Konstantin Gorshenin

Konstantin Gorshenin
Константин Горшенин
Gorshenin in 1977
5th Prosecutor of the Soviet Union
In office
November 13, 1943 – March 19, 1946
Preceded byVictor Bochkov
Succeeded byOffice abolished
1st Prosecutor General of the Soviet Union
In office
March 19, 1946 – February 4, 1948
2nd Minister of Justice of the Soviet Union
In office
January 29, 1948 – May 31, 1956
Preceded byNikolay Rychkov
Succeeded byOffice abolished (1956–1970)
Vladimir Terebilov
2nd Chairman of the Legal Commission Under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
In office
January 19, 1949 – August 1956
Preceded byAndrey Vyshinsky
Succeeded byAndrey Denisov
11th People's Commissar of Justice of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
In office
January 26, 1940 – November 12, 1943
Preceded byYakov Dmitriev
Succeeded byIvan Basavin
Personal details
Born
Konstantin Petrovich Gorshenin

June 10, 1907
Alatyr, Simbirsk Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedMay 27, 1978 (aged 70)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union since 1930
EducationMoscow Institute of Soviet Law
OccupationFaculty of law, moscow state university
PortfolioDoctor of Laws
AwardsOrder of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of Friendship of Peoples

Konstantin Petrovich Gorshenin (Russian: Константин Петрович Горшенин; 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.