He was born in 1961 in the city of
Chkalovsk,
Gorky Oblast (now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast). He graduated from the
All-Union Correspondence Law Institute in 1996. He worked in the city administration of
Prokopyevsk,
Kemerovo Oblast. As of 1999, he had not yet completed higher education. In 1999, he became the head of the
LDPR’s Kemerovo regional branch and received the status of
State Duma deputy assistant. In April 1999, he ran for election to the
Council of People's Deputies of Kemerovo Oblast. The election was held on 18 April 1999, but Ovsyannikov did not win a mandate. In May 1999, he ran for mayor of
Prokopyevsk, but received only 4.74% of the votes cast. In December 1999, during the
State Duma elections, he ran as a candidate on the
Zhirinovsky Bloc list. He was listed as number 4 in the
Siberian regional group (after Loginov, Vishnyakov, and Krivelskaya). He was not elected. In 2003, he was an assistant to Loginov, Yevgeny Yuryevich State Duma deputy Yevgeny Loginov. In December 2003, he was elected a deputy of the Fourth convocation of the State Duma of the Russian Federation via the LDPR federal list. He joined the
LDPR faction, served on the State Duma Committee on Defense (Russia), and was a member of the State Duma Commission on Budget Expenditures for Defense and State Security. In 2004–2005, Ovsyannikov
supported a businessman accused of storing counterfeit discs with computer games. When law enforcement attempted to search the warehouse, they discovered a sign posted reading: “Public Reception Office of State Duma Deputy Vladimir Ovsyannikov”. Ovsyannikov later submitted a parliamentary inquiry to the
Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia about illegal investigation methods. In 2006, he headed the
LDPR's
Omsk regional branch. In 2007, he led the
Omsk regional group of the LDPR's federal candidate list for the elections to the
5th State Duma. In December 2007, he was elected to the
5th State Duma. In February 2008, the
State Duma terminated his powers based on his written resignation. Ovsyannikov stated this was due to a transfer to the position of Deputy Head of the LDPR Central Office. His mandate was transferred to
Andrey Lebedev. From 2008 to 2010, he was an assistant to Zhirinovsky, Vladimir Volfovich. On 7 August 2010, he was elected coordinator (head) of the
Novosibirsk regional branch of the LDPR and led the party list for the
Legislative Assembly of Novosibirsk Oblast. On 10 October 2010, he was elected a deputy to the
Legislative Assembly of Novosibirsk Oblast. Soon after, he renounced the mandate and left his position as regional coordinator, citing a transfer to
Krasnodar Krai. From 2010 to 2011, he served as Chief of Staff of the
LDPR faction in the State Duma and acting coordinator of the
Krasnodar regional branch. In December 2011, he was elected to the
6th State Duma. He is currently a State Duma deputy, First Deputy Head of the LDPR faction, member of the Committee on Defense, member of the Supreme Council of the LDPR, and coordinator of the LDPR's Krasnodar regional branch. On 7 June 2013, the
LDPR announced its intention to nominate Vladimir Ovsyannikov for the office of
Mayor of Moscow. According to media reports, Ovsyannikov withdrew due to a sudden illness (massive heart attack). In June 2013, he resigned his mandate. The vacant seat was transferred to
Anatoly Sikorsky. ==References==