Eduard Ergartovich Rossel (born October 8, 1937, in the selo of Bor, Borsky District, Gorky Region) is a Russian statesman, governor of Sverdlovsk Region from 1995 to 2009, and a senator of the Federation Council. He is ethnically German and speaks German fluently.[1] A native of Borsky District, he is considered one of the best-known natives of the Nizhny Novgorod area.[5]
Education and Early Career
In 1962, Rossel graduated from the Sverdlovsk Mining Institute; he later defended a candidate's dissertation and in 2001 became a Doctor of Economic Sciences.[4] He began working alongside his studies: in 1962 he was listed as a junior researcher at the Sverdlovsk institute, and in 1963 he moved to the Tagilstroy construction trust, where for several years he held the positions of foreman, site superintendent, chief engineer, and head of a construction department.[1] From 1975 to 1990 he worked at the Tagiltyazhstroy construction complex, and then headed Glavsredneuralstroy. He was awarded the title of Honored Builder of the RSFSR.[1]
Political Career
In early 1990, Rossel was elected a deputy of the Sverdlovsk Regional Council, and in March of that year, at a session of the council, chairman of the regional executive committee; six months later he also took the post of chairman of the regional council.[1] On October 18, 1991, he was appointed head of the administration of Sverdlovsk Region by decree of the President of Russia.[1]
In 1993, Rossel initiated the creation of the Urals Republic: on July 1 the regional council adopted the corresponding decision, on October 27 the Constitution of the Urals Republic was approved, and on October 30 it came into force. The President of Russia responded with decrees: on November 9, 1993, the Sverdlovsk Regional Council was dissolved, and on November 10 Rossel was removed from his post. A number of the republic's decisions were declared invalid.[1]
In December 1993, Rossel was elected a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, and in April 1994 he became the first chairman of the Sverdlovsk Regional Duma.[4] In August 1995, he was elected governor of Sverdlovsk Region and was re-elected to this post twice. In October 2005, he raised the question of confidence before the president and, after joining the United Russia party, was unanimously reappointed governor.[4] In November 2009, Alexander Misharin replaced Rossel as head of the region; after Misharin's resignation in 2012, Rossel returned to the Federation Council as the representative from Sverdlovsk Region by decree of Yevgeny Kuyvashev.[4]
Concurrently with his governorship, Rossel headed the Association for Economic Cooperation of the Regions and Republics of the Ural Region — he had been elected its president as early as November 1993, immediately after his removal from the post of head of the regional administration.[1]
Connection to the Nizhny Novgorod Region
Rossel was born in the selo (a larger village) of Bor (now the town of Bor in Nizhny Novgorod Region) and is considered one of the best-known natives of Borsky District — along with the cosmonauts Andrey Selivanov and Vyacheslav Zudov, as well as the nuclear scientist Yevgeny Negin.[5]
Sources
- Kommersant (Volga Region) — Political Vector
- TASS
- Lenta.ru — "The film "Election Day" is not fiction": Political consultant Oleg Matveychev on how his colleagues manipulated the electorate: Lecture Hall: Library: Lenta.ru
- globaleburg.ru — ROSSEL Eduard Ergartovich — GlobalEBURG.ru
- smgrf.ru — Borsky District — Union of Small Towns of the Russian Federation
- historyrussia.org