Career
He has held the office since July 10, 2007. Nagovitsyn was born in Glazov, a village in Udmurtia. He spent most of his life in Tomsk.
In 1978, he graduated from Tomsk Polytechnical Institute, specialising in Mechanical Engineering.
He had, during university, received higher education in economics. Nagovistyn took a series of low paying jobs until he was employed as an engineer
In 1986 he was appointed as the chief engineer of a factory in Tomsk, later becoming the general director He began his political career in December 1999, when he became Mayor of Tomsk for a short period of time.
Since 2002 he has been the Chairman of the Company-ordination Council Forestry and Agriculture.
In 2007 he was nominated and elected president of Buryatia. He also has two grandchildren.