Nikolai Paltsev

Paltsev was born 3 January 1949 in the Petrovsky District of Stavropol Krai. He graduated from Pyatigorsk State University in 1973 with a degree in German. He would return to his home village and teach German, eventually being elected as the first secretary of the local Komsomol district in 1971. Paltsev rose through the ranks of the organization, becoming the head of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation in 1985, and secretary of the Central Committee from 1986-1990.^[2]

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Paltsev briefly worked in the private sector, before returning to public service as the deputy director of the Caucasus Mineral Water in 1999. Paltsev would hold numerous government positions in the Stavropol Krai regional government, including (successively) as Deputy Chairman (2001-2005), Minister of Labor (2005-2008), and finally as mayor of Stavropol in 2008.^[2]

Paltsev died on 1 December 2021.^[3]