Valery Pavlinovich Shantsev (Russian: Валерий Павлинович Шанцев; born 29 June 1947) is the former governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast from 8 August 2005, when he replaced Gennady Khodyrev until his resignation on 26 September 2017. Prior to his appointment as governor, Shantsev was the deputy mayor of Moscow. He also led Moscow's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Personal life
Shantsev was born in 1947, and was a factory worker.
Valery Shantsev was born on 29 June 1947 in the village of Susanino, Kostroma Region. Up to 7 years he was brought up in the village with his grandmother, afterwards he moved to Moscow to his parents. He graduated from the 8th form of school No. 743, after which he entered the aviation technical school. Later he graduated from the evening department of the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation and the Academy of National Economy.
In 1968 Shantsev got a job at the Salyut defense plant. At the Salyut factory, Shantsev first worked as an assistant to the master, then as the head of the workshop preparation department, as a senior engineer-technologist. He was the secretary of the Komsomol organization of the plant.
In 1971 he joined the CPSU, from 1975 to 1991 he worked in party positions. He was deputy secretary of the party committee of the Salyut plant, instructor, deputy head of the industrial and transport department of the Perovski district committee of the CPSU, instructor, deputy head of the machine building department of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU.
In 1983, Shantsev became a deputy of the Perovskiy District Soviet of People's Deputies. In 1985-1990, Shantsev was chairman of the Perovsk regional executive committee, first secretary of the Perovski district committee of the CPSU, chairman of the Perovsk regional council of people's deputies. In 1987, Shantsev was first elected to the Moscow City Council, in 1990 he was reelected.
In 1990, Shantsev became secretary of the Moscow City Counsel. In the same year he was re-elected to the Moscow City Council; there he created and headed the opposition communist faction "Moscow", which existed until the dissolution of the Moscow Soviet in October 1993. In May 1991, Shantsev demanded the resignation of the chairman of the Moscow City Council, Gabriel Popov, for the disorganization of the work of the Moscow City Council and the use of his rostrum for agitation (Popov was at that time a candidate for the post of mayor of Moscow.) Shantsev himself also ran for the mayor elections in Moscow in the summer of 1991, however, elected Popov (paired with whom the candidate for the post of vice-mayor was Luzhkov).