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Leonid Gorbenko (20 June 1939 – 7 August 2010) was a Russian politician. He was elected the 2nd Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast in 1996 serving in that office until 2000.Kalinigrad’s first governor Yuri Matochkin was appointed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Matochkin pursued largely pro-Western policies and tried to boost ties to Kalinigrad’s neighboring countries in the Baltic.