Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Colonel of Internal Service Alexander Fedorov as Chief of the GUFSIN for the Sverdlovsk Region. The document signed by the head of state was published on the official portal of legal information. Fedorov succeeded Colonel Alexander Shek, who ran the Urals prisons since September 2017, as head of the penitentiary system of the region..

Alexander Fedorov was born in 1974. Graduate of the Ufa Law Institute of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation and the Academy of Law and Administration of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Ryazan. Since 2015, he headed the GUFSIN for Tambov region. Has a medal "For Difference in the Protection of Public Order".