Alexey Kazannik | |
Office: | Deputy Governor of Omsk Oblast |
Governor: | Leonid Polezhayev |
Term Start: | 12 March 1995 |
Term End: | 30 September 2003 |
Office1: | Prosecutor-General of Russia |
Term Start1: | 5 October 1993 |
Term End1: | 14 March 1994 |
President1: | Boris Yeltsin |
Predecessor1: | Valentin Stepankov |
Successor1: | Yury Skuratov |
Birth Date: | 26 July 1941 |
Birth Place: | Perepis, Horodnia Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Death Place: | Omsk, Russia |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Alexey Ivanovich Kazannik (Russian: Алексе́й Ива́нович Каза́нник; 26 July 1941 – 2 June 2019) was a Russian lawyer and politician.
Born in Horodnia Raion, Ukrainian SSR, he studied law at Irkutsk State University, graduating in 1967.[1] 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.[2] [3] Kazannik later served as Deputy Governor of Omsk Oblast from 1995 to 2003. Additionally, he taught law at Omsk State University.
Kazannik died following a long illness on 2 June 2019 in Omsk, at the age of 77.[4]