Alexander Mikhailov (politician)

Alexander Mikhailov
Александр Михайлов
Russian Federation Senator from Kursk Oblast
Representing the Executive
In office 27 November 2018 – 4 December 2020
Appointed by	Roman Starovoyt
Preceded by	Vitaly Bogdanov [ru]
Succeeded by	Grigory Rapota
3rd Governor of Kursk Oblast
In office 18 November 2000 – 11 October 2018
Preceded by	Alexander Rutskoy
Succeeded by	Roman Starovoyt
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
In office 18 January 2000 – 15 November 2000
Succeeded by	Vasily Altukhov [ru]
Member of the State Duma for Kursk Oblast
In office 11 January 1994 – 18 January 2000
Preceded by	constituency established
Succeeded by	Nikolay Ivanov
Constituency	Kursk (No. 98)[a]
Personal details
Born	15 September 1951 Kosorzha, CPSU (until 1991)
Education	Sergei Kirov Kharkov Institute of Railway Transport Engineers Rostov Higher Party School
Occupation	Engineer Politician

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Mikhailov (

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Biography

Mikhailov was born in the village of Kosorzha in the

or PhD in the Anglosphere, in history from the Rostov Higher Party School.

From the late 1970's until the dissolution of the USSR, Mikhailov held various local offices in the Communist Party. After the ban on the Communist Party in 1991, he joined the Socialist Workers' Party, switching to newly reformed Communist Party of the Russian Federation at its inception in 1993. In 1993 he was elected to the 1st Convocation of the State Duma from the Kursk constituency of Kursk Oblast. He was re-elected from his constituency to the 2nd State Duma in 1995, and in 1999 he was elected as part of the CPRF party list.

Mikhailov resigned from the State Duma in November 2000 to become the Governor of his native Kursk Oblast,

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Mikhailov died on the way to the hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest at a political event in Kursk on 4 December 2020.^[3]

In 2010, Mikhailov became involved in a controversy over antisemitic remarks.^[4]

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