Nikolai Vasilievich Vitruk

Nikolai Vasilievich Vitruk – a Russian jurist and statesman, judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (retired). Since 2005 he has been Head of the Department of Constitutional Law at the Russian Academy of Justice. Member of the Union of Writers of Russia (2008). In 1959 he graduated with honors from the Law Faculty of Tomsk State University. From 1972 he worked as a senior research fellow at the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where he defended his doctoral dissertation on the theoretical foundations of the legal status of the individual.

  

Since February 1981 he was a professor, deputy head of the Department of Theory of State and Law and Constitutional Law at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, and later head of the Department of State-Legal Disciplines at the Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. In 1991 he was elected a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation by the Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR. From 1991 to 1995 Vitruk served as Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Court. In 1993–1995 he performed the duties of Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.

  

As of March 20, 2003, Vitruk was a retired judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. In 2005 he headed the Department of Constitutional Law of the Russian Academy of Justice, and in 2008 he also became a professor at the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law of Belgorod State National Research University (NRU "BelGU"). Vitruk is the author of more than 250 scholarly works and supervised more than 40 doctoral and candidate dissertations in law. Nikolai Vasilievich Vitruk passed away on August 9, 2012, in Moscow.