The Syktyvkar Constituency (No.18) is a Russian legislative constituency in the Komi Republic. The constituency encompasses the entire territory of Komi. However, in 1993–1995 Komi had two constituencies but lost one of them due to population decline.
The constituency has been represented since 2021 by Communist deputy Oleg Mikhailov, an ecologist and party activist, who narrowly defeated State Duma rules committee chairwoman Olga Savastyanova to succeed one-term United Russia incumbent Ivan Medvedev.
Boundaries 1993–1995: Pechora constituency: Inta, Izhemsky District, Pechora, Sosnogorsk, Troitsko-Pechorsky District, Usinsk, Ust-Tsilemsky, Vorkuta, Vuktyl The constituency covered eastern and northern Komi Republic, including the towns of Inta, Pechora, Sosnogorsk, Usinsk, Vorkuta and Vuktyl.
Syktyvkar constituency: Knyazhpogostsky District, Kortkerossky District, Koygorodsky District, Priluzsky District, Syktyvdinsky District, Syktyvkar, Sysolsky District, Udorsky District, Ukhta, Ust-Kulomsky District, Ust-Vymsky District The constituency covered western and southern Komi Republic, including the republican capital of Syktyvkar and the town of Ukhta.
1995–2007, 2016–present: Inta, Izhemsky District, Knyazhpogostsky District, Kortkerossky District, Koygorodsky District, Pechora, Priluzsky District, Sosnogorsk, Syktyvdinsky District, Syktyvkar, Sysolsky District, Troitsko-Pechorsky District, Udorsky District, Ukhta, Usinsk, Ust-Kulomsky District, Ust-Tsilemsky District, Ust-Vymsky District, Vorkuta, Vuktyl The constituency has been covering the entirety of the Komi Republic since 1995 redistricting, as Komi lost a second constituency due to population loss.
Members elected ElectionMemberParty1993Valery MaksimovIndependentNikolay GenIndependent1995Rita ChistokhodovaIndependent1999Valery MarkovIndependent2003Yury SpiridonovIndependent2007Proportional representation - no election by constituency20112016Ivan MedvedevUnited Russia2021Oleg MikhailovCommunist Party
Election results 1993 (Pechora constituency) Declared candidates Valery Maksimov (Independent), former People's Deputy of the Soviet Union (1989–1991) Valery Nesterov (Independent), Mi-8 helicopter captain at Pechora Aviation Enterprise Oleg Vostrukhov (RDDR), former People's Deputy of the Soviet Union (1989–1991)
Results
! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Valery Maksimov |align=left|Independent |54,701 |32.01% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Valery Nesterov |align=left|Independent |– |31.22% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Oleg Vostrukhov |align=left|Russian Democratic Reform Movement |– |– |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | 170,865 | 100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source: |Результаты выборов по одномандатному избирательному округу, 1993
1993 (Syktyvkar constituency) Declared candidates Nikolay Gen (Independent), former People's Deputy of Russia (1990–1993), prosecutor (previously ran as BR–NI candidate) Vera Kuznetsova (Choice of Russia), nonprofit director Aleksandr Odintsov (DiM), retired Soviet Army colonel general Anatoly Pistsov (Civic Union), Chairman of the Syktyvkar City Council of People's Deputies (1992–present), colonel of justice Yekaterina Popova (Women of Russia), Member of Supreme Council of the Komi Republic (1990–present), chief doctor of the republican hospital Vladimir Trifonov (PRES), Head of the State Committee on Antimonopoly Policy Regional Office Valery Zlobin (LDPR), coordinator of the party regional office
Results
! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nikolay Gen |align=left|Independent |45,124 |21.22% |- |style="background-color:#E98282"| |align=left|Yekaterina Popova |align=left|Women of Russia |– |20.79% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vera Kuznetsova |align=left|Choice of Russia |– |10.3% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Odintsov |align=left|Dignity and Charity |– |– |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Anatoly Pistsov |align=left|Civic Union |– |– |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Trifonov |align=left|Party of Russian Unity and Accord |– |– |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Valery Zlobin |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party |– |– |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | 212,653 | 100% |- | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters/turnout | | 50.13% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source:
1995 Declared candidates Yevgeny Babusenko (Independent), coal mine director Sergey Borisov (Independent), middle school teacher Rita Chistokhodova (Independent), Member of State Council of the Komi Republic (1995–present), prosecutor Mikhail Gluzman (Forward, Russia!), former Member of Supreme Council of the Komi Republic (1990–1995), banker Vyacheslav Mikulinsky (PES), businessman Gennady Rassokhin (NDR), former People's Deputy of Russia (1990–1993), rector of Ukhta State Technical Institute (1980–present) Vera Skotobogatova (BIR), secretary of the Russian Union of Youth (1994–present) Andrey Titarenko (PLP), physician
Declined Nikolay Gen (Independent), incumbent Member of State Duma (1994–present) Valery Maksimov (BIR), incumbent Member of State Duma (1994–present)
Results
! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Rita Chistokhodova |align=left|Independent |109,408 |24.57% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Gennady Rassokhin |align=left|Our Home – Russia |97,487 |21.89% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Mikhail Gluzman |align=left|Forward, Russia! |53,846 |12.09% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vera Skorobogatova |align=left|Ivan Rybkin Bloc |40,718 |9.14% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Sergey Borisov |align=left|Independent |38,595 |8.67% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yevgeny Babusenko |align=left|Independent |37,102 |8.33% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Andrey Titarenko |align=left|Beer Lovers Party |8,411 |1.89% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vitaly Mikulinsky |align=left|Party of Economic Freedom |4,151 |0.93% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all |47,511 |10.67% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | 445,307 | 100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source: |Результаты выборов по одномандатному избирательному округу, 1995
1999 Declared candidates Aleksandr Amonariyev (CPRF), Chairman of the Pechora City Council, middle school principal Valentina Kotelnikova (Women of Russia), rector of Komi Republican Academy of Public Administration (1996–present) Vladimir Lushnikov (Independent), former People's Deputy of the Soviet Union (1989–1991) Valery Markov (Independent), Deputy Chairman of the State Council of the Komi Republic (1995–present), 1994 head candidate Nikolay Moiseyev (Yabloko), Member of State Council of the Komi Republic (1995–present), aide to State Duma member Ivan Mokhnachuk (Independent), coal miners' union leader Valery Prokhorov (Independent), businessman Mikhail Zhilin (Independent), attorney
Failed to qualify Rita Chistokhodova (Independent), incumbent Member of State Duma (1996–present), 1997 head candidate Mikhail Kodanyov (Independent), Member of Syktyvkar City Council, 1997 head candidate Valery Nesterov (Independent), former Member of State Council of the Komi Republic (1995–1999), 1993 candidate for this seat Ivan Ruban (Independent), entrepreneur Vera Skorobogatova (OVR), first secretary of the Russian Union of Youth (1997–present), 1995 BIR candidate for this seat Lyudmila Zyryanova (Independent), Member of State Council of the Komi Republic (1999–present)
Did not file Oleg Beimler (Independent), German association leader Vyacheslav Derevyagin (KTR–zSS), Vorkuta Institute of Management, Business, and Law faculty of law dean Sergey Ivanov (Independent) Mikhail Martemyanov (RSP), pensioner Sergey Mikhalyuk (Independent), attorney Yury Napylnov (Nikolayev–Fyodorov Bloc), businessman Aleksandr Nekrasov (LDPR), acting coordinator of the party regional office Ilyas Safiulin (Independent)
Results
! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Valery Markov |align=left|Independent |116,243 |25.38% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Ivan Mokhnachuk |align=left|Independent |57,953 |12.66% |- |style="background-color:#E98282"| |align=left|Valentina Kotelnikova |align=left|Women of Russia |55,859 |12.20% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nikolay Moiseyev |align=left|Yabloko |54,191 |11.83% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Amonariyev |align=left|Communist Party |51,494 |11.24% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Lushnikov |align=left|Independent |28,920 |6.32% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Mikhail Zhilin |align=left|Independent |15,393 |3.36% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Valery Prokhorov |align=left|Independent |9,544 |2.08% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all |59,866 |13.07% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | 457,929 | 100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source: |Результаты выборов по одномандатному избирательному округу, 1999
2003
Declared candidates Vasily Avdeyev (Independent), agriculture businessman Aleksandra Bushuyeva (SPS), Member of Syktyvkar Council (2003–present), journalist Vikenty Kozlov (Independent), telecommunications executive Leonid Musinov (CPRF), aide to State Duma member, 2001 head candidate Yevgeny Neznanov (LDPR), installation executive Pavel Sobotyuk (Creation), security executive Yury Spiridonov (Independent), former Head of the Komi Republic (1994–2001) (previously ran as SDPR candidate)
Withdrawn candidates Valery Markov (NPRF), incumbent Member of State Duma (2000–present)
Did not file Yevgeny Cheglakov (), utilities executive Sergey Drozdetsky (Independent), college extern Galina Kostenkova (Independent), unemployed Ivan Mokhnachuk (Independent), coal miners' union leader, 1999 candidate for this seat Aleksandr Shchigolev (KPR), entrepreneur Nikolay Silantyev (RKRP-), coal miner Vladislav Ulyashev (Independent), businessman
Results
! colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Candidate ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" |Party