Yuri Fedorovich Shumsky (born April 12, 1971, Mednogorsk, Orenburg Region) is a Russian manager who served from 2020 to 2022 as general director of the Federal State-Owned Enterprise "Sverdlov Plant" (Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Region). In 2024 he was convicted of Corruption.[1][2]
Biography and career
In 1996 he graduated from the Orenburg State Medical Academy, and later received additional education at the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics (2001) and the Russian Presidential Academy of Public Administration (2005).[2]
From 2000 to 2001 he was general director of the closed joint-stock company Transoilexport, then successively headed the closed joint-stock companies Sibresurs and Oil Company "Sibresurs," and also served as first deputy general director of the open joint-stock company Moscow Oil and Lubricants Plant.[2]
In 2009 he moved to the Federal State-Owned Enterprise "Ya. M. Sverdlov Plant" as deputy general director for enterprise management, and in 2010 became first deputy general director. By order of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation dated May 29, 2020, he was appointed general director of the enterprise.[2] The Federal State-Owned Enterprise "Ya. M. Sverdlov Plant" is a defense enterprise in Dzerzhinsk specializing in the production of ammunition, chemical products, industrial explosives, and machine-building products; defense output accounts for about 30% of total production.[1]
Sports activities
Shumsky practiced equestrian sport. In 2019, as part of a team, he took second place at the Russian eventing championship and became a member of the main roster of the Russian national team in this sport.[2]
Criminal case and sentence
In the fall of 2022, Shumsky was detained together with the plant's first deputy general director Oleg Korpatenkov and the former general director of the Spetskhimiya holding of Rostec, Yuri Zozulya.[1] On December 2, 2024, the Presnensky Court of Moscow handed down its verdict: Shumsky was found guilty of mediation in bribery (Part 4, Article 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment in a strict-regime penal colony. Korpatenkov was sentenced under the same article to 5 years and taken into custody in the courtroom; Zozulya received 9 years for taking a bribe on an especially large scale and abuse of official powers.[1]