It clarifies the newspaper "Izvestia", Samoilenko died on the night of 3 to 4 May in the 82nd year of life due to a long illness.
“Valery Samoilenko is an outstanding personality for our city ... The current economic success of Krasnodar is largely his merit,” the text says.
At the beginning of April, the death of Vasily Likhachyov, a former member of the CEC of Russia, was reported.