Anatoly Lokot
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|office = Mayor of Novosibirsk
|term_start = 23 April 2014
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|predecessor = Vladimir Gorodetsky
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|office1 = Member of the State Duma for Novosibirsk Oblast
|term_start1 = 29 December 2003
|term_end1 = 24 December 2007
|predecessor1 = Aleksandr Karelin
|successor1 = constituencies abolished
|constituency1 = Zayeltsovsky (No. 126){{efn|Known as Novosibirsk constituency (No. 135) since 2016}}
|office2 = Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
|term_start2 = 24 December 2007
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|birth_place = Novosibirsk, RSFSR, USSR
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|party = Communist Party of the Russian Federation
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|alma_mater = Novosibirsk State Technical University
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Anatoly Evgenevich Lokot ({{langx|ru|Анатолий Евгеньевич Локоть}}; born 18 January 1959, Novosibirsk) is the State Duma Deputy, the ex-mayor of Novosibirsk, Russia.
Biography
In 1981, he graduated from the Department of Physics and Technics of the Novosibirsk State Technical University.[http://fb.ru/article/255907/anatoliy-lokot-biografiya-semya-foto Anatoly Lokot: biography, family, photo. FB Анатолий Локоть: биография, семья, фото. ФБ.]
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.{{Cite web |date=2023-12-28 |title=Чем известен Анатолий Локоть |url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6428444 |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=Коммерсантъ |language=ru}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Локоть, Анатолий Евгеньевич |url=https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/lokot-anatoliy-evgenevich |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=ТАСС |language=ru}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140407/putins-party-loses-mayor-race-russias-third-largest-city |title=Putin's party loses mayor race in Russia's third largest city |publisher=GlobalPost |date=2014-04-04 |accessdate=2014-04-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408113316/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140407/putins-party-loses-mayor-race-russias-third-largest-city |archivedate=2014-04-08 }}
During the September 2019 elections, Anatoly was re-elected as mayor with over 50% of the vote.{{cite web|url=https://kprf.ru/party-live/regnews/187864.html |title=Выборы-2019: Анатолий Локоть провел первую пресс-конференцию после победы на выборах |publisher=КПРФ |date=2019-09-09 |accessdate=2019-09-10 }}
Notes
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References
External links
- [http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/communist-party-deputy-elected-mayor-of-novosibirsk/497616.html Communist Party Deputy Elected Mayor of Novosibirsk]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140408113316/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140407/putins-party-loses-mayor-race-russias-third-largest-city Putin's party loses mayor race in Russia's third largest city]
- [http://nsknews.info/materials/sem-interesnykh-faktov-iz-zhizni-anatoliya-loktya-165113/?special_version=Y Seven interesting facts about the Life of Anatoly Lokot. Novosibirskiye Novosti. Семь интересных фактов из жизни Анатолия Локтя. Новосибирские новости.]
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Category:Mayors of Novosibirsk
Category:Communist Party of the Russian Federation members
Category:People from Novosibirsk
Category:Fourth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Category:Fifth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Category:Sixth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Category:Novosibirsk State Technical University alumni
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