Roman Rudenko
- Birth Date:
- 30.07.1907
- Death date:
- 23.01.1981
- Length of life:
- 73
- Days since birth:
- 42634
- Years since birth:
- 116
- Days since death:
- 15793
- Years since death:
- 43
- Extra names:
- Roman Rudenko, Роман Руденко, Romans Rudenko, Роман Андреевич Руденко
- Categories:
- Communist, Communist Party worker, Lawyer, Member of Parliament, Member of the CC CPSU, Nominee, Repression organizer, supporter, Statesman
- Nationality:
- ukrainian
- Cemetery:
- Novodevichy Cemetery
Roman Andreyevich Rudenko (Russian: Рома́н Андре́евич Руде́нко, Ukrainian: Роман Андрійович Руденко, Nosivka, Chernihiv Oblast; July 30, 1907 - January 23, 1981, Moscow) was a Soviet lawyer. He was the prosecutor of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1944-1953 and Chief prosecutor of the entire Soviet Union from 1953. He is also well known for acting as the Soviet Chief Prosecutor at the main trial of the major Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials and Chief Prosecutor at the Trial of the Sixteen. He held military rank as a Lt.General at the time he served at Nuremberg.
Rudenko was also one of the chief commandants of NKVD special camp Nr. 7, a former Nazi concentration camp, until its closure in 1950. Of the 60,000 prisoners incarcerated there under his supervision, 12,500 died due to malnutrition and disease. No trial was held.
After Lavrentiy Beria's arrest in 1953, Rudenko was the judge of his trial in which Beria was sentenced to death.
In 1961 Rudenko was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1972 he was awarded the Soviet honorary title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
Source: wikipedia.org
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Relations
| Relation name | Relation type | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Евгений Тяжельников | Coworker | |
| 2 |  | Yegor Ligachyov | Coworker | |
| 3 |  | Владимир Долгих | Coworker | |
| 4 |  | Владимир Мусаэльян | Familiar | |
| 5 | Таланов | Familiar, Idea mate | ||
| 6 |  | Yuri Andropov | Idea mate |
05.03.1940 | Katyn massacre. Russian communists authorize order No 394/5 allowing NKVD to kill 22,000 Polish army officers
19.04.1943 | Cекретное постановление Совнаркома от 19 апреля 1943 года об управлении контрразведки СМЕРШ
При выполнении боевых операций, а также в любых других условиях бойцы СМЕРШа не имели права уклоняться от боя ни на своей, ни на немецкой стороне.
18.06.1945 | Trial of the Sixteen in Moscow
The Trial of the Sixteen (Polish: Proces szesnastu) was a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet Union in Moscow in 1945.
21.06.1945 | End of Trial of the Sixteen in Moscow
The Trial of the Sixteen (Polish: Proces szesnastu) was a staged trial of 16 leaders of the Polish Underground State held by the Soviet Union in Moscow in 1945.