Vitaly Korolyov

Korolyov was born on June 23, 1980, in Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union.^[3]

In 2002, he graduated from the Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University with a law degree, and a year later from the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University with a degree in English studies. In 2007 he completed a master's degree in economics at Moscow State Institute of International Relations.^[3] In 2014, he obtained a Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D. equal) degree in economics at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Korolyov is a graduate of the fourth cohort of the RANEPA "Governors' School," a program for developing the state managerial reserve.^[4]

Since 2005, Korolyov has served in the Federal Antimonopoly Service. From 2008 to 2015, he was the chief of the Service's directorate for electrical energy industry contol. In 2015, he became the Service's deputy executive.^[5]

In 2024, he was appointed Head of the Antimonopoly Regulation Department of Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

On November 5, 2025, President Vladimir Putin appointed Korolyov acting Governor of Tver Oblast, following previous Governor Igor Rudenya's transfer to the position of Presidential Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District.^[6]