SHANTSEV, Valery Pavlinovich

Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Region 03/07/2007

Valery Shantsev (Валерий Шанцев) was born June 29, 1947 in the village of Susanino, Kostroma region. A Russian politician, he has served as governor of Nizhny Novgorod since 2005.

In 1966 Shantsev graduated from the Moscow Air Technical School, and then served in the Army as an aircraft mechanic in Sakhalin. In the late 1960s to mid 1970s Shantsev worked at the Salut radio factory, going from assisstant to head of a production support office.

In 1971 Shantsev graduated from the night school of the Moscow University of Radio Technology, Electronics and Automatic Control Engineering. He later completed further studies at the Academy of National Economy.

Shantsev also joined the Communist Party in 1971. He started a long career working in party organizations in 1975, when he was appointed deputy leader of the Salut factory Party Committee. In 1980 he became deputy head of the machinist's section of the Moscow party committee, working under Boris Yeltsin.

In 1986 he was named head of the local party committee in the Perovo district of Moscow. The following year he was elected to the Moscow city government. In 1994 he was appointed prefect of the South of Moscow Administrative District and two years later became deputy mayor of the capital under Yuri Luzhkov. He served in the Moscow city government until his appointment as Governor of Nizhny Novgorod region in 2005. He was reelected to a second term in 2010.

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