Svetlana Orlova (politician)

Svetlana Orlova
Светлана Орлова
Orlova in 2018
Auditor of the Accounts Chamber of Russia
Assumed office
23 November 2018
Preceded byBato-Zhargal Zhambalnimbuyev
Governor of Vladimir Oblast
In office
23 September 2013  8 October 2018
Preceded byNikolay Vinogradov
Succeeded byVladimir Sipyagin
Governor of Vladimir Oblast (acting)
In office
24 March 2013  23 September 2013
Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council
In office
14 January 2004  24 March 2013
Preceded byAndrey Bikharev
Succeeded byYevgeny Bushmin
Russian Federation Senator
from Kemerovo Oblast
In office
24 November 2001  17 September 2013
Succeeded bySergey Shatirov
Member of the State Duma
In office
11 January 1994  18 January 2000
ConstituencyArsenyev (1995–2000)
Personal details
Born
Svetlana Yuryevna Pavlova

(1954-10-23) 23 October 1954
Obluchye, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyUnited Russia

Svetlana Yuryevna Orlova (Russian: Светлана Юрьевна Орлова; born 23 October 1954), is a Russian politician, who is currently the auditor of the Accounts Chamber of Russia since 23 November 2018.

She served as the governor of Vladimir Oblast from 2013 to 2018. She is known for losing in the second round of the governor's elections in 2018, losing 37.46% and 57.03%, respectively, to the candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Vladimir Sipyagin.

In the past, she was the deputy chairman of the Federation Council from 2004 to 2013, and a member of the State Duma of the 1st and 2nd convocations from 1993 to 2000. From 2012 to 2018, she was a member of the Bureau of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party. On the basis of the decision taken by the delegates of the XVIII Congress of the "United Russia" party held on 7–8 December 2018, she was expelled from the Supreme Council of the party.