Gennady Konyakhin

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Gennady Vladimirovich Konyakhin ({{langx|ru|Геннадий Владимирович Коняхин}}, born 25 April 1959)[https://opko42.ru/gkonyahin/ Konyakhin Gennady Vladimirovich] is a Russian businessman and former politician. He was elected mayor of the West-Siberian mining city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky in April 1997.

He became known Russiawide after publications in the Izvestia newspaper, in which he was associated with the criminals.{{cite web|url=https://www.city-n.ru/view/201931.html|title=Konyakhin defends his thesis|language=ru|date=2011-11-17}} Russian president Boris Yeltsin cited the election of Konyakhin as an example of "bandits' strive for power."{{cite web|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/184776|title=President wants to change the law to remove mayor of Leninsk-Kuznetsky|language=ru|website=Kommersant|date=1997-09-30}} Konyakhin was arrested October 8, 1997 in Moscow and charged with misappropriation of government funds.{{Cite web |url=http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=20247&tx_ttnews[backPid]=211 |title=SIBERIAN MAYOR ARRESTED |date=October 9, 1997}} On November 18, 1998, he was sentenced to a four-year suspended sentence.{{Cite web |url=http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/13567298 |title=THE CONTRACT FAILED. NOW WHAT? For Now, Former Leninsk-Kuznetsky Mayor Gennady Konyakhin Plans to Return Only to Business |date=December 23, 1998 |author=Yevgenia Ivankova}}