33 of the 36 deputies of the city meeting voted in favor of Demidov's candidacy. Other candidates were also considered by local businessmen Yevgeny Soshenko and Vladimir Bivshev. It should be noted that before the voting, Valentin Demidov held the position of temporary acting of the mayor of Belgorod since November last year. Valentin Demidov was born in Russia, spent his childhood in Armenian, in Crimea. In the late 1990s, he settled in Crimean Titan (titanium dioxide manufacturer).
In 2002 he was elected a deputy of the Armenian City Council. In 2005, he joined the Party of Regions, after which his political career went up sharply. Thus, in 2007 he was elected mayor of Armenian, in 2010 he was re -elected to this position. During the occupation of Crimea, he began to cooperate with the local "administration". In 2015, the chairman of the occupation administration of the peninsula Sergey Aksyonov appointed him "Minister of Economic Development" of Crimea.
From January 2017 to September 2019 he headed the "Department of Territorial Development and Interaction with Local Self -Government Bodies" of Sevastopol. In 2020 he headed the "administration" of Simferopol. In February 2020, Demidov was appointed advisor to the governor of Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkova. In September 2022 he was appointed advisor to Mayor Belgorod Anton Ivanov, just a month later he was appointed Deputy Mayor, and a month later he had already become. at. Mayor of Belgorod.
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