Alexey Chernyak

Alexey Yuryevich Chernyak (; born 27 August 1973) is a Russian political figure and a former member of the State Duma.

Biography He was born in Alma-Ata. In 1990, he graduated from Secondary School No. 24 in Simferopol.

In 1995, he graduated from the Military Construction Faculty (reorganized from the SVVPSU) at the Crimean Institute of Environmental and Resort Construction with a degree in “Command Construction of Buildings and Structures.”

In 2010, he graduated from the Odessa Regional Institute of Public Administration of the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, receiving the qualification of Master of Public Administration.

In 2018, at the Baltic Academy of Tourism and Entrepreneurship (BАТiP), he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences, titled “Project Management of the Formation and Comprehensive Development of Yacht Tourism Infrastructure: on the Example of the Republic of Crimea” (academic advisor — Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor L. N. Aristarkhov).

He is a reserve major of the Armed Forces.

In 2014, Chernyak joined the United Russia. From 2014 to 2021, he was a deputy of the State Council of Crimea of the 1st and 2nd convocations. Since September 2021, he has served as a deputy of the 8th State Duma.

Awards and honors

2000 — received a Commendation from the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; 2005 — awarded the Prize of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for Youth Contribution to State Development for 2004 in the category “For Contribution to the Development of the Youth Movement”; 2009 — awarded the Prize of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine “For Contribution to the Development of Parliamentarism and Local Self-Government by Youth”; 2010 — awarded the honorary title “Honored Worker of the Social Sphere of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea”; 2011 — received a Commendation from the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; 2011 — awarded a Certificate of Honor from the Representative Office of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; 2012 — awarded the Distinction of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea “For Fidelity to Duty”; 2013 — awarded a Certificate of Honor from the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; 2014 — awarded the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, 2nd Class; 2015 — awarded the Order “For Fidelity to Duty”; 2018 — awarded the medal “For Valiant Labor”.

He was also decorated with:

the Imperial Order of Saint Anna, 1st Class; the Order of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, 3rd Class; the Order of the Holy Great Martyr George the Victorious of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church; the medal “For Contribution to Underwater Activities”; the medal “For Fidelity to Duty and the Fatherland”; the medal “50 Years of the Confederation of Underwater Activities of Russia”; six commemorative and anniversary medals and one order.

Sanctions He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.