Dmitry Svitilo, who holds the position of deputy head of the city administration, was appointed acting head of Vladivostok. This was reported by the press service of the mayor's office, TASS reports. Svitailo was born in 1970, in 2003 he graduated from the Far Eastern University with a degree in law (in 2011 the university became part of the Far Eastern Federal University). He served in the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and from 2016 to July 2021 he worked in the government agency of the Primorsky Territory, which is responsible for fire safety, civil defense, protection of the population and the territories from emergency situations. On October 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Konstantin Shastakov as the temporary head of the Primorsky Territory.