Vyacheslav Lebedev (Chief Justice)

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In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mikhailovich and the family name is Lebedev.
Vyacheslav Lebedev
Вячеслав Лебедев
Official portrait
1st Chief Justice of the Russian Federation
In office
25 December 1991 – 23 February 2024
Nominated byBoris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byPyotr Serkov (acting)[1]
Irina Podnosova
Chief Justice of the Russian SFSR
In office
26 July 1989 – 16 December 1991
Preceded byYevgeny Smolentsev
Succeeded byOffice disestablished
Chief Judge of the Moscow City Court
In office
6 September 1986 – 11 October 1989
Preceded byLev Almazov
Succeeded byZoya Korneva
Personal details
Born(1943-08-14)14 August 1943
Moscow, USSR
Died23 February 2024(2024-02-23) (aged 80)
Moscow, Russia
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
NationalityRussian
Alma materMoscow State University (Faculty of Law)

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lebedev (Russian: Вячеслав Михайлович Лебедев; 14 August 1943 – 23 February 2024) was a Russian lawyer and jurist who served as the Chief Justice of Russia from 1989 until his death in 2024.[2]

Biography

Lebedev was born on 14 August 1943 in Moscow.[3] He attended the law faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, which he graduated in 1968.[4]

Career

Rise in the Communist Party

Lebedev began work in 1969 as a human resources functionary of a department of the Ministry of Industrial Construction of the USSR. In 1970, he was elected as a Judge of the People's District Court for Leningradskiy District in Moscow, and in 1977 he was appointed Chief Judge of the People's District Court for Zheleznodorozhniy District in Moscow. He became deputy Chief Judge of Moscow City Court in 1984, assuming the position of the court's Chief Judge in 1986.[5]

On July 26, 1989, Lebedev was appointed Chairman of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR. In August 1991, as Chairman of the Supreme Court, he did not support the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP). In May 1993, Lebedev was part of the working commission tasked with refining the presidential draft of the Constitution.[5]

Death

Lebedev died in Moscow on the night of 23 February 2024, at the age of 80.[6][7] He suffered from cancer, and had recently been admitted to hospital.[8]

Honours

Chief Justice Vyacheslav Lebedev talking to President Vladimir Putin along with the President of the Constitutional Court Marat Baglai, July 9, 2001
Some of Chief Justice Lebedev's awards at his farewell, 28 February 2024

References

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  17. ^ Указ Президента України № 122/2004 від 2 лютого 2004 року (in Ukrainian)
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  19. ^ "Святейший Патриарх наградил председателя Верховного суда России Лебедева церковным орденом". Archived from the original on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
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