Aleksandr Nazarov

From 2002 to 2003, he was the Representative of the administration of the Chukotka Autonomous Region in the Federation Council. And from 1996 to 2003, he a chairman of the Committee on the Affairs of the North and Indigenous Peoples. Nazarov is also the member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

In 2002, Nazarov submitted a request to the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation to verify the legitimacy of the Baker-Shevardnadze agreement of 1990 on the division between the Soviet Union and the United States of the Bering Strait, according to which the USSR lost about 200 thousand km² of sea territory. According to Nazarov, “ Shevardnadze wanted to give the whole Chukotka to the States ” and allegedly “ managed to prevent <...> a catastrophe: we also wanted to take almost the whole of Chukotka".

From 1996-2000, he worked as an official member of the Federation Council.

From 1991-2000, he served as the 1st Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. During his leadership in Chukotka, there was a sharp decline in industrial production, the population decreased several times, and most of the workers' settlements were eliminated. The name of the governor appeared in several cases related to tax and financial offenses - non-return of loans, illegal sale of quotas for the extraction of aquatic biological resources, and misappropriation of budget funds. Immediately before the next gubernatorial elections in 2000, Nazarov was summoned for questioning by the Federal Tax Police Service, shortly after which he withdrew his candidacy.

According to Lyudmila Ainana, the author of the Chukchi language textbook, the famine in Chukotka continued until the end of the 1990s.

Aleksandr Viktorovich Nazarov (Russian: Александр Викторович Назаров; born in 24 February 1951) is a Kazakh-born Russian statesman. He served as the 1st Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and as the Auditor of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation.