Nikolay Sergeevich Alekseev (1914-1992)

The article reveals the biographical milestones of Soviet and Russian scientist and lawyer, Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Law, Professor Nikolai Sergeevich Alekseev. The life of the scientist who was born in 1914 was marked by the First World War, the October Revolution and the Civil War. Having gained work experience at a plant, he entered Leningrad Institute of Law, followed by his work as an investigator in the prosecutor's office. He was called up for military service on the eve of the World War II, which he met as a political officer in the regiment of the NKVD. In July 1941, he was seriously wounded and shell-shocked, and after he had recovered, he was transferred to the military prosecutor's office. N.S. Alekseev happened to be on many fronts, including the siege of Leningrad. He met the end of the war as a military prosecutor of a separate railway brigade. Since 1947 and till the end of his life, N.S. Alekseev taught at the Law Faculty of Leningrad State University after A.A. Zhdanov. He headed the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics for almost forty years and was repeatedly elected Dean of the Faculty Nikolai Sergeevich was a scholar of broad scientific outlook. His interests were not limited to one narrow topic or one area of research. The scope of his multifaceted scientific activity covered the most diverse and highly topical issues on criminal law, criminology, criminal procedure and criminology In his doctoral thesis he examined questions of historical development of the Russian and Soviet criminal legislation on responsibility for evading military service. His thesis for the degree of Doctor of Law -"The codification of the criminal legislation of the two German States" - became a deep comparative study of the legislation of Germany and the German Democratic Republic and was prepared on the basis of in-depth study of foreign sources. The material is prepared using a collection of the essays: Russian scientist and veteran of the Great Patriotic War Alekseev Nikolay Sergeevich: memorial book. Compiled by A.M. Bagmet, V.V. Bychkov, A.L. Ivanov, O.N. Kulikova; Bastrykin A.I. (ed.). Moscow, 2015. The professor lectured on criminal law and procedure in German universities in perfect German. In 1959, the German Academy of the State and the Legal Sciences after Walter Ulbricht awarded him an honorary doctorate. Alekseev's separate topic of serious scientific interest concerned the issue of criminal responsibility of Nazi criminals. In 60-70 of the twentieth century, as an expert on the Soviet Union, he took active part in a number of major prosecutions of Nazi crimes Moreover, N.S. Alekseev assisted the chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials on behalf of the Soviet Union R.A. Rudenko. N.S. Alekseev was actively involved in writing and editing textbooks on criminal procedure and criminology, comments on the criminal procedure legislation His reports were heard in many international scientific forums, both in the Soviet Union and far beyond it (in the UK, Germany, Poland, Finland and other countries). Nikolai Sergeevich was a tireless advocate and promoter of legal knowledge: he successfully lectured in front of different and vast audience, published popular articles and brochures addressing wide audience, took an active part in the public organization"Knowledge". Nikolai Sergeevich's achievements were highly appreciated by the Soviet state He is a Companion of a number of high military awards and has a foreign award, he was awarded the title of Honored Scientist of the RSFSR, three times winner of the Zhdanov Leningrad State University Prize for the best scientific work.

Nikolai Sergeevich Alekseev, Soviet and Russian scientist, lawyer, doctor of law, professor, a veteran, anti-fascist, criminal responsibility of the Nazi, public figure, Leningrad (St Petersburg) State University

1. Алексеев Н.С. Борьба с преступностью несовершеннолетних в Германской Демократической Республике. - М., 1959.

2. Алексеев Н.С. Основы уголовного права Германской Демократической Республики. - Л., 1960.

3. Алексеев Н.С. Ответственность нацистских преступников. - М., 1968.

4. Алексеев Н.С. Закон и коммунистическая нравственность (право, мораль и правосудие). - М., 1975.

5. Алексеев Н.С. Злодеяния и возмездие: преступления против человечества / под ред. В.С. Джатиева. - СПб., 2014.

6. Российский ученый и ветеран Великой Отечественной войны Алексеев Николай Сергеевич: книга памяти / авт.-сост.: А.М. Багмет, В.В. Бычков, А.Л. Иванов, О.Н. Куликова; под ред. А.И. Бастрыкина. - М., 2015.