Alexey Kazannik

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]