Mikhail Lapshin

Mikhail Lapshin
Михаил Лапшин
4th Head of the Altai Republic
In office 19 January 2002 – 26 January 2006
Preceded by	Semyon Zubakin
Succeeded by	Alexander Berdnikov
Personal details
Born	Mikhail Ivanovich Lapshin (1934-09-01)1 September 1934 Setovka, Smolensky District, West Siberian Krai, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Died	17 June 2006(2006-06-17) (aged 71) Dubnevo, Stupinsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Resting place	Troyekurovskoye Cemetery
Political party	Agrarian Party of Russia

Mikhail Ivanovich Lapshin (Russian: Михаил Иванович Лапшин; 1 September 1934 – 17 June 2006) was a Russian politician who had served as the 4th Head of the Altai Republic in Russia from 2002 to 2006.

Biography

Lapshin was born in Setovka, in what is now Altai Krai. He was an ethnic Russian, but registered as ethnic Altai in the 2002 census when he was Head of the Altai Republic.

He was founder of the Agrarian Party of Russia and served as its leader between 1993 and 2004.

He became Head of the Altai Republic in January 2002. He defeated incumbent Semyon Zubakin in the December 2001 elections with 68% of the vote. In the first round of the elections, Lapshin and Zubakin were in a field of many candidates, and Lapshin received 23% of the vote. Lapshin survived an impeachment attempt in March 2005 by a vote of 22–14 in the state assembly. In December 2005, as his term was expiring, Lapshin was not renominated by President Vladimir Putin for another term, which was necessary for him to continue in office because of changes in the law. He was succeeded on 20 January 2006, by one of his 2001 election opponents, Alexander Berdnikov.

Lapshin died of thrombosis at his home in Dubnevo, in the Stupinsky District of Moscow Oblast, several months after leaving his post as president. He is interred at Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.