The new head of the Tomsk region twice confused the name of the region

In his welcoming speech to the legislators of the Tomsk region, the acting head of the region, Vladimir Mazur, twice made a mistake in the name of the region. The press service explained this reservation with excitement.

During his first speech in the Duma of the region, Vladimir Mazur, who was appointed interim head of the Tomsk region, misspoke twice, confusing the region with the Tyumen region.

“I would like to express my special gratitude to Sergey Anatolyevich Zhvachkin, who worked selflessly for the benefit of the Tomsk people for more than 10 years and contributed to the history of the Tyumen region. The Tyumen land is the land of strong-willed Siberians,” Mazur said in his speech.

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Mazur also emphasized that he himself was born in the Tomsk region, and his childhood and youth passed in the region. “Therefore, I sincerely value every corner of the city, village and region as a whole. In my opinion, this is a huge responsibility,” said Mazur, promising to do everything possible to succeed.

The new head of the region made a slip when speaking on May 12 with a welcoming speech at a meeting of the Tomsk Legislative Assembly, which was broadcast online, Ura.ru reports. Later, the recording of the broadcast was removed from the site of the thought, but managed to disperse widely in social networks.

The reservation of the new acting head of the region was associated with unrest, RBC was told in the press service of Mazur. “We are sure that everyone understood what it was connected with - with excitement,” they said.

Vladimir Mazur, a former deputy head of the Kremlin's Department of Domestic Policy, became interim head of the Tomsk region on May 10. On this day, 65-year-old Sergei Zhvachkin left the post of head of the republic. He explained this decision with the desire to "give way to the young." Zhvachkin's powers expired in the fall of 2022.

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On the same day, the governors of the Republic of Mari El, Kirov, Ryazan and Saratov regions announced their decision to leave their posts ahead of schedule. Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted their resignation and appointed interim heads of regions, including Vladimir Mazur, to the post of acting head of the Tomsk region. The fact that Mazur could become acting governor of the Tomsk region, RBC wrote back in February.

Mazur is a native of the Tomsk region, from 2004 to 2007 he worked as deputy mayor of Tomsk for information policy, head of the committee for public relations and information policy. Later he served as vice-governor of the Tyumen region, head of the administration of Tobolsk, vice-governor of the Kaluga region. In recent years, he worked in the internal political bloc of the Kremlin. Mazur also completed the "School of Governors" - the program of the management reserve of the Higher School of Public Administration of the RANEPA.