Marina Kovtun: biography and career achievements

Marina Kovtun is a very famous woman even outside the Murmansk region. But, despite this, her personal life is a complete mystery, since she keeps her behind seven locks. It's not worth blaming a woman, because few people will be glad that his family is under the general sight. But quite another matter - her career accomplishments. A lot is known about them.

So let's talk about who Maria Kovtun is. How many heights could she achieve and why is her name heard by many people?

Youth and Education

Kovtun Marina Vasilievna was born on March 10, 1962 in Murmansk. Her father was a well-known trammeister of the city Vasily Tikhonovich Kozlov, who received for his services the honorary title of Hero of Socialist Labor. It was his severe influence that forged the steel character of the future governor of the city.

She received her secondary education in Murmansk. After graduation, Marina Kovtun entered the Penza College of Soviet Trade. Upon his graduation in 1980 he passed examinations at the Higher Komsomol School at the Central Committee of the CPSU (today it is a humanitarian university in Moscow).

After graduation, he arranges to work in the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth Union (VLKSM), from where her ascent to Olympus glory begins.

Career Marina Kovtun: key dates

1. 1986 - appointment to the post of the head of the district committee of the Komsomol in the Kola district.
2. End of 1992 - heads the committee on youth in the region.
3. 1992 - managing the sector of taxation of individuals and foreign persons under the State Tax Service of the Kola District.
4. 1994-2005 - Deputy Director of the Committee for the Development of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism in the Murmansk region.
5. Beginning of February, 2005 - receives a post of the deputy chief of Federal management on tourism.
6. 2006-2009 - Head of the Department for Tourism Development at the Department of Economics of the Murmansk Region.
7. 2009-2011 - becomes Deputy General Director of OJSC Kola MMC.
8. December 2011 - wins the elections and becomes a deputy of the Murmansk regional Duma.
9. From April 2012 to May 2014 he is the governor of the city. This post was appointed by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in connection with the early departure of the previous leader of the city.

It should be noted that in late May of the same year, Marina Kovtun was removed from the post of governor at her own request. This was due to the fact that she wanted to receive this post only after the official victory in the elections in September 2014. And her hopes were crowned with success. Beginning in October 2014, Marina Kovtun is governor of the Murmansk region.

Work in a new position

Curiously, Marina is the third woman governor of Murmansk. People even start joking about this, as if men do not even have to claim this post.

But if you drop the jokes, then the victory of Marina Kovtun was obvious. After all, before that, she was engaged in a very active social life, which earned the recognition of the people. But also becoming governor, she showed herself as a worthy leader and specialist.

True, without a spoon fly was not done. So, there were rumors that Marina indulges some businessmen of the city and helps to eliminate their competitors. However, it was not possible to prove the reliability of this information, and therefore, there is nothing to blame for it yet.

Marina Kovtun: personal life

As it was said before, there is not much that is known about the personal life of the governor of the Murmansk region. With her husband Basil, she met while in college. It was love at first sight, and therefore, without thinking twice, they got married.

Marriage brought them two children: a girl and a boy. The eldest daughter Marina was born in the first year of family life, in 1985, the boy Sasha nine years later. Now the children are studying and living in Moscow.

It should also be noted that, according to a recent monitoring of the magazine Ogonyok, Marina Kovtun is one of the most influential women in Russia. In "Top-100" of this edition, she takes an honorable 55th place.