Ivan Shabunin


Ivan Petrovich Shabunin, was a Russian politician who served as the 1st Governor of the Volgograd Oblast from 1991 to 1997. He died in 20 September 2006.

Career

Ivan Shabunin was born on October 9, 1935 in the city of Volgograd Oblast, Novoanninskii. He graduated in the Volgograd Agricultural Institute. He graduated from graduate school, had a degree of candidate of economic sciences.
In 1990 he was elected deputy of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, was a member of the Supreme Council Committee on economic reform and property. In 1990-1991 he was chairman of the executive committee of the Volgograd Regional Council.
September 4, 1991 appointed Head of Administration of the Volgograd Oblast, he remained in this post until 1996.
In December 1993, he was elected to the Federation Council. At the same time, he was a member of the Committee on the Affairs of the Commonwealth of Independent States. After the reform of the Federation Council in 1996, he entered into its composition as the head of the Federation to become a member of the Committee on Agricultural Policy.
In 1996, the first in the history of the Volgograd Region elections of the Head of Administration of the region, he lost the election to Nikolay Maksyuta.
In 1997 he was invited to the post of first deputy chairman of the CIS Executive Committee in Minsk, where he worked until 1999, but was forced to return to Volgograd due to unabating longing for his native land.
In 2003 he was appointed advisor to the mayor of Volgograd. He held the post until his death, September 20, 2006.

Death

Ivan Petrovich Shabunin died on, September 20, 2006 after a long illness. He was buried in the cemetery in the Volgograd Dzerzhinsk district. A year after his death, Volgograd held a memorial service for the first governor of the region and an honorary citizen of the city-hero of the region. A sculptor, Pavel Cherkis, dedicated a monument to him, which the project cost 190 thousand rubles.

Family