President Dmitry Medvedev has named Dmitry Kobylkin as governor of the gas-rich Yamal-Nenets autonomous district, the Kremlin said Monday.

Kobylkin, head of Yamal-Nenets' Purovsky district, was one of the three candidates nominated by United Russia earlier in February.

The list also included Deputy Governor Viktor Kazarin and Igor Fyodorov, head of a Gazprom affiliate who studied law with Medvedev at the same university in Leningrad.

(MT)