Aleksandr Smetanov  Aleksandr Yuryevich Smetanov (; born 11 May 1962, Moscow) is a Russian politician and statesman, and since September 14, 2014 a Moscow City Duma deputy of the 6th convocation from the United Russia party. He is a former doctor of economic Sciences. In the period from 1981 to 2001, he served in the KGB and FSB. Since 2002 he was General Director of scientific production enterprise "Sapphire". In 2006, the cosmonautics Federation of Russia for the establishment of space systems and their component parts has the honorary title "Honored Creator of space technology". In 2013, the President of the Russian Federation awarded him with the medal of the order Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree. He was awarded medals "For distinction in Military service" III degree, "50 years of strategic missile forces", "50 years of space era". He was a professor at Moscow Polytechnic University. In the fall of 2017 Aleksandr Smetanov received a request from the Moscow public figure Andrey Smagin about the reconstruction of the Cinema Glory. In this regard, deputy said to a colleague that he had sent his request to the head of the Department of cultural heritage of Moscow. After, Smetanov became a participant of the meeting with the investor of the cinema, which has pledged to restore the theater. In 2016, Alexander Smetanov went to the police with a request to check the financial activities of the organization Dissernet working to find plagiarism in scientific papers officials. He was subsequently stripped of the academic degree of Doctor of Economic Sciences by the Higher Attestation Commission for plagiarism in his doctoral dissertation.