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Procurator General of the Soviet Union

Highest prosecutor office in the Soviet Union

Summary

Highest prosecutor office in the Soviet Union

Field	Value
post	Procurator General
body	the Soviet Union
native_name	Генеральный прокурор СССР
insignia	Insignia of Procurator General of the Soviet Union (1954).svg
insigniasize	50px
insigniacaption	Insignia
image	Главный_обвинитель_от_СССР_на_Нюрнбергском_процессе_Р.А._Руденко_(cropped).jpg
imagecaption	**Longest serving
Roman Rudenko**
1 July 1953 – 23 January 1981
department	Office of the Public Procurator of the USSR
type	Public procurators
status	Abolished
precursor	Procurator General of the Russian Empire
formation	15 March 1924
first	Pyotr Krasikov
last
abolished	29 January 1992
succession	Procurator General of the Russian Federation

Roman Rudenko** 1 July 1953 – 23 January 1981

The Procurator General of the USSR () 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 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 5-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.

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

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
order = 1	bSize = 70	officeholder = Pyotr Krasikov	born_year = 1870	died_year = 1939	term_start = 15 March 1924	term_end = 20 June 1933

References

Sawicki, S.J.. (1972). "The Soviet Procuracy - the Watchman of Socialist Legality". New Zealand Slavonic Journal.
Feldbrugge, F. J. Ferdinand Joseph Maria. (1985-04-26). "Encyclopedia of Soviet Law". BRILL.

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