Yuri Konstantinovich Sevenard (; 29 June 1935 – 23 June 2021) was a Russian politician. A member of the

Communist Party of the Russian Federation The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF; ) is a communist political party in Russia that officially adheres to Marxist–Leninist philosophy. It is the second-largest political party in Russia after United Russia. The youth o ...

, he served in the

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from 1993 to 1999. He was born in what is now

East Kazakhstan Region East Kazakhstan Region (; ) is a region of Kazakhstan. It occupies the easternmost part of Kazakhstan, and includes parts of the Irtysh River, Lake Markakol, and Lake Zaysan. Its administrative center is Öskemen (also known as Ust'-Kamenogorsk ...

to a family of a hydraulic engineer. Yuri's mother was Celina Kschessinska, niece of ballet dancer

Mathilde Kschessinska Mathilde-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinska ( – 6 December 1971), also known as Princess Romanovskaya-Krasinskaya upon her marriage, was a Polish-Russian ballerina from the noble Krzesiński family. Her father, Felix Kschessinsky, her brother and ...

. In 1958 he graduated from the Kuibyshev Moscow Engineering and Construction Institute. Sevenard participated in construction of the

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in the 1960s. His younger son Konstantin Yuryevich was born there. In 1980 he was appointed director of the "Lengidroenergospetsstroy" association, which guided the

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construction. Sevenard headed Lengidroenergospetsstroy for 21 years. During the democratization process in the Soviet Union, Sevenard was elected to the Leningrad City Council. In June 1991, he ran for mayor of Leningrad. He won 25.72% of the vote and lost to

Anatoly Sobchak Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak ( rus, Анатолий Александрович Собчак, p=ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ sɐpˈtɕak; 10 August 1937 – 19 February 2000) was a Russian politician and legal scholar, a co-autho ...

. In 1996, when Sevenard ran for

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, he won 10% of the vote in the first round and placed fourth. Sevenard died from COVID-19 in 2021. He was buried in Zavolzhye, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, next to his parents.

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