Small-business jobs during each governor's tenure
83 governors, ranked by how small-business jobs changed from their first day in office, next to Russia over the same months. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.
| # | Governor | Country | In office | Total | vs RU | Per year | Chart |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Batu Khasikov | Kalmykia | 20 Mar 2019 – now | +254% 2018 → 2025 | +256.1 pts RU −2.1% | +19.8%/yr | |
| 2 | N Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov | Ingushetia | 26 Jun 2019 – now | +58.8% 2018 → 2025 | +60.9 pts RU −2.1% | +6.8%/yr | |
| 3 | N Yury Bezdudny | Nenets Autonomous District | 2 Apr 2020 – 18 Mar 2025 | +42.3% 2019 → 2024 | +44.3 pts RU −2.0% | +7.3%/yr | |
| 4 | N Vladimir Vasilyev | Dagestan | 3 Oct 2017 – 5 Oct 2020 | +29.1% 2017 → 2020 | +37.5 pts RU −8.4% | +8.9%/yr | |
| 5 | N Sergey Melikov | Dagestan | 5 Oct 2020 – 4 May 2026 | +15.2% 2020 → 2025 | +12.2 pts RU +3.0% | +2.9%/yr | |
| 6 | Vladislav Khovalyg | Tuva | 7 Apr 2021 – now | +7.5% 2020 → 2025 | +4.5 pts RU +3.0% | +1.5%/yr | |
| 7 | N Sergey Menyailo | North Ossetia–Alania | 9 Apr 2021 – now | +6.4% 2020 → 2025 | +3.4 pts RU +3.0% | +1.2%/yr | |
| 8 | Aleksandr Brechalov | Udmurtia | 4 Apr 2017 – 29 Jul 2026 | +2.2% 2016 → 2025 | +8.1 pts RU −5.9% | +0.2%/yr | |
| 9 | Oleg Khorokhordin | Altai Republic | 20 Mar 2019 – 4 Jun 2024 | +1.9% 2018 → 2023 | +3.9 pts RU −2.0% | +0.4%/yr | |
| 10 | N Vyacheslav Bitarov | North Ossetia–Alania | 19 Feb 2016 – 9 Apr 2021 from 2016 | +1.7% 2016 → 2020 | +10.3 pts RU −8.6% | +0.4%/yr |
Showing 10 of 80 tenures.
Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that count had no data, or because the period cut it); Russia is measured over the same months. Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. thousand employees of small and medium firms · Federal Tax Service, register of small and medium businesses: their employees, the previous year's average headcount as the register gives it each September, from 2015 · region data · as of Aug 2026.