Yury Afonin
Yury Vyacheslavovich Afonin is a Russian politician and member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. He is also a member of the board of the Youth Public Chamber of Russia.
Biography
Afonin was born in Tula, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on 22 March 1977. He studied history at the Tula State Pedagogical University named for Leo Tolstoy, and then obtained a law degree from the Russian Academy of Public Administration, a predecessor of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.From 2003 until 2014, Afonin worked as the First Secretary of the Leninist Komsomol of the Russian Federation, the youth wing of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
In the 2007 Russian legislative election, he was elected to the 5th State Duma as a member of the CPRF party list, re-elected for the 6th Duma in the 2011 election, 7th Duma in 2016 election, and most recently the 8th State Duma in the 2021 election. As a deputy, he sits on the Security and Anti-Corruption Committee, the Defence Budgetary Commission, and the Commission for Deputy Income and Property Reporting.
Political career
In 1998, he led efforts to restore the Komsomol organization in Tula Oblast.From 1999 to 2000, he worked as a lead specialist in the Committee on Economics of the administration of Shchyokino and Shchyokinsky District, Tula Oblast.
Since 2002, he has served as secretary, and since 2008 as first secretary, of the Tula Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
In November 2003, he was elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Union of Communist Youth.
In April 2004, at the plenary session of the Union of Komsomol Organizations, he was elected head of the executive committee of SKO-VLKSМ.
From 2004 to 2017, he was secretary of the Central Committee of the CPRF.
At the XIII Congress of the CPRF, held in Moscow on 29–30 November 2008, he was elected to the Secretariat of the Central Committee. At the XV Congress of the CPRF, held on 23–24 February 2013, he was elected a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee.