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In 2025, it will have been 35 years since the 21st Leningrad City Council deputies embarked on the thorny path of struggle for freedom and democracy on a city-wide scale. According to many historians and political scientists, this was one of the few democratically elected city councils in Russia. Similar revolutionary renewals of Soviet power had already occurred in Moscow, Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk in 1990), perhaps even Nizhny Novgorod and some other regional centers in Russia. And that was it! And this democracy held power for three and a half years. Today (in 2025), many of the deputies of that very last democratic Leningrad City Council-Petrograd City Council are long gone; many are employed in completely different spheres of human activity, already retired—after all, the average age of those LenSU members today is 83! But none of us, Lensovet members, have ever retreated, nor will we ever retreat, from the civic stance instilled in us by our short time spent in St. Petersburg's highest authority. We are proud of our colleagues who remained in power in Russia and St. Petersburg longer than others, and we believe they brought tangible benefits to the country and their home city.
Let us remind readers that the Leningrad City Council deputy corps produced such now-famous political and public figures who left a noticeable mark on Russia′s political history as former and current senators Alexander Nikolaevich Belyaev, Yuri Anatolyevich Kravtsov, Dmitry Fedorovich Mezentsev, Alexey Ivanovich Alexandrov и Sergey Alexandrovich Vasiliev, State Duma deputies of various convocations Yuliy Andreevich Rybakov, Boris Aleksandrovich Moiseev, Alexander Vladimirovich Shishlov, Igor Yuryevich Artemyev (in 2005 — Minister), Sergey Alekseevich Popov (in 2005, the current deputy), Sergei Mikhailovich Nikiforov, Yuri Mikhailovich Nesterov, Alexander Kiryanovich Egorov, Anatoly Grigorievich Golov, Vladimir Evgenievich Churov (in 2005 — current deputy, later — chairman of the Central Electoral Commission), Yuri Konstantinovich Sevenard, Sergey Georgievich Belyaev, Evgeniy Sergeevich Krasnitsky, Sergey Anatolyevich Popov.
The following were elected as deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg in different years: Alexey Anatolyevich Kovalev, Yuri Pavlovich Gladkov, Stanislav Fedorovich Zybin, Vatanyar Saidovich Yagya, Mikhail Ivanovich Amosov, Sergey Nikolaevich Nikeshin and were deputies of previous convocations Leonid Petrovich Romankov, Valery Nikolaevich Selivanov, Mikhail Ivanovich Pirogov, Alexander Vyacheslavovich Dybovsky, Boris Vasilievich Gladkikh.
Many Leningrad City Council deputies have worked or are working in departments and committees of the Russian Government. : (Alexander Alexandrovich Kalinin, Pyotr Sergeevich Filippov, Pyotr Mikhailovich Lanskov, Georgy Stepanovich Khizha, Viktor Nikolaevich Monakhov, Leonid Evgenievich Paidiev and others, in the administration of the President of Russia — Anatoly Vasilievich Chaus, works as a member of the Central Election Commission Nikolay Evgenievich Konkin, member of the Charter Court of St. Petersburg Alexey Alekseevich Liverovsky.
It is worth mentioning that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev began their political careers and the difficult road to the top of the power hierarchy in the Leningrad City Council apparatus (as assistants to the chairman of the Leningrad City Council).
It was during the era of the Leningrad City Council of the 21st Convocation and by the decision of the Leningrad City Council to hold a city referendum in June 1991 that our city was returned to its historical name, given by its founding father Peter the Great in honor of the Apostle Saint Peter — Saint Petersburg.
The deputy corps of the 21st convocation of the Leningrad City Council was, is, and will remain special. It is destined to become a hallowed place in the history of the city on the Neva; it is symbolic, no matter how hard today’s elite tries to conceal the achievements of the Leningrad City Council or even appropriate them for themselves. The numbering of our convocation — XXI (21) — is symbolic: it seems to have launched new socio-political trends, looking toward the 21st century.
Many Leningrad City Council deputies have written books over the past decades. Here are links to free downloads (in .pdf format) of some of these works, covering history, politics, and economics.
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Lensovet-XXI 35 years later. Politics. History. PhilosophyA book about democracy, parliamentarism, and the recent history of St. Petersburg. The collection includes three reports given by Leningrad City Council deputies at anniversary meetings, articles by Leningrad City Council deputies on the historical, political, and philosophical significance of the 21st Leningrad City Council. Get the book for free.
To include a book in the list of references in a scientific work URL: https://lib.am/m/book/download/45/3147 (date of access: dd.mm.yyyy ) |
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Below are the addresses for free electronic versions (.pdf) of these rare books. All books are in Russian and are distributed free of charge with the permission of their authors and publishers. For questions about translating the books into other languages and reprinting them in other countries, please contact the author of this information project. — Pavel Tsyplenkov — or directly to the authors and publishers of books. |
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Autobiography of the St. Petersburg City CouncilMemories of Leningrad City Council deputies about their work in the representative authority of Leningrad Get the book for free. Autobiography of the St. Petersburg City Council ISBN 5-85574-116-8 To include a book in the list of references in a scientific work |
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The first book, «Autobiography of the St. Petersburg City Council», was published in 2005, on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the 21st Leningrad City Council.
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Autobiography of the St. Petersburg
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The fates of deputies 30 years later.The fourth volume of the Autobiography of the Leningrad City Council provides information about the deputies of the Leningrad City Council Get the book for free. To include a book in the list of references in a scientific work |
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August 1991 as the pinnacle of democracyThe book is devoted to the problems of democracy development in Russia and the analysis of the situation that arose at the peak of the formation of the system of democracy in 1991. Get the book for free. To include a book in the list of references in a scientific work |
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Rarely, and perhaps never before, have the people stood up so unitedly to defend the legitimate authority as in Russia (still part of the USSR) in August 1991. The upsurge was amazing, especially here in St. Petersburg (then still Leningrad), and the military did not dare enter our city in tanks. Therefore, there was no shooting or bloodshed, but on August 19th there was resistance to the tyranny of the State Emergency Committee at the Mariinsky Palace, there was the first session of the City Council in the country, which condemned the actions of the State Emergency Committee. There was the first breakthrough of the information blockade in the country in the evening on city television. On August 20th, the largest demonstration in the history of Leningrad took place on Palace Square. Smolny was sealed on August 23rd - The headquarters of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the CPSU, which ruled for 70 years. The people are always greater than the government. All it takes is for the people to unite, and the arbitrary rule of the government will end! |
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Faction «On the platform of the Leningrad People’s Front» in Lensoviet-XXIThe creation and work of the Leningrad City Council parliamentary faction «On the platform of the Leningrad People’s Front». Radicalism of deputies. Impact on the political situation, the economy, and the well-being of citizens in 1990-1993. Get the book for free. To include a book in the list of references in a scientific work |
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Vector Theory of Social Revolution.The book presents a mathematically sound and logically substantiated thesis on the causes and inevitability of revolutions in human society. Revolution is a means of improving the state mechanism. A new definition of social revolution is substantiated: the state’s shift within the space of political ideas along a vector directed from simple, archaic ideas (slavery, despotism, inequality) to more complex, progressive ones (freedom, democracy, equality). The driving forces of revolution are listed. The genetic basis of human passionarity and a mathematical model of popular uprising (rebellion) are discussed. A model of a socio-economic formation is constructed, in which the exploitation of man by man, of man by the state, and of workers by the financial oligarchy is eliminated. Get the book for free. To include a book in the list of references in a scientific work |
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The Decline of CapitalismThe paths for human society to emerge from the crisis Get the book for free. To include a book in the list of references in a scientific work |
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Back to square one…About how city of Leningrad was returned to its original name of Saint Petersburg. Get the book for free. To include a book in the list of references in a scientific work |
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Secrets of the Mariinsky PalaceShort notes on the activities of the Leningrad City Council deputies. Get the book for free. To include a book in the list of references in a scientific work |
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The first hours of «Nevskoe Vremya»The history of the creation of the independent city newspaper Get the book for free. To include a book in the list of references in a scientific work |
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We all came from the people.Results of the elections of deputies of the Leningrad City Council in March 1990. Get the book for free. To include a book in the list of references in a scientific work |
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Life in the USSR. 1951-1991. Memories.Biographical essays of the scientist about his path in science and politics against the backdrop of changes in Soviet society: social, economic and cultural aspects. Get the book for free. To include a book in the list of references in a scientific work |
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My garden is civil societyThe book contains selected articles, notes, interviews Get the book for free. To include a book in the list of references in a scientific work |
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20 years of parliamentarism in St. PetersburgThis book is a breakthrough in the perimeter defense of privatizers past and present. It presents memoirs of the Leningrad City Council and political events in Russia and St. Petersburg in the early 1990s. These are the stories of politicians who were making history at the time, supported by documents and publications from the time. Get the book for free. To include a book in the list of references in a scientific work |
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Brief information about the authors of the books
 Belyakov, Vladimir GennadievichBorn in 1948. Graduated from the Radio Engineering Department of the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications named after M.A. Bonch-Bruevich in 1970, and from the Law Department of St. Petersburg State University in 1994. Since 1989, he has been a member of the Leningrad Popular Front (LPF). Kotov, Alexander VladimirovichBorn in 1949. Graduated from the Economics Department of the A.A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University in 1980. Sazanov, Alexander PetrovichBorn in 1952 in Leningrad. Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of LSU named after A.A. Zhdanov in 1976. Worked in the media of Latvia and Leningrad, including the newspaper "Nevsky Courier", founded in 1990 by the Leningrad Popular Front. Sungurov, Alexander YuryevichBorn in 1951. Doctor of Biological Sciences, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Applied Political Science at the St. Petersburg branch of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, President of the Interregional Humanitarian and Political Science Center «STRATEGY», Editor-in-Chief of the journal «Public Policy». |
 Egorov, Sergey NesterovichBorn in 1952 in Leningrad. Lecturer at the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics. Candidate of Technical Sciences. Since 1989, he has been a member of the Leningrad People’s Front (LPF), a member of the Coordinating Council and the Board of the LPF. Smirnov, Nikolai NikolaevichBorn in 1954 in Leningrad. Graduated from the A.A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University in 1980 with a degree in economic geography, and from the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University in 1994. Chief Project Engineer at the Institute of the General Plan of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. Trubnikov, Georgy IvanovichBorn in 1940. Candidate of Technical Sciences. Senior Researcher at the Research Institute of Electrophysical Equipment of the Scientific Production Association «Electrophysics». Tsyplenkov, Pavel VadimovichBorn in 1956 in Leningrad. Candidate of Biological Sciences. |
Lensovet. St. Petersburg City Council. Lensovet-XXI 35 years later. Politics. History. Philosophy. Lensovet. St. Petersburg City Council.
Chapters from the book «Lensovet-XXI 35 years later»
- M.I.Amosov. Elections to the Leningrad City Council of the 21st convocation
- S.A.Bassov. We approved the city’s flag and anthem..
- A.N.Belyaev. The activities of the Leningrad City Council and its historical significance
- S.N.Egorov. 20 years of parliamentarism in St. Petersburg (1990-2010)
- A.R.Motorin. Instead of public control
- A.P. Sazanov, N.N. Smirnov, G.B. Truskanov, P.V. Tsyplenkov. Thirty years without the Leningrad City Council.
- P.V. Tsyplenkov. Free the man
- P.V. Tsyplenkov. Selected passages from friends’ memories
- D.E. Vyunsh-Arsky and others. Anatoly Sobchak did not return the name to St. Petersburg.
- Memories of the Leningrad City Council of the 21st Convocation. (Anatoly Sobchak, Vladimir Zharov, Viktor Smirnov and others).
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