{{Short description|Russian prosecutor general}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Valentin Stepankov | native_name = {{nobold|Валентин Степанков}} | native_name_lang = ru | image = RIAN archive 425138 Valentin Stepankov, RSFSR Attorney General.jpg | image_size = | caption = Stepankov in 1991 | order = 1st | office = Prosecutor-General of Russia | term_start = 28 February 1991 | term_end = 5 October 1993 | predecessor = [[Nikolai Trubin]]<br>(as Prosecutor of the [[RSFSR]]) | successor = [[Alexey Kazannik]] | president = [[Boris Yeltsin]] | office1 = [[Member of the State Duma]] for [[Berezniki constituency]] | term_start1 = 17 January 1996 | term_end1 = 24 December 1999 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|09|17|df=y}} | birth_place = Molotov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union<br>(now [[Perm, Russia]]) | alma_mater = [[Perm State University]] | module = {{Listen|pos=center|embed=yes|filename=Valentin Stepankov voice.oga|title=Valentin Stepankov's voice|type=speech|description=From the Echo of Moscow Program, 4 October 2011}} }} '''Valentin Georgiyevich Stepankov''' ({{langx|ru|Валентин Георгиевич Степанков}}; born 17 September 1951) is the first [[Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation|prosecutor general]] of the [[Russian Federation]].
He once condemned an action by [[Boris Yeltsin]] in 1993, in which Russia faced a [[1993 Russian constitutional crisis|constitutional crisis]].
He has also served as Russia's deputy natural resources minister. Before that he was deputy secretary on the Security Council, but in 2004 he switched from the Council to natural resources administration.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=093604 |title=УКАЗ Президента РФ от 23.11.1992 N 1475 |access-date=2010-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622005130/http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=093604 |archive-date=2011-06-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=016844 |title=УКАЗ Президента РФ от 05.04.2003 N 405 |access-date=2010-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622005201/http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=016844 |archive-date=2011-06-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=022747 |title=УКАЗ Президента РФ от 01.06.2004 N 712 |access-date=2010-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622005302/http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=022747 |archive-date=2011-06-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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