19 Facts About Pyotr Pimashkov

Pyotr Ivanovich Pimashkov was a Russian politician.

Pyotr Pimashkov served as a Deputy of the State Duma for its 6th and 7th convocations, between 2011 and 2021.

Pyotr Pimashkov held this position until 1996, when he was appointed acting mayor of Krasnoyarsk.

Pyotr Pimashkov stepped down in 2011, having been elected to a deputy of the State Duma, where he would serve continuously until his death ten years later.

Pyotr Pimashkov was born into a family of teachers on 2 July 1948 in Bovki, Bykhaw District, Mogilev Region, then part of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union.

Pyotr Pimashkov began a career as an assembly fitter, and then design engineer, at the Krasnoyarsk Combine Plant in 1966.

Pyotr Pimashkov worked in these roles at the plant until 1973, with a two year gap from 1968 to 1970 when he was conscripted into the Soviet Armed Forces.

Pyotr Pimashkov had graduated from the mechanical faculty of the Siberian Technological Institute in 1977 with a degree as an engineer-economist.

From 1979 to 1986 Pyotr Pimashkov worked as an instructor at the local regional committee, and then the Krasnoyarsk regional committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Pyotr Pimashkov held the position of head of Sverdlovsk District's administration until 1996.

Pyotr Pimashkov submitted his resignation as mayor on 12 December 2011, and stepped down on 14 December, having been elected as a deputy of the State Duma for its sixth convocation.

Pyotr Pimashkov was awarded the degree of Doctor of Economic Sciences in 2000 by the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics for his thesis "Coordination of the food market: concept, methodology, analysis".

Pyotr Pimashkov gave up his mandate and did not take a seat in the duma.

Pyotr Pimashkov was again elected a deputy of the State Duma, this time in the 2011 Russian legislative election for the duma's sixth convocation, on 4 December 2011.

Pyotr Pimashkov was again on the United Russia party list, as second place for the regional group No 26.

Pyotr Pimashkov took up his seat, and was a member of the Duma committee on constitutional legislation and state building.

Pyotr Pimashkov sat on the duma's economic committee during its seventh convocation.

Pyotr Pimashkov had a declared income of 4,992,000 rubles in 2015, rising to 5,860,000 rubles in 2020.

Pyotr Pimashkov died on 12 August 2021, at the age of 73, while on holiday in Sochi.