Natalya Komarova

Natalya Vladimirovna Komarova (Russian Наталья Владимировна Комарова; born October 21, 1955 in Jaswo, Pskov Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Russian politician and, since March 1st, 2010 Governor of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug ( Yugra ).

After graduating from high school in the Pskov oblast Komarowa studied at the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Industry in the Ukrainian Kommunarsk and graduated in 1978 studying industrial engineering from. The first two years after graduation, she worked as a technician at a metal factory in Kommunarsk (now Alchevsk, Ukraine ), 1980, she moved to the North Russian autonomous district of the Yamal- Nenets Autonomous Area, where she worked as an economic expert at the administrative apparatus of the city of Novy Urengoy to 1988. This was followed from 1988 to 1992 to work as a local Volksdeputierte in Novy Urengoy, then there Komarova had carried out the duties of the first executive vice president of the municipality, until it was finally appointed mayor in 1994. The mayor elections in 1997, she was appointed in this position. Komarova held the mayor's office in Novy Urengoy until October 2000, at the same time they worked as a lecturer at the branch of Tyumen Oil and Gas University in Novy Urengoy. 2000 to 2001 she was Deputy Governor of the Yamal- Nenets circle. In December 2001 she was elected at an unscheduled election as deputies of the Russian State Duma for the circle after Viktor Chernomyrdin, the former county deputy, had changed as ambassador to Ukraine. In the regular Duma elections in December 2003 and in December 2007 Komarowa ran for Some -Russia deputies and was elected both times.

For the Office of the Governor of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug ( Yugra ) Komarova was proposed to the county Parliament by the President Medvedev on 8 February 2010 and was able to prevail there unanimously against the former Governor Alexander Filipenko and two other candidates. On 1 March 2010 she was introduced to the office; the current legislative period runs until 2015.

As Duma deputies Komarowa is currently chairman of the Duma Committee for raw materials, nature and environmental protection. In 2006, she was one of the initiators of the new Russian Forest Code, which transmits significantly reduced the state's role in the regulation of forestry and fire protection, and substantially on tenant and regional administrations. This amendment became particularly in the summer of 2010 publicly criticized because they peat fires in several regions of central Russia is considered to be one of the causes for the massive spread of the forest and.

Natalya Komarova is married and has two daughters.