Leonid Potapov


Leonid Vasilyevich Potapov was the President of the Buryat Republic in Russia from August 1991 to July 2007. He was reelected three times ; in 2002 he received 68% of the vote.
Potapov was born in Uakit, Buryatia. In 1959 he graduated as an Engineer from Khabarovsk Institute of Railway Transport. From January to April 1990 he was nominal Vice President of Turkmenistan. In April 1990 he returned to Buryatia and was nominated as a local communist party chief. In October 1991 he became Chairman of the Supreme Council.

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