Vladimir Chub was born on July 24, 1948 in Pinsk in the Brest Region, Belarus.
Education: graduated from the Leningrad Water Transport Institute (now the St Petersburg Institute of Water Communications. In 1990, graduated from the Economic Academy of the USSR Council of Ministers.
1971: began his career at the Krasny Flot (Red Fleet) ship repair-and-maintenance facility in Rostov-on-Don as a foreman and was subsequently promoted to head of workshop, head of production/dispatch-control department and chief engineer.
1980-1983: served as Second Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Proletarsky District Committee in Rostov-on-Don.
1983-1985: worked as chief engineer for the Volga-Don river shipping company.
1985-1989: served as First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Proletarsky District Committee in Rostov-on-Don.
1989: elected chairman of the Rostov-on-Don City Executive Committee on an alternative basis.
1990: elected chairman of the Rostov-on-Don City Council of People's Deputies, also on an alternative basis.
October 1991: appointed Governor of the Rostov Region on the recommendation of the Regional Council of People's Deputies and by a decree of the Russian President.
September 1996: elected Governor of the Rostov Region.
September 2001: re-elected Governor of the Rostov Region.
June 2005: the Rostov Regional Legislative Assembly appointed him Governor of the Rostov Region for a period of five years on the recommendation of the Russian President.
1993-2000: member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federal Assembly.
Member of the State Council of the Russian Federation.
Member of the Presidential Council for the Implementation of Priority National Projects and the Demographic Policy.
Member of the United Russia Party's Supreme Council.
Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an Honorary Member of the Russian Transport Academy.
State awards:
Order of Merit, 1996
Order for Service to the Fatherland, 3rd Class, 1998
Order for Service to the Fatherland, 2nd Class, 2003
Married with a daughter and a grandson.