{{Short description|Russian politician (born 1970)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Igor Babushkin | native_name = {{nobold|Игорь Бабушкин}} | native_name_lang = ru | image = Igor Babushkin (skfo.gov.ru).jpg | caption = Babushkin in 2018 | office = | president = | prime_minister = | term_start = | predecessor = | office1 = 3rd Governor of Astrakhan Oblast | president1 = | prime_minister1 = | term_start1 = 17 September 2019 | term_end1 = | deputy1 = | predecessor1 = Sergey Morozov (acting) | successor1 = | office2 = Governor of Astrakhan Oblast (acting) | president2 = | prime_minister2 = | deputy2 = | term_start2 = 5 June 2019 | term_end2 = 17 June 2019 | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | office3 = Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the North Caucasian Federal District | president3 = | prime_minister3 = | deputy3 = | term_start3 = September 2018 | term_end3 = 5 June 2019 | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | office4 = | president4 = | prime_minister4 = | deputy4 = | term_start4 = | term_end4 = | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|04|05|df=y}} | birth_place = Rybinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | death_date = | death_place = | party = | awards = | signature = | alma_mater = Moscow Higher Military Command School }}
'''Igor Yuryevich Babushkin''' ({{langx|ru|Игорь Юрьевич Бабушкин}}; born on 5 April 1970) is a Russian politician and former military officer who is currently serving as the 3rd Governor of Astrakhan Oblast since 17 September 2019.
==Biography==
Igor Babushkin was born in Rybinsk on 5 April 1970.<ref name="тасс">{{cite web|title=Биография Игоря Бабушкина|url=https://tass.ru/info/6510742|publisher=ТАСС|date=2019-06-05|accessdate=2019-06-18}}</ref>
After school, he entered the Moscow Higher Military Command School, which he graduated in 1992.
Between 1992 and 2012, he served in the Russian Armed Forces and divisions of the Federal Security Service. He graduated from the service in the Federal Agency for Special Construction with the rank of colonel.<ref name="тасс" />
In 2002, he received additional education at the Golitsyn Border Institute of the Federal Security Service with a degree in jurisprudence. He also graduated from the Institute of Management, Economics and Innovation.<ref name="тасс" />
In January 2013, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management. He supervised the administration of the property of the state treasury, federal authorities and organizations in the field of defense and security, the administration of branch organizations and foreign property, organizations of the industrial complex, was responsible for the transfer of religious objects to the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC).<ref name="тасс" />
In September 2018, Babuskin was appointed Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative in the North Caucasian Federal District, with Aleksandr Matovnikov.<ref name="тасс" />
On 5 June 2019, by decree of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, Babuskin was appointed as acting governor of the Astrakhan Oblast.<ref>{{cite web|author=Шереметьева, Инна.|title=Врио губернатора Астраханской области Игорь Бабушкин: биография|url=https://www.volgograd.kp.ru/daily/26985/4045704/|publisher=Комсомольская правда|date=2019-06-05|accessdate=2019-06-18}}</ref>
On the Single Election Day, 8 September 2019, with a result of 75.64% in the first round of elections for the Governor of the Astrakhan Region, Babushkin won the election. His term of office will end in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4087337|title=Бабушкин побеждает на выборах губернатора Астраханской области с 75,64% голосов|date=2019-09-09|publisher=www.kommersant.ru|language=ru|accessdate=2019-09-10}}</ref>
==Personal life== He is married and has a daughter.<ref name="тасс" />
==References==
{{reflist}} {{Current heads of federal subjects of Russia}}
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