Zelimkhan Mutsoev

{{Infobox officeholder

| native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|ru|Зелимхан Муцоев}}}}

| image = Zelimkhan_Alikoevich_Mutsoev.jpg

| caption = official portrait, {{Circa|2021}}

| office = Member of the State Duma for
Sverdlovsk Oblast

| term_start = 5 October 2016

| term_end =

| predecessor = constituency re-established

| successor =

| constituency = Pervouralsk (No. 173)

| term_start1 = 18 January 2000

| term_end1 = 24 December 2007

| predecessor1 = Gennady Burbulis

| successor1 = constituencies abolished

| constituency1 = Pervouralsk (No. 166){{notetag|Renumbered to 173 in 2016.}}

| office2 = Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)

| term_start2 = 20 June 2012

| term_end2 = 5 October 2016

| term_start3 = 24 December 2007

| term_end3 = 21 December 2011

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|10|13|df=y}}

| birth_place = Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR

| party = {{plainlist|

United Russia (from 2006)
NPRF (until 2006)}}

| spouse = Olga Valeryevna Sergeeva

| parents =

| children = 4 sons, 1 daughter

| nationality =

| alma_mater = Volgograd Civil Engineering Institute

| signature =

}}

Zelimkhan Alikoevich Mutsoev ({{langx|ru|Зелимхан Аликоевич Муцоев}}; born on October 13, 1959, in Tbilisi) is a Russian-Yazidi{{Cite web |title=The Kurdish Role in Russia's Middle East Power Play {{!}} The Washington Institute |url=https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/kurdish-role-russias-middle-east-power-play |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=www.washingtoninstitute.org |language=en}} political figure and a deputy of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th State Dumas.{{cite web

|url=https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/mucoev-zelimhan-alikoevich

|title=Муцоев, Зелимхан Аликоевич

|publisher=ТАСС

|language=ru

|accessdate=2022-03-04}}

In the early 1990s, Mutsoev moved to Moscow. From 1991 to 1993, he was the director of the Moscow branch of the Association for Foreign Economic Relations of Small and Medium Enterprises, which was engaged in supplying of goods in the USSR. In 1998, Mutsoev engaged in business and became a co-owner of the Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant.{{cite web

|url=https://www.forbes.ru/milliardery/267771-my-srazu-ponimali-chto-nikto-nam-nasledstvo-v-ruki-ne-dast

|title="Мы сразу понимали, что никто нам наследство в руки не даст"

|author=Ирина Телицына

|date=2014-09-18

|work=Forbes

|accessdate=2022-03-07}}

In December 1999, he was elected deputy of the 3rd State Duma. In 2003 and 2007, he was re-elected for the 4th and 5th State Dumas. In the 2011 election, the United Russia list lost 77 seats, putting Mutsoev out of parliament. However, in May 2012 Deputy {{ill|Ekaterina Yurievna Semenova|lt=Ekaterina Semenova|ru|Семёнова, Екатерина Юрьевна}}, also of United Russia, resigned her seat to join the Moscow Oblast government, and the Central Election Commission approved the transfer of her mandate to Mutsoev on 20 June the same year.{{Cite act

|type=resolution

|index=129/988-6

|date=20 June 2012

|language=ru

|legislature=Central Election Commission (Russia)

|location=Moscow

|script-title=ru:О передаче вакантного мандата депутата Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации шестого созыва зарегистрированному кандидату из федерального списка кандидатов, выдвинутого Всероссийской политической партией «ЕДИНАЯ РОССИЯ», Муцоеву Зелимхану Аликоевичу

|trans-title=On the transfer of the vacant mandate of a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the sixth convocation to a registered candidate from the federal list of candidates nominated by the All-Russian political party "UNITED RUSSIA", Zelimkhan Alikoevich Mutsoev

|url=http://www.cikrf.ru/activity/docs/postanovleniya/26667/

|access-date=8 April 2024

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928170512/http://www.cikrf.ru/activity/docs/postanovleniya/26667/

|archive-date=28 September 2021}}

In 2016 and 2021, he was re-elected for the 7th and 8th State Dumas, respectively.{{cite web

|url=https://fedpress.ru/person/2678464

|title=Муцоев Зелимхан Аликоевич

|language=ru

|publisher=Федерал Пресс

|accessdate=2022-03-07}}

In 2008, the owners of the hotel "Rus" in Kyiv accused Mutsoev of illegally taking their property. Even though he rejected all the accusations, later the documents were revealed that proved the involvement of the Mutsoev family in the raider seizure of the Ukrainian hotel.{{cite web

|url=https://ura.news/articles/3276

|title=Депутат Муцоев "засветился" в рейдерском захвате

|date=2008-03-20

|language=ru

|publisher=Ura.ru Информационное агентство

|accessdate=2022-03-07}}

In 2016, he took 86th place in the Forbes ranking of 200 wealthiest businessmen in Russia.{{cite web

|url=https://www.forbes.ru/profile/zelimhan-mutsoev

|title=Зелимхан Муцоев

|work=Forbes

|language=ru

|accessdate=2022-03-07}}