Ilya Seredyuk

Ilya Seredyuk (Илья Владимирович Середюк; born May 15, 1975) is a Russian statesman and politician. He is the current acting Governor of Kemerovo Oblast since 15 May 2024.

Biography
Ilya Seredyuk was born in Kemerovo on 16 November 1975, into a family of teachers. His father taught at Kuzbass State Technical University, while his mother worked in a gymnasium. In 1997, Ilya Seredyuk also graduated from Kuzbass State Technical University. After that, he worked as a consultant at the Administration of Industry, Transport, and Communication of Kemerovo Oblast. In 1999, he was appointed the external manager of JSC 'Topkinsky Cement'. From 2003 to 2006, Ilya Seredyuk headed the Department of Industry and Consumer Market of the Kemerovo Administration, then became the Deputy Head for Urban Development. In 2015, he became the Deputy Governor of Kuzbass for the Agro-Industrial Complex, Natural Resources, and Ecology.

Since the spring of 2016, after Valery Ermakov left the position of Mayor of Kemerovo, Ilya Seredyuk took over the role in the status of Acting Mayor. In the fall of the same year, he was elected Mayor for the first time, being nominated by 'United Russia'. In September 2021, after the abolition of direct mayoral elections in Kuzbass in 2019, the city council approved the candidacy of Ilya Seredyuk, and he became the head of Kemerovo for a second term.

On May 15, 2024, President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Ilya Seredyuk as the acting governor of Kemerovo Oblast. He succeeded Sergey Tsivilyov, who became the Minister of Energy.