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Vyacheslav Lebedev (Chief Justice)

Vyacheslav Lebedev (Chief Justice)

Russian lawyer and jurist (1943–2024)

For other people named Vyacheslav Lebedev, see Vyacheslav Lebedev.
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mikhailovich and the family name is Lebedev.

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]

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Biography

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

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 president of the People’s District Court for Zheleznodorozhniy District in Moscow. He became deputy president of Moscow City Court in 1984, assuming the position of the court’s president in 1986.

Death

Lebedev died in Moscow on the night of 23 February 2024, at the age of 80.[3][4] He suffered from cancer, and had recently been admitted to hospital.[5]

Honours

Chief Justice Vyacheslav Lebedev talking to President Vladimir Putin along with the Chairman 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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    "Петр Серков будет исполнять обязанности председателя Верховного суда РФ". Interfax. 24 February 2024. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
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    "The Chief Justice". Archived from the original on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  3. [3]
    "Умер председатель Верховного суда России Вячеслав Лебедев". Коммерсантъ (in Russian). 24 February 2024. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
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    "Умер глава Верховного суда РФ Вячеслав Лебедев". Meduza (in Russian). Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
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    "В Москве умер председатель Верховного суда Вячеслав Лебедев". Медиазона (in Russian). Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
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