The City Duma (of the city of Nizhny Novgorod), Gorduma is the main body of Nizhny Novgorod's local self-government, consisting of 47 deputies who, in theory, represent the interests of the residents of the city's districts. Special powers belong to the Duma Chairman, his deputies, and the Duma's structures: commissions, both standing and extraordinary, and deputy associations formed along the lines of political party affiliation.

The Essence of the Phenomenon

The Duma is the main body of local self-government of Nizhny Novgorod and consists of people's representatives elected by direct vote in the city's districts. The Duma is vested with the authority to resolve all issues of local (municipal) significance.

To this end, it elects from among the deputies a nominal head of the city — the mayor — and, through him, signs a contract with an experienced manager, who becomes the City Manager, a hired head of the city administration.

The Duma has the status of a legal entity, a bank account, and a seal.

Background of the Matter

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Useful Activities

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List of Interests of the Deputies Elected on September 13, 2015

  • S = for Sorokin
  • Sh = for Shantsev
  • Sh- = against Shantsev (but not necessarily for Sorokin)
  • S- = against Sorokin (but not necessarily for Shantsev)
  • (?) = completely unknown
  1. Tarasov Vladimir Eduardovich Sh-
  2. Lazorin Kirill Borisovich S
  3. Yuri Konstantinovich Yashenkov Sh
  4. Alexander Olegovich Kotelnikov Sh-
  5. Anoshkin Vladimir Petrovich Sh
  6. Vasily Evgenyevich Pushkin S
  7. Amelchenko Vladimir Valeryevich Sh-
  8. Ibragimov Karim Radikovich S-
  9. Ivan Nikolaevich Karnilin Sh-
  10. Zhuk Maxim Vadimovich S-
  11. Andrey Vladimirovich Dranishnikov (?)
  12. Nadezhda Ivanovna Melnikova S-
  13. Mikhail Vladimirovich Sukharev S
  14. Dmitry Zotovich Barykin Sh
  15. Alexey Lipovich Goykhman S
  16. Valery Yuryevich Gelzhinis (?)
  17. Oleg Vladimirovich Sorokin S
  18. Panov Vladimir Alexandrovich S
  19. Yuri Anatolyevich Erofeev Sh
  20. Roman Anatolyevich Bulanov (?)
  21. Sergey Andreevich Kargin Sh
  22. Dmitry Viktorovich Kuzin Sh
  23. Alexey Georgievich Bobrov S
  24. Nikolay Ivanovich Inglikov (?)
  25. Vadim Evgenyevich Agafonov S
  26. Elena Valeryevna Arzhanova Sh
  27. Oleg Valentinovich Sorokin S
  28. Balakina Olga Valerievna Sh
  29. Anna Vyacheslavovna Kruglova Sh
  30. Lazarev Evgeny Ivanovich (?)
  31. Alexander Anatolyevich Bochkarev Sh
  32. Feldman Mark Samuilovich S
  33. Mikhail Sergeevich Kuznetsov S
  34. Andrey Andreevich Efremov (?)
  35. Sergey Alexandrovich Kondrashov Sh

The Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod City Duma is Evgeniy Chintsov; the post of First Deputy Chairman is held by Evgeniy Kostin.[1]

The Duma has a Youth Chamber, which takes part in regional parliamentary forums — in particular, in 2026 representatives of the chamber took part in the Youth Parliamentary Forum of the Volga Federal District, "The Power of Unity." The Duma maintains its own official channels on social networks and messaging platforms: pages on VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, and channels on Telegram and RuTube; it also publishes live video broadcasts of meetings of its standing committees. The bodies associated with the Duma include the Youth Chamber, the Public Chamber, territorial public self-government (TOS), the institution of rural elders, the Commemoration Committee, and the Control and Accounts Chamber.[1][1][1]

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Powers of the City Duma

The City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod is vested with the following powers:

1. Adopting legal acts that establish rules binding within the city, as well as legal acts on matters of organizing the Duma's own work.

2. Adopting the City Charter and making amendments and additions to it.

3. Overseeing the exercise by local self-government bodies and local self-government officials of their powers to resolve matters of local significance.

4. Formation of election commissions in the territory of the city of Nizhny Novgorod.

5. Calling of a local referendum; adoption of legal acts to implement the decisions of a local referendum.

6. Calling of a vote on changing the city's boundaries and on transforming the municipal entity.

7. Calling of municipal elections and of a vote on the recall of a Duma deputy or of the head of the city.

8. Calling of public hearings; determination of the procedure for organizing and holding them.

9. Calling of citizens' assemblies and conferences (except assemblies and conferences on matters of territorial public self-government by citizens); determination of the procedure for calling and holding them; consideration of appeals adopted by a citizens' assembly or conference.

10. Calling of a citizens' poll; determination of the procedure for calling and conducting a citizens' poll; wording of the questions put forward in a poll.

11. Determination of the procedure for exercising citizens' right of legislative initiative.

12. Determination of the procedure for organizing and exercising territorial public self-government.

13. The right of legislative initiative in the Legislative Assembly of Nizhny Novgorod Region.

14. Submission to the state authorities of Nizhny Novgorod Region of proposals on establishing and changing the city's boundaries.

15. Formation, merger, transformation, or abolition of districts within the city; establishment and change of their boundaries.

16. Determination of the procedure for the city's participation in intermunicipal cooperation organizations; adoption of decisions on establishing intermunicipal business companies.

17. Adoption of decisions on naming and renaming the city's districts, settlements, squares, streets, lanes, passages, public gardens, boulevards, and parks located within the city, and on naming them after statesmen and public figures.

18. Approval of the city budget and of the report on its execution; approval of the regulation on the budget structure and budget process in the city; oversight of budget execution.

19. Formation of special-purpose budget funds.

20. Determination of the procedure for raising borrowed funds, including through the issuance of municipal securities.

21. Establishment, amendment, and abolition of local taxes and tax benefits in accordance with the tax legislation of the Russian Federation.

22. Adoption of plans and programs for the city's development; approval of reports on their implementation; approval of assignments for the drafting of the city's development plans and programs.

23. Determination of the procedure for managing and disposing of property held in municipal ownership, and of the procedure for accepting property into municipal ownership.

24. Determination of the procedure and conditions for the privatization of municipal property; adoption of the forecast plan for the privatization of municipal property.

25. Determination of the procedure for exercising municipal land oversight.

26. Determination of the procedure for adopting decisions on the creation, reorganization, and liquidation of municipal enterprises and institutions.

27. Adoption of decisions on creating non-profit organizations in the form of autonomous non-profit organizations and foundations.

28. Determination of the procedure for adopting decisions on setting tariffs for the services of municipal enterprises and institutions.

29. Adoption of plans and programs for improving the level of service and maintenance of the city's housing stock and its technical condition, and for providing it with electricity, heating, gas, water supply, and sewerage; oversight of their implementation.

30. Approval of the program for the comprehensive development of municipal infrastructure systems.

31. Approval of the investment programs of municipal utility organizations for the development of municipal infrastructure systems.

32. Establishment of surcharges on the prices (tariffs) of municipal utility organizations for consumers.

33. Determination of the procedure for the material, technical, and organizational support of the activities of local self-government bodies.

34. Approval of the city's General Development Plan.

35. Approval of the city's land use and development regulations.

36. Approval of local programs for land use and protection.

37. Approval of city programs for improving the housing conditions of the city's residents.

38. Establishment of the norm for providing residential premises under a social tenancy agreement; establishment of the registration norm for residential floor area.

39. Determining the procedure for providing housing units from the municipal specialized housing stock.

40. Establishing the amount of income and the value of property for the purpose of recognizing citizens as low-income and providing them with housing units from the municipal housing stock under social tenancy agreements.

41. Establishing the rules for forming, placing, fulfilling, and monitoring the fulfillment of the municipal order.

42. Founding mass media outlets and co-founding mass media outlets, including intermunicipal ones.

43. Maintaining interregional and international ties with legislative (representative) bodies of government and local self-government bodies of the Russian Federation and foreign states.

44. Approving the structure of the city administration.

45. Approving regulations on the territorial bodies of the city administration — the administrations of the city's districts.

46. Approving candidates for the positions of first deputy and deputies of the head of the city administration.

47. Accepting the annual reports of the head of the city.

48. Forming the Duma's oversight body and adopting the regulations on it.

49. Accepting the reports of the Duma's oversight body.

50. Determining the procedure for engaging citizens, on a voluntary basis, in work of social importance to the city (including duty shifts) for the purpose of addressing issues of local significance provided for by the City Charter.

51. Other matters assigned to its powers by federal laws, laws of Nizhny Novgorod Region, the City Charter, and legal acts of the Duma.

Procedure for the Recall of Deputies

Art. 16. Voting on the Recall of a Deputy of the City Duma of the City of Nizhny Novgorod

1. A vote on the recall of a deputy of the City Duma of the City of Nizhny Novgorod is held on the initiative of the population in the manner established by federal law and by the law of Nizhny Novgorod Region adopted in accordance with it for holding a local referendum, subject to the special provisions of the Federal Law "On the General Principles of the Organization of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation."

2. The only grounds for the recall of a deputy of the City Duma of the City of Nizhny Novgorod may be his or her specific unlawful decisions or actions (inaction), provided they are confirmed in court.

3. Every citizen, or group of citizens, possessing the active right to vote may form an initiative group of at least 1,000 people to put forward an initiative to recall a deputy of the City Duma of the City of Nizhny Novgorod.

4. The initiative group submits a written application to the City Duma of the City of Nizhny Novgorod putting forward the recall initiative. The application must be signed personally by all members of the initiative group, indicating each member's surname, first name, patronymic, date of birth, residential address, and the series and number of his or her passport or a document replacing it.

5. The application of the initiative group must contain: a proposal to recall a deputy of the City Duma of the City of Nizhny Novgorod; a statement of the grounds for initiating the recall; and information on the authorized representative of the initiative group. A copy of the court decision that has entered into legal force and that served as the basis for the recall is attached to the application.

6. The application putting forward the recall initiative must be considered by the City Duma of the City of Nizhny Novgorod within a period not exceeding 30 days from the date the application is received.

7. Upon receiving the application, the City Duma of the City of Nizhny Novgorod immediately informs the person against whom the recall procedure is being initiated and provides him or her with copies of the application and of the documents specified in paragraph 5 of this article.

8. The City Duma of the City of Nizhny Novgorod discusses the application received at its session, inviting the authorized representative of the recall initiator and the person against whom the recall initiative has been put forward, and adopts a legal act either permitting the collection of citizens' signatures demanding a recall vote and registering the recall initiator as authorized to organize the signature collection, or denying such permission.

9. The condition for scheduling a vote on the recall of a deputy of the City Duma of the City of Nizhny Novgorod is the submission of signatures in support of this initiative in the number established by the law of Nizhny Novgorod Region for holding a local referendum.

10. The collection of signatures in support of the demand for a recall vote may begin from the moment the recall initiator receives the legal act permitting signature collection, and continues for no more than 30 days from the date the legal act permitting signature collection is adopted.

11. The recall initiator organizes the collection of signatures. Expenses related to the collection of signatures are borne by the recall initiator.

12. Signature sheets for collecting signatures in support of the demand for a recall vote are prepared by the recall initiator in the form established by the legal act permitting signature collection.

13. Signatures are collected in the manner established by the law of Nizhny Novgorod Region for holding a local referendum.

14. Signatures may be collected only among citizens possessing the active right to vote in the electoral district in which the deputy of the City Duma of the City of Nizhny Novgorod was elected.

15. The City Duma of the City of Nizhny Novgorod schedules the vote on the recall of the deputy of the City Duma of the City of Nizhny Novgorod within 30 days from the date the signatures in support of the recall are submitted.

16. A deputy of the City Duma of the City of Nizhny Novgorod has the right to give explanations regarding the circumstances put forward as grounds for the recall, including within the free airtime and free print space provided in municipal mass media.

17. A deputy of the City Duma of the City of Nizhny Novgorod is considered recalled if at least half of the voters registered in the electoral district voted in favor of the recall.

8. The results of the vote on the recall of a deputy of the City Duma of the city of Nizhny Novgorod are subject to official publication (promulgation).

Regulatory Documents

Activities of the City Duma

Mailing Address

Email

Official website

Head of the City

Department of Organizational Work

  • Department Head: Marina Aleksandrovna Shchegoleva. Office 305, tel. 439-07-29
  • Deputy Department Head: Irina Valentinovna Pugayeva. Office 307, tel./fax 439-05-60, e-mail gorduma@admgor.nnov.ru
  • Head of the Information Support Department Yermakov Aleksey Valentinovich. Office 337, tel. 30-57-66, e-mail: ermakov@admgor.nnov.ru
  • Head of the Department for Letters and Appeals from Citizens Sharova Lidiya Fedorovna. Office 306, tel./fax 19-27-99

Office of Administrative Affairs

  • Head of the Office Ryzhov Yevgeniy Sergeyevich. Office 303, tel. 419-69-92
  • Deputy Head of the Office, Chief Accountant Yakimycheva Nina Andreyevna. Office 323, tel. 439-07-86
  • Head of the Department Teplova Lyubov Yuryevna. Office 325, tel. 439-03-79

Office for Public Relations and Mass Media

  • Head of the Office Polevaya Marina Albertovna. Office 324, tel. 439-18-83
  • Deputy Head of the Office Trifonova Svetlana Vladimirovna. Office 324, tel. 439-18-83

Legal Office

  • Head of Department: Irina Lvovna Maslova. Room 331, 11-88-29

Department for the Development of Territorial Public Self-Government

  • Head of Department: Lyubov Vladimirovna Komyakova. Room 301, 439-11-62

Audit Chamber

  • Chairman of the Audit Chamber: Vladimir Leonidovich Berezin. Room 328, 411-92-77
  • Deputy Chairman: Igor Nikolayevich Yudashev. Room 332a, tel. 411-93-17
  • Deputy Chairman: Ilya Semyonovich Moshes. Room 332a, tel. 411-93-17
  • Consultant-Inspector: Andrey Valentinovich Konovalov. Room 332a, tel. 411-93-17
  • Consultant-Inspector: Natalya Vladimirovna Novozhilova. Room 332a, tel. 411-93-17

Interesting Facts

  • Citizens and representatives of the mass media are entitled to attend sessions of the City Duma.
  • According to the Charter, the Duma may act as a founder of mass media outlets, including intermunicipal ones.

See also

  • Public Chamber

Sources

  1. gordumannov.ru — The Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod City Duma is Evgeniy Chintsov; the post of First Deputy Chairman is held by Evgeniy Kostin. (archive)