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Alexey Kazannik
Russian lawyer and politician (1941–2019) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alexey Ivanovich Kazannik (Russian: Алексе́й Ива́нович Каза́нник; 26 July 1941 – 2 June 2019) was a Russian lawyer and politician.
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Kazannik was born on 26 July 1941 in Perepis, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR, into a large peasant ethnically Ukrainian family.[1] He soon after lost both his father and two older brothers, who died on the Eastern Front of World War II.[1] His mother raised him alone with his three other remaining siblings during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine.[1] In 1959 he went to the Kazakh SSR where he worked as a carpenter in the construction department "Zhilstroy" of the Kazmetallurgstory trust in Temirtau.[2] Kazannik would later state his determination to become a lawyer came from his time working in the Kazakh SSR, as he witnessed the mass riots in 1959 of local workers against a metallurgical plant that was promptly dispersed.[3] In 1960 he served in the Soviet Army in military engineering.[4]
He then, in 1963, entered the Faculty of Law at Irkutsk State University where he graduated from in 1967 and then entered graduate school at in 1968.[2] In 1975 he moved to Omsk and became an Associate Professor of the Department of Labor, Economics, and Agricultural Law of the Omsk State University, which he did until 1991.[5]
In 1989, he gained notability for granting his seat in the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union to Boris Yeltsin. Between 1993 and 1994, Kazannik was Prosecutor-General of Russia.[6][7] Kazannik later served as Deputy Governor of Omsk Oblast from 1995 to 2003. Additionally, he taught law at Omsk State University.[8]
Kazannik died following a long illness on 2 June 2019 in Omsk, at the age of 77.[8]
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