Mikhail Yuryevich Vedernikov (; born 7 March 1975) is a Russian politician and the governor of Pskov Oblast since 2017.

Biography

Mikhail Vedernikov was born in 1975 in

Vyborg Vyborg (; , ; , ; , ) is a town and the administrative center of Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of Vyborg Bay, northwest of St. Petersburg, east of the Finnish capital H ...

Leningrad Oblast Leningrad Oblast (, ; ; ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). The oblast has an area of and a population of 2,000,997 (2021 Russian census, 2021 Census); up from 1,716,868 recorded in the 2010 Russian census ...

. In 1998 he graduated from the Northwestern Academy of Public Administration. In 2000 he joined Unity party and became secretary of its provincial youth organization. In 2001–2005, he was a member of Vyborgsky District council, and then member of Vyborg city council to 2009. At the time he was co-owning wholesale business and travel agency in Vyborg. Since 2007 Vedernikov held the positions of deputy, and then first deputy head of the regional executive committee of

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party in Leningrad Oblast. In 2010s he worked in the regional policy department of the

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. On 12 October 2017, Vedernikov was appointed acting governor of

Pskov Oblast Pskov Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the west of the country. Its administrative center is the Classification of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Pskov. As of the Russian Census ...

, replacing Andrey Turchak. On 17 September 2018, he was sworn in as governor after gaining 70% of the vote in the

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. His administration enacted a number of programs developing historical tourism and reversing decades-long depopulation in Pskov Oblast. In July 2021 Vedernikov announced his intention to run for a second term in 2023. Mikhail Vedernikov is married, has two daughters and a son.

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