| Post: | Governor |
| Body: | Kaliningrad Oblast |
| Insignia: | Standart of Governor of Kaliningrad oblast.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 125px |
| Insigniacaption: | Standard of the Governor |
| Incumbent: | Alexey Besprozvannykh |
| Incumbentsince: | 20 September 2024 |
| Termlength: | Four years, renewable once |
| Residence: | Kaliningrad |
| Formation: | 1946 as Chairman of Executive Committee of Kaliningrad Oblast |
| Inaugural: | Yuri Matochkin 1991 |
| Website: | Government of Kaliningrad Oblast |
The Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast (Губернатор Калининградской области) is the head of executive branch for the Kaliningrad Oblast (former Königsberg, East Prussia), considered as Prime Minister of Kaliningrad Oblast.
The office of Governor is an elected position, for which elected officials serve four year terms. While individual politicians may serve as many terms as they can be elected to, Governors cannot be elected to more than two consecutive terms.
The official residence for the Governor is located in Kaliningrad. The current acting Governor is Alexey Besprozvannykh who assumed office 15 May 2024.[1]
Since the creation of Kaliningrad Oblast in 1946 and until the spring of 1990, the Kaliningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party had the leading role in its government. The committee was led by:
| 1 | Yuri Matochkin (1931–2006) | 25 September 1991 | 20 October 1996 | Independent | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Leonid Gorbenko (1939–2010) | 20 October 1996 | 8 December 2000 | Our Home – Russia | 1996 | |||
| 3 | Vladimir Yegorov (1938–2022) | 8 December 2000 | 28 September 2005 | United Russia | 2000 | |||
| 4 | Georgy Boos (born 1963) | 28 September 2005 | 27 September 2010 | 2005 | ||||
| 5 | Nikolay Tsukanov (born 1965) | 28 September 2010 | 28 July 2016 | 2010----2015 | ||||
| — | Yevgeny Zinichev (1966–2021) | 28 July 2016 | 6 October 2016 | Independent | ||||
| — | Anton Alikhanov (born 1986) | 6 October 2016 | 9 September 2017 | United Russia | 2017----2022 | |||
| 6 | 29 September 2017 | 14 May 2024 | ||||||
| — | Sergei Yeliseyev (born 1971) | 14 May 2024 | 15 May 2024 | Independent | ||||
| — | Alexey Besprozvannykh (born 1979) | 15 May 2024 | Incumbent | Independent |
The latest election for the office was held September 11 2022.[2] |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"! style="text-align:left;" colspan=2| Candidate! style="text-align:left;"| Party! width="75"|Votes! width="30"|%|-| style="background-color:;"|| style="text-align:left;"| Anton Alikhanov (incumbent)| style="text-align:left;"| United Russia| 259,220| 80.21|-| style="background-color:;"|| style="text-align:left;"| Yevgeny Mishin| style="text-align:left;"| Liberal Democratic Party| 20,683| 6.40|-| style="background-color:|| style="text-align:left;"| Maksim Bulanov| style="text-align:left;"| Communist Party| 15,783| 4.88|-| style="background-color:|| style="text-align:left;"| Yury Shitikov| style="text-align:left;"| A Just Russia — For Truth| 12,089| 3.74|-| style="background-color:;"|| style="text-align:left;"| Vladimir Vukolov| style="text-align:left;"| Party of Pensioners| 4,722| 1.46|-| style="background-color:;"|| style="text-align:left;"| Vladimir Sultanov| style="text-align:left;"| Communists of Russia| 4,256| 1.32|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Valid votes| 316,753| 98.01|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Blank ballots| 6,410| 1.98|- style="font-weight:bold"| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Total| 323,172| 100.00|-| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" colspan="6"||-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Turnout| 323,172| 38.49|-| style="text-align:left;" colspan="3"| Registered voters| 839,700| 100.00|-| colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"||- style="font-weight:bold"| colspan="4" |Source:|[3] |}The previous election for the office was held on 10 September 2017
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor= | Anton Alikhanov | United Russia | 255,491 | 81.06% | |
| bgcolor= | Igor Revin | Communist Party | 28,007 | 8.89% | |
| bgcolor= | Yevgeny Mishin | Liberal Democratic Party | 17,256 | 5.47% | |
| bgcolor=Green | Yekaterina Timofeeva | Greens | 7,966 | 2.53% | |
| Valid ballots | 308,720 | 97.95% | |||
| Invalid ballots | 6,467 | 2.05% | |||
| Turnout | 315,187 | 39.35% | |||