Sergei Sobko

He worked at the Elektronika Central Research Institute as an engineer and senior engineer, and later worked as a chief methodologist in the Cosmos pavilion at the Vystavka Dostizheniy Narodnogo Khozyaystva, or Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy, a permanent trade show and amusement park in Moscow.

In 1980, he worked as an engineer, with the title deputy director for science, at the Central Institute of Economics and Information of the Non-Ferrous Metallurgy.

On June 5, 2005, on the basis of evidence provided by Bryntsalov’s lawyers, a judge of the Pavlovo-Posad city court overturned the election results at eight polling stations.

In 2005, Sobko signed the “Five Hundreds Letter,” an appeal to the general prosecutor’s office to investigate Jewish organizations and to seek to prohibit those engaged in extremist activity.

Sobko said that he did not call for banning any Jewish organizations, but that he considered it inadmissible to publish the text "Kitsur Shulchan Arukh,” which, for example, instructs Jewish women "not to help a non-Jewish woman in labor.”[6] In 2007, he was elected to the fifth state Duma from the Communist Party’s electoral list, again joining the Communist Party faction.

In addition, he is deputy chairman of the United Left group, which includes representatives of the socialist and communist parties in Europe.

They produced spare railway parts, agricultural equipment, tools, soy-based foodstuffs, and plastic packaging; imported cosmetics and hygiene products; and ran a non-profit ophthalmological clinic.

He received the Certificate of Honor of the President of the Russian Federation (April 11, 2014) for his contribution to the nation’s socioeconomic development, his humanitarian achievements, his strengthening of law and order, and his legislative and other public activities.