Sergey Shuvalov

Sergei Alekseyevich Shuvalov (; 24 June 1951 – 25 September 2021) was a Russian politician.

He served as chairman of the Saratov Oblast Duma from 2002 to 2005, and as the Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation as the representative from the between 2005 and 2010.

Early life and education Shuvalov was born on 24 June 1951, in Saratov, then part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union. He studied at the Saratov Polytechnic Institute, graduating in 1973 and becoming a junior researcher in the institute's electronics department. He eventually attained the degree of Doctor of Economic Sciences and was a professor.

Soviet politics and business career Shuvalov began working as an instructor, and then deputy departmental head, of the Komsomol's Saratov regional committee in 1976, and then as an instructor in the organizational department in the party organs of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Volga District Committee and then the Saratov City Committee from 1979 until 1988. He served for a time as the president of FC Sokol Saratov.