Highest prosecutor office in the Soviet Union
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
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The office of
procurator
had its historical roots in
Imperial Russia
, and under
Soviet law
public procurators
had wide-ranging responsibilities including, but not limited to, those of public
prosecutors
found in other
legal systems
. Offices of
Public Procurators
were and are still used in other countries adhering to the doctrine of
socialist law
.
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
1936 Soviet Constitution
, the Procurator General exercised the highest degree of direct or indirect (through subordinate public procurators) control over the accurate execution of
laws
by all
ministries
, departments, their subordinate establishments and
enterprises
, executive and administrative bodies of local
Soviets
,
cooperative
organizations, officials (including judges in court proceedings), and citizens on behalf of the state.
The Procurator General was appointed by the
Supreme Soviet of the USSR
for a 7-year term and given a class rank of the Active state counselor of justice. His deputies and
Procurator General of the Armed Forces
were appointed by the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
of the USSR on recommendation from Procurator General. The Procurator General appointed public procurators of the
Soviet republics
and, on their recommendation, public procurators of
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.
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clarification needed
]
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
plenary sessions
of 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
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Alexander Sukharev (left) at the 1st convocation of the
Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union
with investigator
Telman Gdlyan
(right) and
Mikhail Gorbachev
(center)
| No.
|
Portrait
|
Name
(Born-Died)
|
Term of office
|
| 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
|
See also
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