Yury Lyashko

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Yury Gavrillovich Lyashko (Russian: Юрий Гаврилович Ляшко; 22 April 1943 – 7 March 2005) was a Russian statesman and independent politician. He served as the first mayor of Blagoveshchensk from 11 December 1991 to 3 June 1996, and then as the fifth governor of Amur Oblast from 3 June 1996 to 20 April 1997. While governor, he was a member of the Federation Council and worked on agrarian policy. He lost the 1997 election to Anatoly Belonogov.

Lyashko came from a military family in Vladivostok. He began as a carpenter in 1960, graduated from the Far Eastern Polytechnic Institute in 1967, and worked as a builder and engineer in construction projects in the region. After his mayoral term, he held several federal roles, including representative of the President in Amur Oblast, deputy chairman of the State Committee for the Development of the North, and deputy minister of National Policy. He later served as a vice president of a Yukos division. Lyashko died in Moscow on 7 March 2005 and was buried at Rakitki Cemetery (site 5).