Chief Justice of the Russian Federation

Emblem of the Supreme Court

Incumbent
Vyacheslav Lebedev
since 26 December 1991

Supreme Court of Russia
Type| Chief justice
Member of| Judiciary of Russia
Seat| Moscow
Appointer| President
Term length| Six years, renewable
Constituting instrument| Constitution of Russia
Formation| 1 January 1923; 103 years ago (1923-01-01)
First holder| Pēteris Stučka
Website| SupCourt.Ru

The Chief Justice of the Russian Federation, officially the Chairman of the Supreme Court (Russian: Председатель Верховного суда Российской Федерации) is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Russia and the highest-ranking officer of the Russian federal judiciary.[1]

The Constitution grants plenary power to the president of Russia to nominate, and with the advice and consent of the Russian Federation Council, appoint a chief justice, who serves until they resign, retire, are impeached and convicted, or die.

Current chief justice is Vyacheslav Lebedev.

## Contents

* 1 List
* 1.1 Chiefs Justice of Soviet Russia
* 1.2 Chief Justice of the Russian Federation
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## List

### Chiefs Justice of Soviet Russia

Chief Justice[2] | Took office  | Left office

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1  |  | Pyotr Stuchka
(1865–1932) | January 1923  | 25 January 1932
2  |  | Ivan Bulat
(1896–1938) | January 1932  | 17 September 1937
3  |  | Yakov Dmitriyev
(1892–1975) | 22 September 1937  | 17 October 1937
4  |  | Andrey Solodilov[3]
(1900–1948) | 27 October 1937  | September 1938
5  |  | Ignaty Rozhnov | September 1938  | February 1939
6  |  | Anatoly Rubichev
(1903–1973) | 28 January 1939  | 4 May 1945
7  |  | Alexander Nesterov
(1905–?) | 4 May 1945  | 16 June 1949
8  |  | Stepan Bityukov
(1905–1966) | August 1949  | 15 March 1957
9  |  | Anatoly Rubichev
(1903–1973) | 15 March 1957  | July 1962
10  |  | Lev Smirnov
(1911–1986) | July 1962  | September 1972
11  |  | Alexander Kirillovich Orlov (ru)
(1923–1999) | September 1972  | December 1984
12  |  | Nikolay Malshakov (ru)
(1924–1997) | 6 December 1984  | 6 July 1987
13  |  | Yevgeny Smolentsev (ru)
(1923–2017) | 7 July 1987  | 7 June 1989
14  |  | Vyacheslav Lebedev
(born 1943) | 26 July 1989  | 26 December 1991

### Chief Justice of the Russian Federation

Chief Justice[2] | Took office  | Left office

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(14) |  | Vyacheslav Lebedev[4]
(born 1943) | 26 December 1991 | incumbent

Lebedev was approved by the Federation Council on 2 July 1999, 21 February 2007, 18 July 2012, 21 May 2014 (after disestablishment of the Supreme Court of Arbitration) and 25 September 2019.[5]

## See also

* Supreme Court of the Soviet Union

## References

1. ↑ Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. Федеральный конституционный закон от 05.02.2014 N 3-ФКЗ «О Верховном Суде Российской Федерации», Federal Law "On the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation", consultant.ru
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Верховные судьи РСФСР
3. ↑ Председатели Верховного Суда РСФСР
4. ↑ "The Chief Justice". http://www.supcourt.ru/catalog.php?c1=English. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
5. ↑ "Biography of Vyacheslav Lebedev". TASS. https://tass.ru/info/6925695.

## External links

* Chief justice of Soviet Russia

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