[1] In June 2015, Zinichev was appointed Chief of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Kaliningrad Oblast, replacing Alexander Kozlov in this post.

[5] On 28 July 2016, amid the largest staff rotation of 2016, President Putin appointed Zinichev as acting Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast.

[7] During his first press conference, which lasted 49 seconds, he indicated that his priority was to attract investment to the Kaliningrad Oblast and stabilize the socio-economic situation.

[1] On 17 May 2018, Prime Minister Medvedev nominated Zinichev for the post of head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia instead of Vladimir Puchkov.

[14] On 15 January 2020, he resigned as part of the cabinet, after President Vladimir Putin delivered the Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly, in which he proposed several amendments to the constitution.

Zinichev died on 8 September 2021 in Norilsk, aged 55, during the filming of an interdepartmental exercise to protect the Arctic zone of Russia.

[22] The farewell to the minister took place on 10 September at the EMERCOM National Crisis Center in Moscow on the same day he was buried in St. Petersburg at the Northern Cemetery.