The Cheboksary constituency (No. 38) is a Russian legislative constituency in Chuvashia. The constituency covers western half of Chuvashia, including western Cheboksary, Alatyr and Shumerlya.
The constituency has been represented since 2021 by United Russia deputy Alla Salayeva, former Deputy Prime Minister of Chuvashia, who won the open seat, succeeding one-term United Russia incumbent Leonid Cherkesov.
Boundaries 1993–2007: Cheboksarsky District, Cheboksary, Novocheboksarsk, Kozlovsky District, Mariinsko-Posadsky District The constituency covered the republican capital of Cheboksary, industrial satellite city of Novocheboksarsk as well as surrounding area in northern Chuvashia.
2016–2026: Alatyr, Alatyrsky District, Alikovsky District, Cheboksarsky District (Bolshekatrasskoye, Chirshkasinskoye, Ishakskoye, Ishleyskoye, Kshaushskoye, Lapsarskoye, Sarabakasinskoye, Sinyal-Pokrovskoye, Vurman-Syukterskoye, Yanyshskoye), Cheboksary (Leninsky, Moskovsky), Ibresinsky District, Krasnochetaysky District, Morgaushsky District, Poretsky District, Shumerlinsky District, Shumerlya, Vurnarsky District, Yadrinsky District The constituency was re-created for the 2016 election. This seat retained only western Cheboksary and Cheboksarsky District, losing the rest to Kanash constituency. In its new configuration the constituency was pushed into western Chuvashia, which was previously part of Kanash constituency.
Since 2026: Alatyr, Alatyrsky District, Alikovsky District, most of Cheboksarsky District, Cheboksary (Leninsky, Moskovsky), Ibresinsky District, Krasnochetaysky District, Morgaushsky District, Poretsky District, Shumerlinsky District, Shumerlya, Vurnarsky District, Yadrinsky District After the 2025 redistricting the constituency was slightly altered, gaining more localities of Cheboksarsky District from Kanash constituency.
Members elected ElectionMemberParty1993Nadezhda BikalovaIndependent1995Svyatoslav FyodorovParty of Workers' Self-Government1999Anatoly AksakovIndependent2003People's Party2007Proportional representation – no election by constituency20112016Leonid CherkesovUnited Russia2021Alla SalayevaUnited Russia
Election results 1993 Declared candidates Vitaly Alekseyev (DPR), Chairman of the Cheboksary City Council of People's Deputies (1990–present) Vladislav Alekseyev (Independent), expert for the Presidential Envoy to Chuvashia Nadezhda Bikalova (Independent), Chairwoman of the Chuvashia Property Fund (1993–present) Mikhail Demidov (PRES), Deputy Minister of Justice of Chuvashia (1993–present) Lev Fyodorov (Independent), RAN Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry leading researcher Aleksey Guryev (YaBL), ecological activist Svetlana Lyapidovskaya (Independent), advisor to Mayor of Cheboksary Stanislav Lyapunov (Civic Union), electronics plant director Igor Molyakov (Independent), philosophy senior lecturer Anatoly Sharapov (Independent), attorney Arseny Suvorov (Independent), businessman Ivan Toreyev (Independent), community activist
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|Nadezhda Bikalova |align=left|Independent | |13.02% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Igor Molyakov |align=left|Independent | |12.60% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vitaly Alekseyev |align=left|Democratic Party |– |– |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladislav Alekseyev |align=left|Independent |– |– |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Mikhail Demidov |align=left|Party of Russian Unity and Accord |– |– |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Lev Fyodorov |align=left|Independent |– |– |- |style="background-color:#B4C1C7"| |align=left|Aleksey Guryev |align=left|Future of Russia–New Names |– |– |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Svetlana Lyapidovskaya |align=left|Independent |– |– |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Stanislav Lyapunov |align=left|Civic Union |– |– |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Anatoly Sharapov |align=left|Independent |– |– |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Arseny Suvorov |align=left|Independent |– |– |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Ivan Toreyev |align=left|Independent |– |– |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | | 100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source:
1995 Declared candidates Alimzhan Abubikerov (), attorney Vladislav Alekseyev (Social Democrats), expert for the Presidential Envoy to Chuvashia, 1993 candidate for this seat Eduard Arslanov (Common Cause), neuropathologist Nadezhda Bikalova (Independent), incumbent Member of State Duma (1994–present) Valery Bobkov (BIR), Chernobyl movement activist, painter Yury Chetkov (Independent), nonprofit director Svyatoslav Fyodorov (PST), former People's Deputy of the Soviet Union (1989–1991), Eye Microsurgery Complex director, leader of the Party of Workers' Self-Government (1995–present) Vladimir Izhederov (Independent), Member of State Council of the Chuvash Republic (1994–1995, 1995–present), history teacher Eduard Kubarev (DVR–OD), former Chairman of the Supreme Council of Chuvashia (1991–1994), 1993 presidential candidate Valery Petrov (PPR–ST), union leader Tatyana Petrova (NDR), First Deputy Minister of Finance of Chuvashia Galina Ruban (Independent), journalist Valery Saperov (People's Union), party secretary Anatoly Sharapov (Independent), attorney, 1993 candidate for this seat Aleksandr Shipov (LDPR), Member of State Duma (1995–present) Gennady Sokolov (Independent), Military Commissioner of Chuvashia (1991–present), Russian Army major general
Withdrawn candidates Oleg Blinov (My Fatherland), theatre actor
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|Svyatoslav Fyodorov |align=left|Party of Workers' Self-Government | |41.03% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Nadezhda Bikalova (incumbent) |align=left|Independent | |25.53% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Eduard Kubarev |align=left|Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats | |4.15% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Izhederov |align=left|Independent | |3.90% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Aleksandr Shipov |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party | |2.77% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Tatyana Petrova |align=left|Our Home – Russia | |2.43% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Valery Petrov |align=left|Trade Unions and Industrialists – Union of Labour | |1.83% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Anatoly Sharapov |align=left|Independent | |1.40% |- |style="background-color:#265BAB"| |align=left|Alimzhan Abubikerov |align=left|Russian Lawyers' Association | |1.21% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Valery Bobkov |align=left|Ivan Rybkin Bloc | |1.07% |- |style="background-color:#DD137B"| |align=left|Vladislav Alekseyev |align=left|Social Democrats | |0.94% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yury Chetkov |align=left|Independent | |0.91% |- |style="background-color:#F7C451"| |align=left|Eduard Arlanov |align=left|Common Cause | |0.80% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Gennady Sokolov |align=left|Independent | |0.65% |- |style="background-color:#0D0900"| |align=left|Valery Saperov |align=left|People's Union | |0.41% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Galina Ruban |align=left|Independent | |0.35% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |5.49% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | | 100% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="4" |Source:
1999 Declared candidates Anatoly Aksakov (Independent), Deputy Premier of Chuvashia – Minister of Economy (1998–present) Vakhtang Chkuaseli (Independent), former Deputy Governor of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug (1998–1999) Vladimir Izhederov (Stalin Bloc), former Member of State Council of the Chuvash Republic (1994–1995, 1995–1998), 1995 candidate for this seat, 1997 presidential candidate Vitaly Malinov (DPA), Member of State Council of the Chuvash Republic (1996–present) Valentin Malyutkin (Yabloko), Chuvash State University faculty of law dean, retired militsiya colonel Yury Metlov (Independent), writer Valery Mikhaylov (Independent), former People's Deputy of Russia (1990–1993) Igor Molyakov (CPRF), Member of State Council of the Chuvash Republic (1994–1995, 1995–present), 1993 candidate for this seat Oleg Nasakin (LDPR), Chuvash State University faculty of chemistry dean Vladimir Petrov (Independent), Ministry of Finance of Russia Audit Department Regional Office official
Withdrawn candidates Valery Pavlov (Independent), former chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Chuvashia Aleksandr Vorotnikov (NDR), Member of State Council of the Chuvash Republic (1998–present)
Failed to qualify Mikhail Fyodorov (Independent) Vladimir Fyodorov (Independent), former Chairman of the State Antimonopoly Committee Regional Office, 1993 presidential candidate Ivan Kiriyenko (Independent)
Did not file Vladislav Alekseyev (Nikolayev–Fyodorov Bloc), expert for the Presidential Envoy to Chuvashia, 1993 and 1995 Social Democrats candidate for this seat Nadezhda Bikalova (ROS), former Member of State Duma (1994–1995) Yury Mikushkin (Independent) Nikolay Nikolsky (KTR–zSS), mechanic Edison Patmar (Independent), writer, poet Grigory Pavlov (DN) Sergey Sergeyev (Independent) Aleksandr Sorokin (Independent) Vasily Stepanov (Independent) Arseny Suvorov (Independent), businessman, 1993 candidate for this seat
Declined Svyatoslav Fyodorov (Nikolayev–Fyodorov Bloc), incumbent Member of State Duma (1996–present), leader of the Party of Workers' Self-Government (1995–present), 1996 presidential candidate (ran in the Sheremetyevo constituency)
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|Anatoly Aksakov |align=left|Independent | |40.41% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Igor Molyakov |align=left|Communist Party | |29.42% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Oleg Nasakin |align=left|Liberal Democratic Party | |5.98% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Valentin Malyutkin |align=left|Yabloko | |4.34% |- |style="background-color:#E32322"| |align=left|Vladimir Izhederov |align=left|Stalin Bloc – For the USSR | |3.42% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vakhtang Chkuaseli |align=left|Independent | |2.25% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vitaly Malinov |align=left|Movement in Support of the Army | |1.43% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Vladimir Petrov |align=left|Independent | |1.23% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Valery Mikhaylov |align=left|Independent | |0.67% |- |style="background-color:"| |align=left|Yury Metlov |align=left|Independent | |0.29% |- |style="background-color:#000000"| |colspan=2 |against all | |7.82% |- | colspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"| |- style="font-weight:bold" | colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total | | 100% |-