“Valentin Petrovich Fedorov, a prominent scientist-economist, the first governor of the Sakhalin Region, is gone.
He headed the island region at a difficult time for our country (in 1991).
But, despite many difficulties, Valentin Petrovich gave a start to the most important socio-economic transformations and laid the foundations for the further development of the region, ”the message says.
The press service also stressed that Fedorov had developed and adopted the first federal program for the development of the Kuril Islands.
Earlier, the first deputy governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug Gennady Bukhtin died due to the consequences of coronavirus infection.