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Russian diplomat and politician (1946–2020)
Valentin Vlasov
Валентин Власов
Vlasov in 2006
Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan
In office
6 December 2006 – 30 July 2012
Preceded byYevgeny Shamgin
Succeeded byAndrey Krutko
Ambassador to Malta
In office
5 August 2002 – 6 February 2006
Preceded bySergey Zotov
Succeeded byAndrey Granvosky
Interim Head of Karachay-Cherkessia
In office
24 July – 24 September 1999
Preceded byVladimir Khubiyev
Igor Ivanov (acting)
Succeeded byVladimir Semyonov
Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast (acting)
In office
21 February 1996 – 4 March 1996
Preceded byPavel Balakshin
Succeeded byAnatoly Yefremov
2nd Mayor of Arkhangelsk
In office
6 July 1993 – 20 April 1994
Preceded byAnatoly Bronnikov
Succeeded byVladimir Gerasimov
Personal details
Born(1946-08-20)20 August 1946
Arkhangelsk, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Died5 July 2020(2020-07-05) (aged 73)
Moscow, Russia

Valentin Stepanovich Vlasov (Russian: Валентин Степанович Власов; 20 August 1946 — 5 July 2020) was a Russian diplomat and politician, who served as ambassador of Russia to Malta and Kyrgyzstan.

Biography

Valentin Vlasov was born on 20 August 1946 in Arkhangelsk. He began his career in 1963 as a turner at the Krasnaya Kuznitsa plant. Then he served in the Soviet army. After demobilization, he worked as a turner in the Murmansk Shipping Company, a master of industrial training in the Arkhangelsk Regional Civil Defense Headquarters. Since 1974, he served as secretary of the Komsomol committee. In 1979, Vlasov was appointed head of the department of the Oktyabrsky district committee of the CPSU in Arkhangelsk. In 1980–83, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Oktyabrsky District Council. In 1985, Vlasov was sent to work in the Uzbek SSR. He was the second secretary of the Margilan city committee of the CPSU to 1986, and then the first secretary of the Quvasoy city committee in 1986–88; for the next two years he was an instructor in the department of the Central Committee of the Uzbekistani Communist Party.

In 1990 he returned to Arkhangelsk, having worked his way up to the mayor of Arkhangelsk and the head of the regional government. For two weeks in February–March 1996, after ousting of Pavel Balakshin, he was the interim governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast.

In 1996, Vlasov was appointed first deputy of Ivan Rybkin, then Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian Government in Chechnya. Year later, Vlasov succeeded him in that position. On 1 May 1998, Vlasov was captured by a group of Chechen militants (presumably by the gang of Baudi Bakuyev) on the Rostov—Baku highway, near the village of Assinovskaya. Six months later, on November 13, Vlasov was released after the payment of $7 million in ransom.

In March 1999 the newly appointed head of the Central Election Commission of Russia Alexander Veshnyakov chosen Vlasov as one of his deputies. He was member of the commission until 2002. From July to September 1999, during the political crisis in Russia's North Caucasian autonomy of Karachay-Cherkessia, Vlasov served as the acting head of the region. Previous interim governor, speaker of the local legislature Igor Ivanov, failed to relief the conflict between the two candidates for the post, Karachay Vladimir Semyonov and Circassian Stanislav Derev. On 14 September 1999 Semyonov proclaimed himself president of Karachay-Cherkessia. On October 22, the Supreme Court of Russia recognized him as the elected head of the republic. At the same time Vlasov's "trip" to Cherkessk ended.

From August 2002 to February 2006 he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Malta, and for the next six years Vlasov was ambassador to Kyrgyzstan. He died at the age of 73 on 5 July 2020. He was buried at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

Awards

References

  1. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 24 July 1999 No. 899 "On the Acting Head of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic"
  2. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 24 September 1999 No. 1257 "On V. S. Vlasov"
  3. "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 21.02.1996 г. № 222 «Об исполняющем обязанности главы администрации Архангельской области»" [Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 21 February 1996 No. 222 "On the Acting Head of Arkhangelsk Oblast Administration"]. kremlin.ru (in Russian).
  4. Shlyakhtin, Roman (2009-02-11). "В Чечне обнаружили тела двух солдат" [The bodies of two soldiers were found in Chechnya] (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2012-01-11. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
  5. "Интервью / Пятница, 13.11.1998: Иван Рыбкин" [Interview / Friday, 11/13/1998: Ivan Rybkin] (in Russian). Echo of Moscow. 1998-11-13. Archived from the original on 2014-07-29. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
  6. "Ельцин и Масхадов союзники?" [Are Yeltsin and Maskhadov allies?] (in Russian). Moskovskiye Novosti. 1998-05-05. Archived from the original on 2008-01-09. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
  7. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 15 March 1999 No. 358 "On Members of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation"
  8. Ivanov, Vitaly (2019). Глава субъекта Российской Федерации. История губернаторов. Том I [Head of the subject of the Russian Federation. History of governors. Volume I] (in Russian). p. 575. ISBN 978-5-907250-14-7.
  9. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 5 August 2002 No. 858 "On the appointment of V. S. Vlasov as Ambassador to the Republic of Malta"
  10. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 27 February 2006 No. 170 "On V. S. Vlasov"
  11. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 6 December 2006 No. 1350 "On the appointment of V. S. Vlasov as Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic"
  12. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 30 July 2012 No. 1083 "On V. S. Vlasov"
  13. "В Москве скончался российский дипломат Валентин Власов" [Russian diplomat Valentin Vlasov dies in Moscow]. IA Regnum (in Russian). 2020-07-07.
  14. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 30 November 1998, No. 1434 "On rewarding V. S. Vlasov with the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, 2ns class"
  15. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 30 June 2012 No. 927 "On rewarding with state awards of the Russian Federation"
Diplomatic posts
Preceded byYevgeny Shmagin Ambassador of Russia to Kyrgyzstan
6 December 2006 – 30 July 2012 		Succeeded byAndrey Krutko
Preceded bySergey Zotov Ambassador of Russia to Malta
5 August 2002 – 27 February 2006 		Succeeded byAndrey Granovsky
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