Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat.
Vyshinsky in 1940
Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky (bottom, right of Lenin, with buttoned shirt), 1922. Kamenev, Lenin, Zinoviev, at a congress of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. 14 years later he would become the chief prosecutor at the Moscow Trials, where Zinoviev and Kamenev would be sentenced to death.
Prosecutor General Vyshinsky (centre), reading the 1937 indictment against Karl Radek during the second Moscow Trial.
The unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht is signed on 8 May 1945 in Karlshorst by Marshal Zhukov, General Sokolovsky and Vyshinsky.
Procurator General of the Soviet Union
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 the Soviet Union.
Procurator General of the Soviet Union
Alexander Sukharev (left) at the 1st convocation of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union with investigator Telman Gdlyan (right) and Mikhail Gorbachev (center)
Image: Петр Красиков
Image: RIAN archive 7781 Vyshinsky
