Yury Nozhikov
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Yury Nozhikov | |
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Юрий Ножиков | |
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| 1st Governor of Irkutsk Oblast | |
| In office 19 September 1991 – 25 April 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Boris Govorin |
| Member of the Federation Council from Irkutsk Oblast | |
| In office 11 January 1994 – 25 April 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Boris Govorin |
| 12th Chairman of Irkutsk Oblast Executive Committee | |
| In office 14 July 1988 – 19 September 1991 | |
| Preceded by | Alexey Kovalchuk |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Yury Leonidovich Chen 17 February 1934 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 15 June 2010 (aged 76) Irkutsk, Russia |
| Alma mater | Ivanovo State Power Engineering University |
| Awards |   |
Yury Abramovich Nozhikov (Russian: Юрий Абрамович Ножиков, 17 February 1934 – 15 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian politician who was the first governor of Irkutsk Oblast (East Siberia) in 1991–1997.
Yury Chen was born in Leningrad (modern Saint Petersburg) in 1934 to a Chinese father Chen Kin San (Leonid Chen) and Russian mother Tatyana Toropova, who was working as nurse. His father most likely fell under Stalinist repressions in 1937. Later, Yury's mother remarried Jewish worker Abram Moiseyevich Nozhikov, and the boy received his last name and patronymic.
The fact is that in 1937 he disappeared. They said he died of tuberculosis. But he was not sick, we did not visit him in the hospital. If he was sick, there would be something left, some papers. But there was nothing, he disappeared, and that's it.
... Why did she do it? I think she feared for my future life. If the father was really repressed — and, probably, it was so — I wouldn't have any future.[1]
Abram Nozhikov died in the Great Patriotic War in 1942.[2]
In 1956, Nozhikov graduated from the Ivanovo Power Engineering Institute. He worked at the largest construction sites in the Urals, Siberia, the Far East and the Far North. Since 1970 he was the manager of VostokEnergoMontazh trust, from 1984 to 1988 — general director of BratskGESstroy.
