Dmitry Azarov

In July 2022, he is under British sanctions for supporting Russia's war against Ukraine.

In 2021, Olga Golodets’s daughter, Tatyana Mrdulyash worked as deputy director of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, was appointed the new Minister of Culture of the Samara Oblast. In March 2012, Azarov appointed Sergey Kobylyan (sky) as the Minister of Sports of the Samara Region, replacing Dmitry Shlyakhtin In the same year, he recommended the chief physician Nikolay Renz to the post of head of the city of Togliatti.

On 16 July 2021, he transferred the head of the Governor's Office — Vice Governor Vladimir Terentyev to the Samara Region Public Road Maintenance Agency, with whom he worked for many years in the city administration of Samara and who advocated the development of municipal road activities.

In November 2021, an Instagram user posted a photo with Azarov in the cabin of a business class aircraft that was heading to Dubai, the Azarov flew on vacation. The inscription on the picture read: "I'm flying with my beloved on his business .. I love him." Later, the girl admitted that the photo was a joke, and the governor's press service launched the hash tag "#Favorite Governor". After that, however, Azarov's account on the social network was blocked.

In 2020, Aleksandr Mordvinov was appointed the new Minister of Energy and Housing and Public Utilities of the Samara Oblast. In the same year, Azarov initiated the reconstruction of the Togliatti Embankment. In the same year, he launched the construction of a new bridge across the Volga River in the Klimovka area, the length of which was 3.75 km.

Since 21 December 2020, he is a member of the Presidium of the State Council of Russia.

As of July 2020, the Governor's Twitter account had 83,000 followers, and Instagram had 227,000 followers. In the spring of 2019, Azarov was in the TOP-20 heads of regions of the Russian Federation in terms of being mentioned in social media, ranking 13th with 15.09 thousand messages. In the rating of blogger governors, he is in 18th place with an CI of 22.2.

He is also the secretary of the Samara regional branch of the United Russia party since 8 November 8, 2019, and is a member of the Bureau of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party.

In 2019, Viktoria Katkova, head of the municipal property management committee of the administration of Novokuibyshevsk, was appointed the new head of the State Housing Inspectorate of the Samara Oblast. Boris Illarionov, deputy director of the St. Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theater, was appointed the new Minister of Culture for the competition, which caused a lawsuit with another participant in the competition, Dilyara Kotikova.

In May 2019, Azarov agreed with the idea to expand the area of green spaces in the regional center, which was expressed by local residents during the Line of Success business forum. The governor instructed the head of Samara, Yelena Lapushkina, to implement this project.

In total, about 168 thousand square meters of flowers, 8.5 thousand shrubs and more than 2.5 thousand trees are planned to be planted in Samara in 2019.

From 2019 to 2021, he did not agree three times with the decision of the Duma of Togliatti to abolish the maintenance of 35 microdistrict managers in Togliatti, which, according to the deputies of the City Duma, are useless in the face of a budget deficit and duplicate the work of TOS, three times allocated funding from the regional budget for their maintenance 21 million rubles. For 2022, the content of the managers of microdistricts in Togliatti amounted to 32.6 million rubles.

In November 2019, Kotikova, a participant in the competition for the position of Minister of Culture of the Samara Oblast, director of the Patriot television company, filed a lawsuit demanding that the decision of Governor Dmitry Azarov and the competition commission be canceled, but the court refused to satisfy her demands.

In 2018, Yevgeny Chudayev, the son of the owner of the construction and development company Drevo, was appointed Minister of Construction of the Samara Oblast.

On 9 September 2018, he won the first round of elections for the Governor of the Samara Oblast gaining 72.63% of the vote. On September 17, 2018, he took office as the Governor of the Samara Oblast at the Samara Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, taking an oath of allegiance to the residents of the Samara Oblast.

In December 2018, by the decision of the delegates of the XVIII Congress of the United Russia party, held on December 7–8, 2018, he was introduced to the Supreme Council of the party.

Unemployment in the region in 2018 decreased by 0.5% compared to the previous year. The level of the average salary in 2018 increased by 10%. Mining production in 2018 increased by 32.5%, manufacturing - by 11%, car sales - by 16%. Governor Azarov successfully solving the problem of "deceived equity holders": during his leadership, the rights of 1.5 thousand participants in shared construction have been restored.

The region entered the top ten of the all-Russian rating of entities in terms of public procurement transparency. The degree of tension subsided significantly in the most problematic area of the region - in Togliatti: in the second half of 2018, more than 5.5 thousand jobs were created here.

In 2018, as governor of Samara Oblast, he allowed the bankruptcy and liquidation of Gazbank, the Ministry of Property of the region did not become a shareholder.

In 2017, he appointed Advisor to the Governor Viktor Kudryashov as the First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Samara Region, with whom he worked in the city administration of Samara. In the same year, he recommended Yelena Lapushkina to the City Duma for the post of head of Samara.

On 25 September 2017, by decree of the President of Russia, Azarov was appointed Acting Governor of the Oblast "until the person elected as the Governor of the Samara Oblast takes office.".

In Samara, in 2016, the Blooming City municipal program was adopted, calculated until 2020. Now the department of urban economy and ecology, on behalf of the governor, is working on additional proposals for greening the city. After that, they are transferred to the expert community: landscape designers, urbanists, architects, as well as the Samara city community.

Azarov had served as a member of the Federation Council from the executive authority of Samara Oblast from 2014 to 2017, the head of the city district of Samara 2010 to 2014, and the Minister of Nature Management, Forestry and Environmental Protection of Samara Oblast from 2008 to 2010.

On 10 October 2014, at the initiative of Governor Nikolay Merkushkin, Mayor Azarov assumed the position of a member of the Federation Council of the executive authority from the Samara Olast, taking the post of Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Federal Structure, Regional Policy, Local Self-Government and Affairs of the North, replacing Konstantin Titov in the Federation Council and resigning the powers of the head of the city.

From 2014 to 2017, he was the chairman of the All-Russian Council of Local Self-Government (VSMS) was elected at the V Congress.

In 2012, Azarov was one of the authors of the idea of "open government" and "municipal filter" in the elections of heads of Russian regions.

From 2011 to 2014, as Head of Samara, he was the president of the Association of cities of the Volga region, vice-president of the Union of Russian cities, vice-president of the Eurasian branch of the United Cities and Local Authorities World Organization, and the deputy chairman of the All-Russian Council of Local Self-Government for the Volga Federal District.

In 2010, the future mayor of the urban district of Tolyatti Sergey Andreyev was appointed the new minister.

In 2010, at Governor Artyakov's initiative, Azarov was approved and elected as the Head of the city district of Samara from United Russia in the elections of the head of the city, receiving 66.94% of the vote. He officially took office on 15 October 15.

In 2010, an ecological disaster occurred in the city of Tolyatti: more than 8,000 hectares of forest burned down due to forest fires. In 2017, a lawyer from Togliatti went to court with a complaint under Article 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure against the TFR, demanding that a criminal case be opened under Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Negligence” against the Governor of the Samara Oblast, Artyakov, the former Mayor of Togliatti Anatoly Pushkov, and also the former that period by the regional minister of natural resources and environmental protection, Azarov. However, the Samara District Court dismissed the complaint.

In 2008, Azarov was appointed by Governor of Samara Oblast Vladimir Artyakov as Minister of Nature Management, Forestry and Environmental Protection of the Samara Oblast. In the position of minister, he introduced a uniform with shoulder straps for the Ministry of Natural Resources, Forestry and Environmental Protection of the Samara Oblast, approved by the Decree of the Government of the Samara Oblast of December 31, 2009 No. 720, however, wearing uniforms was not mandatory, so uniform samples remained only in the Decree.

In 2009, he was included in the first hundred personnel reserve of the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev.

In 2006, Azarov was appointed First Deputy Head of the Samara City District by Viktor Tarkhov. In the city administration, he supervised the activities of the departments of finance, economic development, urban economy and ecology, industrial policy, entrepreneurship and communications.

In 2003, at the Russian State University of Trade and Economics, he defended his dissertation for the degree of candidate of economic sciences on the topic “Improving the organizational and economic mechanism for forming the profitability of a commercial organization.

From 1998 to 2001, he was the deputy director for Economics and Preparation of Production at the Sintezkauchuk plant, then worked in the structural production associations Volgapromkhim, which united six enterprises of the Samara Oblast. Between 2001 and 2006, he became the General Director of Srednevolzhskaya Gas Company LLC.

From 1995 to 1998, he was the deputy director for Economics of the Samara Plant of Boiler-Auxiliary Equipment and Pipelines.

In 1994, he finished education at the Buzuluk Financial and Economic College of the Ministry of Finance of the Russia (now the Buzuluk branch of the Financial University under the Government of Russia).

In 1992, he attended the Samara State Technical University with a degree in Systems Engineering.

In 1987, he attended the secondary school No. 132. His favorite subjects were physics and mathematics.

Dmitry Igorevich Azarov (Russian: Дмитрий Игоревич Азаров; born on 9 August 1970), is a Russian politician who is currently the 4th Governor of Samara Oblast since 17 September 2018.

Dmitry Azarov was born on 9 August 1970 in Kuibyshev (present day Samara). His great-grandfather was the handicraft head of the city of Smolensk, who was loved and respected by the inhabitants. Until now, a monument erected to him has been preserved. Both of his grandfathers are officers, and each of his grandmothers are a doctor and a teacher. His father, a native of Samara, at various times worked at the planning institute, Vodokanal and Kuibyshevmelivodkhoz, while his mother, a who lived in Magadan, worked most of the time at the Kuibyshevoblbyttekhnika production association as an inspector of the technical control department, and soon became the chairman of the trade union committee. Dmitry has an older brother, Oleg.