Administration of St. Petersburg

City's mayors

The origin of the mayors of St. Petersburg (Leningrad) since the proclamation of Soviet power, 1917-2018.

• 1917: Chkheidze N.S. - p. Ways, Kutaisi province
• 1917: Trotsky (Bronstein) L.D. - Yanovka village, Kherson province
• 1917-1926: Zinoviev (Radomysl) G.E. - Elisavetgrad, Kherson province
• 1926-1934: S.M. Kirov. - Urzhum, Vyatka province
• 1934-1944: A.A. Zhdanov - Mariupol, Yekaterinoslav province
• 1945-1946: A.A. Kuznetsov - Borovichi village, Novgorod province
• 1946-1949: Popkov P.S. - s. Koliseevo, Vladimir province
• 1949-1953: V.M. Andrianov - Pesochnya village, Kaluga region
• 1953-1957: F.R. Kozlov - Loshchinino village, Ryazan province
• 1957-1962: Spiridonov I.V. - s. Pogubalovka, Nizhny Novgorod province
• 1962-1970: Tolstikov V.S. - Tula, Tula province
• 1970-1983: G.V. Romanov - Zikhnovo village, Novgorod region
• 1983-1985: Bunny L.N. - Tula, Tula province
• 1985-1989: Yu.F. Solovyov. - village Bogatoe, Samara province
• 1989-1991: B.V. Gidaspov, - Samara, Samara province
• 1990-1991: A.A. Shchelkanov - Leningrad
• 1991-1996: A.A. Sobchak - Chita, Chita Region
• 1996-2003: Yakovlev V.V. - Olekminsk, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
• 2003: A.D. Beglov - Baku, Azerbaijan SSR
• 2003-2011: Matvienko V.I. - Shchepetovka, Kamenetz-Podolsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
• 2011-2018: G.S. Poltavchenko - Baku, Azerbaijan SSR
• 2018: A.D. Beglov - Baku, Azerbaijan SSR

For a hundred years, of all the leaders of Peter, only one was a native of the city: Alexander Shchelkanov, chairman of the Leningrad executive committee 1990-1991.

Information Technology in St. Petersburg

Main article Information technologies in St. Petersburg

History

2023: The court sent the former vice-governor of St. Petersburg to a pre-trial detention center in the case of embezzlement of 3 billion rubles

At the end of November 2023, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow tightened the measure of restraint for Vladimir Lavlentsev, accused of fraud, from house arrest to detention. The former vice-governor of St. Petersburg was sent to a pre-trial detention center until December 17, 2023. Read more here.

1996

Mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak dances with model Claudia Shifer, St. Petersburg, 1996.

Mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak with his wife Lyudmila Narusova and daughter Ksenia are photographed protesting against the article on his divorce, January 1996. Photo: Alexander Nikolaev, TASS

1991: Anatoly Sobchak elected mayor of Leningrad

Anatoly Sobchak with his daughter Ksenia and bodyguard Viktor Zolotov. St. Petersburg. 1990s.

On June 12, 1991, Anatoly Sobchak was elected mayor of Leningrad in the elections held simultaneously with the presidential elections in Russia.