{{Short description|Russian politician}} {{Family name hatnote|Alfredovna|Gecht|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Irina Gecht | image = Irina Gecht 2025.jpg | image_size = 220 | order = 10th Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug | term_start = 25 September 2025<br /><small>Acting: 18 March – 25 September 2025</small> | term_end = | governor = | predecessor = Yury Bezdudny | successor = | order1 = Chair of Government of Zaporizhzhia Oblast | term_start1 = 8 May 2024 | term_end1 = 15 January 2025 | governor1 = Yevgeny Balitsky | predecessor1 = Anton Koltsov | successor1 = ''Office disestablished''
| order3 = First Deputy Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast | term_start3 = 11 July 2019 | term_end3 = 8 May 2024 | governor3 = Aleksey Teksler | predecessor3 = Yevgeny Redin | successor3 = Ivan Kutsevlyak
| order4 = Senator from Chelyabinsk Oblast | term_start4 = 24 September 2014 | term_end4 = 10 July 2019 | predecessor4 = Ruslan Gattarov | successor4 = Margarita Pavlova
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|11|30|mf=y}} | birth_place = Shchuchye, Kurgan Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | death_date = | death_place = | children = 2 | profession = Educator, historian, politician | party = United Russia | education = Chelyabinsk State University (1992) | caption = Gecht in 2025 | native_name_lang = ru | native_name = {{nobold|Ирина Гехт}} }} '''Irina Alfredovna Gecht''' ({{langx|ru|Ирина Альфредовна Гехт}}; born 30 November 1969) is a Russian politician serving as Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug since September 2025.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tass.ru/politika/23437189|title="На Север поедете?". Путин предложил Гехт возглавить Ненецкий округ|language=ru|website=TACC|access-date=2025-03-18}}</ref> A member of the United Russia political party, she has served as First Deputy Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast from 2019 to 2024 and previously as Russian Federation Senator from Chelyabinsk Oblast from 2014 to 2019.
== Biography == Irina Gecht was born in the town of Shchuchye, Shchuchansky District, Kurgan Oblast, to a Volga German family. In the 1980s, the Gecht family moved permanently to the town of Raduzhny, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ирина Гехт: "Никто не подсказывал мне, как поступить. Я сделала свой выбор"|url=http://hornews.com/dialogue/irina_geht_quotnikto_ne_podskazyival_mne_kak_postupit_budet_pravilnee_ya_sdelala_svoy_vyiborquot/|date=2015-03-17|publisher=Хорошие новости|accessdate=2016-04-03|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002192237/http://hornews.com/dialogue/irina_geht_quotnikto_ne_podskazyival_mne_kak_postupit_budet_pravilnee_ya_sdelala_svoy_vyiborquot/|archivedate=2016-10-02|url-status=dead}}</ref> After school, Gecht entered Chelyabinsk State University, History Department. She specialized in the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1998, she completed postgraduate studies at the same university.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ura.news/articles/1036256348 |title=«Я же всем чужая была. Ura.ru 6 апреля 2011 |access-date=2024-05-08 |archive-date=2024-05-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240508195109/https://ura.news/articles/1036256348 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Gecht began her political career in 2005 when she was appointed a member of the Civiс Chamber of the Chelyabinsk Region. In 2009, she was elected as Deputy Chair of the Chamber.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://newdaynews.ru/chel/60672.html |title=Южноуральская Общественная палата заполнилась на 2\3. 22.03.2006 |access-date=2024-05-08 |archive-date=2024-05-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240508195111/https://newdaynews.ru/chel/60672.html |url-status=live }}</ref> At the time, she worked as a senior lecturer at the Social Work Department at Chelyabinsk State University.
In 2009, Gecht ran as a candidate for the A Just Russia party in the Chelyabinsk City Duma (local representative body), but was not elected.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://regnum.ru/news/1132903 |title=Кандидат от челябинского отделения «Справедливой России» намерена оспорить итоги выборов. 4.03.2009 |access-date=2024-05-08}}</ref> At the same year she completed and defended her thesis at South Ural State University and received a doctorate in pedagogy.
After the election of Mikhail Yurevich as Chelyabinsk Governor in 2010, he appointed Gecht as Deputy Minister for Social Relations of the Region.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://regnum.ru/news/1368261 |title=Назначен министр социальных отношений Челябинской области. 26.01.2011 |access-date=2024-05-08}}</ref> In 2011, he promoted her to Minister for Social Relations. In 2012, the Governor appointed her Deputy Governor for Social Affairs.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chel.aif.ru/politic/persona/845691 |title=19/11/2012 Ирина Гехт стала вице-губернатором вместо ушедшего в отставку Павла Рыжего |work=AiF |access-date=2016-10-01}}</ref>
In 2014, a newly elected Governor Boris Dubrovsky appointed Gecht Senator from Chelyabinsk Oblast.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ирина Гехт стала сенатором|url=http://magmetall.ru/contribution/17056.htm|date=2014-09-27|publisher=Магнитогорский металл|accessdate=2016-04-03}}</ref> In the Federation Council she joined the Committee for Agrarian and Food Policy and Environmental Management and became its deputy chair.
In July 2019, Irina Gecht resigned early as Senator. She became First Deputy Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast under incoming Governor Aleksey Teksler.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://gubernator74.ru/gekht-irina-alfredovna |title=Гехт Ирина Альфредовна, первый заместитель Губернатора Челябинской области. |access-date=2020-12-13 |archive-date=2020-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213040540/https://gubernator74.ru/gekht-irina-alfredovna |url-status=dead }}</ref>
From May 2024 to January 2025, she chaired the Government of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://focus.ua/uk/voennye-novosti/643373-rf-priznachila-novu-golovu-okupaciynoji-administraciji-zaporizkoji-oblasti-shcho-pro-neji-vidomo|title=РФ призначила нову голову окупаційної адміністрації Запорізької області: що про неї відомо|language=uk|website=ФОКУС|date=2024-04-29|access-date=2025-01-19|archive-date=2025-01-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250119182921/https://focus.ua/uk/voennye-novosti/643373-rf-priznachila-novu-golovu-okupaciynoji-administraciji-zaporizkoji-oblasti-shcho-pro-neji-vidomo|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7433557|title=Уральская чиновница не прижилась в Запорожье|language=ru|website=Коммерсантъ|date=2025-01-17|access-date=2025-03-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/articles/2025/01/17/1086707-dolzhnost-predsedatelya-pravitelstva-zaporozhskoi-oblasti-sobirayutsya-uprazdnit|title=Должность председателя правительства Запорожской области собираются упразднить|language=ru|website=Ведомости|date=2025-01-17|access-date=2025-03-18}}</ref> From January to March 2025 she served as Presidential Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District Aleksandr Gutsan's deputy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eanews.ru/chelyabinsk/20250123165955/byvshiy-chelyabinskiy-vitse-gubernator-irina-geht-stanet-zamestitelem-polpreda|title=Бывший челябинский вице-губернатор Ирина Гехт станет заместителем полпреда|website=eanews.ru|date=2025-01-23|access-date=2025-03-18}}</ref>
On March 18, 2025 President Vladimir Putin appointed Irina Gecht acting Governor of Nenets Autonomous Okrug, following Governor Yury Bezdudny's early resignation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76478|title=Ирина Гехт назначена врио губернатора Ненецкого автономного округа|language=ru|website=Президент России|date=2025-03-18|access-date=2025-03-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.svoboda.org/a/putin-naznachil-byvshuyu-chinovnitsu-iz-zaporozhjya-glavoy-nenetskogo-avtonomnogo-okruga-/33351988.html|title=Путин назначил врио главы Ненецкого автономного округа|language=ru|website=Радио Свобода|date=2025-03-18|access-date=2025-03-18}}</ref>
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