Veniamin Yakovlev

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Veniamin Yakovlev
Вениамин Яковлев
Yakovlev in 2013
Adviser to the President of Russia
In office 31 January 2005 – 24 July 2018
President	Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev
President of the High Court of Arbitration of Russia
In office 23 January 1992 – 26 January 2005
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Anton Ivanov
President of the High Court of Arbitration of the Soviet Union
In office 27 December 1990 – 27 November 1991
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Office disestablished
Minister of Justice of the Soviet Union
In office 1 August 1989 – 11 December 1990
President	Mikhail Gorbachev
Prime Minister	Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded by	Boris Kravtsov
Succeeded by	Sergei Lushchikov
Personal details
Born	Veniamin Fyodorovich Yakovlev (1932-02-12)February 12, 1932 Yudino, Ural Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	24 July 2018(2018-07-24) (aged 86) Moscow, Russia
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1956–1991)
Spouse	Galina Yakovleva
Children	2
Alma mater	Ural State Law University (LL.D.)
Awards	Full cavalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"

Veniamin Fyodorovich Yakovlev (Russian: Вениамин Фёдорович Яковлев, 12 February 1932 – 24 July 2018) was a Soviet and Russian legal scholar and jurist. He was the first and only President of the High Court of Arbitration of the Soviet Union and later became the first President of the High Court of Arbitration of Russia.^[1] He also served as the Soviet Minister of Justice from 1989 to 1990 and as the legal adviser to both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev from 2005 till his death in 2018.^[2]