Pavel Nikitin is leaving his post as acting minister of physical culture, sports and youth policy of Irkutsk Region of his own accord. He said he will return to business, while the Russian Chinese youth games will go ahead as planned.

Pavel Nikitin is leaving his post as acting Minister of Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of the Irkutsk Region.
The head of the Ministry of Sports has submitted his resignation of his own free will. Today is Pavel Viktorovich’s last working day in this position.
- I will return to business. The Russian-Chinese Youth Games will take place as planned, Pavel Nikitin said.
Reference: NIKITIN Pavel Viktorovich was born in 1970 in Irkutsk. In 1993, he graduated with honors from the Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union K. Rokossovsky, and in 2008 from the Siberian Institute of Law, Economics and Management, receiving a law degree. From 1989 to 1998, he served in the armed forces of the USSR, and since 1998 he worked in managerial positions in commercial structures. Since 2007, he had been deputy director of LLC "TRUST". Since May 2013, he had been the Minister of Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of the Irkutsk Region.