1. Vadim Potomsky had served as the Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative in the Central Federal District from October 2017 to December 2018.
16 Facts About Vadim Potomsky
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Vadim Potomsky is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation from the Leningrad regional branch of the party.
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Vadim Potomsky was born in Mary, Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, then part of the Soviet Union, on 12 August 1972, to his father, Vladimir Vikentievich, an army serviceman, and his mother, Natalia Artoyevna Bagdasarova, who had been a teacher.
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From 1993 to 1998, Vadim Potomsky served under contract in the Leningrad Military District.
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Vadim Potomsky was last ranked a lieutenant colonel; according to several media reports, the orders to confer the ranks of lieutenant colonel and major were cancelled as a result of a prosecutor's check in 2016.
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From 1998 to 2000, Vadim Potomsky held various positions at the Analytical Center of the State Licensing Committee of the Government of the Leningrad Oblast.
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In March 2007, Vadim Potomsky was elected a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Oblast's fourth convocation.
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Vadim Potomsky worked as the chairman of the standing commission on ecology and nature management, was a member of the standing commission on housing and communal services and the fuel and energy complex.
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Vadim Potomsky worked with voters of Vsevolozhsky, Volkhovsky, Kirovsky and Kirishsky districts of the region.
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Vadim Potomsky is the first resident of the city of Vsevolozhsk to be elected a deputy of the State Duma.
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Vadim Potomsky became a member of the State Duma Committee on Housing and Communal Services.
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On 14 September 2014, Vadim Potomsky was elected the third governor of Oryol Oblast with a record number of votes and a high voter turnout.
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At a press conference on 13 July 2016 in TASS's Moscow office, Vadim Potomsky suggested a new theory, that Ivan the Terrible's son, Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, was not killed by his father, but died while travelling between Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
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On 5 October 2017, by decree of the President Putin, Vadim Potomsky was relieved ahead of schedule of his post as governor of Oryol Oblast at his own request.
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On 7 December 2018, Vadim Potomsky was appointed Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the Northwestern Federal District.
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Vadim Potomsky is married to Natalya Rafayelevna, and they have two daughters, Ilona and Eleanor, and a son, Vladislav.