33 Facts About Dmitry Azarov

Dmitry Azarov served as the 4th Governor of Samara Oblast from 2018 to 2024.

In July 2022, Dmitry Azarov fell under international sanctions related to his party's support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Dmitry Azarov was born in Kuybyshev, the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast in the time of the Soviet Union.

In Dmitry Azarov's youth, Kuybyshev was a closed city due to its importance in military research and manufacture and the Soviet space program.

Dmitry Azarov's father worked in urban planning and his mother was a manufacturing inspector.

Dmitry Azarov began working whilst a seventh grade student, packing pasta at school and as an older student, he worked as a road worker laying bitumen.

In 1992, Dmitry Azarov entered the Samara State Technical University, receiving a degree in systems engineering.

From 1995 to 1998, Dmitry Azarov was the deputy director for economics at the Samara boiler auxiliary equipment and pipelines factory.

Dmitry Azarov then worked in the structural production association, Volgapromkhim, which united six enterprises of Samara Oblast.

Between 2001 and 2006, Dmitry Azarov was the general director of Srednevolzhskaya Gas Company LLC.

In 2006, Dmitry Azarov was appointed first deputy head of the Samara city district.

In 2008, Dmitry Azarov became minister of nature management, forestry and environmental protection of the Samara Oblast.

In 2012, Dmitry Azarov was one of the authors of the concept of "open government" and "municipal filter" in the elections of heads of Russian regions.

Dmitry Azarov was the chairman of the committee on federal structure, regional policy, local self-government and affairs of the north.

In 2017, as advisor to the governor, Viktor Kudryashov, Dmitry Azarov became first deputy chairman of the council.

On 25 September 2017, by decree of President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Azarov was appointed acting governor of Samara Oblast "until the person elected as the Governor of the Samara Oblast takes office".

From 2018 to 2024, Dmitry Azarov was governor of Samara Oblast.

On 21 December 2020, Dmitry Azarov became a member of the Presidium of the State Council of Russia.

Dmitry Azarov's investiture was conducted at the Samara Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre on 16 September 2018.

On 7 and 8 December 2019, at the XVIII congress of the United Russia Party, Dmitry Azarov was inducted to the supreme council of the party.

Dmitry Azarov began his gubernatorial activity by increasing social welfare payments.

Dmitry Azarov managed a problem known as "deceived equity holders", making whole 1,500 shared construction stake holders and focussed on public procurement transparency.

In May 2019, on the lobbying of residents and businesses, Dmitry Azarov agreed to expand green spaces in Samara.

In 2020, Dmitry Azarov initiated the reconstruction of the Togliatti embankment and construction of a bridge across the Volga river in the Klimovka area.

From 2011 to 2014, Dmitry Azarov was president of the Association of Cities of the Volga region, vice-president of the Union of Russian cities, vice-president of the Eurasian branch of the United Cities and Local Authorities World Organization, and the deputy chairman of the All-Russian Council of Local Self-Government for the Volga Federal District.

Dmitry Azarov's great-grandfather was an artisan in Smolensk where there remains a monument to him.

Dmitry Azarov's grandmother were a medical practitioner and a teacher.

Dmitry Azarov worked at the planning institute in Vodokanal and Kuibyshevmelivodkhoz.

Dmitry Azarov was an inspector of the technical control department at the Kuibyshevoblbyttekhnika production association.

Dmitry Azarov was a chairman of the trade union committee.

Dmitry Azarov first met her when he was in elementary school.

Dmitry Azarov has been a player, supporter and children's coach.

Dmitry Azarov enjoys reading, listing Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Mikhail Bulgakov among his favourite authors.