Career
Alexander Vinnikov was the mayor of Birobidzhan, the capital of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. The 2004 Birobidzhan mayoral election was held during the same time as the Russian presidential election, 2004. On March 14, 2004, Alexander Vinnikov, the incumbent, faced professor Miron Fishbeyn, and Aleksandr Kurdyukov of the Birobidzhan municipal administration.
Alexander Vinnikov is Jewish.
His family arrived in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in 1947 from Belarus. According to Interfax, "Lawmakers in Russia"s Jewish Autonomous Region have confirmed the appointment of Alexander Vinnikov as the region"s new governor.
Vinnikov, who was nominated to the post by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on February 8, was supported by 13 deputies out of a total of 16.".
