Valery Saratov

Valerii Volodymyrovych Saratov (31 July 1953 - 9 December 2015), was a Russian and formerly Ukrainian politician who served as Chairperson of the Sevastopol City State Administration from 2010 to 2011 as a member of the Party of Regions. In 2014, he publicly expressed support for the Russian annexation of Crimea.

Early life Saratov was born on 31 July 1953 in the town of Roshal, which was then part of the Russian SFSR in the Soviet Union. In 1975, he graduated from the Sevastopol Instrument‑Making Institute with a specialty in automation and telemechanics. During the referendum on the status of Crimea in the midst of the Russian annexation of Crimea after Euromaidan, he called for voting in favor of joining Russia. He was put on the wanted list on suspicion of treason. He was subsequently dismissed from the civil service registry of Ukraine by the Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 307 of April 5, 2014.

He died in Moscow on December 9, 2015.