Georgy Stratiy leaves the office of Deputy Governor of the Murmansk Region
Georgy Stratiy, Deputy Governor of the Murmansk Region, has decided to step down. At the working meeting held on 27 July 2018, Murmansk Region Governor Marina Kovtun thanked Georgy Stratiy for joint work and offered the post to Olga Kuznetsova, Minister for the Development of Industry and Entrepreneurship of the Murmansk Region, says press center of Murmansk Region Government.
Georgy Stratiy, in his turn thanked Murmansk Region Governor Marina Kovtun for having an opportunity to work as part of her team and expressed his support of Olga Kuznetsova as a the best candidate to the position of Deputy Governor of the Murmansk Region.
“You have shown your best as a Minister and I am sure you can address a wider range of challenges. I am absolutely sure you have enough professionalism, will and strength for this work”, said Marina Kovtun.
The Murmansk Region located at the junction of transnational routes and having reliable sea, railway, road and air links with industrial Russian regions can surely be called a northern gateway of Russia.
Georgy Stratiy had been holding the position of Deputy Governor of the Murmansk Region from 2013.
Olga Kuznetsova was born in 1983 and graduated from Murmansk State Technical University (Global Economy Department) in 2005.
The Murmansk Region has a special strategic status for Russia. Geographical location defined the Kola Peninsula as a priority element in ensuring the geopolitical interests of Russia in the north of Europe and the Arctic. Its non-freezing deep-water the Kola Bay became the main base of the Northern Fleet, and Murmansk sea port became the center of industrial fishing in the Barents Sea and the North Atlantic, and the starting point of the Arctic.
Today, Murmansk is the only port in European Russia with an open access to major oceanic routes. Port of Murmansk has direct access to the Northern Sea Route, that links the Atlantic to the Pacific through the arctic waters and provides access to natural resources of the Far North, Siberia and the Far East.
