08:40, 14 August 2026

The former mayor of Kizlyar, Alexander Shuvalov, has been arrested.

The court in Dagestan has arrested the former mayor of Kizlyar, Alexander Shuvalov, suspected of exceeding his official powers.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", in mid-December 2025, the deputies of the Kizlyar city assembly elected Ivan Lazurkov, who worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Stavropol, as the head of the city. The candidacy of Alexander Shuvalov, who had led the city for 10 years, was not considered by the deputies.

Shuvalov was born in 1960 in the village of Bryansk in the Kizlyar district of the Dagestan ASSR. In 1977, he graduated from the physics faculty of Dagestan State University, then worked as a teacher and director of secondary school No. 1 in Kizlyar. In 1994, he headed the humanitarian faculty of Dagestan State University, created on the basis of the city gymnasium, and after its transformation into a university branch in 1997, became the director of the institution. He was elected as a deputy of the city assembly in 1996. Shuvalov led Kizlyar from 2014 to 2025, reports BFM.ru.

The arrest of the former head of Kizlyar was reported by the TASS agency, citing law enforcement agencies in Dagestan.

"The court has arrested former Kizlyar mayor Alexander Shuvalov in a case of exceeding official powers," a source told the agency.

Necessary investigative actions are being conducted regarding Shuvalov to establish all the circumstances of the alleged offense. Official details of the investigation and case materials are not yet disclosed, reports RIA Dagestan.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that at the end of July, the Soviet District Court of Makhachkala detained for two months the former mayor of Kaspiysk, Boris Gontcov, in a case of receiving a bribe.

Translated automatically via OpenAI from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/425758