Vladimir Gelman

Vladimir Yakovlevich Gelman (; born October 6, 1965) is a Russian political scientist and writer. Candidate of political science, professor at the European University at Saint Petersburg. He was an activist of the Russian democratic movement in Leningrad (now Saint-Petersburg) (1989-1996), a member of the Central Election Commission with an advisory vote from the Yabloko movement.

Since 2012 — Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki, head of the research direction "Authoritarian market society as a challenge" at the Centre for Russian Studies at the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki. As a visiting lecturer, he lectured at the Central European University, the University of Texas at Austin, the Russian School of Economics, Pennsylvania State University.

Biography Vladimir graduated from the Kalinin Polytechnic Institute (now Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University) with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1988. Candidate of political science (Saint Petersburg State University, 1998), thesis topic — "Transformation of the political regime and democratic opposition in post-communist Russia: analysis of modern transitological concepts."

Author and editor of 20 books, author of over 150 scientific articles on the problems of contemporary Russian and post-Soviet politics. Member of editorial boards and editorial boards of the journals Political Studies, Vestnik Perm University. Political Science ”, European Political Science, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Demokratizatsiya, Russian Journal of Economics, Associate Editor of Russian Politics. Participates in various popular science projects, is engaged in journalism.

According to Russian political scientist , Vladimir Gelman is the most cited Russian political scientist in the world.

Awards and honours Winner of the annual competition of the journal Europe-Asia Studies (1999), the (2002, 2007, 2013) and the Russian Society of Sociologists (2011). Honorary doctor [Malmö University] (2024)