During the last year the 7th governor resigned from his position. Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation who filled the post for 16 years. About Titov’s resignation they began to speak in the beginning of August.

At that time returning from Moscow after a talk with the chief of Kremlin Administration Titov gathered his trusted people and announced about the resignation. In the beginning of August Titov’s companions-in-arms persuaded him not to hurry with the resignation. But in the Kremlin they had already been looking for a substitution. In the middle of August the Plenipotentiary of the President in the Volga region met with the head of AutoVAZ, Vladimir Artyakov. Then his candidature was considered in the Kremlin. As a result Vladimir Putin appointed 48-year-old Artyakov as acting governor.