List of Prosecutor Generals of Russia and the Soviet Union explained

Prosecutors General of the Russian Empire

Prosecutor GeneralTerm of OfficeEmperor
Count Pavel Yaguzhinsky12 January 1722 1726Peter the Great
Catherine I
Vacant
(1726 — 1730)
Count Pavel Yaguzhinsky17306 April 1736Anne
Vacant
(6 April 1736 — 28 April 1740)
Prince Nikita Trubetskoy28 April 174015 August 1760Anne
Ivan VI
Elizabeth
15 August 176025 December 1761Elizabeth
Alexander Glebov25 December 17613 February 1764Peter III
Catherine the Great
Prince Alexander Vyazemsky3 February 176417 September 1792Catherine the Great
Count Alexander Samoylov17 September 17924 December 1796Catherine the Great
Paul I
Prince Alexey Kurakin4 December 17968 August 1798Paul I
Prince Pyotr Lopukhin8 August 17987 July 1799
7 July 17992 February 1800
2 February 180016 March 1801Paul I
Alexander I
16 March 18018 September 1802Alexander I

Prosecutors General and Ministers of Justice

Procurator General of the Soviet Union

Prosecutors of Soviet Russia

ProsecutorTerm of OfficeLeader of the RSFSR
Dmitry Kursky28 May 1922 16 January 1928Mikhail Kalinin
Nikolai Janson16 January 1928May 1929
Nikolai KrylenkoMay 19295 May 1931
Andrey Vyshinsky11 May 19311933
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko25 May 193425 September 1936
Faina Nyurina
(acting Prosecutor)
14 November 1936August 1937
Nikolay RychkovAugust 1937January 1938
Ivan Golyakov31 January 193814 April 1938
Mikhail Pankratyev20 May 193831 May 1939Mikhail Kalinin
Alexei Badayev
Anatoly Volin25 July 193925 August 1948Alexei Badayev
Nikolai Shvernik
Ivan Vlasov
Pavel Baranov31 December 194813 April 1954Ivan Vlasov
Mikhail Tarasov
Alexei Kruglov13 April 195419 August 1963Mikhail Tarasov
Nikolai Ignatov
Nikolai Organov
Nikolai Ignatov
Vladimir Blinov29 November 1963September 1970Nikolai Ignatov
Mikhail Yasnov
Boris Kravtsov21 January 197112 April 1984Mikhail Yasnov
Sergei Yemelyanov26 June 198428 May 1990Mikhail Yasnov
Vladimir Orlov
Vitaly Vorotnikov
Nikolai Trubin28 May 199011 December 1990Boris Yeltsin

Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation

Prosecutor GeneralTerm of OfficePresident of Russia
Valentin Stepankov28 February 19915 October 1993Boris Yeltsin
Alexey Kazannik5 October 199314 March 1994
Alexey Ilyushenko
(acting Prosecutor General)
26 March 19948 October 1995
Oleg Gaidanov
(acting Prosecutor General)
8 October 199524 October 1995
Yury Skuratov24 October 19952 February 1999
Yury Chaika
(acting Prosecutor General)
2 February 19996 August 1999
Vladimir Ustinov
(acting Prosecutor General
from 6 August 1999 to 17 May 2000)
6 August 199917 May 2000Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
Yury Chaika23 June 200622 January 2020Vladimir Putin
Dmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin
Igor Krasnov22 January 2020presentVladimir Putin

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