# Anatoly Volin > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anatoly_Volin > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anatoly_Volin.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Volin > Source revision: 1345135391 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR in 1948–1957 In this name that follows [East Slavic naming customs](/source/East_Slavic_naming_customs), the [patronymic](/source/Patronymic) is *Antonovich* and the [family name](/source/Surname) is *Volin*. This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Anatoly Volin" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Anatoly Volin Анатолий Волин 4th Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union In office August 25, 1948 – February 12, 1957 Preceded by Ivan Golyakov Succeeded by Alexander Gorkin 10th Prosecutor of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic In office July 25, 1939 – August 25, 1948 Preceded by Mikhail Pankratyev Succeeded by Pavel Baranov Personal details Born (1903-07-09)July 9, 1903 Temryuk, Kuban Oblast, Russian Empire Died August 2007(2007-08-00) (aged 104) Moscow, Russia Resting place Vvedenskoe Cemetery Party Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1925–1991) Spouse Frida (Maria) Ilyinichna Volina (1912–1994)[1] Children 1 Education Saint Petersburg State University Profession Lawyer, teacher of political economy **Anatoly Antonovich Volin** ([Russian](/source/Russian_language): Анатолий Антонович Волин; July 22, 1903 – August 2007) was a Soviet statesman and [lawyer](/source/Jurist) who served as chairman of the [Supreme Court of the Soviet Union](/source/Supreme_Court_of_the_Soviet_Union) (1948–1957). ## Biography Born into a large family of fishermen, he was the son and ninth child of Anton Prokhorovich Volin and Irina Ivanovna (née Ganycheva). From 1920 to 1921, he worked at a fish factory in the city of [Temryuk](/source/Temryuk). Since 1921 – chief of the secret part of the headquarters of one of the units of the [Workers' and Peasants' Red Army](/source/Red_Army). Member of the [Civil War](/source/Russian_Civil_War). In 1923–1926, he was a student of the [workers' faculty](/source/Rabfak) in [Krasnodar](/source/Krasnodar). Member of the [Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)](/source/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union) since October 1925. Volin graduated from the Law Faculty of the [Leningrad State University](/source/Saint_Petersburg_State_University) in 1930. In 1930–1931, he was a [post–graduate student](/source/Aspirant) at the [Communist Academy](/source/Communist_Academy) in [Leningrad](/source/Saint_Petersburg). In 1931–1932, he was a teacher and head of a department at Leningrad University, then in 1932, he was transferred to the Autonomous Karelian Socialist Soviet Republic as head of the sector of culture and public education. He headed a department at [Petrozavodsk University](/source/Petrozavodsk_State_University). In 1933–1935, he was the prosecutor of [Petrozavodsk](/source/Petrozavodsk). Since 1935 – assistant to the prosecutor of the Volodarsky District, prosecutor of the Sokolniki District of Leningrad. From 1937 to 1939 he was Deputy Prosecutor of the [Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic](/source/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic). From 1939 to 1948 – Prosecutor of the RSFSR. From August 1948 to February 1957 – Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union. At the same time, in 1948–1952, he participated in the purges of the justice authorities and organized and supervised judicial panels for the consideration of crimes committed by judges.[2] He was suspended from office in connection with the explanation of the plenum of the Supreme Court about the possibility of [restitution](/source/Restitution) of housing to rehabilitated citizens in January 1954, which was soon recognized as erroneous by the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[3] 1957–1969 – Deputy Chief Arbitrator of the State Arbitration Commission under the [Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union](/source/Council_of_Ministers_of_the_Soviet_Union). He fought for control over the justice authorities. Since 1969, he has been a [personal pensioner of union significance](/source/Political_pensioner#Soviet_Union). For several years he worked as a consultant for the magazine "Man and Law". Deputy of the [Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic](/source/Supreme_Soviet_of_Russia) of the second convocation. He was buried at the [Vvedenskoye Cemetery](/source/Vvedenskoye_Cemetery) (section 7).[4] ## Perpetuation of memory In 2010, a memorial plaque was installed on the building of the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Karelia in memory of the work of Anatoly Volin in the Petrozavodsk City Prosecutor's Office.[5] ## Sources - 100 Years to Anatoly Antonovich Volin // Bulletin of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation – Moscow: YURIT–Bulletin, 2003, No. 7 – Pages 144–146 ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Alexander Zvyagintsev, Yuri Orlov. From the First Prosecutor of Russia to the Last Prosecutor of the Union 1. **[^](#cite_ref-hrono1600_2-0)** Alexander Kodintsev. State Policy in the Field of Justice in the Soviet Union. 30–50s of the 20th Century – Kurtamysh, 2008 – Page 390 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Comrade Volin's Mistake"](https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4032297). *[Spark](/source/Ogoniok), No. 28, Page 28*. July 2, 2019. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Grave of Anatoly Volin](http://www.moscow-tombs.ru/2007/volin_aa.htm) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Veterans Were Honored in The Prosecutor's Office"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140323195700/http://www.gov.karelia.ru/Karelia/2064/3.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.gov.karelia.ru/Karelia/2064/3.html) on March 23, 2014. ## External links - [Interview With Volin](http://www.rg.ru/2007/05/11/prokuror.html) - [Volin's Biography](http://az-libr.ru/index.shtml?Persons&2EB/564b5e88/index) - [Photo of Anatoly Volin in Old Age](http://maxttl.livejournal.com/91115.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210929091533/https://maxttl.livejournal.com/91115.html) September 29, 2021, at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) - [Grave of Anatoly Volin, His Wife and Son](https://archive.today/20121225143306/moscow-tombs.narod.ru/2007/volin_aa.htm) - ["Stalin's Prosecutor" (Interview)](http://gov.karelia.ru/Karelia/1631/19.html) v t e Prosecutors general of Russia (List) Note: Acting prosecutors general shown in italics Russian Empire Pavel Yaguzhinsky Nikita Trubetskoy Yakov Shakhovsky Alexander Glebov Alexander Vyazemsky Alexander Samoylov Alexey Kurakin Pyotr Lopukhin Alexander Bekleshov Peter Obolyaninov Alexander Bekleshov Soviet Russia Dmitry Kursky Nikolai Janson Nikolai Krylenko Andrey Vyshinsky Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko Faina Nyurina Nikolay Rychkov Ivan Golyakov Mikhail Pankratyev Anatoly Volin Pavel Baranov Alexei Kruglov Vladimir Blinov Boris Kravtsov Sergei Yemelyanov Nikolai Trubin Russian Federation Valentin Stepankov Alexey Kazannik Alexey Ilyushenko Oleg Gaidanov Yury Skuratov Yury Chaika Vladimir Ustinov Yury Chaika Igor Krasnov Aleksandr Gutsan Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National Czech Republic Poland Other IdRef --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Anatoly Volin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Volin) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Volin?action=history)). 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