Dmitry Kursky
Soviet politician and jurist (1874–1932)
Дмитрий Курский
Kursky c. 1923
31 May 1924 – 2 December 1927
26 May 1922 – 16 January 1928
Alexey Rykov
14 September 1918 – 6 July 1923
Kiev, Russian Empire
Moscow, Soviet Union
All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) (1918–1932)
Dmitry Ivanovich Kursky (Russian: Дми́трий Ива́нович Ку́рский; 22 October [O.S. 10 October] 1874 – 20 December 1932) was a Soviet 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. He was the People's Commissar for Justice of the RSFSR and the USSR from 1918–1928.[1] He died on December 20 1932, aged 58.[2]
References
- ^ Lenin: 142. Telegram to the chairman of the Drissa town soviet. Marxists.org (13 June 2006). Retrieved on 2015-11-29.
- ^ "под ред. Д. П. Ненарокова. Глазунов М. М., Митрофанов Б. А. Курский Дмитрий Иванович. Реввоенсовет Республики. История России. Библиотека". statehistory.ru. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
External links
- Biography (in Russian)
- Kursky, Dmytry Ivanovich (in Russian)
- The History of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (in Russian)