Ruslan Kukharuk

Ruslan Nikolayevich Kukharuk (; born May 8, 1979) is a Russian statesman and politician. He is the current Governor of Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug since September 8, 2024.

Biography Ruslan Kuharuk was born in Uray, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Tyumen Oblast to a Ukrainian father from Khmelnytskyi Oblast and a Russian-Zyryan mother.

In 2001, Kuharuk received a law degree from the University of Tyumen. After graduation, he started working as a lawyer in the department for legal and organizational and personnel work of the Tyumen district administration. From 2002 to 2011, he was the leading specialist of the legal department, head of the department of legal support of land relations, and head of the department of disposal and lease of land plots in the department of property relations of the Tyumen region.

In 2011, Kuharuk was appointed Director of the Department of Land Relations and Urban Planning of the Tyumen City Administration. He left the position in 2016 to become deputy head of the Tyumen administration. On 8 October 2018, he was elected head of Tyumen.

On 30 May 2024, Vladimir Putin appointed Ruslan Kuharuk as the acting Governor of Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug.