Aleksandr Uss was born in
Novogorodka on 3 November 1954 to his father, Viktor (1921–2011), and his mother, Maria (1928–2017).
Early life and family His father, a
German Russian, was a collective farm chairman and received the
Hero of Socialist Labour award. He participated in the
Great Patriotic War and earned two medals for courage; he was demobilized in 1947 with the rank of junior lieutenant. His older brother, Vladislav, graduated with an engineering degree from the Krasnoyarsk Agricultural Institute.
Education and scientific activity In 1976, Uss graduated with honors from the law faculty of
Krasnoyarsk State University. From 1976 to 1980, he was research assistant and postgraduate student at
Tomsk State University. At the same university, he wrote a thesis for the degree of candidate of legal sciences on the topic "Conflicts between convicts accompanied by violent assaults (based on materials from high security penal colonies)". From 1981 to 1993, he worked in various positions in the Department of Criminal Law at Krasnoyarsk State University. From 1986 to 1988, he was a Fellow of the Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law with M. Planck based in
Freiburg,
Germany. In 1994, at
Tomsk State University, he wrote a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Law on the topic "Social and integrative role of criminal law".
Political career In 1993, he was appointed head of the legal department of the Krasnoyarsk Krai Administration. In the same year, Uss was nominated as a candidate to the
Federation Council from the
Evenk Autonomous Okrug. From 1994 to 1995, he became a Deputy of the Federation Council of the 1st convocation, and a member of the Committee on International Affairs. From 1995 to 1997, Uss was Deputy Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai, under
Valery Zubov, and supervised public order and legal issues. On 7 December 1997, Uss was elected a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Krai from the electoral bloc "Union of Business and Order - the Future of the Territory". In January 1998 he was promoted as the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly. Since 1998, by ex officio, he was a member of the Federation Council, and was a member of the Committee on International Affairs. In March 2001, Uss joined the Unity party. On 23 December 2001, he was reelected as a deputy, and on 9 January 2002, he was the chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Krai. In December 2001, he resigned as a member of the Federation Council in accordance with the law on the new procedure for forming the upper house of the Russian parliament. In 2002, he
ran for the governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai, took first place in the first round on 8 September gaining 27.6% of the vote, and went to the second round. In the second round of elections he won 42% of the votes, but lost to the Governor of the
Taymyr Autonomous Okrug Aleksandr Khloponin, with more than 48%. On 15 April 2007, he was elected a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the united Krasnoyarsk Krai, and at the first session of the parliament of the united Krasnoyarsk Krai (May 14, 2007), which Uss was the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, (51 out of 52 deputies present voted for his candidacy, as one ballot paper was considered invalid). ==Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai==