V. F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University (USLU, ), formerly the Ural State Law Academy (USLA, ) and the Sverdlovsk Law Institute (), is a

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, research university which includes law schools, colleges, faculties and other public graduate and undergraduate educational institutions. USLU's main campus is situated in the

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...

, Russia. Founded in 1918, USLU is one of the largest

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s in Russia. USLU is organized into 15 schools, colleges, and institutes, located in

. National Universities rankings ranked the academy in 5 place of the best Law schools in the

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. The Federal Agency for Scientific Research in information and telecommunication technologies of The Russian Federation ranked USLU in the 2nd position for the best law schools in Russia in 2008. In 2004 USLA was awarded by gold medal in "One hundred best universities in Russia".

History

The Siberian Institute of Soviet Law () was founded on 20 April 1931 in

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by the decision of the

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based on the Faculty of Law of

Irkutsk State University Irkutsk State University () was founded in October 1918 in Irkutsk, Siberia. Nowadays Irkutsk State University is a scientific and educational institution training students in humanities, natural, technical and applied sciences. ISU facilities ...

. On 1 August 1934 the resolution of the

transferred the Siberian Institute of Soviet Law from

to Sverdlovsk. In 1935, the Siberian Institute of Soviet Law was renamed to Sverdlovsk Law Institute (). The institute carried the name of

Procurator General of the USSR The Procurator General of the USSR () was the highest functionary of the Office of the Public Procurator of the USSR, responsible for the whole system of offices of public procurators and supervision of their activities on the territory of th ...

Andrey Vyshinsky Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky (; ) ( – 22 November 1954) was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat. He is best known as a Procurator General of the Soviet Union, state prosecutor of Joseph Stalin's Moscow Trials and in the Nuremberg trial ...

from 1954 to 1962 and after Prosecutor General of the USSR

Roman Rudenko Roman Andreyevich Rudenko (, ; – 23 January 1981) was a Soviet Union, Soviet lawyer and statesman. Procurator General of the Soviet Union , Procurator-General of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1944 to 1953, Rudenko became Procu ...

from 1981 to 1992. On 24 December 1992 Sverdlovsk Law Institute was renamed to Ural State Law Academy. The academy was renamed to Ural State Law University by decree of Russian

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on April 22, 2014. On 9 February 2022 the university was named after the first President of the

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Veniamin Yakovlev Veniamin Fyodorovich Yakovlev (, 12 February 1932 – 24 July 2018) was a Soviet and Russian legal scholar and judge. He was the first and only President of the High Court of Arbitration of the Soviet Union and later became the first President of ...

Structure

Institutes

* Institute of Justice * Institute of Business and Law * Institute of the Prosecutor's Office * Institute of State and International Law * Institute of Special Educational Programs * Institute of Additional Education * Institute of Pre-University Training * Department of Doctoral and Postgraduate Studies

Departments

* Department of Administrative Law * Department of Civil Law * Department of Civil Procedure * Department of Constitutional Law * Department of Corporate Law * Department of Criminal Law * Department of Criminalistics * Department of Financial Law * Department of History of State and Law * Department of IT Law * Department of International Law * Department of Judicial Activity and Criminal Procedure * Department of Labour Law * Department of Land Law, Urban Planning Law, and Environmental Law * Department of Legal Theory * Department of Physical Education and Sport * Department of Prosecutor's Activity * Department of Russian and Foreign Languages * Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines

Science

Since 1993, the University publishes scientific, theoretical and practical research projects of its students in cooperation with the

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International Relations

USLU maintains and develops relationships with a number of leading universities in

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and the

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Alumni

Over the years Ural State Law University trained over 60,000 qualified professionals.

Famous alumni

Sergei Alexeyev Sergei Sergeyevich Alexeyev (; 28 July 1924 – 12 May 2013) was a Soviet and Russian legal theorist, scholar of civil law and politician. He was the first and only chairman of the Committee for Constitutional Supervision of the USSR from 199 ...

(1949), a Soviet and Russian legal scholar, 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 and enacted on 25 December 1993. The latest significant reform occurred in 2020, marked by extensive amendments that altered various sections ...

of 1993. *

(1953), a Soviet and Russian jurist who served as the 5th Minister of Justice of the USSR from 1989 to 1990 and as the 1st President of the

from 1992 to 2005. *

Alexander Karlin Alexander Bogdanovich Karlin (; born 29 October 1951) is a Russian politician. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation. He served as the Governor of Altai Krai The governor ...

(1972), a politician who served as the 5th

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from 2005 to 2018. *

Yury Skuratov Yury Ilyich Skuratov (; born 3 July 1952) is a Russian jurist and politician. Skuratov was born in Ulan-Ude. From 1995 until 1999, he was Prosecutor-General of Russia. In February 1999, he disclosed the existence of FIMACO. Notable investig ...

(1973), a Russian jurist who served as the 5th

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from 1995 to 2000. *

Yury Biryukov Yury Stanislavovich Biryukov (in , b. March 7, 1948, in Lviv, Ukraine, Soviet Union) is a Russian lawyer and politician. From June 7, 2000 to July 7, 2006, he was a First Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia. Since 2006 he has been a representa ...

(1975), a Russian jurist who served as the First Deputy

from 2000 to 2006 and the

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from

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from 2014 to 2019. *

Yury Chaika Yury Yakovlevich Chaika (; born 21 May 1951) is a Russian lawyer and statesman who currently serves as the Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District since 2020. He previously served as Prosecutor-General of Russia from 2006 to 2 ...

(1976), a Russian jurist who served as the 6th Minister of Justice of Russia from 1999 to 2006 and the 7th

from 2006 to 2020. * Larisa Krasavchikova (1976), a Russian scholar of civil law who served as a judge of the

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from 2003 to 2025. * Sergey Trakhimenok (1977), a Belarusian writer. *

Serhii Kivalov Serhii Vasylovych Kivalov (; born 1 May 1954) is a Ukrainian politician and jurist who served as the head of Central Election Commission (Ukraine), Central Election Commission during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election which led to the Oran ...

(1980), a Ukrainian politician who served as the 4th Head of

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during the

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. *

Alexander Yevstifeyev Alexander Alexandrovich Yevstifeyev (; 14 May 1958 – 9 September 2024) was a Russian politician and jurist. From 21 September 2017 to 10 May 2022 he served as the Head of Mari El, Head of the Mari El Republic. Early life Yevstifeyev was born ...

(1980), a Russian politician who served as the 4th

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from 2017 to 2022. *

Vladislav Tumanov Vladislav Nikolayevich Tumanov (Russian: Владислав Николаевич Туманов; born 29 January 1958) is a Russian politician who was the 2nd Governor of Pskov Oblast from 1992 to 1996. He is the chairman of the Arbitration Cour ...

(1983), a Russian politician who served as the 2nd Governor of

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from 1992 to 1996 * Vasily Piskaryov (1984), a lawyer who served as the Deputy Head of the

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from 2012 to 2016 and currently seves as a deputy in the

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. * Aleksandr Kokotov (1985), a Russian scholar of constitutional law who has served as a judge of the

since 2010. *

Pavel Krasheninnikov Pavel Vladimirovich Krasheninnikov (; born 21 June 1964) is a Russian jurist, legal scholar and politician, chairing the State Duma Committee on State-Building and Legislation since 5 October 2016. Early life and education Krasheninnikov was ...

(1989), a Russian politician and jurist who served as the 5th Minister of Justice of Russia from 1998 to 1999. *

Andrey Selivanov Andrey Nikolayevich Selivanov (5 August 1847 – 15 July 1917) was a Russian politician and general notable for capturing Przemyśl during World War I. Biography Selivanov served in the Russian army during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 an ...

(1995), a chess player, the World Chess Solving Champion of 2003. *

Atakhan Abilov Atakhan Abilov () is a Talysh national minority and human rights activist from Azerbaijan, lawyer and author of books on International law. He has refugee status from the Russian Government and UN, as his colleagues from the "Voice of Talysh" n ...

(1999), a

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national minority and human rights activist from

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Journals

Students at the Law School publish several legal journals: * ''Lawyer'' * ''Injust''

References

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