Southern constituency (Rostov Oblast)

The Southern constituency (No.152^[a]) is a Russian legislative constituency in Rostov Oblast. The constituency covers eastern Rostov-on-Don, major industrial city Novocherkassk as well as suburbs and exurbs between them.

Southern single-member constituency
Constituency of the Russian State Duma
Constituency boundaries from 2016 to 2026
Deputy	Viktoria Abramchenko United Russia
Federal subject	Rostov Oblast
Districts	Aksaysky (Aksay, Bolshelogskoye, Grushevskoye, Mishkinskoye, Rassvetovskoye, Shchepkinskoye, Starocherkasskoye), Novocherkassk, Rostov-on-Don (Pervomaysky, Voroshilovsky)
Other territory	Estonia (Tallinn-3)
Voters	483,842 (2024)[1]

The constituency has been represented since the 2024 by-election by United Russia deputy Viktoria Abramchenko, Deputy Chairwoman of the State Duma and former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, who won the seat left vacant by the resignation of one-term United Russia deputy Vitaly Kushnarev in May 2024.

Boundaries

1993–1995 Rostov-Pervomaysky constituency: Rostov-on-Don (Kirovsky, Leninsky, Pervomaysky, Proletarsky, Voroshilovsky, Zheleznodorozhny)^[2]
The constituency covered central and eastern Rostov-on-Don, including the city centre.

1995–2007 Proletarsky constituency: Aksaysky District, Bataysk, Rostov-on-Don (Pervomaysky, Proletarsky, Voroshilovsky)^[3][4]
After the 1995 redistricting Rostov Oblast gained the seventh constituency, so all other districts were redrawn. The constituency was renamed as "Proletarsky constituency" and retained only eastern Rostov-on-Don, losing the rest of the city to Rostov constituency. This seat instead gained suburban Aksaysky District to its east from Taganrog constituency as well satellite city Bataysk to the south from Rostov-Sovetsky constituency.

2016–2026: Aksaysky District (Aksay, Bolshelogskoye, Grushevskoye, Mishkinskoye, Rassvetovskoye, Shchepkinskoye, Starocherkasskoye), Novocherkassk, Rostov-on-Don (Pervomaysky, Voroshilovsky)^[5]
The constituency was re-created for the 2016 election under the name "Southern constituency" and retained most of its territory, losing Proletarsky City District and southern Aksaysky District to Rostov constituency, and Bataysk – to new Nizhnedonskoy constituency. This seat instead gained industrial city Novocherkassk from the former Belaya Kalitva constituency.

Since 2026 Novocherkassk constituency: Aksaysky District, Bagayevsky District, Novocherkassk, Rostov-on-Don (Pervomaysky, Voroshilovsky)^[6]
Following the 2025 redistricting Rostov Oblast lost one of its seven constituencies, so all the remaining seats saw major changes. The constituency took the name "Novocherkassk constituency" and retained all of its former territory, gaining the rest of Aksaysky District and Bagayevsky District from Rostov constituency.

Members elected

Election		Member	Party
	1993	Alla Amelina	Independent
	1995	Sergey Shakhray[b]	Party of Russian Unity and Accord
	1997	Nikolay Kolomeytsev	Communist Party
	1999
	2003	Zoya Stepanova	Independent
2007		Proportional representation - no election by constituency
2011
	2016	Mikhail Chernyshyov	United Russia
	2021	Vitaly Kushnarev[c]	United Russia
	2024	Viktoria Abramchenko	United Russia

Election results

1993

Summary of the 12 December 1993 Russian legislative election in the Rostov-Pervomaysky constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Alla Amelina	Independent	61,168	22.79%
	Aleksandr Mayboroda	Yavlinsky–Boldyrev–Lukin	–	9.47%
	Aleksandr Chernenko	Independent	–	–
	Vitaly Linnik	Independent	–	–
	Viktor Povalyayev	Communist Party	–	–
	Igor Rozhkov	Independent	–	–
	Natalya Serdyukova	Future of Russia–New Names	–	–
	Boris Sturov	Independent	–	–
	Vladimir Vukolov	Independent	–	–
	Sergey Zbrailov	Independent	–	–
Total			268,451	100%
Source:				[7]

1995

Summary of the 17 December 1995 Russian legislative election in the Proletarsky constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Sergey Shakhray	Party of Russian Unity and Accord	87,036	27.91%
	Nikolay Kolomeytsev	Communist Party	61,305	19.67%
	Alla Amelina (incumbent)	Democratic Choice of Russia – United Democrats	28,656	9.19%
	Viktor Petrov	Congress of Russian Communities	13,807	4.43%
	Vladimir Titarenko	Derzhava	10,679	3.43%
	Valentin Khmelevsky	Communists and Working Russia - for the Soviet Union	10,387	3.33%
	Valentin Gerbach	Independent	9,684	3.11%
	Anatoly Ryzhakov	Party of Workers' Self-Government	8,879	2.85%
	Viktor Gorbatko	Power to the People	8,806	2.83%
	Aleksandr Grinberg	Liberal Democratic Party	8,513	2.73%
	Anatoly Smirnov	Independent	7,591	2.44%
	Vladimir Vukolov	Independent	5,325	1.71%
	Aleksandr Nikolayev	Independent	3,778	1.21%
	Boris Sturov	Russian Party	2,083	0.67%
	Raisa Grishechkina	Democratic Alternative	1,832	0.59%
	Sergey Gorshkov	Independent	1,423	0.46%
	Gennady Eskin	Frontier Generation	880	0.28%
	against all		31,816	10.21%
Total			311,666	100%
Source:				[7]

1997

Summary of the 1 June 1997 by-election in the Proletarsky constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Nikolay Kolomeytsev	Communist Party	60,457	39.50%
	Gennady Melikyan	Our Home – Russia	28,695	18.75%
	Anatoly Stankov	Independent	11,679	7.63%
	Boris Grinberg	Independent	6,258	4.09%
	Sergey Sleptsov	Independent	4,441	2.90%
	Erlen Yemelyanov	Memorial	2,412	1.58%
	Igor Lyubitsky	Union Chernobyl	2,365	1.55%
	Albert Taranenko	Independent	2,248	1.47%
	Vladimir Dek	Independent	2,199	1.44%
	Aleksandr Ivanov	People's National Party	1,952	1.28%
	Sergey Apatenko	Independent	1,824	1.19%
	Aleksandr Kasyanov	Independent	1,632	1.07%
	Gennady Shupikov	Independent	1,555	1.02%
	Igor Rozhkov	Independent	1,520	0.99%
	against all		16,518	10.79%
Total			153,070	100%
Source:				[8]

1999

Summary of the 19 December 1999 Russian legislative election in the Proletarsky constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Nikolay Kolomeytsev (incumbent)	Communist Party	139,218	44.19%
	Yury Vertiy	Independent	87,673	27.83%
	Konstantin Denisenko	Andrei Nikolayev and Svyatoslav Fyodorov Bloc	16,711	5.30%
	Eduard Kaporikov	Spiritual Heritage	6,741	2.14%
	against all		57,334	18.20%
Total			315,014	100%
Source:				[9]

2003

Summary of the 7 December 2003 Russian legislative election in the Proletarsky constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Zoya Stepanova	Independent	88,589	32.09%
	Nikolay Kolomeytsev (incumbent)	Communist Party	85,088	30.82%
	Vladimir Shcherbakov	Independent	53,306	19.31%
	Viktor Alekhin	Independent	7,541	2.73%
	against all		34,075	12.34%
Total			276,517	100%
Source:				[10]

2016

Summary of the 18 September 2016 Russian legislative election in the Southern constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Mikhail Chernyshyov	United Russia	103,751	48.59%
	Vladimir Bessonov	Communist Party	39,750	18.62%
	Yegor Kolesnikov	Liberal Democratic Party	21,172	9.92%
	Gennady Zubov	Rodina	11,230	5.26%
	Aleksey Lyashchenko	A Just Russia	10,373	4.86%
	Andrey Kutyrev	Independent	5,007	2.35%
	Vakhtang Kozayev	Communists of Russia	3,858	1.81%
	Vladimir Ignatkin	Yabloko	3,690	1.73%
	Vladimir Bazarov	Patriots of Russia	3,093	1.45%
	Tatyana Cherepanova	Civic Platform	3,006	1.41%
	Stanislav Avramenko	People's Freedom Party	2,931	1.37%
Total			213,507	100%
Source:				[11]

2021

Summary of the 17-19 September 2021 Russian legislative election in the Southern constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Vitaly Kushnarev	United Russia	70,682	37.08%
	Andrey Kutyrev	Communist Party	50,059	26.26%
	Aleksandr Khurudzhi	New People	21,430	11.24%
	Boris Valter	A Just Russia — For Truth	18,591	9.75%
	Denis Karasev	Liberal Democratic Party	14,107	7.40%
	Nikolay Larin	The Greens	5,561	2.92%
	Kirill Surenko	Party of Growth	2,964	1.56%
Total			190,606	100%
Source:				[12]

2024

Summary of the 6–8 September 2024 by-election in the Southern constituency

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Viktoria Abramchenko	United Russia	154,908	75.73%
	Natalya Oskina	Communist Party	23,069	11.28%
	Maksim Fyodorov	A Just Russia – For Truth	9,075	4.44%
	Dmitry Velichko	New People	6,827	3.34%
	Roman Klimov	Liberal Democratic Party	5,693	2.78%
	Aleksandr Yefimov	Yabloko	2,972	1.45%
Total			204,566	100%
Source:				[1]

Notes

1. Rostov-Pervomaysky constituency No.144 in 1993-1995, Proletarsky constituency No.145 in 1995-2007
2. appointed Plenipotentiary Representative of President of Russia to the Constitutional Court in December 1996
3. appointed Deputy Governor of Rostov Oblast – Minister of Transport of Rostov Oblast in May 2024