Pyotr Mikhaylovich Latyshev (30 August 1948 – 2 December 2008) was the Presidential Envoy to Urals Federal District

Urals Federal District

Ural Federal District is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. The district was established on 13 May 2000 by a decree of the President of Russia. The district is mostly located in the geographical region of Ural, but also includes some parts of the Volga Region; its extent is different...

, Russia

Russia

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Latyshev was born in 1948 in Proskurov (now Khmelnitskiy

Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine

Khmelnytskyi is a city in Ukraine in the region of Podillia. It is located on the Southern Buh River and about from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The town's original name was Płoskirów, later Proskurov, but in 1954 was renamed Khmelnytskyi. It is the center of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western...

), Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. He attended the Omsk Higher Police School of the Ministry of the Interior in 1970 and the Academy of the Ministry of the Interior in 1980.

In 1980, Latyshev began his police career as an inspector for the Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property (OBKhSS

OBKhSS

Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property, The OBKhSS , was the Soviet financial police. They are responsible for the regulation of economic laws fight against theft of socialist property in the organizations and institutions of state commerce, consumer, industrial and individual...

) a section of the interior ministry’s regional directorate for Perm

Perm

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. He also served as an assistant department head, department head, and head of the OBKhSS

OBKhSS

Department Against Misappropriation of Socialist Property, The OBKhSS , was the Soviet financial police. They are responsible for the regulation of economic laws fight against theft of socialist property in the organizations and institutions of state commerce, consumer, industrial and individual...

 Directorate of the ministry's regional directorate for Perm

Perm

Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....

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From 1991–1994, Latyshev was the head of the Interior Ministry’s regional directorate for Krasnodar Krai

Krasnodar Krai

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. He was Deputy Minister of the Interior and simultaneously vice-chairman of the Federal Anti-Terrorism Commission from August 1994 to May 2000. Latyshev carried out security operations in Dagestan

Dagestan

The Republic of Dagestan is a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Its capital and the largest city is Makhachkala, located at the center of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea...

 in 1999 and was highly successful at defusing ethnic tensions in Karachay-Cherkessia

Karachay-Cherkessia

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The main responsibility of a presidential envoy to any of the seven regions is the ensurance of presidential authority in that region. Loyalty and knowledge of the region are therefore the most highly valued traits in a prospective envoy.

Latyshev died suddenly on December 2, 2008 due to heart failure.