Editing Kemerovo (section)

==Politics==
[[File:Kemerovo City Council.jpg|thumb|Building of the City Administration and the City Council of People's Deputies ([[:ru:Советский проспект (Кемерово)|Sovetsky Prospect]], 54)]]

===Council of People's Deputies===
The Kemerovo City Council of People's Deputies is a representative body of power comprising 36 deputies. The term of office of deputies is five years.

On 13 March 2011, elections to the Council of People's Deputies were held, following which the seats in the council were distributed as follows: 31 - [[United Russia]], 2 - [[A Just Russia]], and 2 - [[Patriots of Russia]].<ref name="Gorsovet">{{cite web |url=https://kemgorsovet.ru/informacziya-o-sovete/obshhie-svedeniya/ |title=Кемеровский городской Совет народных депутатов |trans-title=Kemerovo City Council of People's Deputies |publisher=kemgorsovet.ru |access-date=2013-08-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413130647/http://www.kemgorsovet.ru/informacziya-o-sovete/obshhie-svedeniya/ |archive-date=2014-04-13}}</ref> Grigory Verzhitsky, a representative of United Russia and a deputy from the 16th constituency of Kemerovo, was elected chairman.<ref name="Verzhitskiy">{{cite web |url=https://kemgorsovet.ru/deputatyi/deputatyi/verzhiczkij-grigorij-anatolevich.html |url-status=dead |title=Вержицкий Григорий Анатольевич — Кемеровский городской Совет народных депутатов |trans-title=Verzhitsky Grigory Anatolyevich – Kemerovo City Council of People's Deputies |publisher=kemgorsovet.ru |access-date=2013-08-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413140517/http://www.kemgorsovet.ru/deputatyi/deputatyi/verzhiczkij-grigorij-anatolevich.html |archive-date=2014-04-13}}</ref> At the sixty-eighth meeting of the Kemerovo City Council, Verzhitsky's resignation as chairman was accepted at his own request.<ref>{{cite web |accessdate=2016-02-05 |title=Страница новости - Кемеровский городской совет народных депутатов |trans-title=News page - Kemerovo City Council of People's Deputies |url=http://kemgorsovet.ru/novostnaya-informacziya/news/shestdesyat-vosmoe-zasedanie-kemerovskogo-gorodskogo-soveta.html |publisher=kemgorsovet.ru |archive-date=2016-12-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228143431/http://kemgorsovet.ru/novostnaya-informacziya/news/shestdesyat-vosmoe-zasedanie-kemerovskogo-gorodskogo-soveta.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Since 2017, the city council has been headed by Nikolai Senchurov.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://kemgorsovet.ru/press-czentr/novosti/predsedatel-gorodskogo-soveta-nikolaj-senchurov-podvel-itogi-rabotyi |title=Председатель городского Совета Николай Сенчуров подвел итоги работы |trans-title=Chairman of the City Council Nikolai Senchurov summed up the work |access-date=2022-01-25 |archive-date=2022-01-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125093139/https://kemgorsovet.ru/press-czentr/novosti/predsedatel-gorodskogo-soveta-nikolaj-senchurov-podvel-itogi-rabotyi |url-status=live}}</ref> Since 2021, the council has been headed by Yuri Andreyev.