Mayor of Dzerzhinsk Ivan Noskov resigned early
The head of Dzerzhinsk (Nizhny Novgorod region) Ivan Noskov resigned early on Wednesday. According to Kommersant, he may head the administration of Samara instead of its current mayor Elena Lapushkina, who took this post under former governor Dmitry Azarov, and after his resignation became an object of criticism from the new head of the region, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev.
The Duma of Dzerzhinsk, the second largest city in the Nizhny Novgorod region (216 thousand people), accepted the early resignation of Mayor Ivan Noskov behind closed doors. His powers expired only next year, but the other day the mayor unexpectedly submitted his resignation letter of his own free will. According to Kommersant sources, Mr. Noskov can head the Samara administration.
52 year old Ivan Noskova native of Novosibirsk and a graduate of Krasnoyarsk State University, began his career in 1998 in Kansk (Krasnoyarsk Territory), was a deputy of the local city council. Since 2006, he has worked at the Federal Property Fund, and since 2009, at government agencies in the Northern Administrative District of Moscow. Later he became the first deputy head of the Solnechnogorsk district of the Moscow region, and in 2014 - the Minister of Housing Policy, Energy and Transport of the Irkutsk Region. From November 2015 to May 2017, he served as vice-mayor of Irkutsk. Then he moved to the administration of Nizhny Novgorod and in November 2018, on the initiative of Governor Gleb Nikitin, was elected by deputies of the Dzerzhinsk City Duma to the post of mayor.
“I have the feeling that I was born and raised here, Dzerzhinsk is a wonderful city,” Ivan Noskov told Kommersant after the City Duma meeting. “I’m not ashamed of my work.” The official did not discuss further employment or answer a direct question about whether he was expected in Samara, and explained the sudden decision to resign briefly: “A long farewell means extra tears.”
Information about the move for Mr. Noskov was confirmed on the afternoon of October 2 by the speaker of the Nizhny Novgorod Legislative Assembly, Evgeny Lyulin. “Ivan Noskov will head the administration of Samara. For Dzerzhinsk, this is a sensation, because over six years, Ivan Nikolaevich and the work of his team seemed to inextricably merge with the city of chemists and became a symbol of positive changes,” he wrote in his Telegram channel. However, towards evening this message disappeared from the speaker’s channel.
Since 2017, the post of mayor of Samara has been occupied by Elena Lapushkina. At the time when Dmitry Azarov was the mayor, she headed the Zheleznodorozhny district of the regional center, and after his transition to the post of governor, she almost immediately received a promotion. At that time, 46 people applied for the competition to select candidates (the mayor of Samara is elected by city Duma deputies), but Mr. Azarov’s protégé won without any problems. At the beginning of 2023, the mayor was unanimously re-elected for a second term. In 2022–2023, she was a member of the State Council of the Russian Federation.
After the early resignation of Dmitry Azarov (see “Kommersant” on June 1), Kommersant’s sources in the Samara administration began to predict Ms. Lapushkina’s imminent dismissal, and soon she became an object of criticism from the new head of the region, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev. For example, in July he confronted the mayor with problems of improvement. “You are now talking about farming in the city, as if this is not your area of responsibility,” Mr. Fedorishchev was indignant. “It won’t be like that with us. We will have a head - it could be you, continuing your work, it could be someone else who will be responsible for everything that happens in the city."
According to local Telegram channels, Ms. Lapushkina may take the post of Human Rights Commissioner in the Samara region instead of Olga Galtsova. However, the city administration has not yet confirmed the information about the mayor’s imminent resignation. “Currently she (Elena Lapushkina.— “Kommersant”) is on vacation. The information about the resignation does not correspond to reality,” Elena Ryzhkova, head of the information and analytics department, told Kommersant.
