Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast
Standard of the Governor
Incumbent Anton Alikhanov since 6 October 2016
Residence	Kaliningrad
Term length	Four years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Yuri Matochkin 1991
Formation	1946 as Chairman of Executive Committee of Kaliningrad Oblast
Website	Government of Kaliningrad Oblast

The Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast (Губернатор Калининградской области) is the head of executive branch for the Kaliningrad Oblast (former Königsberg, East Prussia), considered as Prime Minister of Kaliningrad Oblast.

The office of Governor is an elected position, for which elected officials serve four year terms. While individual politicians may serve as many terms as they can be elected to, Governors cannot be elected to more than two consecutive terms.

The official residence for the Governor is located in Kaliningrad. The current Governor is Anton Alikhanov, who assumed office on 6 October 2016.

Chairmen of the Kaliningrad Oblast Executive Committee (1947–91)

Since the creation of Kaliningrad Oblast in 1946 and until the spring of 1990, the Kaliningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party had the leading role in its government. The committee was led by:

1. Vasily Borisov (May 1947 – April 1948)
2. Alexey Yegorov (April 1948 – December 1951)
3. Zakhar Slaykovsky (December 1951 – May 1962)
4. Yakov Prushinsky (May 1962 – March 1966)
5. Vladimir Vitkovsky (May 1966 – May 1983)
6. Vasily Loginov (June 1983 – April 1987)
7. Yuri Malinkin (April 1987 – September 1991)

List of governors

#	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Party		Election
1		Yuri Matochkin (1931–2006)	25 September 1991	20 October 1996		Independent
2		Leonid Gorbenko (1939–2010)	20 October 1996	8 December 2000		Our Home – Russia	1996
3		Vladimir Yegorov (1938–2022)	8 December 2000	28 September 2005		United Russia	2000
4		Georgy Boos (born 1963)	28 September 2005	27 September 2010			2005
5		Nikolay Tsukanov (born 1965)	28 September 2010	28 July 2016			2010 2015
—		Yevgeny Zinichev (1966–2021)	28 July 2016	6 October 2016		Independent
—		Anton Alikhanov (born 1986)	6 October 2016	9 September 2017		United Russia	2017 2022
6			29 September 2017	Incumbent

Timeline

Elections

The latest election for the office was held on 10 September 2017

External links

• Government of Kaliningrad Oblast Archived 2009-04-30 at the Wayback Machine in Russian