The former head of the administration of the Azov district in the Rostov region headed the Ministry of Natural Resources of the LPR.
As reported by the press service of the government of the republic, Alexander Nikolaevich Palatny was born on September 12, 1964 in the city of Kam, Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1985 he graduated from the Higher Military-Political School in Leningrad for Air Defense, and in 2006 from the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.