Yuri Spirodonov was born in the village of Poltavka, Omsk Oblast on 1 November 1938[1] to a Russian family.

[4] In December 1993, he was elected to the Federation Council of the first convocation (received 45.14% of the votes), until April 1994 he was a member of the Committee on the Budget, Currency, Financial and Credit Regulation, Money Issue, Tax Policy and Customs Regulation, later on - a member Committee for the North.

On 30 November 1997, he won the early elections of the Head of the Republic and re-entered this position on 30 December 1997.

In 2001, he again ran as a candidate for the post of Head of the Komi Republic, in the elections on 16 December he won 34.9% of the vote and lost the victory to Vladimir Torlopov, who was the Chairman of the State Council of the Republic who won 40% of the votes.

On 7 December 2003, Spiridonov was elected to the State Duma of the IV convocation in the Syktyvkar single-mandate electoral district No.