Vladimir Petrovich Averchev (russian: Владимир Петрович Аверчев; 1 November 1946 – 24 May 2022) was a Russian politician. He served as a Deputy of the

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for its 1st and 2nd convocations, between 1993 and 2000.

Family and early life

Averchev was born on 1 November 1946 in the village of ,

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, then part of the

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, in the

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. He graduated from the Plekhanov Moscow Institute of National Economy as an economist and went to work as a research intern in the

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from 1970. Over the next 22 years he rose to be a junior researcher, and then senior researcher at the institute, and from 1990 to 1992 was an expert for the

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's International Affairs Committee. In 1992 he became an advisor to the Russian Embassy in the United States.

Political career and expert roles

In October 1993, Averchev was nominated as a candidate for the elections for the first convocation of the

on the federal list for the Yavlinsky-Boldyrev-Lukin

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, and was duly elected. He sat for Yabloko for the Duma's 1st and 2nd convocations, between 1993 and 2000, and was a member of the Duma's Committee on International Affairs. Between 2000 and 2001 he was advisor to the president of , and then in 2001 became advisor to the president of the oil company

Sidanko Sidanko (Сиданко; russian: Сибирско-Дальневосточная нефтяная компания, , Siberian-Far Eastern Oil Company) was a Russian oil company, the 8th largest company in the country by revenue in 1995. Sidanko ow ...

. Between 2003 and 2008 Averchev was research director of BP Russia, and from 2008 to 2010 he was a member of the board of directors of “Black Earth Farming” Ltd. From 2010 to 2013, he served as a leading expert at the

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, and advisor to the head of the

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Retirement and death

Averchev, who was fluent in

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, was the author of a number of scientific publications, and was married, with a daughter. He settled in Moscow, where he was chairman of the supervisory board of the Institute for Humanitarian and Political Studies. He died on 24 May 2022 at the age of 75. Yabloko chairman

Nikolay Rybakov Nikolay Igorevich Rybakov (russian: Никола́й И́горевич Рыбако́в, born 24 December 1978) is a Russian public and political figure, leader of the Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko" since 2019, executive director of t ...

offered his condolences, stating that Averchev "believed that only democracy would provide a worthy future for our country."

References

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