Pavlo Burlakov

Pavlo Mykolaiyovych Burlakov (; ; born June 19, 1963) is a Russian politician and miner who has been serving as Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Sevastopol branch of United Russia in the Russian-occupied Republic of Crimea since 2019, a territory internationally recognised as part of Ukraine.

From 2010 to 2014, he served as the First Vice Prime Minister of Crimea and ex officio served as Prime Minister of Crimea upon the abrupt death of Vasyl Dzharty.

Early life Burlakov was born on 19 July 1963 in the city of Donetsk, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union at the time of his birth. In 1985, he graduated from the Donetsk National Technical University with a specialization in mining machines and complexes. In January 2019, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Sevastopol branch of United Russia.