The governor of Smolensk Oblast () is the highest official of Smolensk Oblast, a region in Central Russia. He heads the supreme executive body of the region — the Smolensk Oblast administration.
Alexey Ostrovsky was dismissed in March 2023 and succeeded by Vasily Anokhin.
List of officeholders This is a list of governors of Smolensk Oblast: No. Image Governor Tenure Time in office Party Election 1 Valery Fateyev(1946–2025) – 29 April 1993(lost election) Independent (Democratic Russia) Appointed 2 Anatoly Glushenkov(1942–2018) – 29 May 1998(lost re-election) Independent → Our Home – Russia 1993 3 Aleksandr Prokhorov(born 1953) – 7 June 2002(lost re-election) Independent (Communist) 19984 Viktor Maslov(born 1950) – 18 December 2007(resigned) United Russia 20022005 –Sergey Antufyev(born 1955) – 24 December 2007 Acting 5 – 20 April 2012(resigned) 2007 –Alexey Ostrovsky(born 1976) – 26 April 2012 Liberal Democratic Acting 6 – 18 May 2015(resigned) 2012 – – 28 September 2015 Acting(6) – 17 March 2023(resigned) 20152020 –Vasily Anokhin(born 1983) – 20 September 2023 United Russia Acting 7 – present 2023
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Elections The latest election for the office was held on 13 September 2020
2020 CandidatesPartyVotes%Aleksandr BichayevCommunists of Russia14,0016.24Olga KalistratovaA Just Russia17,9718Andrey MitrofanenkovCommunist Party of the Russian Federation57,93725.8Alexey OstrovskyLiberal Democratic Party of Russia126,94756.54
2015 The election was held on 13 September 2015
CandidatesPartyVotes%Vladimir ZaytsevParty for Justice!4,6302.03Nikolay KuznetsovCommunist Party of the Russian Federation26,50711.62Sergey LebedevA Just Russia28,32912.42Yelena LobanovaCivic Platform12,4225.45Alexey OstrovskyLiberal Democratic Party of Russia148,70065.18
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