Lev Kovpak

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Igorevich and the family name is Kovpak.
Lev Kovpak
Лев Ковпак
Member of the State Duma for Sverdlovsk Oblast
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 October 2016
Preceded byconstituency re-established
ConstituencyKamensk-Uralsky (No. 169)
Personal details
Born (1978-10-23) 23 October 1978 (age 46)
Pervouralsk, RSFSR, USSR
Political partyUnited Russia
SpouseVeronica Kovpak
Children2 daughts
RelativesSydir Kovpak
Alma mater

Lev Igorevich Kovpak (Russian: Лев Игоревич Ковпак; born 23 October 1978, Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast) is a Russian political figure and deputy of the 7th and 8th State Dumas. He is a distant relative of the Hero of the Soviet Union Sydir Kovpak.[1]

Lev Kovpak studied in the US at the University of California, San Francisco. In the 1990s, he worked at the SKB-bank in Ekaterinburg. From 2005 to 2010, he was the deputy of the Ekaterinburg City Duma of the 4th convocation. In 2010–2011, he was the deputy of the Regional Duma of the bicameral Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region. In 2016 he was elected deputy of the 7th State Duma from the Sverdlovsk oblast constituency. Since September 2021, he has served as the deputy of the 8th State Duma.[2][3]

His father Igor is an entrepreneur, operating the Kirovsky supermarket chain in Sverdlovsk Region. The company is a major employer in the region and a regional government contractor. Lev was vice president of the company from 2002 till 2015, he is also its shareholder.[4] According to the OCCRP report, Igor is the beneficiary of an offshore British Virgin Islands company with USD $56 million worth of assets.[5]

In July 2021, The Arbitration Court of the Sverdlovsk Region arrested the property of Lev Kovpak and his family. The decision was made as part of a bankruptcy case at the request of Konstantin Markov, acting bankruptcy trustee of the "Prodovolstvennaya Kompania", that tried to bring Kovpakov to subsidiary liability.[6] The arrest was lifted at the end of August the same year.[7]

  1. ^ "Ковпак, Лев Игоревич" (in Russian). ТАСС Энциклопедия. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  2. ^ "Лев Игоревич Ковпак" (in Russian). Парламентская газета. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  3. ^ "Список избранных депутатов Государственной Думы РФ восьмого созыва" (in Russian). Российская газета. 2021-09-25. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  4. ^ "PEP: Kovpak Lev Igorevich, The State Duma, deputy, member of the Committee on Budget and Taxes". rupep.org. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
  5. ^ OCCRP/IStories. "Putin Loyalist MP Condemned Offshores. But His Father Stashed Tens of Millions Abroad". OCCRP. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
  6. ^ "Суд наложил арест на имущество депутата Госдумы Ковпака и его семьи" (in Russian). РИА Новости. 2021-07-22. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  7. ^ "Суд снял арест со счетов уральского депутата Госдумы Льва Ковпака" (in Russian). Екатеринбург Онлайн. 2021-08-30. Retrieved 2022-02-28.