{{Short description|Soviet politician and jurist (1874–1932)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Dmitry Kursky | image = No-nb bldsa 1c109 Курский.jpg | caption = Kursky c. 1923 | birth_date = 22 October 1874 | birth_place = [[Kiev]], [[Russian Empire]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1932|12|20|1874|10|22}} | death_place = [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union]] | occupation = [[Lawyer]] | office = Chairman of the [[Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Central Auditing Commission]] of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party]] | term_start = 31 May 1924 | term_end = 2 December 1927 | predecessor = [[Viktor Nogin]] | successor = [[Mikhail Vladimirsky]] | office2 = [[Ministry of Justice (Soviet Union)|People's Commissar for Justice]] of the Russian SFSR | term_start2 = 14 September 1918 | term_end2 = 6 July 1923 | premier2 = [[Vladimir Lenin]] | predecessor2 = [[Pēteris Stučka]] | successor2 = None—position dissolved | office1 = [[List of Prosecutor Generals of Russia|Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR]] | term_start1 = 26 May 1922 | term_end1 = 16 January 1928 | premier1 = [[Vladimir Lenin]]<br>[[Alexey Rykov]] | predecessor1 = Post established | successor1 = [[Nikolai Janson]] | party = [[Russian Social Democratic Labor Party|RSDLP]] ([[Bolsheviks]]) {{nowrap|(1904–1918)}} <br/>[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)]] (1918–1932) | spouse = | relations = | native_name_lang = ru | native_name = {{nobold|Дмитрий Курский}} }} '''Dmitry Ivanovich Kursky''' ({{langx|ru|Дми́трий Ива́нович Ку́рский}}; {{OldStyleDate|22 October|1874|10 October}} – 20 December 1932) was a [[Soviets|Soviet]] [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] jurist and statesman.
Kursky joined the [[Bolshevik]] faction of the [[Russian Social Democratic Labour Party]] in 1904. He served as the chairman of the [[Drissa]] town [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]. He was the [[Ministry of Justice (Soviet Union)|People's Commissar for Justice]] of the [[RSFSR]] and the [[USSR]] from 1918–1928.<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/feb/19dts.htm#bkV35E316 Lenin: 142. Telegram to the chairman of the Drissa town soviet]. Marxists.org (13 June 2006). Retrieved on 2015-11-29.</ref> He died on 20 December 1932, aged 58.<ref>{{Cite web |title=под ред. Д. П. Ненарокова. Глазунов М. М., Митрофанов Б. А. Курский Дмитрий Иванович. Реввоенсовет Республики. История России. Библиотека. |url=https://statehistory.ru/books/pod-red--D--P--Nenarokova_Revvoensovet--Respubliki/13 |access-date=2023-08-09 |website=statehistory.ru}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110722053137/http://www.biografia.ru/cgi-bin/search.pl?oaction=show&id=2936 Biography] {{in lang|ru}} * [http://rusrazvedka.narod.ru/base/htm/kursk.html Kursky, Dmytry Ivanovich] {{in lang|ru}} * [http://www.knowbysight.info/KKK/05555.asp The History of Communist Party of the Soviet Union] {{in lang|ru}} {{Prosecutors general of Russia}}
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