Vyacheslav Lebedev (Chief Justice)

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Vyacheslav Lebedev
Вячеслав Лебедев
Official portrait
Chief Justice of the Russian Federation
In office 25 December 1991 – 23 February 2024
Nominated by	Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Pyotr Serkov (acting)[1] Irina Podnosova
Chief Justice of the Russian SFSR
In office 26 July 1989 – 16 December 1991
Preceded by	Yevgeny Smolentsev
Succeeded by	Office disestablished
Chief Judge of the Moscow City Court
In office 6 September 1986 – 11 October 1989
Preceded by	Lev Almazov
Succeeded by	Zoya Korneva [ru]
Personal details
Born	(1943-08-14)14 August 1943 Moscow, USSR
Died	23 February 2024(2024-02-23) (aged 80) Moscow, Russia
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	Moscow State University (Faculty of Law)

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]