Yuri Sevenard

{{Short description|Russian politician (1935–2021)}}

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| name = Yuri Sevenard

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| birth_date = 29 June 1935

| birth_place = Malaya Ulba, Glubokoye District, East Kazakhstan Oblast, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2021|06|23|1935|06|29}}

| death_place = Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia

| resting_place = Zavolzhye

| nationality = Russian

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| party = Communist Party of the Russian Federation

| office = Member of the State Duma

| term_start = 12 December 1993

| term_end = 19 December 1999

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Yuri Konstantinovich Sevenard ({{langx|ru|Ю́рий Константи́нович Севена́рд}}; 29 June 1935 – 23 June 2021) was a Russian politician.{{Cite web|title=Комитет Государственной Думы по промышленности, строительству, транспорту и энергетике|url=http://duma2.garant.ru/committe/111.htm|access-date=2022-01-26|website=duma2.garant.ru}} A member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, he served in the State Duma from 1993 to 1999.{{cite web|url=http://duma.gov.ru/duma/deputies/3/|title=Состав Государственной Думы третьего созыва|work=duma.gov.ru|language=Russian}}

He was born in what is now East Kazakhstan Region to a family of a hydraulic engineer. Yuri's mother was Celina Kschessinska, niece of ballet dancer Mathilde Kschessinska.

In 1958 he graduated from the Kuibyshev Moscow Engineering and Construction Institute. Sevenard participated in construction of the Aswan Dam in the 1960s. His younger son Konstantin Yuryevich was born there. In 1980 he was appointed director of the "Lengidroenergospetsstroy" association, which guided the Saint Petersburg Dam construction. Sevenard headed Lengidroenergospetsstroy for 21 years.{{cite web|url=https://www.lenpravda.ru/digest/federal/261841.html|title=Дамба под подозрением|language=ru|website=Leningradskaya Pravda|date=2002-09-30}}

During the democratization process in the Soviet Union, Sevenard was elected to the Leningrad City Council. In June 1991, he ran for mayor of Leningrad. He won 25.72% of the vote and lost to Anatoly Sobchak. In 1996, when Sevenard ran for Governor of Saint Petersburg, he won 10% of the vote in the first round and placed fourth.{{cite news|title=Губернаторские выборы — 1996|url=http://politika.su/vybory/rre96t.html|website=politika.su|language=ru}}

Sevenard died from COVID-19 in 2021.{{Cite web|date=2021-06-24|title=«Отец» петербургской дамбы Юрий Севенард умер от коронавируса в Подмосковье|url=https://www.fontanka.ru/2021/06/24/69989297/|access-date=2022-01-26|website= fontanka.ru|language=ru}} He was buried in Zavolzhye, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, next to his parents.{{Cite web|title=Гидростроитель и политический деятель Юрий Севенард умер от COVID-19|url=https://www.interfax.ru/russia/773785|access-date=2022-01-26|website=Interfax.ru|language=ru}}