Anatoly Lokot
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Anatoly Lokot | |
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Анатолий Локоть | |
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| Mayor of Novosibirsk | |
| Assumed office 23 April 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Vladimir Gorodetsky |
| Member of the State Duma for Novosibirsk Oblast | |
| In office 29 December 2003 – 24 December 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Aleksandr Karelin |
| Succeeded by | constituencies abolished |
| Constituency | Zayeltsovsky (No. 126)[a] |
| Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) | |
| In office 24 December 2007 – 8 April 2014[1] | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 January 1959 |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union, Russia |
| Party | Communist Party of the Russian Federation |
| Alma mater | Novosibirsk State Technical University |
Anatoly Evgenevich Lokot (Russian: Анатолий Евгеньевич Локоть; born 18 January 1959, Novosibirsk) is a Russian Politician who has served as a State Duma Deputy, and the mayor of Novosibirsk, Russia.
In 1981, he graduated from the Department of Physics and Technics of the Novosibirsk State Technical University.[2]
He is a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and was previously a member of the State Duma.
Career
In December 1996 he became a deputy of the Novosibirsk Regional Council of Deputies from the Dzerzhinsky district of Novosibirsk. In December 2000 he joined the Novosibirsk City Council, where he headed the Communist Party faction.[3]
From 2003 to 2014 he was a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. He was elected deputy of the 4th, 5th, and 6th convocations.[4]
He was elected in April 2014 with around 44% of the vote. He unexpectedly narrowly defeated the United Russia candidate by uniting the bulk of opposition forces.[5]
During the September 2019 elections, Anatoly was re-elected as mayor with over 50% of the vote.[6]
