Governor of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast

The Governor of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Russian: Губернатор Еврейской автономной области) is the head of executive branch for the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, considered as Prime Minister of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.

Governor of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Coat of arms of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Incumbent Maria Kostyuk Acting  since 5 November 2024
Residence	Birobidzhan
Term length	Four years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Nikolay Volkov
Formation	1991
Website	Government of the Jewish Autonomous 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 Birobidzhan. The current Governor is Rostislav Goldstein. He was appointed as acting governor in December 2019 and elected by popular vote in September 2020 for full five-year term.

Governors

No.	Image	Governor	Term of office	Party		Election
1		Nikolay Volkov (born 1951)	14 December 1991 — 24 February 2010		Independent	1996 2000 2005
					United Russia
2		Alexander Vinnikov (born 1955)	24 February 2010 — 24 February 2015			2010
—		Alexander Levintal (born 1957)	24 February 2015 — 22 September 2015			2015
3			22 September 2015 — 12 December 2019
—		Rostislav Goldstein (born 1969)	12 December 2019 — 22 September 2020			2020
4			22 September 2020 — 5 November 2024
—		Maria Kostyuk (born 1977)	since 5 November 2024

Chairmen of Executive Committee (before 1991)

1. Iosif Liberberg (1934–1936)
2. Mikhail Kattel (1936–1937)
3. Miron Geller (1937–1938) (acting)
4. Nikolay Bigler (1938–1939) (acting)
5. Mikhail Zilbershteyn (1940–1947)
6. Mikhail Levitin (1947–1949)
7. Lew Benkovich (1949–1955)
8. F.T. Klimenko (1955–1961)
9. Grigory Podgayev (1961–1962)
10. Andrey Okovitov (1962–1971)
11. Sergey Duvakin (1971–1985)
12. Mark Kaufman (1985–1990)
13. Boris Korsunsky (1990–1991)

Elections

13 September 2020

Candidates	Party	Votes	%
Rostislav Goldstein	self-nominated (supported by United Russia)	76,275	82.50
Vladimir Dudin	A Just Russia	6,533	7.07
Alexander Krupsky	Communist Party of Social Justice	3,957	4.28
Roman Kuzemsky	Patriots of Russia	1,171	1.27
Boris Tikhonov	Rodina	1,984	2.15

13 September 2015

Candidates	Party	Votes	%
Vladimir Dudin	A Just Russia	895	2.14
Konstantin Lazarev	Communist Party of the Russian Federation	6,018	14.37
Alexander Levintal	United Russia	31,577	75.42
Pavel Malyshev	Liberal Democratic Party of Russia	1,633	3.90
Tatyana Odyriy	Party of Pensioners' of Russia	682	1.63

External links

• Government of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine in Russian