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Nikolay Vasiliev (Russian politician)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ4104665 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nikolay Ivanovich Vasiliev (Russian: Николай Иванович Васильев; born 28 March 1958, Grachyovsky District, Orenburg Oblast) is a Russian political figure and a deputy of the 6th and 8th State Dumas.

After graduating from the State University of Management, Vasiliev worked at the Dolgoprudnenskoe Scientific Production Plant. Later he worked at the Government of the Moscow Oblast as an advisor to the deputy of the State Duma. From 2007 to 2011, he was the deputy of the Moscow Oblast Duma. In 2011, he became the deputy of the 6th State Duma. On September 18, 2016, he was elected deputy of the Moscow Oblast Duma. Since September 2021, he has served as deputy of the 8th State Duma.

Sanctions

He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nikolay Vasiliev (Russian politician)” is russian politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nikolay, Vasiliev and Russian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 2007, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Nikolay, Vasiliev and Russian is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4104665. The first chronological checks are 1958, 2007, 2011 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nikolay Vasiliev (Russian politician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.