Gennady Maksimovich Khodyrev is a Soviet and Russian statesman, former governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region and the Minister for Antimonopoly Policy.
He began his labor activity in 1958 with a turner at the Kurganinsk sugar factory. From 1966 to 1970 - engineer-technologist, senior engineer-technologist, site manager, the released secretary of the Komsomol Committee Gorky Machine-Building Plant. From 1970 to 1974 - the first secretary of the Moscow district committee of the Komsomol Gorky. From 1974 to 1981 - the head of the assembly shop, then deputy secretary, secretary of the party committee of the Gorky Machine Building Plant.
Political activity
USSR
Since 1981 - on party work inthe city of Gorky. From 1983 to 1987 he worked as an instructor, deputy head of the Organizational-Party Work Department of the CPSU Central Committee. From 1987 to 1988 - the second, from 1988 to 1991 - the first secretary of the Gorky Regional Committee of the CPSU, simultaneously from April 1990 and until August 1991 - chairman of the Gorky Regional Council people's deputies. Elected deputy of the Gorky Regional Council, People's Deputy of the USSR.After the failure of the State Emergency Committee, he left the posts of the first secretary of the regional committee and chairman of the Gorky Regional Council.
Russia
Since 1991 - the head of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of "MIR" JSC "Soyuz". From 1994 to 1995 - President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Nizhny Novgorod region. From 1995 to 1998 - deputy State Duma of the second convocation, was a member of fractionCommunist Party , a member of the Committee on Economic Policy, resigned as deputy in 1998 in connection with the transition to the government. In July 1997 he ran for gubernatorial elections in the Nizhny Novgorod region, but lost to the former mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Ivan Sklyarov. From October 1998 to May 1999 a - Minister of the Russian Federation for Antimonopoly Policy and Support of Entrepreneurship in the Cabinet Primakov, Yevgeny Maximovich Primakov, resigned after the dissolution of the government. Until the end of 1999 he worked as President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Nizhny Novgorod region. In December 1999, he was elected deputy State Duma of the third convocation of the State Duma of the third convocation for the Dzerzhinsky single-mandate electoral district No. 119 of the Nizhny Novgorod region, nominated directly by voters. He was a member of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma of the third convocation of the Communist Party faction, a member of the Committee on Industry, Construction and High Technologies. In 2001, he again ran as a candidate for the post of governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, in the first round of elections he took the first place among the five candidates on July 15, in the second round on July 29, gaining 59% of the vote, over the former governor Ivan Sklyarov with a 35% voter turnout. In August 2001, he also became chairman of the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region. On May 28, 2002 he officially announced his withdrawal from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in protest against the expulsion from the party of the Speaker of the State Duma Gennady Seleznev, as well as deputies N. Gubenko and Goryacheva. During his time in office Khodyrev was unable to improve the socio-economic situation of the region. In April and June 2005, deputies of the regional Legislative Assembly called on him to resign ahead of schedule and said that they would not approve him for a second term if he was nominated, even under threat of dissolution. August 8, 2005 and the former deputy mayor of Moscow Valery Shantsev was unanimously confirmed as the new governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region by the President of the Russian FederationVladimir Putin.
He is married and has three children. His wife, Gulya Khodyreva, was suspected of organizing an illegal additional issue of shares in Novomirsky GOK. As a result, Khodyreva was dismissed of all charges, the local Road Fund officers were convicted.
