{{Short description|Soviet jurist and politician (born 1922)}} {{Family name hatnote|Vasilyevich|Kravtsov|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox Minister | name = Boris Kravtsov | native_name = {{Nobold|Борис Кравцов}} | native_name_lang = ru | image = Boris Kravtsov (cropped) (2022-02-02).jpg | image_size = | caption = Kravtsov in 2022 | office = [[Ministry of Justice (Soviet Union)|Minister of Justice of the Soviet Union]] | president = {{ubl|[[Konstantin Chernenko]] | [[Andrei Gromyko]] | [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]}} | prime_minister = | predecessor = [[Vladimir Terebilov]] | successor = [[Veniamin Yakovlev]] | term_start = 12 April 1984 | term_end = 7 June 1989 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1922|12|28|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]] <!-- Soviet Union was not created yet --> | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | party = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (1943–1991) | alma_mater = Moscow Law School | spouse = Tatyana Ivanovna Kravtsova | children = 2 }} '''Boris Vasilyevich Kravtsov''' ({{langx|ru|Борис Васильевич Кравцов}}; born 28 December 1922) is a Russian former jurist and politician who served as the [[Ministry of Justice (Soviet Union)|justice minister]] of the [[Soviet Union]] between 1984 and 1989.
==Biography== [[File:Boris Kravtsov 1944.jpg|thumb|Kravtsov wearing military uniform in 1944]]
Kravtsov was born in Moscow on 28 December 1922.<ref name=warh>{{cite web|title=Boris Vasilyevich Kravtsov|language=ru|publisher=War Heroes |url=https://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=7412|access-date=4 April 2022}}</ref> In 1941 he graduated from high school and joined the [[Red Army]].<ref name=raphy/> He was part of the Soviet military forces which liberated Ukraine from the [[Operation Barbarossa|Nazi invasion]].<ref name=thet/> In September 1945 Kravtsov began his studies at the Moscow Law School and graduated in 1947.<ref name=warh/> Following his graduation he worked as a judge in different regions.<ref name=warh/> He also graduated from the All Union Correspondence Law Institute in 1952.<ref name=warh/> He was named the deputy prosecutor of the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]] (RSFSR) in 1960 and in 1971 he became the prosecutor of the RSFSR.<ref name=warh/> On 12 April 1984 he was appointed minister of justice of the Soviet Union replacing Vladimir Terebilov in the post.<ref>{{cite news|title=High Justice Officials Are Shuffled in Soviet|access-date=4 April 2022|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=4 May 1984|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/04/world/high-justice-officials-are-shuffled-in-soviet.html}}</ref> Kravtsov was in office until 7 June 1989.<ref name=warh/>
Kravtsov was a member of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party]] between 1943 and 1991.<ref name=warh/> He served as a deputy at the [[Supreme Soviet]] in the 11th convocation from 1984 to 1989.<ref name=raphy/> He retired from public office in 1989.<ref name=warh/>
==Personal life== Kravtsov married Tatyana Ivanovna Kravtsova.<ref name=raphy/> He has two daughters.<ref name=raphy>{{cite web|title=КРАВЦОВ Борис Васильевич |url=http://www.biograph.ru/index.php/soldatypobedy70/3805-kravtsovbv|publisher=Biography|access-date=4 April 2022|language=ru}}</ref>
===Awards=== For his activities in World War II Kravtsov was given the Gold Star of the [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] in May 1944.<ref name=warh/> In February 2022, he was awarded the highest degree of the [[Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"]].<ref name=thet>{{cite news|title=Putin presented state awards to outstanding figures in the Kremlin|access-date=4 April 2022|url=https://www.thetribune.com/putin-presented-state-awards-to-outstanding-figures-in-the-kremlin-tass-ru/|work=The Tribune|agency=[[TASS]]|date=3 February 2022}}</ref> As of 2024, he is the last living [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] who received his award during the [[Great Patriotic War]].
Kravtsov also received the following awards:<ref name="warh" /> * [[List of honorary citizens of Moscow|Honorary citizen of Moscow]] (29 January 2025)<ref>[https://www.mos.ru/mayor/themes/12407050 mos.ru]</ref> * [[Order of Alexander Nevsky]] (26 December 2017) * [[Order of Friendship of Peoples]] (7 April 1994) * [[Order of Lenin]] (19 March 1944) * [[Order of the October Revolution]] (27 December 1982) * [[Order of the Red Banner of Labour|Orders of the Red Banner of Labour]] (25 October 1967; 31 August 1971) * [[Order of the Patriotic War]], 1st class (11 March 1985)
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