26 Facts About Yevgeny Kuyvashev

Yevgeny Vladmirovich Kuyvashev is a Russian politician who has served as 4th Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast from 2012 to 2025.

Yevgeny Kuyvashev served as the acting governor from 14 May 2012 to 29 May 2012, and again from 17 April 2017 to 18 September 2017.

Yevgeny Kuyvashev held in offices such as the Head of the Administration of Tyumen from 2007 to 2011, and Tobolsk from 2005 to 2007.

Yevgeny Kuyvashev has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.

Yevgeny Kuyvashev was born on 16 March 1971 in the village of Lugovskoy, in Khanty-Mansiysky District, of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, of Tyumen Oblast.

From 1989 to 1991, Yevgeny Kuyvashev served in the military service of the Soviet Army.

In 1997, Yevgeny Kuyvashev moved to the Administration of the Poikovsky village, where he worked first as an assistant to the head Eduard Khudainatov, then as his deputy, and after Khudainatov moved to work in the Presidential Administration in 2000, he took his place.

In parallel with his work in the administration, Yevgeny Kuyvashev taught the theory of state and law, municipal law at the Poikovsky branch of Tyumen State University.

On 30 November 2005, Yevgeny Kuyvashev was unanimously approved by the deputies of the Tobolsk City Duma by the head of the Tobolsk administration.

On 14 June 2007, Yevgeny Kuyvashev applied for a competition to fill the post of head of the Tyumen administration after the resignation of the former mayor, Sergey Smetanyuk, and on 5 July 2007, he was elected to this position by Tyumen City Duma.

Many media outlets report that in 2002, Yevgeny Kuyvashev graduated from Yale University with a degree in management.

On 29 January 2011, Yevgeny Kuyvashev was the deputy Plenipotentiary Presidential Envoy of the Urals Federal District.

From 6 September 2011 to 14 May 14,2012, Yevgeny Kuyvashev was promoted to the Plenipotentiary Presidential Envoy of the Urals Federal District.

On 14 May 2012, Yevgeny Kuyvashev became the acting Governor of the Sverdlovsk Oblast.

On 24 May 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Oblast the candidacy of Yevgeny Kuyvashev to empower the governor of the Sverdlovsk Oblast.

The candidacy was supported by a majority of votes of the members of parliaments of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Oblast, and on May 29,2012, Yevgeny Kuyvashev officially took office as the regional governor.

In 2012, at the suggestion of Yevgeny Kuyvashev, he sent to the Administration of the President of Russia, a working group was created in the Ministry of Health to consider the issue of compulsory licensing of the activities of all organizations involved in the rehabilitation of drug addicts.

On 18 September 2016, Yevgeny Kuyvashev took part in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Oblats, heading the list of the United Russia party.

Yevgeny Kuyvashev said that he was proud to have taken part in the creation of the Yeltsin Center, and said that he was ready to personally lead Mikhalkov on a tour of it.

On 17 April 2017, Yevgeny Kuyvashev resigned at his own request.

On 8 December 2018, on the basis of the decision taken by the delegates of the XVIII Congress of the United Russia party, Yevgeny Kuyvashev was introduced to the Supreme Council of the party.

In 2022, Yevgeny Kuyvashev was sanctioned by the British government following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Yevgeny Kuyvashev is the director and co-owner of Lelya LLC, which owns the Three Glasses chain of elite wine stores located in Tyumen and Tobolsk.

The Yevgeny Kuyvashev family has 2 children, with daughter Yelizaveta was born on in 1997 and and a son, Dmitry.

Yevgeny Kuyvashev is fond of sports, goes in for biathlon and hockey, takes part in all-star matches.

In 2011, the income of Yevgeny Kuyvashev, who worked as the Presidential Envoy, amounted to 3.7 million rubles, the income of his, Natalya, with 3.1 million rubles.