Makhinya, deputy head of Omsk, appointed new mayor of Tomsk

Deputy head of Omsk Dmitry Makhinya has been appointed the new mayor of Tomsk. About it says on the website of the City Duma of Tomsk.

“According to the results of a secret ballot in the Duma, Dmitry Makhinya won a qualified majority of votes and is considered elected to the post of mayor of Tomsk. 26 deputies voted for him,” the message says.

Two more people took part in the elections for the post of mayor of Tomsk – the director of Proftrans LLC Igor Olkhovsky and the director of the Asinovsky Unified Resource Center Alexander Vulf. 2 people voted for Olkhovsky, zero voted for Wulff. Another MP abstained.

Dmitry Makhina is 41 years old, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Omsk State University. F. M. Dostoevsky. In 2006, he began working at the Ministry of Property Relations of the Omsk Region, and in 2016 he became the head of the department for organizing the activities of the department. In 2019, Makhinya was appointed to the post of Vice Mayor and Director of the Department of Property Relations of the Omsk Administration.

Now the duties of the mayor of Tomsk are temporarily performed by Mikhail Ratner. He became acting head of the city on November 13, 2020 after the elected mayor Ivan Klein, who had led the city since 2013, was detained in November 2020 in a criminal case on abuse of power (part 2 of article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) . On December 30, 2021, the court sentenced Klein to two years in a penal colony and a fine of 200,000 rubles, the decision entered into force on July 29, 2022.