• Ivan Indinok was born in Kozlovka, in
Krasnoyarsk Krai on 6 August 1938. • He graduated from Tomsk Polytechnic Institute in 1962. • He held various engineering positions at the enterprises of the military-industrial complex in Novosibirsk since 1962. From 1972 to 1981, he was a senior engineer, the head of the laboratory, and secretary of the party committee of NPO Vostok. • Indinok died on 14 June 2025, at the age of 86.
Political activity • From 1981 to 1988, he was the second, then the first secretary of the
Zayeltsovsky district committee of the
CPSU, the second secretary of the
Novosibirsk city party committee. In 1988 he was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Novosibirsk City Council. In April 1990, Indinok was replaced by
Oleg Semchenko. From 1988 to 1990, he headed the Association of Siberian and Far Eastern Cities. On 26 December 1991, Indinok was appointed 1st head of the administration of Novosibirsk • On 5 October 1993, after the
violent dispersal of the
Congress of People's Deputies and the
Supreme Soviet of Russia, Indinok was appointed 2nd Head of Administration of
Novosibirsk Oblast, replacing
Vitaly Mukha, who was removed for support of the Supreme Soviet. • In December 1993, he was elected to the
Federation Council of the first convocation, and was a member of the Committee on Federation Affairs, and the Federal Treaty and Regional Policy. == Awards ==