Sergey Ivanovich Smetanyuk (Russian: Сергей Иванович Сметанюк; born 8 June 1962), is a Ukrainian-born Russian politician who lasted served as the acting Governor of

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in November 2005, and the head of the

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administration from 2005 to 2007. He is currently the deputy general director of Transneft-Siberia, JSC. He was the Member of the Scientific and Editorial Council of the Big Tyumen Encyclopedia (2004).

Biography

Sergey Smetanyuk was born on 8 June 1962, in the village of Dashiv, in Ukraine. He graduated with honors from the Nemirovsky Construction College. He worked as a construction site foreman. In 1981 he was drafted into the

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. He served in

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. In the political department of the division, he received a referral to study at the Higher Komsomol School at the

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. He was sent to the Tyumen Oblast as a commander of a student construction detachment. He worked on the development of the

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and the construction of residential buildings for gas workers in the village of Pangody. After graduation, he was assigned to the Tyumen Regional Committee of the Komsomol. In 1988, he was elected first secretary of the Komsomol organization of the Leninsky district of Tyumen. In 1990, he was the Deputy Head of the Administration of the Leninsky District of Tyumen. In 1996, he won the elections to the

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and was elected its chairman. In 1998 he completed his postgraduate studies at the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russia, defended his dissertation and received the degree of candidate of sociology. In 1999 he received a law degree from

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. In August 2000, Smetanyuk was appointed chief federal inspector in the Tyumen Oblast of the Office of the Plenipotentiary Representative in the

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. On 27 March 2005, Smetanyuk was Vice Governor of the Tyumen Oblast. On 14 November 2005, after the transfer of Governor

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to the post of head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, Smetanyuk was acting governor for 10 days. On 21 December 2005, Smetanyuk was elected the head of Tyumen. In 2007, he briefly returned to the regional administration, becoming the First Deputy Governor. On 2 December 2007 he was elected to the

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. In January 2010, Smetanyuk was appointed Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the

, in connection with which he terminated the powers of a deputy of the State Duma. In November 2012, he was appointed Deputy General Director of OJSC Transneft-Siberia.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Smetanyuk, Sergey 1962 births Living people Politicians from Vinnytsia Oblast United Russia politicians Mayors of Tyumen Governors of Tyumen Oblast Acting heads of the federal subjects of Russia Fifth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)