Dmitry Filippov (politician)

Dmitry Filippov
Дмитрий Филиппов
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg
In office
1984–1993
Personal details
Born(1944-08-01)1 August 1944
Yurga, Kemerovo Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died13 October 1998(1998-10-13) (aged 54)
Manner of deathAssassination
Resting placeNikolskoe Cemetery, Saint Petersburg
Party
Alma materLeningrad Electrotechnical Institute

Dmitry Filippov (Russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Филиппов; 1 August 1944 – 13 October 1998) was a Soviet and Russian politician and businessman. An influential member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Lensovet before 1991, Filippov established Saint Petersburg's tax service in the early 1990s and was one of the city's most prominent businessmen during the 1990s, with significant investments in the Russian petrochemical industry. He was killed in a 1998 bombing; Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly member Yury Shutov was found guilty of his assassination by the Saint Petersburg city court in 2006 after a seven-year trial.