[4] Svetlana Orlova was born on 23 October 1954 in the city of Obluchye, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, in the family of a diesel locomotive driver.

2 in Vladivostok, which at that time was headed by the innovative teacher Nikolay Dubinin; worked at a boarding school as a pioneer leader and educator.

[5][8][9] In 1979, Orlova moved to work in the organs of the CPSU, where until 1990 she held the positions of an instructor of the Soviet District Committee of the party, as head of the department of the Frunzensky District Council, and head of the sector of the Primorsky Regional Committee of the CPSU for physical culture and sports.

[8][10][11] From 1990 to 1993, she was the Vice President, General Director of the Primorsk Regional Women's Commercial Charitable Organization LLP "ANNA" in Vladivostok,[10][11] which opened a training center for retraining and a tourist center and published, together with the Regional Council, a newspaper for women "Anna".

[5] In 1991, she graduated from the Khabarovsk Higher Party School, courses for women entrepreneurs at the Academy of National Economy under the Government of Russia.

In 1993, Orlova was elected a member of the State Duma of the 1st convocation on the federal list of the "Women of Russia" political movement.

[5] In 1995, with the electoral association "Women of Russia", Orlova was nominated as a candidate for the State Duma in the Arsenyevsky single-mandate constituency No.

[5] In 1998, Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko offered Orlova the post of chairman of the State Committee for Fisheries of the Russia, however she refused, as she ran for governor of the Primorsky Krai, but was removed from registration in 1999 for not entering information about an apartment in Moscow in the income statement and plot of land in the suburbs, recorded on her husband.

[18] In the "United Russia" faction, Orlova was the curator of the infamous program of "Clean Water", with Viktor Petrik.

Three days before the second round of elections, Orlova asked for support from the population and partially admitted the mistakes of her activities as governor of the Vladimir Oblast.

[30] The Russian press, both federal and directly from the Vladimir Oblast, often criticized Orlova for a mass of election promises that she did not fulfill when she became governor.

The secret was simple: when the president did not have time to finish the thought, she already raised her elbows to chest level, spread her arms and began to clap her hands.

[12][39][40][41] According to press reports, Vladimir, together with his colleagues in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was involved in the illegal confiscation of goods from entrepreneurs in the 2000s and their subsequent sale.

[42][43] Journalist Irek Murtazin claims that Vladimir Orlov was the actual leader of the police "brigade" that ruined the Lithuanian businessman.

[44] After the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Orlov worked as an advisor to the general director of the Olympstroy corporation, but resigned from it of his own free will.