Boris Nemtsov

Acting

Birthday

1959/10/09

Day of death

2015/02/27 (55 years old)

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Sochi, Krasnodarskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR, [now Russia]

Also know as

Борис Немцов

Biography

Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov (9 October 1959 – 27 February 2015) was a Russian physicist and liberal politician. He was involved in the introduction of reforms into the Russian post-Soviet economy. In the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin, he was the first governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1991–97). Later he worked in the government of Russia as Minister of Fuel and Energy (1997), Vice Premier of Russia and Security Council member from 1997 to 1998. In 1998, he founded the Young Russia movem...Read more