Ms Natalia Komarova was born in 1955 in the Pskov Region. In 1978 she graduated from Kommunarsk Institute of Mining and Smelting, the faculty of Engineering and Economics, majoring in “Economics and organization of construction”. Between 1980 and 1992 she worked in the administration of Novy Urengoi, Tyumen Region. In 1994, she became the Head of Administration in Novy Urengoi, a post she had until 2000. Between 2000 and 2001 she was the Deputy Governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. In 2004 she became the Head of the Natural Resources and Nature Management Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and remained at that post until 2007. In 2010, she became the Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra.