Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov ' onMouseout='HidePop("14506")' href="/topics/Chuvash_Autonomous_Soviet_Socialist_Republic">Chuvash ASSR

Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the former Soviet Union.It occupied about 18,000 square kilometres along the east bank of the Volga River, about sixty kilometres west of the river's confluence with the Kama River and some 700...

, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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) is a former President of the Chuvash Republic in Russia

Russia

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. He was the justice minister

Justice Minister

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 of Russia from July 14, 1991 to March 24, 1993 and was the President of Chuvash Republic from January 21, 1994 to August 2010. He was a supporter of market reforms and was reelected in 1998 and 2001.

Fyodorov opposed Russian President Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of...

's policies in Chechnya and Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

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's 2000 federal reform initiatives.

He is an ethnic Chuvash

Chuvash people

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. He is married and has one son and a daughter. His son Vasily is a lawyer. In addition to his native Chuvash

Chuvash language

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, he speaks Russian

Russian language

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 and German

German language

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.

Honours and awards

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland
  Order of Merit for the Fatherland
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  • 3rd class (5 August 2003) - for outstanding contribution to strengthening Russian statehood and many years of diligent work
  • 4th class (9 May 1998) - for services to the state and a major contribution to socio-economic development of Chuvash Republic
• Order of Honour (11 September 2008) - for outstanding contribution to the socio-economic development of the long and fruitful work
• State Prize of the Russian Federation
  State Prize of the Russian Federation
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  , 1999, for science and technology - for the revival of the historic part of the capital of Chuvashia - Cheboksary the city
• Honorary Builder of the Russian Federation
• Medal "For Services to the national health care"
• Medal "75 years of civil defence"
• Order "For Services to the Chuvash Republic" (29 August 2010)
• Order of St. Sergius, 1st class
• Order of the Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow, 1st class
• Winner of the All-Russian legal award "Themis"
• Title of "President of the Year - 2001" All-Russia public premium "Russian National Olympus"
• 850th Anniversary of Moscow Medal
  850th Anniversary of Moscow Medal
  The 850th Anniversary of Moscow Medal was a medal in Russia. It was established by Presidential Decree no 132 of February 26, 1997 in commemoration of the 850th anniversary of the first Russian reference to Moscow, dating to 1147 when Yuri Dolgorukiy called upon the prince of the Novgorod-Severski...
  
  
• Medal of Merit in the All-Russia Census
• Medal "In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg"
• Medal in memory of Kazan 1000th anniversary
• Medal in memory of the 200th anniversary of Russian Ministry of Justice
• Medal "200 Years of the Russian Interior Ministry"