Honorific Suffix: | MP |
Office: | Member of the State Duma for the Jewish Autonomous Oblast |
Term Start: | 12 October 2021 |
Predecessor: | Anatoly Tikhomirov |
Constituency: | Jewish-AO-at-large (No. 220) |
Office1: | Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) |
Term Start1: | 24 December 2007 |
Term End1: | 12 October 2021 |
Birth Date: | 21 May 1958 |
Birth Place: | Plushkari, Yelovsky District, Perm Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Alma Mater: | Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University |
Aleksander Petrovich Petrov (Russian: Александр Петрович Петров; born 21 May 1958) is a Russian political figure and a deputy of the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th State Dumas. In 2009, he was granted Candidate of Sciences in Economics degree.[1]
After graduating from the university, Petrov worked as a physics teacher and director of an incomplete secondary school in the village of Kalinovka (1979-1984). In 1995, he engaged in the pharmaceutical business in Sverdlovsk Oblast. From 2011 to 2016, he was the deputy of the 6th State Duma from the Sverdlovsk Oblast constituency. In 2016 and 2021, Petrov was re-elected for the 7th, and 8th State Dumas, respectively.[1] [2] [3]