headed the Association of Siberian and Far Eastern Cities. On 26 December 1991, Indinok was appointed 1st head of the administration of Novosibirsk On 5 October 1993, after the violent dispersal of the Congress of People's Deputies and the

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, Indinok was appointed 2nd Head of Administration of

, replacing

Vitaly Mukha Vitaly Petrovich Mukha (; 17 May 1936 — 22 May 2005) was a Ukrainian-born Russian politician, who served as the first and third Governor of Novosibirsk Oblast from 1991 to 1993 and from 1995 to 2000. He also served as the 14th first secretary o ...

, who was removed for support of the Supreme Soviet. In December 1993, he was elected to the

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of the first convocation, and was a member of the Committee on Federation Affairs, and the Federal Treaty and Regional Policy. In the first election of the governor of the Novosibirsk Oblast in December 1995, Indinok took first place in the first round (22.81% of the vote), in the second round he lost to his predecessor Mukha. Since 1997, Indinok was a member of the Political Council of the

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party, and in the same year, he initiated the creation of an interregional public organization "Siberian Party" and was the chairman of its Supreme Council until March 1998. Until his death, he was the president of the "Light a Candle" humanitarian and educational club (Novosibirsk), and the chairman of the public council of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the

Siberian Federal District Siberian Federal District ( rus, Сибирский федеральный округ, p=sʲɪˈbʲirskʲɪj fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnɨj ˈokrʊk) is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. Its population was 17,178,298 according to the 20 ...

. Indinok was an Honorary resident of Novosibirsk.

Awards

Commemorative sign "For work for the benefit of the city" (

, 2013).

References

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