Igor Farkhutdinov

Igor Pavlovich Farkhutdinov (Russian: Игорь Павлович Фархутдинов; April 16, 1950 – August 20, 2003) was governor of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia during 1995–2003.[1]

Igor Farkhutdinov
Игорь Фархутдинов
3rd Governor of Sakhalin Oblast
In office
24 April 1995 – 20 August 2003
Preceded byYevgeny Krasnoyarov
Succeeded byIvan Malakhov
Mayor of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
In office
31 December 1991 – 24 April 1995
Succeeded byVladimir Yagubov
Personal details
Born(1950-04-16)16 April 1950
Novosibirsk, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Died20 August 2003(2003-08-20) (aged 53)
Opala, Ust-Bolsheretsky District, Kamchatka Oblast, Russia
Political partyOur Home – Russia
EducationKrasnoyarsk Polytechnic Institute

Biography

Igor Farkhutdinov was born in 1950 in Novosibirsk to a Russian mother and Tatar father. His maternal grandfather participated in the Russo-Japanese War on Sakhalin island. In 1972 Igor graduated from the Krasnoyarsk Polytechnic Institute (now part of the Siberian Federal University) as engineer-economist. He played for the rugby team "Polytechnic" (now Krasny Yar).[2] For the next five years he worked at Tymovskoye power plant, Sakhalin Oblast.[3]

From 1977 to 1985 Farkhutdinov was working in Tymovsky District committee, then Sakhalin Oblast committee of Komsomol, instructor of the Communist Party regional committee. From 1985 to 1991 he was the head of Nevelsk. Until August 1991, he was member of the Communist Party.[3]

From 31 December 1991 to 24 April 1995 — Chairman of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Executive Committee, then Mayor of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. On 24 April 1995, he was appointed Head of Administration of Sakhalin Oblast.[3] A month later, the island suffered from a disastrous earthquake, that devastated the town of Neftegorsk. Farkhutdinov won the 1996 gubernatorial election and successfully re-elected in 2000. During his governorship two oil and gas projects were launched on the island, Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2.[4]

Death

On 20 August 2003, a Mi-8 helicopter disappeared in Kamchatka Oblast, on board of which was a group of officials from Sakhalin, including governor Farkhutdinov. The helicopter took off at 05:40 AM Moscow time from the Izluchina helipad (Elizovo Airport) in the direction of Severo-Kurilsk, Paramushir island. An hour later the helicopter was lost. It crashed 150 km south of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, near Opala volcano, losing control as a result of the collision of the rotor blades with the tail boom.[5] On August 23, the burnt wreckage of a helicopter was discovered. All 17 passengers and three crew members died. They were buried in the courtyard of the Resurrection Cathedral in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.[6]

On 10 February 2017, Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev signed an order to assign the name of Igor Farkhutdinov to a previously unnamed island of the Kuril archipelago.[7]

References
  1. "Igor Farkhutdinov" at peoples.ru (in Russian)
  2. "Легенды нашего регби: Леонид Сабинин" [Legends of our rugby: Leonid Sabinin] (in Russian). rugger.info. 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  3. "К 70-летию И.П. Фархутдинова" [To the 70th anniversary of I.P. Farkhutdinov]. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Administration (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  4. "«Стремился сделать все возможное». 18 лет прошло со дня трагической гибели Игоря Фархутдинова" ["He tried to do his best." 18 years have passed since the tragic death of Igor Farkhutdinov]. skr.su — Sakhalin and Kuriles (in Russian). 2021-08-20.
  5. "Крушение вертолета, в результате которого погиб И.Фархутдинов, произошло из-за нарушения правил полета в горной местности" [The helicopter crash, as a result of which I. Farkhutdinov died, was due to a violation of the flight rules in the mountains]. Aviaport.ru (in Russian). 2003-10-08. Archived from the original on 2017-04-02. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
  6. "День памяти погибшего в авиакатастрофе Фархутдинова и его команды проведут в Южно-Сахалинске" [Day of Remembrance of Farkhutdinov, who died in a plane crash, and his team to be held in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk]. skr.su — Sakhalin and Kuriles (in Russian). 2013-08-19. Archived from the original on 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  7. "Пять Курильских островов получили имена" [Five of the Kuril islands got names]. TASS (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-02-11.


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