title: Alexander Filatov
text: # Alexander Filatov
  
  Alexander Alekseyevich Filatov (Russian: Александр Алексеевич Филатов; born September 5, 1940) is a Russian politician.
  
  Filatov graduated from the Kuzbass Polytechnic Institute. He worked as a miner in the city of Polysayevo. From 1987 to 1990 he headed the mining inspection. From March to August 1990 he was the first secretary of the Leninsk-Kuznetsky city committee of the CPSU. He was elected to the Kemerovo Oblast Council in 1993.
  
  From 1997 to 1999 Filatov was Chairman of the Council of People’s Deputies of Kemerovo Oblast and ex officio member of the Federation Council of Russia.
  
  