Jean Sagbo

Jean Gregoire Sagbo (, 10 May 1959 – late December 2024) was a Beninese-born Russian real estate agent and politician. His position was councilor of Novozavidovo in Konakovsky District, Tver Oblast. Sagbo was the first Russian of African descent, or Afro-Russian, to have been elected to a local council in the Russian Federation. Upon his election in 2010, he was referred to in some media as "Russia's Obama".

Biography Sagbo was born on 10 May 1959, in Cotonou in the southern coastal region of the Republic of Dahomey. He immigrated to the USSR in 1982 to study economics in Moscow. He settled in Novozavidovo, a town of approximately 10,000 people located 100 km north of Moscow, in 1989.

About ten years prior to his first election, he organized a volunteer effort for an annual garbage collection day. He also planted flowers and cleaned streets in front of his home without pay.

Personal life and death Sagbo was married to Svetlana, a resident of Novozavidovo, and had two children. He died in late December 2024 at the age of 65 and was buried in Savi, Benin, on 21 January 2025.