Born on January 12, 1964 in the Batagay village, Verkhoyansk district of the Yakut ASSR. His father was a doctor, and mother was a teacher. Parents came to the North, to Batagay, in the early 1960s after graduation from the institutions: his mother graduated from the Kuban Pedagogical Institute, and father - the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute. During his studies in 1978–79, he worked as a surveyor at a geological prospecting site at the Deputy Mining and Processing Plant. In 1986, he graduated with honors from the G.V. Plekhanov Leningrad Mining Institute; he got the degree in mining engineering and geology. After graduating from the institute in 1986, he worked as a district geologist of underground mining at the Zapadny mine, a senior geologist, and a head of a geological exploration expedition of the Deputy GOK. 1986-87 – it was the heyday of the Deputy village. In the village, there were three tin mining mines, with two or three industrial devices on each. Up to 15,000 people lived in the village. Since 1992 - Chief Engineer of the Deputy's GOK Yakutzoloto. In 1993, because of the accident happened at the power station of the village led to the freezing of the village. People massively left the Deputy village. In 1994, he graduated from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation, receiving the qualification of a manager of the highest category. He is MPhil in Economic Sciences.
In the Yakutia government
In 1998-1999 - First Deputy Minister of Industry of the Sakha Republic. From 1999 to 2000 - First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Yakutia.
From 2000 to September 2009 - General Director of OAO AK Yakutskenergo, located in Yakutsk. From December 29, 2002 to March 2, 2008 - deputy of the state assembly of the Sakha Republic of the 3rd convocation. He was elected in the Usti-May district No. 63. From March 2, 2008 to December 14, 2011 - deputy of the state assembly of the Sakha Republic of the 4th convocation. He was elected in the Kobya-Verkhoyansk district No. 30. With the direct participation of Ilkovsky, significant projects of the Yakut energy system were implemented and began to be implemented - an optimization program of local energy, an increase in the share of centralized electricity and heat supply, the construction of a high-voltage 220 kV Suntar-Olekminsk line to provide power supply for VS-TO. In September 2009, Ivan Blagodyr, Director General of Energy Systems of the East, appointed Oleg Tarasov as Director General of Yakutskenergo, and Konstantin Ilkovsky as his adviser. From 2009 to 2011 - Advisor to the General Director of JSC RAO Energy Systems of the East, Ivan Blagodyr. In 2010 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Sakhaenergo. In 2011 - Director of Yakutskoe LLC.
On December 4, 2011, at the elections to the State Duma of the sixth convocation, Ilkovsky ran for the regional list of the party "A Just Russia", was the number one in the regional group 5. He was elected to the State Duma and, was a member of the "A Just Russia: Motherland \ Pensioners \ Life" fraction. He was also a member of the inter-factional group “Baikal”, which was formed of MPS from the Zabaykalsky Krai, Buryatia and the Irkutsk Region. In September 2012, he condemned the decision on the parliamentary mandate deprivation of the same party member Gennady Gudkov. Then in September 2012, he announced his intention to fight for the post of governor of the Zabaykalsky Krai. He left the State Duma before his mandate termination, after his appointment on March 1, 2013 as interim governor of the Zabaykalsky Krai. His mandate was transferred to Irinchey Matkhanov.
Governor of the Zabaykalsky Krai
Since March 1, 2013, the Acting Governor of the Zabaykalsky Krai has been appointed by decree of the President of the Russian FederationVladimir Putin. September 8, 2013 won the election of the governor of the Zabaykalsky Krai, gaining 71.63% of the votes. September 18, he officially took the office. The governorship of Konstantin Ilkovsky was marked by a number of scandals: the region is in a pre-bankrupt state, the regional budget deficit of 5.5 billion rubles, public sector employees wages are regularly delayed, 115 thousand hectares of land in the Zabaykalsky Krai planned to transfer for 49 years years old for rent to a Chinese Company. February 17, 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of Konstantin Ilkovsky upon his own request. The resignation of the governor was associated with poor financial discipline, as well as due to the failure of the region to fulfill its obligations to resettle citizens from emergency housing. During his term as governor, Zabaykalsky Krai dropped from 39th place in the ranking of regional success to 85th place in 2015.
Awards and titles
Honored Worker of the National Economy of the Republic of Sakha
Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Sakha in the field of material production