Viktor Stepanov

Viktor Nikolayevich Stepanov (, born 27 January 1947) is a Russian politician who was the prime minister of the Republic of Karelia in 1994–98. Biography Viktor Stepanov was born in 1947 in the village of Vidlitsa, Olonetsky District to a Karelian family. From 1964 to 1968 he was a carpenter at the Vidlinsky production site of the Ilyinsky sawmill. Party career Since 1968, the head of the organizational department, from 1970 to 1973 - the second, then the first secretary of the Olonetsky District Komsomol Committee. Since 1973 - an instructor, since 1974 - the head of the department, since 1976 - the second secretary of the Karelian regional committee of the Komsomol. Since 1980 - instructor of the Karelian regional committee of the CPSU. From 1980 to 1982 Stepanov was the second secretary of the Olonetsky district party committee, in 1982–84 he was the first secretary of the Pryazhinsky District committee. Since 1988, he worked in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the CPSU as an instructor in the department of interethnic relations. Head of Karelia In December 1989, at the extraordinary session of the 11th Supreme Council of Karelia, Stepanov was elected chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council. In April 1990 he became chairman of the Supreme Council. Also he was elected a people's deputy of Russia. In the Soviet of Nationalities he was a member of the commission on interethnic relations, coordinator of "Sovereignty and Equality" group, a member of the "Communists of Russia" faction.