Aleksey Chekunkov was born in Minsk, Belarus, to his father Aleh Chakunkov, on 3 October 1980.

He graduated from the Faculty of International Economic Relations of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University), of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and earned a master's degree in State and Municipal Administration of the Far Eastern Federal University.

He managed large projects of international and Russian financial organizations (Alrosa, Delta Private Equity, Alfa Group), including in the Far East - in Sakha and the Khabarovsk Krai.

On 10 November 2020, Chekunkov was appointed to the post of the Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic.

[7] Chekunkov's father, Aleh Chakunkov, served in the diplomatic service of Belarus and was the Belarusian ambassador plenipotentiary to Vietnam from 1998 to 2001.