The following men have served as Premier of Alaska, an ever-evolving role as the head of the Great White North's government.
Premiers of Alaska[]
(Russian: Премьер-министр Аляски; Prem'er-ministr Alyaski)
Name | Picture | Took office | Left office | Political Party | Notes |
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Boris Anasenko | 1897 | 1912 | N/A | Inaugural officeholder | |
Ivan Sergetov | 1912 | 1917 | N/A | Resigned due to scandal revolving around two illegimate children fathered with Aleut women | |
Dmitri Tomegin | 1917 | 1924 | N/A | Died in office of heart attack | |
Georgiy Ivanov | 1924 | 1927 | N/A | Signed the Kodiak Accords to end Alaskan involvement in Pacific War - sacked shortly thereafter by Nicholas I, making him the only Premier dismissed by the Tsar. | |
Mischa Komarov | 1927 | 1937 | Conservative | The "Great Deregulator" governed over a time period of explosive economic growth in the oil industry, leading to rampant corruption. | |
Vasily Poropek | 1937 | 1939 | Conservative/Industrial | Founded Industrial Party while in office; murdered by wife while on vacation in Cuba when discovered with two sixteen year old American girls. Generally regarded as the most unpopular Premier in history. | |
Sergey Kolov | 1939 | 1944 | Socialist | Ousted in vote of no-confidence following outbreak of Siberian-Alaskan War; Marxist sympathies and leadership of anti-monarchist camp earned distrust amongst conservative members of Duma | |
Yakov Sighovaryin | 1944 | 1960 | Conservative (formally) | Longest-interred Premier; generally regarded as a benign dictator with exorbitant power and a cult of personality | |
Kirill Osopek | 1960 | 1965 | Conservative | Governed during the Good Friday Earthquake, the assassination of Alexander II and the succession crisis that followed. | |
Konstantin Sarugin | 1965 | 1966 | Liberal | Governed briefly following no-confidence dissolution of first Osopek Premiership | |
Kirill Osopek | 1966 | 1968 | Conservative (Conservative Coalition) | Second term - Osopek the only Premier to hold office on two nonconsecutive occasions | |
Stanislav Mergeyev | 1968 | 1973 | Imperial (Conservative Coalition) | ||
Aleksey Pushkin | 1973 | 1974 | Progress (Liberal Coalition) | Died in office | |
Ivan Edmarovsky | 1975 | 1979 | Liberal (Liberal Coalition) | Came to power after nineteen-day period without a Premier | |
Aleksey Valenko | 1979 | 1988 | Moderate (Conservative Coalition) | Switched coalition loyalty in 1979 election to gain premiership; in power during constitutional showdowns in 1982; resigned in 1988 during corruption scandals implicating members of his cabinet | |
Iosef Antonov | 1988 | 1992 | Conservative (Conservative Coalition) | Used constitutional loopholes to prevent a general election; eventually tried and convicted of corruption charges and murdered in prison | |
Boris Molotov | 1992 | 2002 | Liberal (Liberal Coalition) | Instituted constitutional, economic and institutional reforms; regarded as the father of the modern Alaskan political structure | |
Vladimir Putin | 2002 | 2010 | Conservative (Conservative Coalition) | Anti-crime crusader; high popularity ratings despite low approval ratings for his conservative Duma | |
Svetlana Karalova | 2010 | present | Moderate (Center Coalition) | First female Premier |