Valentin Demidov

Valentin Demidov
Валентин Демидов
Demidov in June 2016
8th Head of Belgorod
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 January 2023
Preceded by	Anton Ivanov
Head of Belgorod (acting)
In office 8 November 2022 – 17 January 2023
5th Head of Simferopol
In office 7 April 2021 – 11 January 2022
Preceded by	Yelena Protsenko
Succeeded by	Mikhail Balakhanov (acting)
Head of Simferopol (acting)
In office 17 February 2021 – 7 April 2021
Minister of Economic Development of the Republic of Crimea
In office 16 June 2015 – December 2016
Mayor of Armyansk
In office 2007 – 16 June 2015
Personal details
Born	Valentin Valentinovich Demidov (1976-11-28) 28 November 1976 (age 48) Petrovsky, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	United Russia

Valentin Valentinovich Demidov (Russian: Валентин Валентинович Демидов; born on 28 November 1976), is a Russian politician who is currently the 8th head of Belgorod, since 17 January 2023.

He had also served as the 5th head of Simferopol from 2021 to 2022 and as the Minister of Economic Development of the Republic of Crimea from 2015 to 2016.

Prior to his restoration of his Russian citizenship in 2014, Demydov was the Mayor of Armyansk from 2007 to 2015. He had been a member of Armiansk City Council from 2002 to 2010. Since 2014, he has been a member a member of the United Russia party, and from 2005 to 2014, he was a member of the Party of Regions at the time he was a Ukrainian citizen.