Dmitry Dmitriyenko

Dmitry Vladimirovich Dmitriyenko (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Дмитриенко; born 17 August 1963) is the former Governor of Murmansk.

He worked in the army during the 1980s and in various Murmanskian government agencies, including water management, prior to his appointment to the governorship in March 2009.

[1] In 2008, President Vladimir Putin appointed Dmitrienko to the position of deputy head of the Federal Fisheries Agency.

On 21 March 2009, President Dmitry Medvedev nominated Dmitriyenko acting Governor of Murmansk Oblast.

According to Russian journalists, Dmitriyenko wants to use new laws restricting local government elections to remove a number of regional officials from office.