Valery Pavlinovich Shantsev (Russian: Валерий Павлинович Шанцев) is the governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, since August 2005, when he replaced Gennady Khodyrev.[1] He was previously the deputy mayor of Moscow. He led the bid for Moscow's 2012 Olympia bid. He was born in 1947. He was a factory worker.[2]
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