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Irina Gecht

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In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alfredovna and the family name is Gecht.
Irina Gecht
Ирина Гехт
Gecht in 2025
Acting Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Incumbent
Assumed office
18 March 2025
Preceded byYury Bezdudny
Chair of Government of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
In office
8 May 2024 – 15 January 2025
GovernorYevgeny Balitsky
Preceded byAnton Koltsov
Succeeded byOffice disestablished
First Deputy Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast
In office
11 July 2019 – 8 May 2024
GovernorAleksey Teksler
Preceded byYevgeny Redin
Succeeded byIvan Kutsevlyak
Senator from Chelyabinsk Oblast
In office
24 September 2014 – 10 July 2019
Preceded byRuslan Gattarov
Succeeded byMargarita Pavlova
Personal details
Born (1969-11-30) November 30, 1969 (age 55)
Shchuchye, Kurgan Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyUnited Russia
Children2
EducationChelyabinsk State University (1992)
ProfessionEducator, historian, politician

Irina Alfredovna Gecht (Russian: Ирина Альфредовна Гехт; born 30 November 1969) is a Russian politician serving as the acting Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug since March 2025.[1] A member of the United Russia political party, she has served as First Deputy Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast from 2019 to 2024 and previously as Russian Federation Senator from Chelyabinsk Oblast from 2014 to 2019.

Biography

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Irina Gecht was born in the town of Shchuchye, Shchuchansky District, Kurgan Oblast, in the Volga Germans family. In the 1980s, the Gecht family moved permanently to the town of Raduzhny, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.[2] After school, Gecht entered Chelyabinsk State University, History Department. She specialized in the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1998, she completed postgraduate studies at the same university.[3]

Gecht began her political career in 2005 when she was appointed a member of the Civiс Chamber of the Chelyabinsk Region. In 2009, she was elected as Deputy Chair of the Chamber.[4] At the time, she worked as a senior lecturer at the Social Work Department at Chelyabinsk State University.

In 2009, Gecht ran as a candidate for the A Just Russia party in the Chelyabinsk City Duma (local representative body), but was not elected.[5] At the same year she completed and defended her thesis at South Ural State University and received a doctorate in pedagogy.

After the election of Mikhail Yurevich as Chelyabinsk Governor in 2010, he appointed Gecht as Deputy Minister for Social Relations of the Region.[6] In 2011, he promoted her to Minister for Social Relations. In 2012, the Governor appointed her Deputy Governor for Social Affairs.[7]

In 2014, a newly elected Governor Boris Dubrovsky appointed Gecht Senator from Chelyabinsk Oblast.[8] In the Federation Council she joined the Committee for Agrarian and Food Policy and Environmental Management and became its deputy chair.

In July 2019, Irina Gecht resigned early as Senator. She became First Deputy Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast under incoming Governor Aleksey Teksler.[9]

From May 2024 to January 2025, she chaired the Government of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.[10][11][12] From January to March 2025 she served as Presidential Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District Aleksandr Gutsan's deputy.[13]

On March 18, 2025 President Vladimir Putin appointed Irina Gecht acting Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug, following Governor Yury Bezdudny's early resignation.[14][15]

References

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  1. ^ ""На Север поедете?". Путин предложил Гехт возглавить Ненецкий округ". TACC (in Russian). Retrieved 2025-03-18.
  2. ^ "Ирина Гехт: "Никто не подсказывал мне, как поступить. Я сделала свой выбор"". Хорошие новости. 2015-03-17. Archived from the original on 2016-10-02. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  3. ^ "«Я же всем чужая была. Ura.ru 6 апреля 2011". Archived from the original on 2024-05-08. Retrieved 2024-05-08.
  4. ^ "Южноуральская Общественная палата заполнилась на 2\3. 22.03.2006". Archived from the original on 2024-05-08. Retrieved 2024-05-08.
  5. ^ "Кандидат от челябинского отделения «Справедливой России» намерена оспорить итоги выборов. 4.03.2009". Retrieved 2024-05-08.
  6. ^ "Назначен министр социальных отношений Челябинской области. 26.01.2011". Retrieved 2024-05-08.
  7. ^ "19/11/2012 Ирина Гехт стала вице-губернатором вместо ушедшего в отставку Павла Рыжего". AiF. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
  8. ^ "Ирина Гехт стала сенатором". Магнитогорский металл. 2014-09-27. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  9. ^ "Гехт Ирина Альфредовна, первый заместитель Губернатора Челябинской области". Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  10. ^ "РФ призначила нову голову окупаційної адміністрації Запорізької області: що про неї відомо". ФОКУС (in Ukrainian). 2024-04-29. Archived from the original on 2025-01-19. Retrieved 2025-01-19.
  11. ^ "Уральская чиновница не прижилась в Запорожье". Коммерсантъ (in Russian). 2025-01-17. Retrieved 2025-03-18.
  12. ^ "Должность председателя правительства Запорожской области собираются упразднить". Ведомости (in Russian). 2025-01-17. Retrieved 2025-03-18.
  13. ^ "Бывший челябинский вице-губернатор Ирина Гехт станет заместителем полпреда". eanews.ru. 2025-01-23. Retrieved 2025-03-18.
  14. ^ "Ирина Гехт назначена врио губернатора Ненецкого автономного округа". Президент России (in Russian). 2025-03-18. Retrieved 2025-03-18.
  15. ^ "Путин назначил врио главы Ненецкого автономного округа". Радио Свобода (in Russian). 2025-03-18. Retrieved 2025-03-18.
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