18 Facts About Larisa Shoigu

Larisa Shoigu served as a Deputy of the State Duma for its 5th, 6th and 7th convocations, between 2007 and 2021.

Larisa Shoigu moved to Moscow in 1998, working at the central polyclinic of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, before entering politics in 2007 with her election to the State Duma for its 5th convocation that year.

Larisa Shoigu was a member of United Russia, representing them in the Duma over the next fourteen years.

Larisa Shoigu was re-elected in 2011 and again in 2016.

Larisa Shoigu remained a Duma deputy until her death on 10 June 2021, at the age of 68.

Larisa Shoigu was a zootechnician, economist and several times deputy of the Tuva Regional Council of People's Deputies.

Larisa Shoigu's younger sister, Irina Kuzhugetovna Zakharova was born in 1960, and became a psychiatrist.

Larisa Shoigu studied at school No 1 in Kyzyl, and with her brother Sergei was in a theatre group led by future People's Artist of Russia Nadezhda Krasnaya.

Larisa Shoigu studied for a time at the Novosibirsk correspondence mathematical school, but then enrolled in Tomsk Medical Institute in 1970, where she met her future husband, the surgeon Konstantin Yakubovich Flamenbaum, before graduating in 1977.

Larisa Shoigu was a forensic psychiatrist, and chairman of the forensic psychiatric commission.

Larisa Shoigu moved to Moscow in late 1998, becoming employed at the central polyclinic of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, as a reflexologist in 1999.

Larisa Shoigu joined the United Russia party in 2005, and in 2007, just prior to entering politics, she changed her surname from her husband's, Flamenbaum, back to her maiden name.

Larisa Shoigu became a member of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection.

Larisa Shoigu was a member of the audit commission of the Por-Bazhyn foundation, and paid for the publication of the book Mysterious Tuva by Sevian Weinstein.

Larisa Shoigu served as the deputy chairman of the Duma committee on the Rules and Organization of the State Duma, and was a member of United Russia's General Council.

Larisa Shoigu began her third term as deputy for the Duma's 7th convocation on 18 September 2016, as part of United Russia.

Larisa Shoigu was deputy chairwoman of the Control and Regulations Committee.

Larisa Shoigu's cause of death was a stroke as an apparent complication of a COVID-19 infection.