Aleksandr Nikitin (politician, born 1987)

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Nikitin (Russian: Александр Александрович Никитин; born 27 October 1987), is a Russian politician who had served as the acting governor of Khabarovsk Krai in May 2024.

Aleksandr Nikitin was born on 27 October 1987 in Bender, in the Moldavian SSR of the Soviet Union (now in Moldova, under Transnistrian control).

From 2014 to 2016, he was a senior inspector of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

From 2016 to 2020 he was the head of the staff of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the VII convocation on physical culture, sports, tourism and youth affairs.

From 2018 to 2020, he was a member of the working group on improving the legislation in the field of physical culture and sports of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports.