Head of the Republic of Karelia
Highest-ranking official in Karelia, Russia
- His Excellency
- The Honorable
- Governor
- Head of state
- Head of government
The Head of the Republic of Karelia (Russian: Глава Республики Карелия) is the highest-ranking official of the Republic of Karelia, a federal subject of Russia. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, four people have served as heads of the republic.
List of officeholders
| No. | Portrait | Name (born–died) | Term of office | Political party | Election | Ref. | |||
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| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
| Chairman of the Supreme Council (1990–1994) | |||||||||
| 1 |  | Viktor Stepanov (born 1947) | 18 April 1990 | 17 May 1994 | 4 years, 29 days | Independent | – | ||
| Chairman of the Government (1994–2002) | |||||||||
| 1 | | Viktor Stepanov (born 1947) | 17 May 1994 | 1 June 1998 | 4 years, 15 days | Independent | – | ||
| 2 |  | Sergey Katanandov (born 1955) | 1 June 1998 | 12 May 2002 | 3 years, 345 days | Fatherland – All Russia | – | ||
| Head of the Republic (2002–present) | |||||||||
| 2 | | Sergey Katanandov (born 1955) | 12 May 2002 | 30 June 2010 | 8 years, 49 days | United Russia | – | ||
| 3 |  | Andrey Nelidov (born 1957) | 1 July 2010 | 22 May 2012 | 1 year, 326 days | United Russia | – | ||
| 4 |  | Aleksandr Hudilainen (born 1956) | 22 May 2012 | 15 February 2017 | 4 years, 269 days | United Russia | – | ||
| 5 |  | Artur Parfenchikov (born 1964) | 15 February 2017 | Incumbent | 7 years, 74 days | United Russia | – | ||
References
- Russian Administrative divisions
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- t
- e
- Amur
- Arkhangelsk
- Astrakhan
- Belgorod
- Bryansk
- Chelyabinsk
- Irkutsk
- Ivanovo
- Kaliningrad
- Kaluga
- Kemerovo
- Kherson1
- Kirov
- Kostroma
- Kurgan
- Kursk
- Leningrad
- Lipetsk
- Magadan
- Moscow
- Murmansk
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Novgorod
- Novosibirsk
- Omsk
- Orenburg
- Oryol
- Penza
- Pskov
- Rostov
- Ryazan
- Sakhalin
- Samara
- Saratov
- Smolensk
- Sverdlovsk
- Tambov
- Tomsk
- Tula
- Tver
- Tyumen
- Ulyanovsk
- Vladimir
- Volgograd
- Vologda
- Voronezh
- Yaroslavl
- Zaporozhye1
- Moscow
- Saint Petersburg
- Sevastopol1
- 1Claimed by Ukraine and considered by most of the international community to be part of Ukraine
- 2Administratively subordinated to Tyumen Oblast
- 3Administratively subordinated to Arkhangelsk Oblast
Heads of the Republic of Karelia | ||
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