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Place of Birth: Uakit, Russia
About Leonid Potapov
- Leonid Vasilyevich Potapov (Russian: ?????´? ????´?????? ????´???) (born July 4, 1935) was the President of the Buryat Republic in Russia from August 1991 to July 2007.
- He was reelected three times (in 1994, 1998 and 2002); in 2002 he received 68% of the vote. Potapov was born in Uakit, Buryatia.
- In 1959 he graduated as an Engineer from Khabarovsk Institute of Railway Transport.
- From January to April 1990 he was nominal Vice President (Vice Chairman of Supreme Council) of Turkmenistan.
- In April 1990 he returned to Buryatia and was nominated as a local communist party chief (1st secretary of CPSU Buryatian branch).
- In October 1991 he became Chairman of the Supreme Council.
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