Yury Petrovich Sinelshchikov (russian: Юрий Петрович Синельщиков; born 26 September 1947, Bogucharovo,

Aleksinsky District Aleksinsky District (russian: Але́ксинский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-three in Tula Oblast, Russia.Law #954-ZTO It is located in the northwest of the oblast. The area of the district is . It ...

) is a Russian political figure, and a deputy of the

6th State Duma The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the 6th convocation (Russian: Государственная Дума Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации VI созыва) is a fo ...

7th 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube (algebra), cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion ...

and 8th State Dumas. From 1966 to 1969, Sinelshchikov served at the

Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Western Group of Forces (WGF),. previously known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (GSOFG). and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSFG),. were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany. The Group of Soviet Occupati ...

. He took part in the

Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia refers to the events of 20–21 August 1968, when the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by four Warsaw Pact countries: the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic, the People's Rep ...

. After graduating from the

Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University The Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University ( uk, Національний юридичний університет імені Ярослава Мудрого» (НЮУ), ''Natsional'nyi yurydychnyi universytet imeni Yaroslava Mudroho'') is a ...

, Sinelshchikov was appointed to the prosecutor's office of the Oryol region, where he worked as a prosecutor. In 1987, he started working at the prosecutor's office in the

Tushino Tushino ( rus, Тушино, p=ˈtuʂɨnə) is a former village and town to the north of Moscow, which has been part of the city's area since 1960. Between 1939 and 1960, Tushino was classed as a separate town. The Skhodnya River flows across the ...

district. In 1994, he was appointed Deputy Prosecutor of Moscow. From 1995 to 2003, he was the First Deputy Prosecutor of Moscow. In 2004, he was appointed Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Law Disciplines of the

Moscow State Pedagogical University Moscow State Pedagogical University or Moscow State University of Education is an educational and scientific institution in Moscow, Russia, with eighteen faculties and seven branches operational in other Russian cities. The institution had underg ...

. On 4 December 2011 he was elected deputy of the

. In 2016 and 2021, he was re-elected deputy of the

and 8th State Dumas from the

Ulyanovsk Oblast Ulyanovsk Oblast (russian: Ульяновская область, ''Ul’janovskaja oblast’'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It is located in the Volga Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Ulyanovsk. Populatio ...

constituency.

Sanctions

Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to

Russo-Ukrainian War The Russo-Ukrainian War; uk, російсько-українська війна, rosiisko-ukrainska viina. has been ongoing between Russia (alongside Russian separatist forces in Donbas, Russian separatists in Ukraine) and Ukraine since Feb ...

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1947 births Living people Communist Party of the Russian Federation members 21st-century Russian politicians Eighth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation) Seventh convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation) Sixth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation) Russian individuals subject to United Kingdom sanctions People from Tula Oblast {{Russia-politician-stub