Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the Ural Federal District. Russian politician. Born, raised and built political career in the Kaliningrad region. Was the head municipality"Gusevsky Municipal District", Governor of the Kaliningrad Region, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North-Western Federal District. In June 2018, Nikolai Tsukanov was appointed plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Ural Federal District.
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Nikolai Nikolaevich Tsukanov was born on March 22, 1965 in the village of Lipovo, Gusevsky district, Kaliningrad region. Nikolai Tsukanov’s parents worked at a garment factory in the city of Gusev.
In 1983 Tsukanov graduated from secondary vocational school No. 17 in the city of Gusev with a degree in gas-electric welder, and began his career as a gas-electric welder at the Microdvigatel plant.
In 1983–1985 Tsukanov passed conscript service in the Soviet army.
In 1986 Tsukanov was a pioneer leader at the Orlyonok pioneer camp.
In 1987–1989 Tsukanov worked in Komsomol organizations in the Zelenograd region and the city of Gusev, Kaliningrad region.
Since 1988 Tsukanov studied at the agronomy faculty of the Kaliningrad branch of the Leningrad Agricultural Institute, but did not graduate.
In the 1990s Nikolai Tsukanov was engaged in business. He created the Lava company in Gusev, which was engaged in repair work, and participated in the organization of a joint Russian-Polish woodworking enterprise. In 1996 he went to Moscow to study.
In 1999 Tsukanov received a diploma High school Privatization and Entrepreneurship (Moscow) with a degree in Jurisprudence.
In 2000–2005 Tsukanov worked as a lawyer at CJSC Scientific and Technical Center Techinvestmed in Moscow. According to other sources, Nikolai Tsukanov returned to Gusev in 2003, where he founded the Amatel company (the main direction is clothing production).
In 2002 Tsukanov defended his PhD thesis on the topic “The goals and motives of a manager’s activities as factors influencing his emotional burnout.” Candidate of Psychological Sciences.
Nikolai Tsukanov was an assistant to the State Duma deputy Ekaterina Lakhova, an adviser on economic issues Governor of the Kaliningrad region Vladimir Egorov.
In 2005–2010 Tsukanov was the head of the municipal formation “Gusevsky Municipal District” of the Kaliningrad Region.
August 23, 2010 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev submitted to the Kaliningrad Regional Duma the candidacy of Nikolai Tsukanov for the post of governor of the Kaliningrad region.
August 30, 2010 The candidacy of Nikolai Tsukanov was approved by the Kaliningrad Regional Duma.
September 28, 2010 Nikolai Tsukanov took office as governor of the Kaliningrad region.
September 13, 2015 Nikolai Tsukanov won the election for governor of the Kaliningrad region, gaining 70.41% of the votes, and took office on September 21.
July 28, 2016 Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the early resignation of Nikolai Tsukanov from the post of governor of the Kaliningrad region.
In 2016–2017 Nikolai Tsukanov was the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwestern Federal District.
December 25, 2017 Tsukanov was appointed assistant to the president Russian Federation.
June 26, 2018 Nikolai Tsukanov was appointed plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Ural Federal District.
Acting State Councilor of the Russian Federation, 1st class (2016).
Nikolai Tsukanov is married for the second time. Has one son from his first marriage and one son from his second marriage.
Awards and titles
- Honorary citizen of the municipal formation "Gusevsky Municipal District" (2009);
- Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, II degree (2010);
- Breastplate of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs “For contribution to international cooperation"(2011);
- Order "For Merit to the Kaliningrad Region";
- Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, II degree;
- Medal "For Services to the Kaliningrad Region";
- Medal of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia “For assistance to drug control authorities” (2012);
- Medal “For the Commonwealth in the Name of Salvation” (2013);
- Medal of Honor “For Merit in the Protection of Children in Russia” (2015);
- Commemorative medal of the organizing committee "Victory" "70 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (2015);
- Order of Honor (2018).
In the village of Lipovo, Gusevsky district, Kaliningrad region.
He graduated from secondary vocational school No. 17 in the city of Gusev with a degree in gas-electric welder. In 1999 he graduated from the Higher School of Privatization and Entrepreneurship (Moscow) with a degree in jurisprudence. Candidate of Psychological Sciences (2002).
He started working at the age of 14. While still a schoolboy, he worked as an assistant combine operator. Before the army, he worked as an electric welder at the Microdvigatel plant (city of Gusev).
In 1983-1985 he served in the Soviet army.
After service, he worked as a pioneer leader at the All-Russian Pioneer Camp "Orlyonok".
Then he was released deputy secretary of the Komsomol committee of the Romanovo state farm in the Zelenograd district of the Kaliningrad region, and an instructor at the Gusevsky city committee of the Komsomol.
Since 1988, he studied at the Kaliningrad branch of the Leningrad Agricultural Institute (Polessk) at the Faculty of Agronomy, but was expelled.
In subsequent years, he created the Lava construction company, a Russian-Polish woodworking enterprise.
In 1996 he left the Kaliningrad region for Moscow. After graduating from the Higher School of Privatization and Entrepreneurship, he worked as a lawyer at the Techinvestmed Scientific and Technical Center (Moscow), which supplied medical equipment, and for some time was the founder of this company.
In the mid-2000s, he returned to the city of Gusev, created and headed the Amatel group of companies.
In May 2005, he was elected head of the urban district (mayor) of the Gusevsky urban district municipality.
Since January 2009 - head of the municipal formation "Gusevsky Municipal District".
In 2010-2011 he was secretary of the regional political council of the party " United Russia", member of the presidium of the regional political council of the United Russia.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev submitted to the Kaliningrad Regional Duma the candidacy of Nikolai Tsukanov to vest him with the powers of governor of the Kaliningrad region.
The Kaliningrad Regional Duma vested Tsukanov with the powers of regional governor. On September 28, 2010, Nikolai Tsukanov took office as head of the region.
President Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of Nikolai Tsukanov from the post of governor of the Kaliningrad region. at will, appointing him as acting head of the region.
Elected governor of the Kaliningrad region for a five-year term.
Officially took office.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the early termination of the powers of the governor of the Kaliningrad region Nikolai Tsukanov.
- Acting Governor of the Kaliningrad Region.
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Biography of Nikolai Tsukanov
In 1980, he entered the local secondary technical school No. 17 and received an education as an electric and gas welder.
While still a schoolboy, he worked as an assistant to a combine operator. Before the army, he worked as an electric welder at the Microdvigatel plant (Gusev).
From 1983 to 1985, he served in the army as part of a space communications security battalion, which was stationed in Czechoslovakia.
After demobilization, he actively participated in the social and political life of the region, becoming one of the Komsomol leaders in the Zelenograd and Gusevsky districts.
In 1999 he graduated from the Higher School of Privatization and Entrepreneurship (Moscow) with a degree in jurisprudence.
He worked as a lawyer at the Techinvestmed Scientific and Technical Center (Moscow), which supplies medical equipment, and for some time was the founder of this company.
Since 2002 – Candidate of Psychological Sciences. Defended his defense at the Kazan State University technical university named after A. N. Tupolev on the topic “Goals and motives of a manager’s activities as factors influencing his emotional burnout.”
In May 2005, he was elected head of the urban district (mayor) of the Gusevsky urban district municipality.
Since January 2009 – head of the municipal formation “Gusevsky Municipal District”. In a short period of time, he managed to bring the depressed area into the number of successfully developing and promising ones.
In July 2010, he was elected secretary of the regional political council of the United Russia party.
Since June 2015 - Acting Governor of the Kaliningrad Region.
Married, two sons.
Hobbies – active recreation, hunting, fishing.
Awards of Nikolai Tsukanov
- Awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree
- Medal "For Services to the Kaliningrad Region".
Nikolai Tsukanov as his assistant on local government issues. Previously, Tsukanov held the position of plenipotentiary representative of the head of state in the Northwestern Federal District.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Tsukanov was born on March 22, 1965 in the village of Lipovo, Gusevsky district, Kaliningrad region. His parents worked at a garment factory in Gusev. His father is a master adjuster of sewing equipment, his mother, Nadezhda Matveevna, is a cutter, a deputy of the Gusevsky District Council of People's Deputies.
In 1983, he graduated from secondary vocational school No. 17 in Gusev with a degree in electric and gas welder. Since 1988, he studied at the agronomy faculty of the Kaliningrad branch of the Leningrad Agricultural Institute, but did not graduate. In 1999, he received a diploma from the Higher School of Privatization and Entrepreneurship (Moscow) with a degree in jurisprudence.
Candidate of Psychological Sciences. In 2002 at the Kazan State Technical University named after. A. N. Tupolev defended his dissertation on the topic “The goals and motives of a manager’s activities as factors influencing his emotional burnout.”
After graduating from college, he worked as an electric welder at the Microdvigatel plant in Gusev.
In 1983-1985 he served in the USSR Armed Forces in the Central Group of Soviet Forces in Czechoslovakia.
After service, by decision of the Gusevsky city committee of the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth Union (VLKSM), he was sent as a counselor to the Orlyonok pioneer camp.
Since 1986, he worked as a released deputy secretary of the Komsomol committee of the Romanovo state farm in the Zelenograd district of the Kaliningrad region. Then - an instructor of the Gusevsky city committee of the Komsomol: he headed the council of young specialists and supervised agriculture.
In the early 1990s he went into business. He created the Lava construction company in Gusev, which was engaged in repair work, and later participated in the organization of a joint Russian-Polish woodworking enterprise.
In 1996 he went to study in Moscow.
Since 2000, he worked as a lawyer at the Moscow CJSC Scientific and Technical Center Techinvestmed (specializing in the sale of medical equipment). For some time he was the founder of this company.
In 2003 he returned to the Kaliningrad region. In Gusev he created and headed the Amatel group of companies (the main direction is clothing production).
He was an assistant to the State Duma deputy Ekaterina Lakhova, and an economic adviser to the governor of the Kaliningrad region, Vladimir Egorov.
In 2005-2010 - mayor of Gusev. On April 17, 2005, in the second round he was elected head of the administration of the municipal formation "Gusevsky Municipal District", 57.58% of voters voted for him (he ran as a self-nomination).
In 2009-2010, he served as chairman of the Association "Council of Municipal Entities of the Kaliningrad Region".
From July 2010 to September 2011 - Secretary of the Political Council of the Kaliningrad regional branch of the United Russia party.
In 2010-2016 - governor of the Kaliningrad region. On August 30, 2010, the Kaliningrad Regional Duma approved him as the head of the region on the proposal of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Replaced Georgy Boos at the head of the region. On September 28 of the same year, Nikolai Tsukanov officially took office.
December 4, 2011 elected deputy State Duma VI convocation on the list of the United Russia party (second number in regional group No. 42, Kaliningrad region). Refused his deputy mandate.
On June 27, 2015, by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Nikolai Tsukanov was prematurely dismissed from his post as governor and appointed acting head of the Kaliningrad region.
On September 13, 2015, he won the election for governor of the Kaliningrad region, gaining 70.41% of the vote (he was nominated by the United Russia party). His closest rival, candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Igor Revin received 10.22%. The inauguration ceremony took place on September 21 of the same year.
On July 28, 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the early resignation of Nikolai Tsukanov from the post of governor of the Kaliningrad region. On the same day, he was appointed plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwestern Federal District (replacing Vladimir Bulavin in this post).
Member of the Russian Presidential Council for Strategic Development and Priority Projects (since June 30, 2016).
In the chapter effectiveness rating Russian regions Civil Society Development Fund, published in June 2016, was included in the third group of heads of constituent entities of the Russian Federation (“average rating”). Shared 76-79 places with the heads of the Udmurt Republic, Irkutsk and Astrakhan regions Alexander Solovyov, Sergey Levchenko and Alexander Zhilkin (47 points).
The total amount of declared income for 2016 was 4 million 407 thousand rubles, spouses - 12 million 581 thousand rubles.
Acting State Councilor of the Russian Federation, 1st class (2016).
Awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (2010).
Married for the second time. Wife - Svetlana Alexandrovna (born in 1978, maiden name- Babich), worked in the Council of Municipal Formations of the Kaliningrad Region.
Two sons - Yuri (born in 1987) and Nikolai (born in 2012). Yuri Tsukanov, graduate of the Faculty of Law of Moscow State Social University, entrepreneur, director of the Yantarny Sports Palace in Kaliningrad. According to SPARK-Interfax, he is a co-owner (50% of shares) of NTC Techinvestmed LLC.
Hobbies: hunting, fishing.
Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the Ural Federal District.
Secretary of the Russian Presidential Council for the Development of Local Self-Government.
Acting State Advisor of the Russian Federation, first class.
Member of the Russian Presidential Council for Strategic Development and Priority Projects.
Nikolai Tsukanov was born on March 22, 1965 in the village of Lipovo, Kaliningrad region. Studied at secondary school secondary school No. 4 of the city of Gusev. In his youth, he was fond of boxing. After school, from 1980 to 1983 he studied at secondary vocational school No. 17, specializing in gas-electric welder.
Tsukanov’s career began in 1983 at the Microdvigatel plant in the city of Gusev, Kaliningrad region. He worked there before being drafted into the army. Urgent military service took place from 1983 to 1985. After demobilization, he worked as a pioneer leader at the All-Russian Children's Center "Orlyonok". Then he connected his activities with the Komsomol: having become released, he became the deputy secretary of the Komsomol committee of the Romanovo state farm.
Since 1988 he studied at the Kaliningrad branch of the St. Petersburg State University Agrarian University in the city of Polessk at the Faculty of Agronomy, but did not complete his studies. Later he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Moscow Higher School of Privatization and Entrepreneurship. After graduating from university, he created the construction company “Lava”, a Russian-Polish woodworking enterprise.
From the Kaliningrad region in 1996 he moved to Moscow. He worked as a lawyer for the Techinvestmed scientific and technical center, which supplies medical equipment, and for some time was the founder of this company.
Nikolay Tsukanov successfully defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of psychological sciences in 2002 at the Kazan State Technical University named after Andrei Tupolev on the topic: “The goals and motives of a manager’s activity as factors influencing his emotional burnout.”
After returning to the city, Gusev created and headed the Amatel group of companies. Since May 2005, Nikolai Nikolaevich has been the Head of the Municipal Entity “Gusevsky Municipal District”. He was re-elected to a second term in 2009.
From March 2009 to October 2010, he headed the association “Council of Municipal Formations of the Kaliningrad Region”. In July next year he was approved as secretary of the regional political council of the All-Russian political party"United Russia".
On August 23, 2010, the candidacy of Nikolai Tsukanov was submitted to the Kaliningrad Regional Duma on an uncontested basis to vest the powers of the Governor of the region. Officially took office on September 28, 2010. In the same year, he visited the Chechen Republic with the aim of establishing cultural and economic ties.
On June 10, 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin terminated Tsukanov’s gubernatorial powers at his own request. By the same decree, he was appointed acting Governor of the Kaliningrad Region. He won the elections for regional governor on September 13, 2015. A year later he resigned.
In July 2016, Nikolai Nikolaevich was appointed to the post of Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwestern Federal District. He also became a member of the Russian Security Council.
On July 17, 2017, he became a member of the State Commission for Arctic Development. By decree of the President of the Russian Federation on December 25, 2017, he took the position of Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation on local self-government issues.
At the end of June 2018, by decree of the President of Russia, Nikolai Tsukanov took the position of presidential plenipotentiary representative in the Ural Federal District.
Assistant to the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Ural Federal District Alexander Vorobyov July 4, 2019 detained by investigative authorities on suspicion of treason.
Awards of Nikolai Tsukanov
Order of Honor
Honorary citizen of the municipal formation "Gusevsky Municipal District" (2009)
Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree
Badge of the Russian Foreign Ministry “For contribution to international cooperation” (2011)
Order "For Merit to the Kaliningrad Region"
Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, II degree
Medal "For Services to the Kaliningrad Region"
Medal of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia “For assistance to drug control authorities” (2012)
Medal "For the Commonwealth in the Name of Salvation" (2013)
Medal of Honor “For Merit in the Protection of Children in Russia” (2015)
Commemorative medal of the organizing committee "Victory" "70 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" (2015)
Awarded with personalized firearms