Luneev, V.V. Kudryavtsev: a person, a scientist, a citizen

Abstract: On October 5, 2007 a renowned scientist Vladimir Nikolaevich Kudryavtsev died. Legal and social sciences lost a renowned lawyer, forensic scientist, social scientist, political scientist, Doctor of Law, Professor, Merited Scientist of the Russian Federation, talented organizer and an acting member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and later of the Russian Academy of Science, its former Vice-President, and curator of social sciences at the difficult times of Perestroika and market reforms. Throughout his life he served state and law, legal and social sciences, formation of a rule-of-law state, and fighting crime. The lawyers responded to the death of Kudryavtsev with many articles and memoirs by his colleagues and students, including the author of this article. Vladimir Nikolaevich Kudryavtsev was born in Moscow on April 10, 1923.

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