Pyatr Latyshev (Russian: Пётр Латышев) is the Presidential Envoy to Urals Federal District, Russia. Latyshev was born in 1948 in Khmelnitsk, Ukraine. 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) a section of the interior ministry’s regional directorate for Perm. He also served as an assistant department head, department head, and head of the OBKhSS Directorate of the ministry’s regional directorate for Perm. In 1991–1994, Latyshev was the head of the Interior Ministry’s regional directorate for the Krasnodar territory. 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 in 1999 and was highly successful at defusing ethnic tensions in Karachay-Cherkessia. 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.
