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Valery Igorevich Limarenko (Russian: Валерий Игоревич Лимаренко: born October 19, 1960) is a Russian politician. He is the current Governor of Sakhalin Oblast, a federal subject of Russia from 2018.

Valery Igorevich Limarenko Валерий Игоревич Лимаренко
Governor of Sakhalin Oblast
Incumbent
Assumed office September 12, 2019
President	Vladimir Putin
Preceded by	Vera Shcherbina (acting) Oleg Kozhemyako
Governor of Sakhalin Oblast (acting)
In office December 7, 2018 – September 12, 2019
Personal details
Born	(1960-10-19) October 19, 1960 (age 61) Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	Kharkov Aviation Institute
Website	sakhalin.gov.ru

Early life

Limarenko was born on October 19, 1960, in Kharkov. His grandfather worked at an aircraft repair plant and his father was a military pilot. He was also going to become a pilot, but did not pass due to medical reasons.[1]

In 1983, he graduated from Kharkov Aviation Institute and was qualified as a mechanical engineer of aircraft engines. In 1983, Limarenko took up the post of a design engineer at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) in Arzamas-16. In 1988, he returned to scientific work. In 1999, he defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of economic sciences on the topic "Management of the Process of Mortgage Lending in the Municipality", at the Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering.[1][2]

In 2000, he defended his thesis for Ph.D. on economics on the topic "Formation and Development of the Municipal System of Management of Housing Mortgage Lending in a Transitional Economy", at the Institute of Regional Economic Research in Moscow.[3][4]

Scientific career

Limarenko served as the president of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and head of the department of Life Cycle Management Systems for Complex Engineering Objects at the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University (NSTU). He also received an honorary doctorate from NSTU.[1]

He also served as the head of the department of New Financial Technologies at the Sarov State Physics Technical Institute. Limarenko served as the vice president of the International Association of Housing and Mortgage Funds (IAIF).[1]

Business career

In 2007, he joined Rosatom, a Russian state corporation that specializes in nuclear energy, nuclear non-energy goods and high-tech products. Limarenko headed numerous subsidiaries of Rosatom before heading the Engineering Division of Rosatom from July 2016.[5]

During his time in Rosatom, Limarenko oversaw the providing of assistance to Japan during the Fukushima nuclear disaster in the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. He also was responsible for the development of the Unit No.3 of Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant in Lianyungang, China.[6][7]

Political career

From 1984 to 1988, he worked as a Komsomol worker at VNIIEF. He later served as deputy and then secretary of the Komsomol committee of VNIIEF. He served as the Deputy in the Sarov Town Duma and later Deputy Chairman for Economics and Finance.[8]

Limarenko was appointed as the Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities of Nizhny Novgorod in 2001. In 2003, he served as Chief Federal Inspector for the Nizhny Novgorod Region in the office of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District. From 2005 to 2007, he served as the deputy governor and deputy chairman of the Government of Nizhny Novgorod for construction, energy, housing, communal services and information technologies.[8]

Governor of Sakhalin Oblast

On December 7, 2018, by the Decree of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, Limarenko was appointed Acting Governor of the Sakhalin Oblast due to the transfer of previous governor Oleg Kozhemyako to the position of Acting Governor of Primorsky Krai.[9]

On December 10, 2018, Limarenko announced his intention to stand as a candidate in the gubernatorial elections as a self-nominated candidate. Limarenko regularly held meetings with residents of the region, where the most pressing problems are discussed. On 2019 Russian regional elections, Limarenko won the first round of elections for the Governor of the Sakhalin Region gaining 56.15% of the votes cast in the elections. His term of office will end in 2024. On September 12, 2019, he officially took office as the Head of the Sakhalin Region.[10][11][12][13]

From January 27, 2020, he became a member of the Presidium of the State Council of the Russian Federation.[14]

On January 14, 2021, in his Telegram account, Limarenko announced his intention to issue special badges to citizens vaccinated against COVID-19 in the region, allowing them not to wear masks. On January 19, it became known that instead of a badge for those vaccinated against COVID-19, an electronic certificate will be introduced in the form of a QR code in the phone.[15][16][17]

On September 8, 2021, under his governorship, Sakhalin Oblast signed a memorandum with Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation to cooperate on decarbonisation through setting up large-scale production of hydrogen for exports, and also through carbon capture and storage technologies.[18]

Personal life

Limarenko is married to Marina Anatolyevna, who graduated from the Tula State University with a degree in Robotics and worked as a designer. They have two sons and several grandchildren.[19]

Awards and honors

• Order of Alexander Nevsky (2016): for the achieved labor success and many years of conscientious work.[20]
• Order of Honour (2010): for great contributions to the development of nuclear energy, and ensuring the physical and energy start-up of Unit No.2 of the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant.[21]
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, third class
• Order of the Monk Seraphim of Sarov, third and second classes

References

External links

• Valery Limarenko on VK (in Russian)
• Valery Limarenko on Instagram (in Russian)

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