Yelena Drapeko

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|office = Member of the State Duma for Saint Petersburg

|term_start = 5 October 2016

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|predecessor = constituency re-established

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|constituency = Northeast St. Petersburg (No. 214)

|office1 = Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)

|term_start1 = 18 January 2000

|term_end1 = 5 October 2016

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|10|29|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Uralsk, West Kazakhstan Oblast Kazakh SSR, USSR

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|party = {{ubl

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|CPRF (until 2004)}}

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|children = Anastasia (born 1984)

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|education = LGITMiK

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Yelena Grigoryevna Drapeko{{notetag|Also transliterated as Elena Grigorievna Drapeko}} ({{langx|ru|Еле́на Григо́рьевна Драпе́ко}}; born 29 October 1948) is a Russian theatre and film actress.{{cite web|url=http://www.lenta.ru/lib/14174600/ |title=Елена Драпеко |access-date=3 December 2011 |work=lenta.ru}} She has appeared in more than 30 films and television shows since 1972. She is also a member of the State Duma since 2000.

Career

On 19 December 1999 Drapeko was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the III convocation from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the Federal district.

On 7 December 2003, she became a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the IV convocation on the list of the Communist Party. In 2004 she was expelled from the Communist Party, remained an independent deputy. In early 2007 she joined Gennady Semigin's People's Patriotic Union Rodina faction, and in mid-2007 she joined Alexander Babakov's A Just Russia – Rodina faction.

On 2 December 2007 she was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the V convocation from the Party A Just Russia Party.

On the 4 December 2011 she was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the VI convocation from the Party A Just Russia.

In 2016-2021 she was a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the VII convocation from A Just Russia.{{fact|date=June 2025}}

Since 19 September 2021 she is a Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the VIII convocation. She was elected from the Party A Just Russia – Patriots – For Truth.

Sanctions

On 29 November 2022, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, she claimed that Ukraine as a separate country doesn't exist, that Ukraine is Russian, that the Ukrainian people would benefit from a Russian takeover, and that it was surprising that the Western countries were assisting Ukraine against the Russian attack.{{cite web | url=https://cepa.org/article/russias-imperial-farce/ | title=Russia’s Imperial Farce |date = 1 December 2022 | access-date=4 December 2022 |work=Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)}}

In December 2022, the European Union sanctioned Drapeko in relation to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.{{cite web |title=COUNCIL DECISION (CFSP) 2022/2477 of 16 December 2022 |url=https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.LI.2022.322.01.0466.01.ENG&toc=OJ%3AL%3A2022%3A322I%3ATOC |access-date=8 February 2023}}

Selected filmography

1972 The Dawns Here Are Quiet as Lisa Brichkina
1973 Eternal Call as Vera Inyutina
1973 Failure of Engineer Garin as duty at the hotel
1975 Between Day and Night as Zinaida
1983 Offered for Singles as Nina

Honours and awards

Lenin Komsomol Prize (1979)
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1980)
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" (1997)
Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg" (2003)
Order of Friendship (2013){{Cite web |title=Драпеко, Елена Григорьевна |url=https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/drapeko-elena-grigorevna |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=ТАСС}}
Order of Honour (2018)

Notes

References

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{{cite web |title=Elena Grigorievna Drapeko |url=http://duma.gov.ru/en/duma/persons/99100799/news/ |website=State Duma |access-date=11 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926224834/http://duma.gov.ru/en/duma/persons/99100799/news/ |archive-date=26 September 2019 |location=Moscow |language=English}}}}