Pyotr Pimashkov

Pyotr Ivanovich Pimashkov (Russian: Пётр Иванович Пимашков; 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 Sverdlovsk District. 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.