Alexey Kazannik | |
|---|---|
Алексей Казанник | |
 Kazannik in 1993 | |
| Deputy Governor of Omsk Oblast | |
| In office 12 March 1995 – 30 September 2003 | |
| Governor | Leonid Polezhayev |
| Prosecutor-General of Russia | |
| In office 5 October 1993 – 14 March 1994 | |
| President | Boris Yeltsin |
| Preceded by | Valentin Stepankov |
| Succeeded by | Yury Skuratov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 July 1941 Perepis, Horodnia Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 2 June 2019 (aged 77) Omsk, Russia |
Alexey Ivanovich Kazannik (Russian: Алексе́й Ива́нович Каза́нник; 26 July 1941 – 2 June 2019) was a Russian lawyer and politician.
Biography
[edit]Kazannik was born on 26 July 1941 in Perepis, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR, into a large peasant ethnically Ukrainian family.[1] He soon after lost both his father and two older brothers, who died on the Eastern Front of World War II.[1] His mother raised him alone with his three other remaining siblings during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine.[1] In 1959 he went to the Kazakh SSR where he worked as a carpenter in the construction department "Zhilstroy" of the Kazmetallurgstory trust in Temirtau.[2] Kazannik would later state his determination to become a lawyer came from his time working in the Kazakh SSR, as he witnessed the mass riots in 1959 of local workers against a metallurgical plant that was promptly dispersed.[3] In 1960 he served in the Soviet Army in military engineering.[4]
He then, in 1963, entered the Faculty of Law at Irkutsk State University where he graduated from in 1967 and then entered graduate school at in 1968.[2] In 1975 he moved to Omsk and became an Associate Professor of the Department of Labor, Economics, and Agricultural Law of the Omsk State University, which he did until 1991.[5]
In 1989, he gained notability for granting his seat in the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union to Boris Yeltsin. Between 1993 and 1994, Kazannik was Prosecutor-General of Russia.[6][7] Kazannik later served as Deputy Governor of Omsk Oblast from 1995 to 2003. Additionally, he taught law at Omsk State University.[8]
Kazannik died following a long illness on 2 June 2019 in Omsk, at the age of 77.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Vasilevskiĭ, Andreĭ (1993). Кто есть кто в российской политике: З-П (in Russian). Panorama. p. 256. ISBN 978-5-85895-006-6. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
- ^ a b "Казанник Алексей Иванович". KVnews.ru (in Russian). 19 November 2008. Archived from the original on 22 November 2011.
- ^ "Темиртау: массовые беспорядки на целине". Общество. 18 September 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
- ^ Додонов, Вячеслав Николаевич; Кофанова, Елена Николаевна (1997). Современные российские юристы: кто есть кто в юридической науке и практике России : справочник (in Russian). Славия. p. 97. ISBN 978-5-89642-002-6. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
- ^ Правовая наука и юридическая идеология России. Том 3 (in Russian). Litres. 29 August 2017. ISBN 978-5-04-168186-9. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
- ^ Felkay, Andrew (2002). Yeltsin's Russia and the West. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 28. ISBN 978-0275965389.
- ^ Goldberg, Carey (14 May 1994). "Former Top Russian Official Blames 'Immoral Power' for Nation's Crisis : Politics: Alexei Kazannik, who gave up his post as prosecutor general, says Yeltsin is manipulated by his top aides". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ a b "Russia's most famous ex-prosecutor dies". Crime Russia. 2 June 2019. Archived from the original on 2 June 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2019.