Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast

The Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast (Губернатор Калининградской области) is the head of executive branch for the Kaliningrad Oblast (former Königsberg, East Prussia), considered as Prime Minister of Kaliningrad Oblast.

Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast
Standard of the Governor
Incumbent Alexey Besprozvannykh since 20 September 2024
Residence	Kaliningrad
Term length	Four years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Yuri Matochkin 1991
Formation	1946 as Chairman of Executive Committee of Kaliningrad Oblast
Website	Government of Kaliningrad Oblast

The office of Governor is an elected position, for which elected officials serve four year terms. While individual politicians may serve as many terms as they can be elected to, Governors cannot be elected to more than two consecutive terms.

The official residence for the Governor is located in Kaliningrad. The current acting Governor is Alexey Besprozvannykh who assumed office 15 May 2024.^[1]

Chairmen of the Kaliningrad Oblast Executive Committee (1947–91)

Since the creation of Kaliningrad Oblast in 1946 and until the spring of 1990, the Kaliningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party had the leading role in its government. The committee was led by:

1. Vasily Borisov (May 1947 – April 1948)
2. Alexey Yegorov (April 1948 – December 1951)
3. Zakhar Slaykovsky (December 1951 – May 1962)
4. Yakov Prushinsky (May 1962 – March 1966)
5. Vladimir Vitkovsky (May 1966 – May 1983)
6. Vasily Loginov (June 1983 – April 1987)
7. Yuri Malinkin (April 1987 – September 1991)

List of governors

#	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Party		Election
1		Yuri Matochkin (1931–2006)	25 September 1991	20 October 1996		Independent
2		Leonid Gorbenko (1939–2010)	20 October 1996	8 December 2000		Our Home – Russia	1996
3		Vladimir Yegorov (1938–2022)	8 December 2000	28 September 2005		United Russia	2000
4		Georgy Boos (born 1963)	28 September 2005	27 September 2010			2005
5		Nikolay Tsukanov (born 1965)	28 September 2010	28 July 2016			2010 2015
—		Yevgeny Zinichev (1966–2021)	28 July 2016	6 October 2016		Independent
—		Anton Alikhanov (born 1986)	6 October 2016	9 September 2017		United Russia	2017 2022
6			29 September 2017	14 May 2024
—		Sergei Yeliseyev (born 1971)	14 May 2024	15 May 2024		Independent
—		Alexey Besprozvannykh (born 1979)	15 May 2024	Incumbent		Independent

Timeline

Elections

The latest election for the office was held September 11 2022.^[2]

Summary of the 9–11 September 2022 Kaliningrad Oblast gubernatorial election results

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Anton Alikhanov (incumbent)	United Russia	259,220	80.21
	Yevgeny Mishin	Liberal Democratic Party	20,683	6.40
	Maksim Bulanov	Communist Party	15,783	4.88
	Yury Shitikov	A Just Russia — For Truth	12,089	3.74
	Vladimir Vukolov	Party of Pensioners	4,722	1.46
	Vladimir Sultanov	Communists of Russia	4,256	1.32
Valid votes			316,753	98.01
Blank ballots			6,410	1.98
Total			323,172	100.00
Turnout			323,172	38.49
Registered voters			839,700	100.00
Source:				[3]

The previous election for the office was held on 10 September 2017

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Anton Alikhanov	United Russia	255,491	81.06%
	Igor Revin	Communist Party	28,007	8.89%
	Yevgeny Mishin	Liberal Democratic Party	17,256	5.47%
	Yekaterina Timofeeva	Greens	7,966	2.53%
Valid ballots			308,720	97.95%
Invalid ballots			6,467	2.05%
Turnout			315,187	39.35%