| Procurator General of the Soviet Union | |
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| Генеральный прокурор СССР | |
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| 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 holder | Pyotr Krasikov |
| Final holder | Nikolai Trubin [ru] |
| Abolished | 29 January 1992 |
| Succession | Procurator General of the Russian Federation |
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TheProcurator General of the USSR (Russian:Генеральный прокурор СССР,romanized: Generalnyi prokuror SSSR) was the highest functionary of theOffice of the Public Procurator of the USSR, responsible for the whole system of offices ofpublic procurators and supervision of their activities on the territory of theSoviet Union.[1]
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The office ofprocurator had its historical roots inImperial Russia, and underSoviet lawpublic procurators had wide-ranging responsibilities including, but not limited to, those of publicprosecutors found in otherlegal systems. Offices ofPublic Procurators were and are still used in other countries adhering to the doctrine ofsocialist 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 the1936 Soviet Constitution, the Procurator General exercised the highest degree of direct or indirect (through subordinate public procurators) control over the accurate execution oflaws by allministries, departments, their subordinate establishments andenterprises, executive and administrative bodies of localSoviets,cooperative organizations, officials (including judges in court proceedings), and citizens on behalf of the state.
The Procurator General was appointed by theSupreme Soviet of the USSR for a 5-year term[2] and given a class rank of the Active state counselor of justice. His deputies andProcurator General of the Armed Forces were appointed by thePresidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on recommendation from Procurator General. The Procurator General appointed public procurators of theSoviet republics and, on their recommendation, public procurators ofautonomous republics,krais,oblasts andautonomous oblasts. He also issued orders and instructions for all of the offices of public procurators, instructed on differentiation of theircompetence, etc.[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 thelegislative manner or demandedinterpretation of the law.
The Procurator General's participation in theplenary sessions of theSupreme 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.
| No. | Portrait | Name (Born-Died) | Term of office | ||
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| 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]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aRIAN_archive_821412_1st_Congress_of_People%2527s_Deputies_of_USSR_(cropped).jpg) | 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 |
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