Valery Nazarov

Valery Lvovich Nazarov (; born September 11, 1955) is a Russian official and politician. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.

Biography In 1972–1973 Nazarov worked as a turner.

He studied at the Naval School of Tallinn until 1975, in which he "carefully attended all the Komsomol meetings". In 1975–1981 Nazarov was a Komsomol worker in Michurinsk Southeast railway station department (1977–1978). Nazarov actively collaborated with the KGB, keeping track of Baltic dissidents. Management of the club went to court, which, after a long trial resolved the case in favour of the City Property Management Committee, headed by Nazarov.

In 2000–2003 – as a vice governor of St. Petersburg – chairman of KUGA, he was responsible for the activities of the Committee of Land Resources and chaired the city's Commission of Property of the Government of St. Petersburg. A member of the Board of the Ministry of Property Relations of the Russian Federation (since 2000), he participated in the creation of a new concept of Real Estate Management in St. Petersburg (approved in 2001).

From January 11 – March 12, 2004, he was the Chief of the Control Directorate of the Russian presidential administration appointed by President Vladimir Putin. From March 12, 2004, until May 2008, he was the Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Federal Property Management (Rosimushchestvo). He had four deputies. Two of them, Lyudmila Pridanova and Sergey Sysoev, were his deputies also when Nazarov served as the Chairman of the Saint Petersburg City Property Management Committee. He was replaced by Yury Petrov in May 2008.

On May 25, 2004, the Irkutsk Regional Prosecutor's Office filed a case against Nazarov over the non-fulfilment of legal requirements regarding intervention into the situation in the Kirensk and Alexeyevsk ship maintenance bases. Workers on those bases had not received their wages for months and as a protest they had blocked navigation on Lena River for six days.

Nazarov has authored articles and scientific publications on problems connected with the establishment of regional and urban systems of registration of rights to real estate; he has also developed a specialized information and communication system. Since June 29, 2004, he has been a member of the board of directors of Russian Railways.

He is Russian State Councilor of the First Class (2007), academician of St. Petersburg Academy of Engineering, the chairman of the Commission on Property of the Government of St. Petersburg, a member of the Advisory Council for the Real Estate of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

From February 10, 2010, he was the a head of "Rosagroleasing".

Accusations of corruption According to the newspaper "Moscow News", Nazarov was a member in "Sobchak's list" which was an unofficial list of officials in 1995, who had the right to buy elite state housing at 5 times lower than the cost.

According to "Novaya Gazeta", a four-year enterprise of Valeryi Nazarov's as head of the City Property Management Committee "was accompanied by a variety of scandals", Investigating Rosagroleasing, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office found that the items which were bought, were illegally given to other companies in the leasing, the same items having been sold twice, Explaining the incident, the Deputy of the State Duma, Vladimir Semenov, called it a "corrupt relationship".