# Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod

The Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod is head of the executive branch of the political system in Nizhny Novgorod, the Administration of Nizhny Novgorod. Since May 6, 2020 the position is occupied by Yury Shalabayev.
The mayor is not elected by popular vote, but appointed as a result of the closed vote of city council deputies.
From 1991 to 2010 there was a single-headed system of legislative and executive power. From 2010 to 2017, city government was divided between two positions - the head of the city, who led the City Duma, and the head of the city administration (city manager).
On October 26, 2017, a law was approved to return the one-head system, in which the mayor of the city is also vested with the powers of the head of administration. In December 2017, a return to this management system began. The post of Chairman of the City Duma, abolished in 2010, was restored.
There are no direct elections for the mayor of the city. He is appointed by the decision of the City Duma, during a closed vote of deputies.
During the Russian Tsardom, the position of mayor was called zemsky headman. One of the most famous was Kuzma Minin during the Time of Troubles.

## Mayors according to the City Regulations of 1785

| Years | Mayor |
| 1786—1788 | Ivan Bryzgalov |
| 1789—1791 | Ivan Yurin |
| 1792—1794 | Semyon Loshkarev |
| 1795—1797 | Alexey Borodin |
| 1798—1800 | Ivan Kostromin |
| 1801—1803 | Nikolai Khalezov |
| 1804—1806 | Ivan Bryzgalov |
| 1807 | Alexey Borodin |
| 1808—1809 | Semyon Loshkarev |
| 1810—1812 | Pyotr Kamenev |
| 1813—1815 | Mikhail Yesyrev |
| 1816—1818 | Fedor Pereplyotchikov |
| 1819—1821 | Fedor Schukin |
| 1822—1824 | Ivan Pyatov |
| 1825—1827 | Fedor Pereplyotchikov |
| 1828—1830 | Mikhail Klimov |
| 1831—1833 | Pyotr Kosarev |
| 1834—1836 | Fedor Pereplyotchikov |
| 1837—1839 | Mikhail Klimov |
| 1840—1842 | Ivan Pyatov |
| 1843—1845 | Vasily Galkin |
| 1846—1848 | Semyon Pyatov |
| 1849—1851 | Dmitry Klimov |
| 1852—1854 | Vasily Michurin |
| 1855—1857 | Dmitry Klimov |
| 1858—1860 | Theophylact Pyatov |
| 1861—1863 | Mikhail Burmistrov |
| 1864—1866 | Vasily Michurin |
| 1867—1869 | Ivan Kvartalov |

## Mayors according to the City Regulations of 1870

| Years | Mayor |
| 1870—1878 | Alexey Gubin |
| 21.12.1878—19.10.1879 | Ivan Zurov |
| .12.1879—26.07.1888 | Vasily Sobolev |
| 1888—13.04.1893 | Alexey Gubin |

## Mayors according to the City Regulations of 1892

| Years | Mayor |
| 1893—1896 | Dmitry Delvig |
| .02.1897—1909 | Alexander Memorsky |
| 16.02.1909—1910 | Vladimir Gorinov |
| 1911—1913 | Ivan Bogoyavlensky |
| 1913—1917 | Dmitry Sirotkin |
| 1917 | Vladimir Ganchel |

## Chairmen of the Executive Committee of the City Council of People's Deputies of the CPSU (1918-1991)

| Years | Mayor |
| 1918 | Solomon Levit |
| 1918—1919 | Nikolai Kozitsky |
| 1919—1920 | Stepan Kuznetsov |
| 1920—1923 | Ter Mushek |
| 1923—1925 | Alexander Muralov |
| 1925—1926 | Grigory Amosov |
| 1927—1929 | Ivan Kolpakov |
| 1929—1930 | Klavdiya Zimina |
| 1930—1931 | Andrey Kolochkov |
| 1931—1934 | Alexei Grachev |
| 1934—1937 | Rodion Semyonov |
| 1937—1938 | Vasily Boronin |
| 1938—1941 | Alexander Efimov |
| 1941—1943 | Mikhail Sukhanov |
| 1943—1950 | Alexander Shulpin |
| 1950 | Nikolai Kochetkov |
| 1951—1967 | Alexei Proskurin |
| 1967—1974 | Alexander Sokolov |
| 1975—1985 | Vladimir Erekhinskiy |
| 1985—1988 | Yuri Marchenkov |
| 1988—1990 | Vladimir Bodyakshin |
| 1990—1991 | Omari Sharadze |

## Mayors of the city in Russian Federation

| Mayor | Mayor | Party | Term | Notes |
| 1 | Dmitry Bednyakov [ru] | Unaffiliated | 26 December 1991 — 29 March 1994 | Dismissed by president Yeltsin |
| 2 | Ivan Sklyarov | No data | 1 April 1994 — June 1997 | Became 2nd Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (13 July 1997 – 5 August 2001) |
| — | Vladimir Gorin | Unaffiliated | June 1997 — 29 March 1998 | Acting mayor |
| — | Alexander Meleshkin [ru] | CPSU | 29 March 1998 — 10 October 1998 | Acting mayor |
| 3 | Yury Lebedev (politician) [ru] | No data | 10 October 1998 — 29 September 2002 | |
| 4 | Vadim Bulavinov | United Russia | 29 September 2002 — 25 October 2010 | Last mayor to be elected by popular vote |
| In 2010–2017, the city administration was divided between two positions: the Head of the city (mayor), who was in charge of the City Duma, and the Head of the city administration (city manager). ||||||
| 5 | Oleg Sorokin | United Russia | 25 October 2010 — 7 October 2015 | Was arrested in December 2017 for large bribery and sentenced for 10 years on 7 March 2019 |
| 6 | Ivan Karnilin | United Russia | 7 October 2015 — 24 May 2017 | |
| 7 | Elizaveta Solonchenko | United Russia | 21 June 2017 — 20 December 2017 | Arrested in absentia on 29 May 2020 for bribery. Now lives in Great Britain |
| On 26 October 2017, a law was approved on the return of the "one-headed" system, in which the mayor chairs the city administration. ||||||
| 8 | Vladimir Panov | United Russia | 17 January 2018 — 6 May 2020 | Voluntary resigned |
| — | Yury Shalabayev | United Russia | 6 May 2020 — 28 October 2020 | Acting mayor |
| 9 | Yury Shalabayev | United Russia | 28 October 2020 — incumbent | |

## Head of the city administration (2010 – 2017)

| Mayor | Mayor | Party | Term | Notes |
| 1 | Oleg Kondrashev [ru] | United Russia | 3 December 2010 — 22 July 2015 | Arrested in absentia for bribery in 2019. Now lives in USA |
| 3 | Andrey Chertkov [ru] | United Russia | 22 July 2015 — 23 December 2015 | Acting head |
| 2 | Sergey Belov (politician) [ru] | United Russia | 24 December 2015 — 18 October 2017 | |
| 4 | Natalia Kazachkova [ru] | United Russia | 18 October 2017 — 17 January 2017 | Acting head |