Chylgychy Ondar
Chylgychy Chimit-Dorzhuyevich Ondar (; 16 November 1955 – 12 June 2020) was a Russian politician of Tuvan ethnicity. From 2001 to 2007, Ondar was a member of the State Duma. He was a member of United Russia.

Biography 
Chylgychy Ondar was born in 1955 in Chadan, Tuva. In 1978 he graduated from the Shchukin Theatre Institute. Over the years, he worked as an instructor of the agitation and propaganda department of the Kyzyl City Committee of the CPSU, head of the information and sports department of the Tyvanyn anyiaktary newspaper, deputy minister of culture of the Tuvan ASSR, minister of culture, cinema and tourism of the Republic of Tuva, and its deputy prime minister for social policy.

In 2001 he was elected member of the 3rd State Duma from the Tuva constituency in a by-election. From 2009 he has been the first secretary of the Russian embassy in Kazakhstan. Ondar died on 12 June 2020, from COVID-19 in Moscow, aged 64.

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1955 births
2020 deaths
People from Dzun-Khemchiksky District
Third convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Fourth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
21st-century Russian politicians
United Russia politicians
Tuvan people
Russian dramatists and playwrights