Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov

Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov Николай Васильевич Фёдоров
Representative from Chuvash Republic in the Federation Council
Incumbent
Assumed office September 27, 2015
President	Vladimir Putin
Presidential Counselor
In office April 22, 2015 – September 27. 2015
Minister of Agriculture
In office May 21, 2012 – April 22, 2015
Preceded by	Yelena Skrynnik
Succeeded by	Alexander Tkachyov
1st President of the Chuvash Republic
In office January 21, 1994 – August 29, 2010
Succeeded by	Mikhail Ignatyev
Minister of Justice
In office 1990–1993
Preceded by	Vladimir Abolentsev (under RSFSR)
Succeeded by	Yuri Kalmykov
Personal details
Born	September 5, 1958 Chedino, Chuvash ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	United Russia
Other political affiliations	Award:
Spouse(s)	Svetlana Yuryevna Fyodorova
Religion	Russian Orthodoxy

Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Фёдоров; b. May 9, 1958 in Chedino, Chuvash ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a former President of the Chuvash Republic in Russia. He has been the minister of agriculture since May 21, 2012 til April 2015. Previously, he was the justice minister of Russia from July 14, 1991 to March 24, 1993 and was the President of Chuvash Republic from January 21, 1994 to August 2010. He was a supporter of market reforms and was reelected in 1998 and 2001.

Fyodorov opposed Russian President Boris Yeltsin's policies in Chechnya and Vladimir Putin's 2000 federal reform initiatives.^[1]

He is an ethnic Chuvash. He is married and has one son and a daughter. His son Vasily is a lawyer. In addition to his native Chuvash, he speaks Russian and German.

Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov - OMÉK, 2013

Honours and awards

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland;
  • 3rd class (5 August 2003) - for outstanding contribution to strengthening Russian statehood and many years of diligent work
  • 4th class (9 May 1998) - for services to the state and a major contribution to socio-economic development of Chuvash Republic
• Order of Honour (11 September 2008) - for outstanding contribution to the socio-economic development of the long and fruitful work
• State Prize of the Russian Federation, 1999, for science and technology - for the revival of the historic part of the capital of Chuvashia - Cheboksary the city
• Honorary Builder of the Russian Federation
• Medal "For Services to the national health care"
• Medal "75 years of civil defence"
• Order "For Services to the Chuvash Republic" (29 August 2010)
• Order of St. Sergius, 1st class
• Order of the Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow, 1st class
• Winner of the All-Russian legal award "Themis"
• Title of "President of the Year - 2001" All-Russia public premium "Russian National Olympus"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
• Medal of Merit in the All-Russia Census
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan"
• Medal in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Russian Ministry of Justice
• Medal "200 Years of the Russian Interior Ministry"

Footnotes

1. Robert W. Orttung; Danielle N. Lussier; Anna Paretskaya (2000). The republics and regions of the Russian Federation: a guide to politics, policies, and leaders. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 104–106. ISBN 978-0-7656-0559-7. Retrieved 27 January 2011.

References

• Political System. Government of the Chuvash Republic. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
• Administrative Structure of the Republic. Administrative Centre and Largest Cities. Government Authorities. Government of the Chuvash Republic. Retrieved January 2011