Sergei Sergeyevich Alexeyev (28 July 1924 – 12 May 2013) was a Soviet and Russian legal scholar and politician. He was the first and only chairman of the Committee for Constitutional Supervision of the USSR from 1990 to 1991. Later, he was one of the co-authors of the
Constitution of Russia
The Constitution of the Russian Federation () was adopted by national referendum on 12 December 1993. Russia's constitution came into force on 25 December 1993, at the moment of its official publication, and abolished the Soviet system of gov ...
of 1993,
Co-Author Of Constitution Dead at 88 , The St. Petersburg Times , The leading English-language newspaper in St. Petersburg
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Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak ( rus, Анатолий Александрович Собчак, p=ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ sɐpˈtɕak; 10 August 1937 – 19 February 2000) was a Soviet and Russian politician, a co-author of the ...
and Sergey Shakhray
Sergey Mikhaylovich Shakhray (russian: Серге́й Михайлович Шахрай) (born April 30, 1956, in Simferopol, Crimea, Soviet Union) is a Russian politician. He is a co-author of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
He g ...
.
Death
On 12 May 2013 Alexeyev died of a heart attack.
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1924 births
2013 deaths
Soviet jurists
Russian jurists
Jurisprudence academics
Russian politicians
Members of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union
Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Demidov Prize laureates
Russian legal scholars
Philosophers of law
Ural State Law University alumni
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