Oksana Dmitrijeva

Oksana Genrikhovna Dmitriyeva (; born 3 April 1958) is a Russian politician and economist, who currently serves as a deputy of the State Duma since 2021, having previously served in the position from 1993 to 2016. A former government minister in the administration of Boris Yeltsin, she is the most senior member of the Party of Growth in the national legislature and was so in her local legislature. During her successful 2021 campaign, she was supported by Alexei Navalny's Smart Voting system. In the previous election in 2016, she had lost her seat in a highly controversial election, the results of which she did not recognise. Dmitriyeva has considered running for president several times. Biography Oksana Dmitriyeva (sometimes spelled Dmitrieva) was born on April 3, 1958, in Leningrad. Her father Genrikh Rosenberg (1925-2007) was a scientist (field: ship mechanics), graduated from the Makarov School, the creator of Soviet gas turbine installations, until his death he worked at the Institute of the Navy. He held the title of Honored Inventor of the Russian Federation. Grandfather Sholom Rosenberg (1887-1942) was awarded the St. George Cross for bravery in the First World War, was killed during the siege of Leningrad. Mother Natalia Dmitriyeva (born in 1931) is a candidate of economic sciences, graduate of the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport, a student of the Nobel laureate Leonid Kantorovich. In 1980 she graduated from the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics of the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics. Specialist in regional economics.