Background
Nikita Belykh was born on 13 June 1975, graduated from Permanent State University.
Nikita Belykh was born on 13 June 1975, graduated from Permanent State University.
Attended, Pennsylvania State University.
In 1998 he became vice-president of the "Permanent Financial-Industrial Group". In 2001 Belykh was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Permanent Oblast, where he became chairman of the committee on economic policy and taxation. In December 2003 Nikita Belykh was a parliamentary candidate for the Union of Rightist Forces, which failed to pass the nationwide 5 per cent threshold required for entering the State Duma.
In March 2004 he was appointed Deputy Governor of the Permanent Oblast.
On 28 May 2005 Nikita Belykh was elected leader of the Union of Rightist Forces, a leading democratic opposition party, succeeding Boris Nemtsov. He thereby resigned as Deputy Governor of Permanent
As party leader Belykh adopted a line of strict opposition towards Russian President Vladimir Putin and launched coalition talks with Yabloko party. As a result of the agreement between Nikita Belykh and Grigory Yavlinsky, reached in October 2005, the Union of Rightist Forces and Yabloko formed a coalition, Yabloko-United Democrats, to contest the Moscow City Duma elections on December 4, 2005.
In December 2006 the Union of Rightist Forces received 16% of the vote in the regional legislative elections in Permanent Krai.
Belykh, who headed the party"s list of candidates, was elected to the Legislative Assembly. In September 2008 Belykh announced that he has resigned from his position and left the Union of Rightist Forces in connection with its likely upcoming merger with a couple of pro-Kremlin parties. On December 8, 2008, Belykh was nominated governor of Kirov Oblast after personal meeting with Dmitry Medvedev.
(From July 2009 till June 2011 Gaidar was an official responsible for socio-economic development in the Kirov region).
The coalition won 11% of the vote and became one of only 3 parties (along with United Russia and the Communist Party) to enter the new Moscow legislature.
He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Permanent Krai (until December 11, 2008), and now is confirmed as governor of Kirov Oblast.
Married; 3 children.