Dmitry Kursky | |
Birth Date: | 22 October 1874 |
Birth Place: | Kiev, Russian Empire |
Death Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union |
Occupation: | Lawyer |
Office: | Chairman of the Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party |
Term Start: | 31 May 1924 |
Term End: | 2 December 1927 |
Predecessor: | Viktor Nogin |
Successor: | Mikhail Vladimirsky |
Office2: | People's Commissar for Justice of the Russian SFSR |
Term Start2: | 14 September 1918 |
Term End2: | 6 July 1923 |
Premier2: | Vladimir Lenin |
Predecessor2: | Pēteris Stučka |
Successor2: | None—position dissolved |
Office1: | Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR |
Term Start1: | 26 May 1922 |
Term End1: | 16 January 1928 |
Premier1: | Vladimir Lenin Alexey Rykov |
Predecessor1: | Post established |
Successor1: | Nikolai Janson |
Party: | RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918) All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) (1918–1932) |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Dmitry Ivanovich Kursky (Russian: Дми́трий Ива́нович Ку́рский; – 20 December 1932) was a Soviet Ukrainian jurist and statesman.
Kursky joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904. He served as the chairman of the Drissa town Soviet. He was the People's Commissar for Justice of the RSFSR and the USSR from 1918–1928.[1] He died on December 20 1932, aged 58.[2]