Vera Georgievna Shcherbina (; born on 20 November 1958) is a Russian politician. She served as the acting

governor of Sakhalin Oblast The Governor of Sakhalin Oblast () is the head of the executive branch of the Government of Sakhalin Oblast and the highest official of the oblast. The governor has a duty to enforce state laws in the region and to approve bills passed by the Sak ...

from 27 September to 7 December 2018. She also served as the head of the Government of

Sakhalin Oblast Sakhalin Oblast ( rus, Сахали́нская о́бласть, r=Sakhalinskaya oblastʹ, p=səxɐˈlʲinskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Russian ...

from 2016 to 2018. She has PhD in Economics, and is an honored economist of Russia.

Biography

Vera Shcherbina was born in Chernyshevsk on 11 November 2018. In 1976 she graduated from secondary school number 1 in the city of

Zavitinsk Zavitinsk () is a town and the administrative center of Zavitinsky District in Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Zavitinsk serves as the administrative cente ...

Amur Oblast Amur Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya rivers in the Russian Far East. The oblast borders Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the south. The administrati ...

. Since 1978, she worked in the Luchegorsk village council of the

Primorsky Krai Primorsky Krai, informally known as Primorye, is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a krais of Russia, krai) of Russia, part of the Far Eastern Federal District in the Russian Far East. The types of inhabited localities in Russia, ...

as a construction technician. In 1984, she received a diploma from the Faculty of Engineering and Economics of the Khabarovsk Polytechnic Institute. Since 1992, after receiving a proper education, she began to work in the state authorities of

Primorye Primorsky Krai, informally known as Primorye, is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, part of the Far Eastern Federal District in the Russian Far East. The city of Vladivostok on the southern coast of the krai is its administrative center, an ...

. In 1997, she took the position of deputy head of the administration of the Pozharsky district of the Primorsky Krai for financial issues. In 1999, she became a candidate of economic sciences, having completed her postgraduate studies at the Khabarovsk Academy of Economics and Law with a degree in Finance and Money Circulation. In 2001, she became the head of the department of inter-budgetary relations, then the deputy director of the finance department of the Primorsky Krai Administration. In 2005, she was appointed Vice Governor, and the head of the Finance Department of the Administration of the

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in the

Kamchatka Krai Kamchatka Krai (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai), situated in the Russian Far East. It is administratively part of the Far Eastern Federal District. Its administrative center and largest types of inhabited l ...

. In 2008 Shcherbina was accepted as a federal inspector in the office of the presidential envoy in the

Far Eastern Federal District The Far Eastern Federal District ( rus, Дальневосточный федеральный округ, p=dəlʲnʲɪvɐˈstot͡ɕnɨj fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnɨj ˈokrʊk) is the largest and the least populated federal districts of Russia, federa ...

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. In December 2008, she became Deputy Chairman of the Government of the

as the Minister of Finance. In October 2012, she was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Amur Oblast. In September 2015, she took the position of First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the

. In January 2016, she was appointed Chairman of the Government of the Sakhalin Oblast. After

Oleg Kozhemyako Oleg Nikolayevich Kozhemyako (; born 17 March 1962) is a Russian politician serving as Governor of Primorsky Krai since 2018. Previously, he served as Governor of Sakhalin Oblast from 2015 to 2018. He also served two terms as Governor of Amur Obl ...

was appointed as the acting Governor of the

, Shcherbina was the acting governor of Sakahlin Oblast from 27 September 2018 until 7 December 2018]. On 17 December 2018, she left the post of Chairman of the Government of the Sakhalin Region of her own free will.

References

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