Kaluga Oblast is a federal subject of Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Kaluga. The 2021 Russian Census found a population of 1,069,904.
Vladimir Olegovich Potanin is a Russian businessman. He acquired his wealth notably through the controversial loans-for-shares program in Russia in the early to mid-1990s.
Russian oligarchs are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The failing Soviet state left the ownership of state assets contested, which allowed for informal deals with former USSR officials as a means to acquire state property.
Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska is a Russian oligarch and billionaire. Deripaska began his career as a metals trader after the breakup of the Soviet Union. He used accumulated funds from trading to acquire stakes in the Sayanogorsk aluminum smelter from a consortium of businessmen who privatized it in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Sayanogorsk aluminum smelter served as the foundation of what later became the world's largest aluminium company Rusal.
Oleg Nikolayevich Kozhemyako is a Russian politician serving as Governor of Primorsky Krai since 2018. Previously, he served as Governor of Sakhalin Oblast from 2015 to 2018. He also served two terms as Governor of Amur Oblast and one term as the head of Koryak Autonomous Okrug.
United Company RUSAL, international public joint-stock company is the world's second largest aluminium company by primary production output. It was the largest until overtaken by China Hongqiao Group in 2015. UC RUSAL accounts for almost 9% of the world's primary aluminium output and 9% of the world's alumina production. RUSAL was founded by a major Russian industrialist Oleg Deripaska.
Basic Element Ltd. is one of the largest diversified industrial groups in Russia. The company was founded in 1997 and is owned by Oleg Deripaska. It is based in the British tax haven of Jersey and is headquartered in Moscow. It was known as Siberian Aluminum until 2001.
Automotive production is a significant industry in Russia, directly employing around 600,000 people or 1% of the country's total workforce. Russia produced 1,767,674 vehicles in 2018, ranking 13th among car-producing nations in 2018, and accounting for 1.8% of the worldwide production. The main local brands are light vehicle producers AvtoVAZ and GAZ, while KamAZ is the leading heavy vehicle producer. Eleven foreign carmakers have production operations or are their plants in Russia.
Andrey Yuryevich Vorobyov is a Russian politician who is the current governor of Moscow Oblast. He has previously served as the head of United Russia's Central Executive Committee, and one of the deputy chairmen of the State Duma.
The following lists events that happened during 1952 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Aleksey Gennadyevich Dyumin is a Russian politician serving as Secretary of the State Council since 2024. Previously, he served as the chief security guard and assistant of Russian president Vladimir Putin before being promoted to lead the Russian military's Special Operations Forces, where he oversaw the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The following year, he became Deputy Minister of Defense. From 2016 to 2024, he served as the Governor of Tula Oblast. He holds the rank of lieutenant general and was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
Maxim Alexeevich Akimov is a Russian politician, CEO of the Russian Post since 2020. Previously he was served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia from 2018–2020.
Igor Georgievich Artamonov is a Russian politician serving as Governor of Lipetsk Oblast since 2 October 2018.
Vladimir Anatolyevich Chernukhin was the deputy minister of finance of the Russian Federation and Chairman of Vnesheconombank. Chernukhin has spent most of his life as a banker and businessman. Between 2000 and 2002, he served as a Deputy Minister of Finance in Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov's government. Chernukhin fled to the UK after Vladimir Putin dismissed him in 2004 and he is known to be a loyalist to former Russian prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov, who in 2005 became an opponent of Putin. He received British citizenship in 2011.
Vladislav Valeryevich Shapsha, is a Russian statesman and politician who has been the 5th Governor of Kaluga Oblast since 16 September 2020.
The Governor of Lipetsk Oblast is the highest official of that region of Russia. The status and powers of the Head of Administration are determined in Chapter 5 of the Lipetsk Oblast Charter.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Avdeyev, is a Russian statesman and politician, who is currently the 5th Governor of Vladimir Oblast since 16 September 2022.
Sergey Vasilievich Yakhnyuk is a Russian political figure and a deputy of the 7th and 8th State Dumas.
The 2024 Lipetsk Oblast gubernatorial election took place on 6–8 September 2024, on common election day. Incumbent Governor Igor Artamonov was re-elected to a second term in office.
