Sergei Alexeyev

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Sergeyevich and the family name is Alexeyev.

Sergei Sergeyevich Alexeyev (Russian: Серге́й Серге́евич Алексе́ев; 28 July 1924 – 12 May 2013) was a Soviet and Russian legal theorist, scholar of civil law and politician. He was the first and only chairman of the Committee for Constitutional Supervision of the USSR from 1990 to 1991. Later, he was one of the co-authors of the Constitution of Russia of 1993,^[1] along with Anatoly Sobchak and Sergey Shakhray.

Sergei Alexeyev
Сергей Алексеев
Alexeyev on a 2017 Russian post stamp
Born	Sergei Sergeyevich Alexeyev (1924-07-28)July 28, 1924 Oryol, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died	12 May 2013(2013-05-12) (aged 88) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Spouse	Zoya Alexeyeva
Awards	Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (3rd class), Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Patriotic War (2nd class), Order of the Badge of Honour, USSR State Prize, Demidov Prize
Academic background
Alma mater	Sverdlovsk Law Institute (Specialist, Candidate of Sciences) Leningrad State University (Doctor of Sciences)
Thesis	The Subject of Soviet Socialist Civil Law (1960)
Academic work
Discipline	Legal theory, civil law
Institutions	Ural State Law University Russian Academy of Sciences
Main interests	Legal theory, philosophy of law, legal state, socialist law

Sergei Alexeyev (on the right) with Lyudmila Alexeyeva and Mikhail Fedotov, 2011

Sergei Alexeyev Museum in Yekaterinburg

Death

On 12 May 2013 Alexeyev died of a heart attack.