Stepan Fyodorovich Kechekjan
Born	Stepan Fyodorovich Kechekjan Степан Фёдорович Кечекьян (1890-03-25)25 March 1890 Nakhichevan-on-Don
Died	24 June 1967(1967-06-24) (aged 77) Moscow
Occupations	lawyer,historian

Stepan Fyodorovich Kechekjan (Russian:Степан Фёдорович Кечекьян; 25 March 1890,Nakhichevan-on-Don – 24 June 1967,Moscow) was aRussian-Armenianlawyer,historian and a specialist in the field of history and theory of state and law and history of political and legal doctrines.Professor,Doctor of Law Sciences.Honoured Scientist of the RSFSR.

Stepan Fyodorovich Kechekjan was born inNakhichevan-on-Don in the family of a doctor.^[1][2]

In 1912 he graduated from the Faculty of Law ofMoscow University. His first work was the monograph "Ethical worldview ofSpinoza" (1914). In 1915, after passing the Masters of Law exam, he became aPrivat-docent in Moscow University; at the same time he taught at thePeople's University of Nizhny Novgorod.^[1][3][4]

In 1918–1919 he was Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences ofSaratov University. In 1920–1921, after moving to his native city,Rostov-on-Don, he became a professor at theDon University and theDon Institute of National Economy.^[3]

In 1922 he returned toMoscow and began teaching atPrechisten Practical Institute and at the State Institute of Word. In 1928 he left forBaku. He was one of the organizers of the Law Faculty ofBaku State University, where he was elected Professor of the Department ofInternational law; there he published a number of works on international law. In 1930–1931 he was a professor of the Institute of Soviet Construction and Law under the Party's Central Executive Committee ofAzerbaijan SSR.^[3][5]

In 1931, Kechekjan finally returned to Moscow and from that time his work was connected with city's universities and scientific institutions; Only one academic year (1937–1938) he taught atSverdlovsk Juridical Institute. In 1934–1947 he was a professor atMoscow Law Institute. In 1937–1944 he worked at the All-Union Correspondence Legal Academy, theAll-Union Institute of Law Sciences, theHistorical and Archival Institute, and also at the All-Union Legal Correspondence Institute, where he headed a department.^[3]

Professor of the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee (1946–1954) andMGIMO (1948–1953, head of a department since 1949). In addition to his scientific activity, Stepan Kechekjan was engaged in practical activity: in the 1920s–1930s, he consulted the board of the Moscow-Kursk Railroad, the Department of International Settlements of theUSSR People's Commissariat of Finance, and also headed the legal group of the All-Union Union of Artificial Fibers of the People's Commissariat of Industry of the USSR.^[3]

In 1939 he defended his doctoral dissertation "Socio-political views ofAristotle", which was subsequently revised and published in 1947 in the form of a monograph "Theory of Aristotle on the state and law".^[3]

In 1940–1959 he was a research fellow at the Institute of State and Law of theUSSR Academy of Sciences, where he was in charge of the Department of history of state and law.^[3]

In 1942, after the re-creation of the Faculty of Law ofMoscow State University, he became a Professor there. In 1954 he took up the post of the Head of the Department of History of State and Law, which he headed until his death.^[3][5]

He died on 24 June 1967 after a short illness. He was buried atMoscow Armenian Cemetery.^[6]

Kechekjan studied the history of political and legal doctrines, the history of the state and law of foreign countries, the theory of state and law, and international law. He was the author of more than 160 scientific works, including a number ofmonographs and textbooks for universities, many of which have been translated intoGerman,French,English,Polish,Spanish,Japanese,Czech,Slovak,Hungarian,Bulgarian and other languages. He was one of the main editors of the fundamental textbook on the history of political doctrines, written by the joint author's collective of the Moscow State University and the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1955, 2nd ed., 1960). He participated in the creation of curricula and textbooks on the general history of the state and law (1944, 1949, 1963), the theory of state and law (1949, 1962),administrative law (1940). He made a major contribution to the development of the theory ofsources of law and the general doctrine of legal relations, proposed a new interpretation of a number of texts by Aristotle, Spinoza and other classics of political philosophy.^[1][3]

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