Overview
Sergey Georgievich Levchenko (Russian Cyrillic: Сергей Георгиевич Левченко, born November 2, 1953) is a Russian politician and member of the 8th State Duma. He served as the Governor of Irkutsk Oblast from 2015 to 2019. Previously, he was a deputy in the Russian State Duma from 2000 to 2015.
Biography
Sergey Levchenko was born on 2 November 1953 in Novosibirsk, Soviet Union. He graduated from the Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Construction in 1976. He started his career in the Krasnoyarsk division of Stalkonstruktsiya, part of the Soviet Ministry of Installation and Special Construction Works. In 1982, he moved to a similar department in Angarsk.
In 1987, he began working for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, on a district committee in Angarsk and, by 1991, rose to the First Secretary of the local party administration.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, he rejoined StahlKonstruktsiya as general director. He was elected to the first session of the Irkutsk Oblast legislative assembly. He ran for oblast governor in 1997; but took only 18.8% of the vote against Boris Govorin.
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