Nikolay Rychkov
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Preceded byNikolay Krylenko
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Himself as Minister of Justice of the Soviet Union
Himself as Minister of Justice of the Soviet Union
Preceded byOffice established
Himself as People's Commissar of Justice of the Soviet Union
Himself as People's Commissar of Justice of the Soviet Union
Succeeded byKonstantin Gorshenin
Nikolay Rychkov | |
|---|---|
| Николай Рычков | |
 Rychkov in 1938 | |
| People's Commissar of Justice of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 19 January 1938 – 15 March 1946 | |
| Preceded by | Nikolay Krylenko |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished Himself as Minister of Justice of the Soviet Union |
| Minister of Justice of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 19 March 1946 – 29 January 1948 | |
| Preceded by | Office established Himself as People's Commissar of Justice of the Soviet Union |
| Succeeded by | Konstantin Gorshenin |
| Prosecutor of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic | |
| In office August 1937 – January 1938 | |
| Preceded by | Faina Nyurina |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Golyakov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 December 1897 |
| Died | 28 March 1959 (aged 61) |
| Party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (since 1917) |
| Awards | Order of Lenin Order of the Red Banner |
Nikolay Mikhailovich Rychkov (2 December 1897 – 28 March 1959) was a Soviet statesman and lawyer.[1] Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union of the 2nd Convocation.
- 1909–1917 – Apprentice turner, metal turner at the Ural Nadezhdinsky Plant;
- 1917–1918 – Secretary of the Nadezhdinsky Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, Commissar of Local Economy;
- 1918 – Delegate to the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), joined the "Left Communists";
- 1918–1920 – in the bodies of the All–Russian Extraordinary Commission in the Urals;
- 1921–1922 – Deputy Chairman of the Military Tribunal of the 5th Army, Irkutsk;
- 1922–1927 – Prosecutor of the Siberian Military District;
- 1927–1931 – Deputy Prosecutor of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army;
- 1931–1937 – Member of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, divisional military lawyer;[1]
- 1937–1938 – Prosecutor of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic;[2]
- 1938–1948 – People's Commissar (Minister) of Justice of the Soviet Union.[3]
He came into conflict with the Head of the Department of Judicial and Prosecutorial Personnel of the Personnel Department of the Central Committee of the All–Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Anatoly Bakakin. A campaign was organized against Rychkov and in January 1948, he was removed from his post. The Commission for Acceptance and Delivery of Cases of the Ministry of Justice of the Soviet Union recognized Rychkov's work as unsatisfactory.
- 1948 – in the reserve of the Main Directorate of Personnel of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union;
- 1948–1951 – Deputy Military Prosecutor of the Ground Forces;
- 1951–1955 – Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor;[1]
- Retired from May 1955;
- Nikolay Rychkov died on March 28, 1959, in the village of Malakhovka, Lyubertsy District, Moscow Region.[4] He was buried in Moscow, at the Vagankovsky Cemetery.
