Zelimkhan Mutsoev

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alikoevich and the family name is Mutsoev.

Zelimkhan Alikoevich Mutsoev (Russian: Зелимхан Аликоевич Муцоев; born on October 13, 1959, in Tbilisi) is a Russian-Yazidi^[1] political figure and a deputy of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th State Dumas.^[2]

Zelimkhan Mutsoev
Зелимхан Муцоев
official portrait, c. 2021
Member of the State Duma for Sverdlovsk Oblast
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 October 2016
Preceded by	constituency re-established
Constituency	Pervouralsk (No. 173)
In office 18 January 2000 – 24 December 2007
Preceded by	Gennady Burbulis
Succeeded by	constituencies abolished
Constituency	Pervouralsk (No. 166)[note 1]
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
In office 20 June 2012 – 5 October 2016
In office 24 December 2007 – 21 December 2011
Personal details
Born	(1959-10-13) 13 October 1959 (age 65) Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR
Political party	United Russia (from 2006) NPRF (until 2006)
Spouse	Olga Valeryevna Sergeeva
Children	4 sons, 1 daughter
Alma mater	Volgograd Civil Engineering Institute

In the early 1990s, Mutsoev moved to Moscow. From 1991 to 1993, he was the director of the Moscow branch of the Association for Foreign Economic Relations of Small and Medium Enterprises, which was engaged in supplying of goods in the USSR. In 1998, Mutsoev engaged in business and became a co-owner of the Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant.^[3] In December 1999, he was elected deputy of the 3rd State Duma. In 2003 and 2007, he was re-elected for the 4th and 5th State Dumas. In the 2011 election, the United Russia list lost 77 seats, putting Mutsoev out of parliament. However, in May of 2012 Deputy Ekaterina Semenova [ru], also of United Russia, resigned her seat to join the Moscow Oblast government, and the Central Election Commission approved the transfer of her mandate to Mutsoev on 20 June the same year.^[4]

In 2016 and 2021, he was re-elected for the 7th and 8th State Dumas, respectively.^[2][5]

In 2008, the owners of the hotel "Rus" in Kyiv accused Mutsoev of illegally taking their property. Even though he rejected all the accusations, later the documents were revealed that proved the involvement of the Mutsoev family in the raider seizure of the Ukrainian hotel.^[6]

In 2016, he took 86th place in the Forbes ranking of 200 wealthiest businessmen in Russia.^[7]

Awards

• Order of Friendship
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"
• Order of Honour (Russia)
• Order of Courage

Notes

1. Renumbered to 173 in 2016.

References

1. "The Kurdish Role in Russia's Middle East Power Play | The Washington Institute". www.washingtoninstitute.org. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
2. "Муцоев, Зелимхан Аликоевич" (in Russian). ТАСС. Retrieved 2022-03-04.
3. Ирина Телицына (2014-09-18). ""Мы сразу понимали, что никто нам наследство в руки не даст"". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
4. О передаче вакантного мандата депутата Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации шестого созыва зарегистрированному кандидату из федерального списка кандидатов, выдвинутого Всероссийской политической партией «ЕДИНАЯ РОССИЯ», Муцоеву Зелимхану Аликоевичу [On the transfer of the vacant mandate of a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the sixth convocation to a registered candidate from the federal list of candidates nominated by the All-Russian political party "UNITED RUSSIA", Zelimkhan Alikoevich Mutsoev] (resolution 129/988-6) (in Russian). Moscow: Central Election Commission (Russia). 20 June 2012. Archived from the original on 28 September 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
5. "Муцоев Зелимхан Аликоевич" (in Russian). Федерал Пресс. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
6. "Депутат Муцоев "засветился" в рейдерском захвате" (in Russian). Ura.ru Информационное агентство. 2008-03-20. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
7. "Зелимхан Муцоев". Forbes (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-03-07.