Grigory Rapota

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Grigory Rapota
Григорий Рапота
Official portrait, 2021
Senator from Kursk Oblast
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 May 2021
Preceded by	Alexander Mikhailov
Presidential Envoy to the Volga Federal District
In office 12 May 2008 – 15 December 2011
President	Dmitry Medvedev
Preceded by	Aleksandr Konovalov
Succeeded by	Mikhail Babich
Presidential Envoy to the South Federal District
In office 9 October 2007 – 14 May 2008
President	Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev
Preceded by	Dmitry Kozak
Succeeded by	Vladimir Ustinov
Personal details
Born	(1944-02-05) 5 February 1944 (age 80) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	United Russia
Alma mater	Bauman Moscow State Technical University Krasnoznamenny Institute of the KGB of the USSR

Grigory Alekseevich Rapota (Russian: Григорий Алексеевич Рапота; born 5 February 1944) is a Russian politician who currently serves as a Senator from the executive authority of Kursk Oblast. Prior to his appointment, he was the special representative of the Russian president in the Volga Federal District between 2008 and 2011.^{[citation needed]} Before that he was the special representative of the Russian president in the Southern Federal District (North Caucasus and southern European Russia).^[1] He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.^[2]

He was state secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus between 2011 and 2021.^[3]