Aleksandr Yakovlev

Aleksandr Maksimovich Yakovlev (; 29 August 1927 - 26 May 2011), was a Russian politician and jurist who had served as the to the Federal Assembly from 1994 to 1996. Yakovlev was a Doctor of Law, Professor, a 1984 laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, and an Honoured Lawyer of Russia. He was also a People's Deputy of the USSR. He was one of the authors of the Constitution of Russia. Biography Aleksandr Yakovlev was born in Leningrad on 29 August 1927. In 1952, Yakovlev graduated with honours from the . He worked as head of the sector of criminal law and criminology of the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and was the deputy director of the of the Soviet Ministry of Justice until 1975. In 1989, Yakovlev was elected a People's Deputy of the USSR, and was a member of the Committee on Legislation, Law and Order of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.