About Yury Sevenard
Lived 1935 – 2021 (aged 85). Yury Sevenard was a Russian politician.
Yuri Konstantinovich Sevenard (; 29 June 1935 – 23 June 2021) was a Russian politician. A member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, he served in the State Duma from 1993 to 1999.
He was born in what is now East Kazakhstan Region to a family of a hydraulic engineer. Yuri's mother was Celina Kschessinska, niece of ballet dancer Mathilde Kschessinska.
During the democratization process in the Soviet Union, Sevenard was elected to the Leningrad City Council. In June 1991, he ran for mayor of Leningrad. He won 25.72% of the vote and lost to Anatoly Sobchak. In 1996, when Sevenard ran for Governor of Saint Petersburg, he won 10% of the vote in the first round and placed fourth.
Sevenard died from COVID-19 in 2021. He was buried in Zavolzhye, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, next to his parents.
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Who was Yury Sevenard?
Russian politician (1935-2021)
When was Yury Sevenard born?
Yury Sevenard was born on 29 June 1935 in Glubokoye District.
When did Yury Sevenard die?
Yury Sevenard died on 23 June 2021 in Odintsovo.
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Yury Sevenard was a politician.
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Yury Sevenard was Russian.
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