Career
From April 9, 2003 until September 12, 2004, he was the Chief Prosecutor of Saint St. Petersburg. From October 21, 2004 he had been the Chief Bailiff, Director of the Federal Bailiffs Service of Russia. On December 8, 2008, Vinnichenko was appointed to be the Russian Presidential Envoy to the Urals Federal District.
Since September 6, 2011, he is the Russian Presidential Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District.