2025 Kaluga Oblast gubernatorial election
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The 2025 Kaluga Oblast gubernatorial election took place on 12–14 September 2025, on common election day, coinciding with 2025 Kaluga Oblast legislative election. Incumbent governor of Kaluga Oblast Vladislav Shapsha was re-elected to a second term in office.
Mayor of Obninsk Vladislav Shapsha was appointed acting governor of Kaluga Oblast in February 2020, replacing four-term incumbent Anatoly Artamonov, one of the longest-serving governors in Russia, who resigned at his own request.[1] A day later Shapsha appointed Artamonov to the Federation Council after the resignation of senator Yury Volkov.[2] Shapsha ran for a full term and overwhelmingly won the election with 71.19% of the vote.[3]
In February 2025 during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin Governor Shapsha announced his intention to run for a second term and received Putin's endorsement.[4]
Candidates
In Kaluga Oblast candidates for Governor of Kaluga Oblast can be nominated only by registered political parties. Candidate for Governor of Kaluga Oblast should be a Russian citizen and at least 30 years old. Candidates for Governor of Kaluga Oblast should not have a foreign citizenship or residence permit. Each candidate in order to be registered is required to collect at least 5% of signatures of members and heads of municipalities.[5] Also gubernatorial candidates present 3 candidacies to the Federation Council and election winner later appoints one of the presented candidates.
Declared
| Candidate name, political party |
Occupation | Status | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stepan Oparyshev Liberal Democratic Party |
Construction executive 2020 gubernatorial candidate |
Registered | [6] | ||
| Ivan Rodin Party of Pensioners |
Member of Kaluga City Duma (2020–present) Former professional football player |
Registered | [7] | ||
| Vladislav Shapsha United Russia |
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Incumbent Governor of Kaluga Oblast (2020–present) | Registered | [4][8] | |
| Nikolay Yashkin Communist Party |
Member of Legislative Assembly of Kaluga Oblast (1996–present) Agribusinessman 2015 and 2020 gubernatorial candidate |
Registered | [9][10] | ||
| Nadezhda Yefremova SR–ZP |
Member of Legislative Assembly of Kaluga Oblast (2020–present) 2020 gubernatorial candidate |
Registered | [11][12] | ||
Candidates for Federation Council
| Head candidate, political party |
Candidates for Federation Council | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stepan Oparyshev LDPR |
* Ilya Astafyev, individual entrepreneur * Taras Baranchuk, businessman * Vladimir Nosov, former Deputy Prosecutor of Kaluga Oblast (2007–2018), construction executive |
Registered | |
| Ivan Rodin Party of Pensioners |
* Sergey Gerasimov, businessman * Kirill Grishin, surveying executive * Natalya Terekhova, Member of Legislative Assembly of Kaluga Oblast (2020–present), businesswoman |
Registered | |
| Vladislav Shapsha United Russia |
* Anatoly Artamonov, incumbent Senator (2020–present), Chairman of the Council Committee on Budget and Financial Markets (2020–present) * Konstantin Gorobtsov, Deputy Governor of Kaluga Oblast (2018–present) * Oleg Komissar, Member of Legislative Assembly of Kaluga Oblast (2015–present), Rostec chemical executive |
Registered | |
| Nikolay Yashkin Communist Party |
* Artur Agvanyan, Member of Legislative Assembly of Kaluga Oblast (2020–present) * Anton Arkhipov, party instructor * Tatyana Lomakova, former Member of Kaluga City Duma (2015–2020) |
Registered | |
| Nadezhda Yefremova SR–ZP |
* Irina Bergovskaya, former Member of Civic Chamber of Kaluga Oblast (2022–2025) * Aleksey Gunko, military pensioner * Marina Momotyuk, cosmetology clinic chief doctor |
Registered | |
Finances
Polls
| Fieldwork date | Polling firm | Shapsha | Yefremova | Yashkin | Oparyshev | Rodin | None | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2025 | 2025 election | 72.2 | 9.0 | 6.5 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 3.1 | 63.2 |
| March – August 2025 | INSOMAR | 78 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 70 |
