[2] From 2004 to 2007 Vladimir Mazur served as deputy mayor of Tomsk for information policy, chairman of the public relations committee of the city administration.

[7] On 10 May 2022 he was appointed acting governor of his home region, Tomsk Oblast, after Sergey Zhvachkin resigned from the post.

Mazur is a member of Vladimir Putin's United Russia party[2] and is expected to run instead of Zhvachkin in an upcoming election in September 2022.

Moreover, Mazur's wife owned more than 160,000 common shares of Inter RAO, Lukoil, Novolipetsk Metallurgical Combinate, and Sberbank.

Her assets also included over 2500 depositary receipts issued by BNY Mellon for Etalon Group, Ozon Holding and X5 Retail.