| Konstantin Gorshenin | |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Office: | 5th Prosecutor of the Soviet Union |
| Term Start: | November 13, 1943 |
| Term End: | March 19, 1946 |
| Predecessor: | Victor Bochkov |
| Successor: | Office abolished |
| Office2: | 1st Prosecutor General of the Soviet Union |
| Term Start2: | March 19, 1946 |
| Term End2: | February 4, 1948 |
| Office3: | 2nd Minister of Justice of the Soviet Union |
| Term Start3: | January 29, 1948 |
| Term End3: | May 31, 1956 |
| Predecessor3: | Nikolay Rychkov |
| Successor3: | Office abolished (1956–1970) Vladimir Terebilov |
| Office4: | 2nd Chairman of the Legal Commission Under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union |
| Term Start4: | January 19, 1949 |
| Term End4: | August 1956 |
| Predecessor4: | Andrey Vyshinsky |
| Successor4: | Andrey Denisov |
| Office5: | 11th People's Commissar of Justice of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic |
| Term Start5: | January 26, 1940 |
| Term End5: | November 12, 1943 |
| Predecessor5: | Yakov Dmitriev |
| Successor5: | Ivan Basavin |
| Birth Name: | Konstantin Petrovich Gorshenin |
| Birth Date: | June 10, 1907 |
| Birth Place: | Alatyr, Simbirsk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Death Date: | May 27, 1978 (aged 70) |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Party: | Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1930 |
| Education: | Moscow Institute of Soviet Law |
| Occupation: | Faculty of law, moscow state university |
| Portfolio: | Doctor of Laws |
| Awards: | Order of Lenin Order of the Red Banner of Labour Order of Friendship of Peoples |
Konstantin Petrovich Gorshenin (; 10 June 1907 – 27 May 1978) was a Soviet statesman. Candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1952–1956). Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union of the 2nd and 4th Convocations. Doctor of Law (1968), professor.
Born in the city of Alatyr, Simbirsk Province.
He fought for control over the justice authorities with Anatoly Volin, Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.[3]
Holding the posts of the Prosecutor General of the Soviet Union and the Minister of Justice of the Soviet Union, he participated in the repressions. In 1943–1947, he was a member of the secret commission of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the All–Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on judicial matters. The commission approved all death sentences in the Soviet Union.
Since 1948, he headed the Permanent Commission for Open Trials on the Most Important Cases of former servicemen of the German army and German punitive bodies, exposed of atrocities against Soviet citizens in the temporarily occupied territory of the Soviet Union. Took part in organizing trials of German and Japanese War Criminals.[4]
In February 1954, he prepared a certificate in the name of Nikita Khrushchev about those convicted by the Collegium of the United State Political Administration, the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, a Special Meeting, the Military Collegium, courts and military tribunals for counterrevolutionary crimes for the period from 1921 to February 1, 1954, which indicated the exact number those sentenced to capital punishment, exiled and serving sentences in camps and prisons; it also provided the geography of the prisoners' accommodation.
Gorshenin became one of the three initiators (along with Georgy Zhukov and Roman Rudenko) of the adoption of a joint resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union of June 29, 1956 "On Eliminating the Consequences of Gross Violations of the Law in Relation to Former Prisoners of War and Members of Their Families".[5]