Leonid Potapov
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leonid Vasil'ievitch Potapov (Леонид Васильевич Потапов) (born July 4, 1935 in Buryatia) has been the President of the Buryat Republic in Russia since August 1991. He has been reelected three times (in 1994, 1998 and 2002), last time in 2002, when he received 68% of the vote. In 1959 he graduated as an Engineer from Habarovsk Institute of Railway Transport. From January to April 1990 was nominal Vice President (Vice Chairman of Supreme Council] of Turkmenistan. In April 1990 returned to Buryatia and was nominated as a local communist party chief (1st secretary of CPSU Buryatian branch).
