Aidar Metshin

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Raisovich and the family name is Metshin.

Aidar Metshin
MP
Айдар Метшин
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 October 2021
Personal details
Born (1963-08-27) 27 August 1963 (age 61)
Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatar ASSR, RSFSR, USSR
Political partyUnited Russia
Education

Aidar Raisovich Metshin (Russian: Айдар Раисович Метшин; born 27 August 1963) is a Russian political figure, former mayor of Nizhnekamsk, and a deputy of the 8th State Duma.[1]

In 1999, Metshin was elected deputy of the Nizhnekamsk United Council of People's Deputies. From 2000 to 2006, he was the administrative director of the Nizhnekamsk Oil Refinery. He left the post to head the Nizhnekamsky District. From 2008 to 2021, he was also the deputy of the City Council and served as a mayor of Nizhnekamsk (re-elected for the post in 2010, 2015, and 2020). Since September 2021, he has served as the deputy of the 8th State Duma.[1][2][3][4]

In 2024, Metshin was in the crowd during the Crocus City Hall attack.[5]

Sanctions

He is one of the members of the State Duma the United States Treasury sanctioned on 24 March 2022 in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[6]

Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. [7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Метшин, Айдар Раисович" [Metshin, Aydar Raisovich] (in Russian). ТАСС. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Вся Дума" (in Russian). Коммерсантъ. 7 November 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Метшин Айдар Раисович" (in Russian). Деловой центр РТ - интернет-портал TatCenter.ru. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Метшин Айдар Раисович" (in Russian). Бизнес Онлайн. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Айдар Метшин находился во время массовой стрельбы в Crocus City Hall в Москве". chelny-biz.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  6. ^ "U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russia's Defense-Industrial Base, the Russian Duma and Its Members, and Sberbank CEO". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  7. ^ "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.


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