Grigory Rapota
Grigory Rapota | |
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Григорий Рапота | |
Official portrait, 2021 | |
| Senator from Kursk Oblast | |
| Assumed office 17 May 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Alexander Mikhailov |
| Presidential Envoy to the Volga Federal District | |
| In office 12 May 2008 – 15 December 2011 | |
| President | Dmitry Medvedev |
| Preceded by | Aleksandr Konovalov |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Babich |
| Presidential Envoy to the South Federal District | |
| In office 9 October 2007 – 14 May 2008 | |
| President | Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev |
| Preceded by | Dmitry Kozak |
| Succeeded by | Vladimir Ustinov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 February 1944 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | United Russia |
| Alma mater | Bauman Moscow State Technical University Krasnoznamenny Institute of the KGB of the USSR |
Grigory Alekseevich Rapota (Russian: Григорий Алексеевич Рапота; born 5 February 1944) is a Russian politician who currently serves as a Senator from the executive authority of Kursk Oblast. Prior to his appointment, he was the special representative of the Russian president in the Volga Federal District between 2008 and 2011. Before that he was the special representative of the Russian president in the Southern Federal District (North Caucasus and southern European Russia). He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
He was state secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus between 2011 and 2021.