List of Prosecutors General of Russia
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Prosecutor General of the Russian Empire- Count Pavel Yaguzhinsky 12 January 1722 – 6 April 1736
- Prince Nikita TrubetskoyNikita TrubetskoyPrince Nikita Yurievich Trubetskoy was a Russian statesman and Field Marshal , minister of defense of Russia 1760....
28 April 1740 – 15 August 1760 - Prince Yakov Shakhovsky 15 August 1760 – 25 December 1761
- Aleksandr Glebov 25 December 1761 – 03 February 1764
- Prince Alexander Vyazemsky 3 February 1764 – 17 September 1792
- Count Alexander SamoylovAlexander SamoylovCount Alexander Nikolayevich Samoylov was a Russian general and statesman.Alexander Samoylov was born in the family of senator Nikolay Samoylov. He started his military service in 1760 as a soldier of Leib-Guard Semyonovsky Regiment...
17 September 1792 – 4 December 1796 - Prince Alexei Kurakin 4 December 1796 – 8 August 1798
- Alexander Bekleshov 7 July 1799 – 2 February 1800 and 16 March 1801 – 8 September 1802
Procurator General of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Pyotr KrasikovPyotr KrasikovPyotr Ananyevich Krasikov was a functionary of the All-Union Communist Party and the Soviet Union.He was the first Procurator General of the Soviet Union....
(15 March 1924–20 June 1933). - Ivan Akulov (20 June 1933–3 March 1935)
- Andrey VyshinskyAndrey VyshinskyAndrey Januaryevich Vyshinsky – 22 November 1954) was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat.He is known as a state prosecutor of Joseph Stalin's Moscow trials and in the Nuremberg trials. He was the Soviet Foreign Minister from 1949 to 1953, after having served as Deputy Foreign...
(3 March 1935–31 May 1939, from 1931 - the prosecutor of the RSFSR) - Mikhail Pankratov (31 May 1939–7 August 1940). Mikhail Ivanovich Pankratiev (31 May 1939–7 August 1940).
- Viktor Bochkov (7 August 1940–11 March 1943)
- Konstantin Gorshenin (12 March 1943–4 February 1948, from 1946—Procurator General of the USSR)
- Gregory Safonov (5 February 1948–8 August 1953)
- Roman RudenkoRoman RudenkoRoman Andreyevich Rudenko was a Soviet lawyer. He was the prosecutor of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1944-1953 and Chief prosecutor of the entire Soviet Union from 1953. He is also well known for acting as the Soviet Chief Prosecutor at the main trial of the major Nazi war...
(8 August 1953–23 January 1981) - Alexander Rekunkov (9 February 1981–26 May 1988)
- Aleksandr Sukharev (26 May 1988–22 September 1990)
- Nikolai Trubin (11 December 1990–29 January 1992)
Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation
- Valentin StepankovValentin StepankovValentin Stepankov was the first prosecutor general of the Russian Federation.He once condemned an action by Boris Yeltsin in 1993, in which Russia faced a constitutional crisis.He has also served as Russia's deputy natural resources minister...
(28 February 1991 - 5 October 1993) - Aleksey Kazannik (5 October 1993 - 14 March 1994)
- Aleksey Ilyushenko (26 March, 1994 - 24 October 1995)
- Yury SkuratovYury SkuratovYury Ilyich Skuratov is a Russian lawyer and politician.From 1995 till 1999 he was Prosecutor General of Russia.In February 1999, he disclosed the existence of FIMACO....
(24 October, 1995 - 2 February 1999) - Vladimir UstinovVladimir UstinovVladimir Vasilyevich Ustinov is a Russian politician.He currently is the Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Southern Federal District. Until 2008, he was Russia's Minister of Justice....
(17 May 2000 - 2 June 2006) - Yury ChaikaYury ChaikaYury Yakovlevich Chaika is the current Prosecutor General of Russia.-Career:Chaika began his career as an electrician in a shipyard. After serving in the army, he graduated from Sverdlovsk Institute of Law in 1976 and began work at Irkutsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office where he served as an...
(23 June, 2006 - Present)
See also
- List of Justice Ministers of Imperial Russia
- Procurator General of the Soviet Union