Yuri Ryazanov (politician)

Yuri Viktorovich Ryazanov (Ю́рий Ви́кторович Ряза́нов; born September 24, 1970) is a Russian businessman and politician. He is a member of the Federal Council of the all-Russian political party Party of Action and the Vice President of Novoe Sodruzhestvo. He is a member of the board of directors of Rostselmash, Empils and Buhler Industries.

Early life
Ryazanov was born in 1970 in Miass (Chelyabinsk region; USSR) in a family of engineers of the State Rocket Center. In 1993, he graduated from the department of Aerophysics and Space Research of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Career
In 1992 he was a co-founder of CJSC Production Association Commonwealth. In conjunction with Konstantin Babkin and Dmitry Udras withdrew Empils (1998) and Rostselmash (2000) plants from the crisis of the 1990s.

"Since the brink of failure in the 1990s, these days Rostselmash has been enjoying a revival. ... Rostselmash now sells to more than 35 countries and opened its first office in (Germany) last year. When Vladimir Putin gathered his advisers for a meeting on the development of regional industry earlier this year, they met at Rostselmash."

Since 2005 he has been Vice President of CJSC Novoe Sodruzhestvo (Промышленный Союз "Новое Содружество"), uniting 20 enterprises located in Rostov Oblast, Moscow, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Canada and the United States.

He is the publisher of the magazine Up. He chairs the organizing Committee of the international film festival of family cinema Up.

He was the producer of for multiple films, including Rowan waltz (2009), Priest-San (2015), ''Private pioneer. Yay, holidays! (2015), Tale of Peter and Fevronia (2017), Private pioneer 3. Hello, adult life! (2017), Jester's Night: Seriously Off Nut, Ginger's Tale (2020), and of the short films I believe in you (2016),No nails (2016), Must not (2017), and line producer of The Flight of the horned Vikings'' (2018). He acted in Gerasim (2017): under the name "Georgi Vityazev".

He has authored children's books.

Political career
He is one of the founders of the all-Russian political party Party of Action. In 2010 he became a member of the Federal Council of the party.

He is known for sharp criticism of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization over the terms of Russia's membership.

Personal life
Yury Ryazanov is married and has three sons and one daughter.