He is a member of the Presidium of the Political Council of the Kurgan regional branch of the United Russia party from 2007 to 2019.

Aleksey Kokorin was born on 1 March 1961 in the village of Mogilskoye Kurgan Oblast (present day Glubokoye).

In one of the biographical books,[4] it is reported that Kokorin graduated from the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute in 1995 with a degree in Industrial Electronics, but this fact is not mentioned in the official biography[3][5] and in the media.

In 2003, he received his Ph.D. in economics, having defended his thesis at the Chelyabinsk State University on the topic "Model of management of the socio-economic development of a municipal formation".

[5] He was a member of the Presidium of the Political Council of the Kurgan regional branch of the United Russia Party.

[21][22] On 17 February 2014, at an extraordinary meeting of the Shadrinsk City Duma of the V convocation, the issue of resignation of Aleksey Kokorin was considered.

[28][29][30][31] On 2 October 2018, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, accepted Kokorin's resignation, at his own request, and Vadim Shumkov was appointed as the acting governor of the Kurgan Oblast until the assumption of office of the person elected governor of Kurgan Oblast.

[33] Aleksey Kokorin is vice-president of the Association of Small and Medium Cities of Russia, a member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Local Self-Government, Chairman of the Audit Commission of the Association “Cities of the Urals”, a member of the Board of the Council of Municipal Formations of the Kurgan Oblast.

[34][35] Korkorin was devoted in many years to cross-country skiing, athletics, and likes to read Russian classics and biographies of modern politicians.

In May 2015, at the fourth stage of the Russian Cup in the city of Surgut, he fulfilled the standard of the master of sports of Russia in clay pigeon shooting.

[37] He is married to his second wife, Elena Viktorovna Kokorina,[38] and has 2 daughters, Oksana Guryeva, Aleksandra, and a son, Sergey.

On the night of April 28 or 29, 2017 in Shadrinsk, in a state of strong alcoholic intoxication, he stabbed him in the right side, and then in the lower back, stomach and in the arm of his drinking companion.

111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm" with a sentence of imprisonment for a term of 3 years conditionally.