Administration of St. Petersburg

Committees, inspections and subordinate organizations

Committees:

• Archival Committee of St. Petersburg
• Housing Committee of St. Petersburg
• St. Petersburg Improvement Committee
• Committee on Law, Order and Security
• Committee on State Order of St. Petersburg
• Committee for State Control, Use and Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments
• Committee for Urban Planning and Architecture of St. Petersburg
• Committee for Civil Registration of Acts of Civil Status of St. Petersburg
• St. Petersburg Health Committee
• St. Petersburg Investment Committee
• Committee for Informatization and Communications of St. Petersburg
• St. Petersburg Property Control Committee
• Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg
• Committee for Youth Policy and Interaction with Public Organizations of St. Petersburg
• Committee on Science and Higher School of St. Petersburg
• St. Petersburg Education Committee
• Press and Media Relations Committee of St. Petersburg
• Environmental Management, Environmental Protection and Environmental Safety Committee
• Committee for Industrial Policy, Innovation and Trade of St. Petersburg
• Committee for the Development of Transport Infrastructure of St. Petersburg
• St. Petersburg Tourism Development Committee
• Committee for Social Policy of St. Petersburg
• St. Petersburg Construction Committee
• St. Petersburg Tariff Committee
• Transport Committee of St. Petersburg
• Committee on Labor and Employment of the Population of St. Petersburg
• Committee for Economic Policy and Strategic Planning of St. Petersburg
• Committee for Territorial Development of St. Petersburg
• St. Petersburg Finance Committee

Inspections:

• State Administrative and Technical Inspectorate of St. Petersburg
• State Housing Inspectorate 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

2025

Former vice-governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Lavlentsev sentenced to 13 years in prison for embezzlement of 3.3 billion rubles

On October 2, 2025, the Moscow City Court upheld the verdict of the former vice-governor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Lavlentsev, who was found guilty of embezzlement and fraud totaling 3.3 billion rubles. The defendant received 13 years in prison with serving time in a general regime correctional colony. Read more here.

In St. Petersburg, the vice-governor for health Konstantin Zzanok was fired. He spent almost two months on vacation

The governor St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov decided to resign the vice-governor who oversaw the sphere, health care Konstantin Zzanok. This became known at the end of August 2025. More here

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.