Dmitry Kursky

Dmitry Kursky
Дмитрий Курский
Kursky c. 1923
Chairman of the Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party
In office 31 May 1924 – 2 December 1927
Preceded by	Viktor Nogin
Succeeded by	Mikhail Vladimirsky
Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR
In office 26 May 1922 – 16 January 1928
Premier	Vladimir Lenin Alexey Rykov
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Nikolai Janson
People's Commissar for Justice of the Russian SFSR
In office 14 September 1918 – 6 July 1923
Premier	Vladimir Lenin
Preceded by	Pēteris Stučka
Succeeded by	None—position dissolved
Personal details
Born	22 October 1874 Kiev, Russian Empire
Died	20 December 1932(1932-12-20) (aged 58) Moscow, Soviet Union
Political party	RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918) All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) (1918–1932)
Occupation	Lawyer

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. He died on December 20 1932, aged 58.

External links

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