There have been notable personnel changes in the Irkutsk regional government. A new minister of housing policy, energy, transport and communications, a minister of natural resources and ecology, and a deputy prime minister were appointed. Mikhail Kruchinin became deputy prime minister, and Viktor Basyuk replaced Natalya Malyavkina as education minister. Details in the article.

Personnel appointments in the regional Government. Three ministers and one deputy chairman. There have been personnel changes in the regional government.
Evgeny Kanukhin, former mayor of Angarsk and head of the food enterprise "Karavay," has become Minister of Housing Policy, Energy, Transport and Communications.
Mikhail Kruchinin, who headed the Ministry of Housing Policy, Energy, Transport and Communications, has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Irkutsk Region. He will oversee the same areas: construction, road management, housing and communal services, energy, transport, and communications.
Olga Gaykova became Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Angara Region on March 26; previously, she had been temporarily acting in this position.
Valentina Peregudova has been appointed Head of the Department of Education of the Committee for Social Policy and Culture of the Irkutsk City Administration. Viktor Basyuk, who headed the department from February 17, 2003 to March 26, 2009, has been appointed Minister of Education of the Irkutsk Region, replacing Natalya Malyavkina in the post.
Before her appointment to this position, Valentina Peregudova worked as Deputy Chair of the Committee for the Administration of the Leninsky District of the Irkutsk City Administration. She worked in the municipal administration for more than 25 years. She was the principal of Secondary School No. 67 in Irkutsk, and also worked for six years as Deputy Head of the City Department of Education for the Leninsky District.