Ilsur Metshin | |
Office: | 47th Mayor of Kazan |
Term Start: | November 17, 2005 |
Predecessor: | Kamil Iskhakov |
Office2: | Member of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan |
Term Start2: | 2000 |
Term End2: | 2004 |
Office3: | Chairman of the United Nations Advisory Committee of Local Authorities |
Term Start3: | 2019 |
Office4: | President of the United Cities and Local Governments |
Term Start4: | 2021 |
Party: | United Russia |
Birth Name: | Ilsur Raisovich Metshin |
Birth Place: | Nizhnekamsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Alma Mater: | Kazan State University |
Ilsur Raisovich Metshin (ru|Ильсур Раисович Метшин; tt-Cyrl|Илсур Рәис улы Метшин; born April 24, 1969) is a Russian politician of Tatar descent. He has served as the mayor of Kazan since 2005.
Ilsur Metshin was born in Nizhnekamsk in 1969.
From 1993, he worked in Kazan as a politician. From 1998, he was the mayor of Nizhnekamsk and Nizhnekamsky District and chairman of the Nizhnekamsk Council. From November 17, 2005, he was the mayor of Kazan,[1] replacing Kamil Iskhakov. On September 4, 2015, he was selected as the new president of FC Rubin Kazan.[2]
He was elected chairman of the United Nations Advisory Committee of Local Authorities at the UCLG World Congress 2019 in Durban.[3] On November 17, 2021 he was elected as the governing president of the United Cities and Local Governments at the 2021 UCLG World Council in Barcelona.[4] [5]