"Dmitry Ivanov, a communist, a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of Khakassia, died in the fight against the Nazis," he wrote on Telegram.
In February, Ivanov volunteered for the special operation zone, served in the Wagner PMC, Konovalov said.
The deputy is survived by a widow and five children.
The head of the region said that he personally knew Ivanov as an honest and principled person.
Earlier it became known that a journalist from St. Petersburg, Denis Semyonov, who went to the zone of a special military operation as a volunteer, died while performing a combat mission.
At the end of March, the head of the Blagodarnensky urban district of the Stavropol Territory, Alexander Tenkov, announced the death of a participant in the special operation, Hero of Russia Dmitry Lissitzky.