- Pyotr Sumin
Pyotr Ivanovich Sumin (Russian: "Петр Иванович Сумин", born
June 21 1946 ) is the governor ofChelyabinsk Oblast of Russia. He is a member of theCommunist Party of the Russian Federation . He became governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast in 1997. He has complained aboutnuclear waste in his region. Sumin was elected governor in 1996, taking office on January 5, 1997, and reelected in 2000.In April 2005, following changes in the law, he was nominated for a third term by Russian President
Vladimir Putin and unanimously confirmed by the Oblast assembly.External links
* [http://www.viperson.ru/wind.php?ID=1279 Biography with photograph]
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