Gennady Vladimirovich Konyakhin (Russian: Геннадий Владимирович Коняхин, born 25 April 1959)[1] is a Russian businessman and former politician. He was elected mayor of the West-Siberian mining city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky in April 1997.
He became known Russiawide after publications in the Izvestia newspaper, in which he was associated with the criminals.[2] Russian president Boris Yeltsin cited the election of Konyakhin as an example of "bandits' strive for power."[3] Konyakhin was arrested October 8, 1997 in Moscow and charged with misappropriation of government funds.[4] On November 18, 1998, he was sentenced to a four-year suspended sentence.[5]