Aleksey Kazannik

Alexey Ivanovich Kazannik (; 26 July 1941 – 2 June 2019) was a Russian lawyer and politician.

Biography Kazannik was born on 26 July 1941 in Perepis, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR, into a large peasant ethnically Ukrainian family. He soon after lost both his father and two older brothers, who died on the Eastern Front of World War II. Kazannik would later state his determination to become a lawyer came from his time working in the Kazakh SSR, as he witnessed the mass riots in 1959 of local workers against a metallurgical plant that was promptly dispersed. In 1960 he served in the Soviet Army in military engineering.

He then, in 1963, entered the Faculty of Law at Irkutsk State University where he graduated from in 1967 and then entered graduate school at in 1968.

In 1989, he gained notability for granting his seat in the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union to Boris Yeltsin. Between 1993 and 1994, Kazannik was Prosecutor-General of Russia. Kazannik later served as Deputy Governor of Omsk Oblast from 1995 to 2003. Additionally, he taught law at Omsk State University.