Andrey Nelidov
Андрей Нелидов
Head of the Republic of Karelia
In office
June 30, 2010 – May 22, 2012
PresidentDmitry Medvedev
Preceded bySergey Katanandov
Succeeded byAlexander Khudilainen
Russian Federation Senator
from the Republic of Karelia
In office
7 April 2006 – 3 March 2010
Preceded byViktor Stepanov
Succeeded byDevletkhan Alikhanov
Personal details
Born (1957-06-12) June 12, 1957
Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
NationalityKarelian
Political partyUnited Russia
ProfessionIndustrial Engineer

Andrey Vitalyevich Nelidov (Russian: Андре́й Вита́льевич Нели́дов) is the former Head of the Republic of Karelia in Russia. He came into power after Sergey Katanandov left office in 2010 for personal reasons, but resigned in 2012.

Biography

Andrei Nelidov is an industrial engineer. His career began in 1996 as vice-governor of Leningrad Oblast and Chairman of the Committee on Forestry. For a while, he was president of the White Sea-Omega Shipping Company. In 2001, he returned as a member of the Parliament of the Leningrad Oblast. In the summer of 2003, Nelidov supported the ex-governor of the region Vadim Gustov, heading his reelection campaign headquarters, for which Nelidov was expelled from the United Russia by the General Council of this party.[1] In 2004, Nelidov was Vice-Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Oblast, returning to the United Russia the next year. In 2006, Nelidov was appointed member of the Federation Council from the Republic of Karelia by its governor Sergey Katanandov as a representative of the executive branch. Following the resignation of Katanandov, Nelidov came in office in June 2010, initially as an acting Head of Karelia. In July 2010, he was nominated as the new Head of the Republic of Karelia. He resigned in May 2012.[2]

In 2013, he became the director of the Kizhi State Open-Air Museum of Cultural History and Architecture.[2] On September 24, 2015, Nelidov was detained on suspicion of accepting a bribe from an entrepreneur.[3]

On 2 March 2018 he was sentenced to eight years in jail and fined 25.7 million roubles for accepting a 4.6 million rouble bribe in 2015.[4] Nelidov applied for parole after serving two-thirds of the sentence and was released in March 2021.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Leningrad region split between governors, former and current one, Kommersant (11 August 2003)
  2. 1 2 "Нелидов Андрей Витальевич биография и пресс-портрет". whoiswho.dp.ru. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
  3. ↑ В Карелии возбуждено уголовное дело в отношении директора музея-заповедника «Кижи», подозреваемого в получении взятки в крупном размере
  4. ↑ Бывшего главу Карелии приговорили к восьми годам колонии за взятки
  5. ↑ Экс-глава Карелии Андрей Нелидов вышел из колонии на свободу, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
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