Procurator General of the Soviet Union

Procurator General of the Soviet Union
Procurator General of the Soviet Union
Генеральный прокурор СССР
	Procurator General of the Russian Federation

The Procurator General of the USSR (Russian: Генеральный прокурор СССР, romanized: Generalnyi prokuror SSSR) was the highest functionary of the Office of the Public Procurator of the USSR, responsible for the whole system of offices of public procurators and supervision of their activities on the territory of the Soviet Union.

History

The office of

Public Procurators were and are still used in other countries adhering to the doctrine of socialist law

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The Office of Public Procurator of the USSR was created in 1936, and its head was called Public Procurator of the USSR until 1946, when it was changed to Procurator General of the USSR. According to the

Soviets, cooperative

organizations, officials (including judges in court proceedings), and citizens on behalf of the state.

The Procurator General was appointed by the

autonomous republics, krais, oblasts and autonomous oblasts. He also issued orders and instructions for all of the offices of public procurators, instructed on differentiation of their competence, etc.^{[clarification needed}

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The Procurator General had the right to present his issues to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet that needed to be solved in the legislative manner or demanded interpretation of the law.

The Procurator General's participation in the

Supreme Court of the USSR

was mandatory. He had the right to obtain on demand any case from any court for checking purposes, voice his protest over a law, verdict, decree, or definition, which had already come into force, of any court and to suspend them until the matter was resolved.

Procurators General

No.	Portrait	Name (Born-Died)	Term of office
No.	Portrait	Name (Born-Died)	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Pyotr Krasikov (1870–1939)	15 March 1924	20 June 1933	9 years, 97 days
2		Ivan Akulov (1888–1937)	20 June 1933	3 March 1935	1 year, 256 days
3		Andrey Vyshinsky (1883–1954) (from 1931 - the prosecutor of the RSFSR)	3 March 1935	31 May 1939	4 years, 89 days
4		Mikhail Pankratyev (1901–1974)	31 May 1939	7 August 1940	1 year, 68 days
5		Viktor Bochkov [ru] (1900–1981)	7 August 1940	11 March 1943	2 years, 216 days
6		Konstantin Gorshenin (1907–1978) (from 1946—Procurator General of the USSR)	12 March 1943	4 February 1948	4 years, 329 days
7		Gregory Safonov [ru] (1904–1972)	5 February 1948	8 August 1953	5 years, 184 days
8		Roman Rudenko (1907–1981)	8 August 1953	23 January 1981	27 years, 168 days
9		Alexander Rekunkov (1920–1996)	9 February 1981	26 May 1988	7 years, 107 days
10		Aleksandr Sukharev [ru] (1923–2021)	26 May 1988	22 September 1990	2 years, 119 days
11		Nikolai Trubin [ru] (1931–1996)	11 December 1990	29 January 1992	1 year, 49 days

History

Procurators General

See also