Boris Kravtsov

{{Infobox Minister

| image = Boris Kravtsov (cropped) (2022-02-02).jpg

| imagesize =

| caption = Kravtsov in 2022

| office = Minister of Justice

| president = {{ubl|Konstantin Chernenko | Andrei Gromyko | Mikhail Gorbachev}}

| primeminister =

| predecessor = Vladimir Terebilov

| successor = Veniamin Yakovlev

| term_start = 12 April 1984

| term_end = 7 June 1989

| birth_name = Boris Vasilyevich Kravtsov

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1922|12|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

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| party = Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1943–1991)

| alma_mater = Moscow Law School

| spouse = Tatyana Ivanovna Kravtsova

| children = 2

| nationality = Russian

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Boris Vasilyevich Kravtsov ({{langx|ru|Борис Васильевич Кравцов}}; born 28 December 1922) is a Russian former jurist and politician who served as the justice minister of the Soviet Union between 1984 and 1989.

Biography

Kravtsov was born in Moscow on 28 December 1922.{{cite web|title=Boris Vasilyevich Kravtsov|language=ru|publisher=War Heroes |url=https://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=7412|access-date=4 April 2022}} In 1941 he graduated from high school and joined the Red Army. He was part of the Soviet military forces which liberated Ukraine from the Nazi invasion. In September 1945 Kravtsov began his studies at the Moscow Law School and graduated in 1947. Following his graduation he worked as a judge in different regions. He also graduated from the All Union Correspondence Law Institute in 1952. He was named the deputy prosecutor of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) in 1960 and in 1971 he became the prosecutor of the RSFSR. On 12 April 1984 he was appointed minister of justice of the Soviet Union replacing Vladimir Terebilov in the post.{{cite news|title=High Justice Officials Are Shuffled in Soviet|access-date=4 April 2022|work=The New York Times|date=4 May 1984|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/04/world/high-justice-officials-are-shuffled-in-soviet.html}} Kravtsov was in office until 7 June 1989.

Kravtsov was a member of the Communist Party between 1943 and 1991. He served as a deputy at the Supreme Soviet in the 11th convocation from 1984 to 1989. He retired from public office in 1989.

Personal life

File:Vladimir Putin and Boris Kravtsov (2022-02-02).jpg

Kravtsov married Tatyana Ivanovna Kravtsova. He has two daughters.{{cite web|title=КРАВЦОВ Борис Васильевич

|url=http://www.biograph.ru/index.php/soldatypobedy70/3805-kravtsovbv|publisher=Biography|access-date=4 April 2022|language=ru}}

=Awards=

For his activities in World War II Kravtsov was given the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union in May 1944. In February 2022, he was awarded the highest degree of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland".{{cite news|title=Putin presented state awards to outstanding figures in the Kremlin|access-date=4 April 2022|url=https://www.thetribune.com/putin-presented-state-awards-to-outstanding-figures-in-the-kremlin-tass-ru/|work=The Tribune|agency=TASS|date=3 February 2022}} As of 2024, he is the last living Hero of the Soviet Union who received his award during the Great Patriotic War.

Kravtsov also received the following awards: