Leonid Simanovsky

{{short description|Russian politician}} {{family name hatnote|Yakovlevich|Simanovsky|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{expand Russian|date=February 2024|topic=bio}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_suffix = [[List of members of the 8th Russian State Duma|MP]] | native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|ru|Леонид Симановский}}}} | image = Leonid Simanovsky 2018.jpg | caption = Simanovsky in 2018 | office = Member of the [[State Duma]] ([[closed list|Party List]] Seat) | term_start = 29 December 2003 | term_end = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|07|19|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Samara|Kuybyshev]], [[RSFSR]], [[USSR]] | party = [[United Russia]] | spouse = Sofia Kimovna Simanovskaya | parents = | children = Svetlana (daughter) | education = [[Samara State Economic University|Kuybyshev Planning Institute]] | signature = | website = }}

'''Leonid Yakovlevich Simanovsky''' ({{langx|ru|Леонид Яковлевич Симановский}}; July 19, 1949) is a Russian businessman and political figure, serving as a deputy in the [[State Duma]] from the [[United Russia]] party list since 2003.<ref name=tass>{{cite web |url=https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/simanovskiy-leonid-yakovlevich |title=Симановский, Леонид Яковлевич |trans-title=Simanovsky, Leonid Yakovlevich |website=[[TASS]] |publisher=ТАСС Энциклопедия |language=ru |accessdate=2022-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528164257/https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/simanovskiy-leonid-yakovlevich |archive-date=2023-05-28}} </ref>

From 1996 to 2001, Simanovsky was a vice-president at [[Yukos]], then one of the largest petroleum firms in Russia. In 2000, he founded and headed the company "Khimpromindustriya". In [[2003 Russian legislative election|2003]], [[2007 Russian legislative election|2007]], [[2011 Russian legislative election|2011]], [[2016 Russian legislative election|2016]], and [[2021 Russian legislative election|2021]], he was consecutively elected as a deputy for the [[4th State Duma|4th]], [[5th State Duma|5th]], [[6th State Duma|6th]], [[7th State Duma|7th]], and [[8th State Duma|8th]] convocations of the State Duma.<ref name=tass/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://rg.ru/2021/09/24/spisok.html |title=Список избранных депутатов Государственной Думы РФ восьмого созыва |date=2021-09-25 |publisher=Российская газета |language=ru |accessdate=2022-02-18 |archive-date=2021-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006172242/https://rg.ru/2021/09/24/spisok.html |url-status=live }}</ref> As a deputy, he belongs to the State Duma Committee on Budget & Taxes.<ref name="dumapage">{{cite web |title=Симановский Леонид Яковлевич |trans-title=Simanovsky Leonid Yakovlevich |url=http://duma.gov.ru/duma/persons/99110096/ |website=duma.gov.ru |publisher=[[State Duma]] |access-date=30 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230924232820/http://duma.gov.ru/duma/persons/99110096/ |archive-date=24 September 2023 |location=[[Moscow]] |language=ru}}</ref>

In 2021, Simanovsky was 85th on the [[Forbes]] list of 200 wealthiest Russian businessmen.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.ru/profile/leonid-simanovskii |title=Леонид Симановский |work=Forbes |language=ru |accessdate=2022-03-16 |archive-date=2022-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223060915/https://www.forbes.ru/profile/leonid-simanovskii |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Sanctions == He was sanctioned by the [[UK]] government in 2022 in relation to the [[Russo-Ukrainian War]].<ref>{{cite web |title=CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1150217/Russia.pdf |access-date=16 April 2023}}</ref>

He is one of the members of the [[State Duma]] the United States Treasury sanctioned on 24 March 2022 in response to the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russia's Defense-Industrial Base, the Russian Duma and Its Members, and Sberbank CEO |url=https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0677 |access-date=2022-04-10 |website=U.S. Department of the Treasury |language=en}}</ref>

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