title: Governor of Smolensk Oblast
text: # Governor of Smolensk Oblast
  
  The governor of Smolensk Oblast (Russian: Губернатор Смоленской области) is the highest official of Smolensk Oblast, a region in Central Russia. He heads the supreme executive body of the region — the Smolensk Oblast administration.
  
  Alexey Ostrovsky was dismissed in March 2023 and succeeded by Vasily Anokhin.
  
  ## List of office-holders
  
  This is a list of governors of Smolensk Oblast:
  
  | No. | Governor | Tenure | Party | Election |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Valery Fateyev (born 1946) | 24 October 1991 – 11 May 1993 | Independent | |
  | 2 | Anatoly Glushenkov (1942–2018) | 29 April 1993 – 29 May 1998 | Independent | 1993 |
  | 3 | Aleksandr Prokhorov (born 1953) | 29 May 1998 – 24 May 2002 | Independent | 1998 |
  | 4 | Viktor Maslov (born 1950) | 24 May 2002 – 18 December 2007 | United Russia | 2002 2005 |
  | 5 | Sergey Antufyev (born 1955) | 24 December 2007 — 20 April 2012 | United Russia | 2007 |
  | 6 | Alexey Ostrovsky (born 1976) | 26 April 2012 — 18 May 2015 | LDPR | 2012 2015 2020 |
  | — | Alexey Ostrovsky (born 1976) | 18 May — 28 September 2015 | LDPR | 2012 2015 2020 |
  | (6) | Alexey Ostrovsky (born 1976) | 28 September 2015 — 17 March 2023 | LDPR | 2012 2015 2020 |
  | — | Vasily Anokhin (born 1983) | since 17 March 2023 | | |
  
  ## Elections
  
  The latest election for the office was held on 13 September 2020
  
  ### 2020
  
  | Candidates | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Aleksandr Bichayev | Communists of Russia | 14,001 | 6.24 |
  | Olga Kalistratova | A Just Russia | 17,971 | 8 |
  | Andrey Mitrofanenkov | Communist Party of the Russian Federation | 57,937 | 25.8 |
  | Alexey Ostrovsky | Liberal Democratic Party of Russia | 126,947 | 56.54 |
  
  ### 2015
  
  The election was held on 13 September 2015
  
  | Candidates | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Vladimir Zaytsev | Party for Justice! | 4,630 | 2.03 |
  | Nikolay Kuznetsov | Communist Party of the Russian Federation | 26,507 | 11.62 |
  | Sergey Lebedev | A Just Russia | 28,329 | 12.42 |
  | Yelena Lobanova | Civic Platform | 12,422 | 5.45 |
  | Alexey Ostrovsky | Liberal Democratic Party of Russia | 148,700 | 65.18 |
  