Head of the Sakha Republic
Highest-ranking official in Sakha, Russia
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The Head of the Sakha Republic (Russian: Глава Республики Саха (Якутия), romanized: Glava Respubliki Sakha (Yakutia); Yakut: Саха Өрөспүүбүлүкэтин Ил Дархана; Ил Дархан, romanized: Saxa Öröspüübülüketin İl Darxana; İl Darxan) is the highest office in the Sakha Republic. The term of office is five years.
| Head of the Sakha Republic | |
|---|---|
_Republic.svg) Standard of the head of the republic | |
| Executive branch of the Sakha Republic | |
| Style | |
| Type | |
| Residence | Yakutsk |
| Nominator | Political parties |
| Appointer | Direct elections |
| Term length | 5 years |
| Formation | 17 October 1991[1] |
| First holder | Mikhail Nikolayev |
| Website | Official website |
History
The office was first introduced in 1991. Before April 2014 it was known as the President of the Sakha Republic[a].
The first presidential elections in Yakutia were on 20 December 1991. Yakutia inherited the Soviet electoral system with no real multi-party system to be established. There were only two candidates in the election. The chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Yakut ASSR Mikhail Nikolayev won with 76.7% of the vote. Nikolayev was reelected in 1996 and succeeded by his former vice president Vyacheslav Shtyrov in January 2002. Five years later Shtyrov's appointment for second term which was proposed by President Vladimir Putin was approved by the State Assembly of Yakutia. After his resignation in May 2010 President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev appointed prime minister of the region Yegor Borisov as acting president. He was inaugurated on 17 June 2010. Since the beginning of Borisov's second term in 2014 the President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) became known as the Head of the Republic.
List of office-holders
| No. | Portrait | Name (born–died) |
Term of office | Political party | Elected | Vice president | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||||
| 1 |  |
Mikhail Nikolayev (1937–2023) |
27 December 1991 | 21 January 2002 | 10 years, 25 days | Independent | 1991 | Vyacheslav Shtyrov (1991–1997) |
[2] | |
| 1996 | Spartak Borisov (1997–2002) | |||||||||
| 2 | .jpg) |
Vyacheslav Shtyrov (born 1953) |
27 January 2002 | 31 May 2010 | 8 years, 124 days | Independent | 2001–02 | Aleksandr Akimov (2002–2007) |
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| United Russia | 2006 | Yevgeniya Mikhaylova (2007–2010) | ||||||||
| – |  |
Yegor Borisov (born 1954) |
31 May 2010 | 17 June 2010 | 17 days | United Russia | –[b] | Dmitry Glushko (2010–2014) |
[3] | |
| 3 | 17 June 2010 | 24 April 2014 | 3 years, 311 days | 2010 | ||||||
| – | 24 April 2014 | 27 September 2014 | 156 days | –[b] | Position abolished | |||||
| (3) | 27 September 2014 | 28 May 2018 | 3 years, 235 days | 2014 | ||||||
| – | .jpg) |
Aysen Nikolayev (born 1972) |
28 May 2018 | 27 September 2018 | 122 days | United Russia | –[b] | [4] | ||
| 4 | 27 September 2018 | Incumbent | 7 years, 338 days | 2018 | ||||||
| 2023 | ||||||||||
The most recent election for the office was held on 10 September 2023.
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