Petr Pimashkov

Pyotr Ivanovich Pimashkov (; 2 July 1948 – 12 August 2021) was a Russian politician. He served as a Deputy of the State Duma for its 6th and 7th convocations, between 2011 and 2021.

Born into a family of teachers in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Pimashkov began his career as a factory worker in Krasnoyarsk, with a short spell in the Soviet Armed Forces, before entering local politics with the Komsomol, and then the regional committees of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He studied as an engineer-economist during this period of his life and by the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, he was head of administration of Krasnoyarsk's . He held this position until 1996, when he was appointed acting mayor of Krasnoyarsk.

Pimashkov was confirmed in his position as mayor at the elections later that year, and went on to serve in this role for the next fifteen years, winning several more elections. He 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. Having developed his academic interest in economics, and receiving the degrees of candidate and then Doctor of Economic Sciences, he sat on the duma's constitutional legislation and state building committee during its sixth convocation, and its economic committee during its seventh. His political career was rewarded with several honours and awards, prior to his death as an incumbent member of the duma in 2021.

Family and early life

Pimashkov was born into a family of teachers on 2 July 1948 in , Bykhaw District, Mogilev Region, then part of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union. He began a career as an assembly fitter, and then design engineer, at the in 1966. He 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. In 1973 he became secretary of the Committee of the All-Union Lenin Communist Youth Union, and between 1978 and 1979 he was head of shop at the Krasnoyarsk Combine Plant. He had graduated from the mechanical faculty of the Siberian Technological Institute in 1977 with a degree as an engineer-economist. For the 2 March 2008 elections he was a nominee of United Russia, and won with 70.43% of the vote. He 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. He 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". He was again on the United Russia party list, as second place for the regional group No. 26 (Krasnoyarsk Krai). He sat on the duma's economic committee during its seventh convocation. The Chairman of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, expressed his condolences. A farewell ceremony was held at Krasnoyarsk's Great Concert Hall on 17 August, after which he was laid to rest alongside his wife, who had died in December 2008, in the alley of glory in Krasnoyarsk's .

Awards

2008 – Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" Fourth Class 2003 – Order of Friendship 1998 – Order of Honour