2023-08-05 02:17:37
On the night of August 5, the first president of Yakutia, Mikhail Nikolaev, passed away. He was 85 years old. The head of the republic, Aisen Nikolaev, expressed his condolences to the family and relatives of Mikhail Efimovich.
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Mikhail Nikolaev was born on November 13, 1937 in the Oktyomsky nasleg of the Ordzhonikidzevsky district of the YASSR.
In 1979-1985 he was the Minister of Agriculture of the YASSR.
In 1985-1989, he was the secretary of the Yakut regional committee of the CPSU, who oversaw the issues of the agro-industrial complex of the republic.
In 1985, Mikhail Nikolaev achieved the opening of the Yakut Agricultural Institute.
In December 1989 he was elected Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the YASSR, since April 1990 – Chairman of the Supreme Council of Yakutia.
In 1990, at the First Congress of People’s Deputies of the RSFSR, he became a member of the Constitutional Commission and took part in the development and adoption of the New Constitution of the Russian Federation.
In December 1991, Mikhail Nikolaev was elected by popular vote on an alternative basis as the first president of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). In 1996 he was re-elected for a second term.
In 2002, he was appointed representative of Yakutia in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. He was reappointed to this position in 2007. Both times he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council. Member of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy, member of the Federation Council Commission for Control over Ensuring the Activities of the Federation Council.
In December 2011, on the federal list of the All-Russian political party United Russia, he was elected a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the VI convocation, a member of the State Duma Committee on Regional Policy and Problems of the North and the Far East.
In October 2016, following the expiration of the term of office of a State Duma deputy, he was appointed State Councilor of Yakutia.
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