Rector of St. Petersburg State University Kropachev Nikolay Mikhailovich: biography, family and interesting facts

Kropachev Nikolai Mikhailovich - a famous domestic lawyer. Currently, he is the head of the St. Petersburg State University, one of the largest in the northern capital. He is a member of the federal board of the Russian Union of Rectors. He is also a regular participant of the association of lawyers of our country. Repeatedly awarded with awards and prizes. For example, in 2010 he was recognized as the best lawyer of the year. A big role was played in the reconstruction of the Russian historical society. At the moment he conducts scientific and teaching work - he is a member of the Council for Science and Education under the President of Russia as deputy chairman. He is a doctor of law, professor.

Biography of a lawyer

Kropachev Nikolai Mikhailovich was born in Leningrad. This happened in 1959.

Immediately after school I entered the Leningrad State University, which today heads as a rector. At the university was one of the best students on the stream. His scientific works were led by Doctor of Law Vadim Semenovich Prokhorov. It was under his leadership that Kropachev Nikolai Mikhailovich defended his thesis work.

Prokhorov himself later recalled that working with Kropachev was not easy, but very interesting. The student with the teacher led fierce arguments, furiously defending his position. The discussions were hot. The hero of our article from the first courses at the university was interested in the topics of responsibility and justice. It was for them that he went to law. Reflections on these concepts and the search for truth with Prokhorov formed Kropachev Nikolai Mikhailovich as a person. With him, it happened in his student years.

Postgraduate and Teaching

University Kropachev graduated brilliantly, so I decided to stay in postgraduate study. At the Department of Criminal Law of the Faculty of Law of the Leningrad State University, he entered in 1981.

At the same time, the successful Komsomol member Kropachev is making an important political decision in his life. He joins the Communist Party.

He ends his post-graduate studies in 1984. His graduation work was the defense of his thesis on criminal legal relations. Another outstanding teacher, Doctor of Juridical Sciences Nikolai Aleksandrovich Belyaev, who studied criminal and penal law for many years, supervised his scientific work.

In 1985, the hero of our article begins his career as an assistant to the Department of Criminal Law in his native Leningrad State University. The years of perestroika did not greatly affect Kropachev's career - he systematically went up the career ladder. In 1991 he received the post of senior lecturer and the title of associate professor. Two years later he became an associate professor at the Department of Criminal Law. All this time he was actively published in scientific publications, he wrote articles and monographs.

At the head of the faculty

During perestroika, the Leningrad State University is renamed St. Petersburg. Nikolai Kropachev at St. Petersburg State University is now making his career.

In 1992, he became dean at a special faculty, which deals exclusively with the retraining of personnel associated with the legal sciences and specialties.

In 1993 he holds the post of first deputy dean of the law faculty. Kropachev was only 34 at that time.

Recognition at the All-Russian level

Recognized in Kropachev, a prominent scholar-lawyer in the mid-90's. It was then that he entered the presidium of the Association of Lawyers of Russia, became vice-president of the Association of Law Universities, which united many regions of the country.

1996 was in many ways a landmark in the career of Kropachev. It was then that he came forward with his own initiative - to carry out a full-scale reform in the Russian judicial system. In particular, to realize the project of computerization of courts of St. Petersburg. His main goal was maximum openness of justice.

Two years later Kropachev initiated the creation of the country's first legal clinic. It provided free legal assistance to the poor. Originally she worked on the basis of the St. Petersburg State University.

In 1998, Kropachev was elected dean of the Faculty of Law.

Fighting corruption

In the university, Kropachev has always been an ardent opponent of corruption. Therefore, when he was given as the dean of the faculty a "rector's list" of entrants who must be enrolled, he refused to take him to work.

In 1999, he became a participant in a loud anti-corruption scandal. Kropachev took part in the telecast "Event" on the channel "Petersburg". It showed a video recording of the entrance exam in the Russian language. Students had to write an essay in an audience equipped with a video surveillance system. Despite this, after the themes of the compositions became known, one of the teachers wrote his project of work and gave it to one of the entrants. This happened in front of teachers and other candidates for admission.

When the presenter asked Kropachev to comment on this fact, he was laconic - corruption. In the same TV, he spoke about the measures that the law faculty takes to prevent violations of entrants' rights.

The university leadership on this fact conducted its own investigation. His results were very unexpected. Kropachev was fired. And many supported this decision, since Kropachev had repeatedly criticized the economic and financial and economic activities of the university's leadership at the academic council. Speech on television was the last straw.

However, there were those who supported the hero of our article in his fight against corruption. There were appeals to the court with a demand to cancel the illegal order to dismiss and restore Kropachev in office. During the trial, the rector canceled the order. Less than a month after his dismissal, Kropachev was reinstated.

Defense of the thesis

In 2000, Kropachev defended his thesis on the mechanisms of criminal law regulation. He was awarded a doctorate in law. And three years later, a professor in the department of criminal law.

The sphere of scientific interests of the hero of our article included the theory of state and law, criminal law, criminology. He devoted more than 80 methodical and scientific works to these areas of legal science. Among them are separate monographs and textbooks.

Kropachev's work was not limited to the university. He conducted an active legal practice. In 2000 he was elected a judge of the St. Petersburg Charter Court. Soon after, he headed this body.

In 2003, he became a member of the Presidential Council for the Improvement of Justice.

At the head of the university

Having earned the respect of his colleagues, in 2000 Kropachev was promoted to the post of pro-rector of St. Petersburg State University. He combined this post with work at the head of the Faculty of Law.

And in 2008 he was appointed Acting Rector. The official elections, in which the whole labor collective participated, were held on May 21 of the same year. Nikolai Mikhailovich Kropachev was elected by a majority of votes as rector of St. Petersburg State University. He has been heading the university for almost ten years.

In 2009, his powers were confirmed by a decree of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. In 2014, his contract was extended for another five years.

Kropachev Nikolai Mikhailovich is the rector of St. Petersburg State University, whom colleagues and students respect. Many people say that with him the business in the university began to improve.

Personal life

Kropachev Nikolai Mikhailovich always speaks about the family with love. He and his wife have been together for many years. She is a non-public person and, unlike her spouse, rarely shows up in the light.

Kropachev Nikolai Mikhailovich, whose personal life is always short because of a lot of time, notes that he always feels support at home.

The couple have two children. There is a son Sergei, who is now 29 years old. He followed in the footsteps of his father, graduating from the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University. Rector of St. Petersburg State University Kropachev Nikolai Mikhailovich, whose family found another lawyer, certainly was pleased. Now Sergey works as the deputy general director in the joint-stock company "Petersburg Sales Company". He oversees development and marketing.

Also, the hero of our article has a daughter, Elizabeth. She's still a schoolgirl.

At the same time, Nikolai Mikhailovich Kropachev admits, the St. Petersburg State University is as much a family for him as his wife and children. After all, it was in this university that he spent his whole adult life. Works there now.

Scientific interests

In the sphere of professional interests of Kropachev, to whom his numerous works and studies are devoted, includes criminology, the theory of state and law, educational, and criminal law.

Dozens of publications have been published on these topics. He is the author of numerous monographs and textbooks.

Revival of the Russian Historical Society

It was Kropachev who became one of the initiators of the re-creation of the Russian Historical Society. Such an organization existed in prerevolutionary Russia since 1866. The Society was engaged in the collection, processing and dissemination of documents and materials on the history of the country, their introduction into scientific circulation.

The idea to recreate such a public body appeared in 2012. The purpose of the modern organization was the development of national historical enlightenment. Kropachev was one of the initiators of the realization of this idea.

The head of the Russian Historical Society was Sergei Naryshkin, who at that time was the Speaker of the State Duma. The board was headed by Sergei Shakhrai, head of the Accounting Chamber.

One of the main tasks set for the society was the creation of a single textbook of history.