In 1981, he received a secondary technical education as a mechanical technician after graduating from the Bryansk Polytechnic College. In 1980, he began working at the Bryansk Machine-Building Plant as a turner. From 1981 to 1987, he worked in
Krasnoyarsk Krai with the Yenisei Geophysics Association, serving as a sixth-grade fitter in the Boguchany geophysical expedition and later as a geophysics technician. From 1987 to 1992, he worked in the Evenkiya geophysical expedition as an all-terrain vehicle driver (fourth grade), senior engineer for the repair of geological exploration equipment, transport mechanic, and head of the expedition’s transport division. In 1992, he returned to Bryansk and in 1992–1993 worked as deputy director at the company
Miran. In 1993, in the town of Seltso, Bryansk Oblast, he established a private enterprise,
Tamosh, based on a leased sausage workshop of the regional consumer union. In 1997, the enterprise was renamed
Tamosh Meat Processing Plant LLC, where he worked as director, and since 1999 as general director. In 2006, he founded the agricultural enterprise
Druzhba LLC and headed it. From 2008 to 2016, he served as business manager of both
Tamosh Meat Processing Plant LLC and
Druzhba LLC. In March 2009, he ran as a candidate for the Bryansk Regional Duma on the United Russia party list and was elected as a deputy. In September 2014, he was again elected deputy of the Bryansk Regional Duma from single-member constituency No. 18, representing United Russia. In the Regional Duma, he served on the Committee on Agrarian Policy and Natural Resource Management, as well as the Committee on Budget, Taxes, and Economic Policy. After his election, journalists reported that he owned a Patek Philippe watch worth seven million rubles, as noted by the media outlet
Life and the Bryansk newspaper
Komsomolets Bryanska. In June 2017, Zhutenkov submitted his resignation from the State Duma. Vice Speaker Sergei Neverov announced his resignation and stated that he had offered Zhutenkov the position of his advisor on agricultural issues. He died on 14 November 2021 in Kamchatka during a vacation when his snowmobile crashed into a tree. Several months earlier, his son Dmitry Zhutenkov had died in a motorcycle accident. == Criminal case and conviction related to a traffic accident ==