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Nikolai Ignatovich Kondratenko (Russian: Николай Игнатович Кондратенко; 16 February 1940 – 23 November 2013) was a Russian politician who served as Governor of Krasnodar Krai from 1995 to 2001. He served as a senator from 2001 to 2003 and from 2008 to 2013. He was also the runner-up candidate of the Communist Party in 2003.
Biography
Nikolai Kondratenko was born on 16 February 1940 in the village of Plastunkovskaya in Dinskoy District, Krasnodar Krai. He graduated from the Kuban Agricultural Institute and the Rostov Higher Party School and became a candidate of agricultural sciences.[1]
From 1969, he was involved in party work. From 1984 to 1987, he was the head of the Department of Agriculture, then the Second Secretary of the Krasnodar Krai Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1987 to 1990, he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Krasnodar Krai Soviet of People's Deputies.[1]
In December 1993, he was elected to the newly established Federation Council, and became a member of the Federation Council Committee on Agriculture and Food Policy.[1] He was one of the organizers of the Kuban Fatherland movement.[1]
In 2001, he became the representative to the Federation Council from the administration of Krasnodar Krai. He was a member of the Federation Council Committee on Agriculture and Food Policy. In 2003, he was elected to the State Duma of the 4th convocation. He was a member of the State Duma Committee on Agrarian Issues.[1]
Kondratenko was criticized for public antisemitic statements in 2003.[2]
In 2008, he was again elected to the Federation Council.[1]
He was known for his promotion of traditional values and a Cossack cultural revival.
