Dmitry Kursky

Chairman of the Central Auditing Commission of the Communist PartyIn office
31 May 1924 – 2 December 1927Preceded byViktor NoginSucceeded byMikhail VladimirskyProsecutor General of the Russian SFSRIn office
26 May 1922 – 16 January 1928PremierVladimir Lenin
Alexey RykovPreceded byPost establishedSucceeded byNikolai JansonPeople's Commissar for Justice of the Russian SFSRIn office
14 September 1918 – 6 July 1923PremierVladimir LeninPreceded byPēteris StučkaSucceeded byNone—position dissolved Personal detailsBorn22 October 1874
Kiev, Russian EmpireDied20 December 1932(1932-12-20) (aged 58)
Moscow, Soviet UnionPolitical partyRSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918)
All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) (1918–1932)OccupationLawyer

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]

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• Biography (in Russian)
• Kursky, Dmytry Ivanovich (in Russian)
• The History of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (in Russian)