The name of Vladimir Beketov, the Chairman of the regional Legislative Assembly, is well-known in Kuban. As an experienced and balanced politician he has done a lot for the region and its residents. Before the reformation of the upper house of the Russian Parliament, Vladimir Andreyevich was member of the Federation Council, and currently he is member of the Council of Legislators of Russia.

Vladimir Andreyevich was born on March 29, 1949 in Derzhavnyi Khutor (Village) of Uspenskiy District of Krasnodar region. After finishing Konokov secondary school No. 4 in 1966 he entered GPTU-9 – a Marine vocational college in Tuapse town. After graduating from the college he worked as a sailor in the Novorossiysk Marine Shipping Company. In 1968 he was drafted into the Soviet Army.

After the service in the army Vladimir Beketov got back to his native Uspenskiy District. First he worked as an average collective farmer, and then he was occupied at work for the Komsomol organization, the Communist Party and economic work.

For many years Vladimir Andreyevich was at the head of the district executive committee, and then he headed the administration of Uspenskiy District and did a lot for social-economic development of the district and improvement of welfare of people. In 1995 Vladimir Beketov was appointed the first deputy of the Head of the Administration of Krasnodar Region, and in December of the same year he was elected the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Krasnodar Region.

He has been at the head of the Krasnodar Parliament for the third convocation. Over this time the representative and legislative body of the regional government power has obtained the reputation of one of the most effectively functioning regional parliaments. Vladimir Andreyevich is the leader, who manages to unite people with various political sympathies around one idea – to work for people for the benefit of people. He mentioned more than once that only one party exists for deputies in the Kuban parliament – the voters, whose interests constitute the sense and practice of their activity.

The austerity to execution of official duties by employees of the administration, knowledge of social-economic problems of the country and the region, the ability to see strategic objectives and to elaborate the ways to reach them allowed Mr. Beketov over the short period together with the deputies creating a regulatory-legal base, aimed at effective development of Krasnodar Region.

Under his guidance the Legislative Assembly is constantly increasing the intensity of lawmaking. If the first staff of the Legislative Assembly (from 1994 to 1998) adopted 163 regional laws, then the second one (1998-2002) adopted 399 laws. Over the first year, 2003, of the work of the Legislative Assembly of the third convocation it adopted already 107 laws of Krasnodar Region.

Vladimir Beketov has two higher educations. He graduated from the Kuban Agricultural Institute. He has qualification as a scientist in agronomy and economics, as a lawyer, as well as a scientific degree of a candidate of economic sciences.

He was awarded with the Order of Honor, with a medal of order “For Merits to the Motherland” of the IInd degree, with medals ‘For Outstanding Contribution to Kuban Development” of the Ist degree, and “For Merits in carrying out the All-Russian Population Census”.

Vladimir Andreyevich is an honored citizen of Uspenskiy District.