“Today there was an accident in the Krasnooktyabrsky district, one of the candidates for deputies of the regional Duma, nominated by the party, died after visiting a planned round of polling stations,” said Anatoly Yarlykin, secretary of the regional election commission.

According to him, circumstances are being clarified.

The press service said that the candidate from the Communist Party Chistyakov born in 1969 died.

In March, a man died in Lviv after voting in the presidential election in Ukraine.