Head of the Sakha Republic

The Head of the Sakha Republic (Russian: Глава Республики Саха (Якутия), romanized: Glava Respubliki Sakha (Yakutia); Yakut: Саха Өрөспγγбγлγкэтин Ил Дархана; Ил Дархан, romanized: Saxa Öröspüübülüketin İl Darxana; İl Darxan) is the highest office in the Sakha Republic. The term of office is five years.

Head of the Sakha Republic
Саха Өрөспγγбγлγкэтин Ил Дархана; Ил Дархан (Yakut) Глава Республики Саха (Якутия) (Russian)
Standard of the head of the republic
Incumbent Aysen Nikolayev since 28 May 2018
Executive branch of the Sakha Republic
Style	His Excellency The Honorable
Type	Governor Head of state Head of government
Residence	Yakutsk
Nominator	Political parties
Appointer	Direct elections
Term length	5 years
Formation	20 December 1991
First holder	Mikhail Nikolayev
Website	Official website

History

The office was first introduced in 1991. Before April 2014 it was known as the President of the Sakha Republic.

The first presidential elections in Yakutia were on 20 December 1991. Yakutia inherited the Soviet electoral system with no real multi-party system to be established. There were only two candidates in the election. The chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Yakut ASSR Mikhail Nikolayev won with 76.7% of the vote. Nikolayev was reelected in 1996 and succeeded by his former vice president Vyacheslav Shtyrov in January 2002. Five years later Shtyrov's appointment for second term which was proposed by President Vladimir Putin was approved by the State Assembly of Yakutia. After his resignation in May 2010 President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev appointed prime minister of the region Yegor Borisov as acting president. He was inaugurated on 17 June 2010. Since the beginning of Borisov's second term in 2014 the President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) became known as the Head of the Republic.

List of office-holders

No.	Portrait	Name (born–died)	Term of office			Political party		Elected	Vice president	Ref.
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Mikhail Nikolayev (1937–2023)	20 December 1991	21 January 2002	10 years, 32 days		Independent	1991	Vyacheslav Shtyrov (1991–1997)
								1996	Spartak Borisov (1997–2002)
2		Vyacheslav Shtyrov (born 1953)	27 January 2002	31 May 2010	8 years, 124 days		Independent	2002	Alexander Akimov (2002–2007)
							United Russia	2006	Yevgeniya Mikhaylova (2007–2010)
3		Yegor Borisov (born 1954)	31 May 2010	28 May 2018	7 years, 362 days		United Russia	2010	Dmitry Glushko (2010–2014)	[1]
								2014	Position abolished
–		Aysen Nikolayev (born 1972)	28 May 2018	27 September 2018	122 days		United Russia	–[a]	[2]
4			27 September 2018		6 years, 321 days			2018

The most recent election for the office was held on 9 September 2018.

Candidates	Party		Votes	%	Map
Aysen Nikolayev		United Russia	229,314	71.4
Viktor Gubarev		CPRF	38,648	12.03
Vladimir Bogdanov		A Just Russia	21,139	6.58
Gavril Parakhin		LDPR	19,962	6.22

Notes

1. Acting head of the republic