PROSECUTOR GENERAL

Yuri Yakovlevich CHAIKA was born in 1951 in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Territory.

He started his working career in 1970 as an electrician at a shipbuilding factory in the native city. Having served in the army, he came back in 1972 to enter the Sverdlovsk Law Institute.

In 1976, having become a graduate, Yu.Chaika was employed as a probationer by the prosecution authorities, and then he worked as an investigator, a Deputy Regional Public Prosecutor in the Irkutsk Region, a Taishetsk Transport Public Prosecutor in the Irkutsk Region. In 1983, he headed the Investigative Division of the East Siberian Transport Public Prosecutor’s Office.

From 1984 to 1992, Yu.Chaika worked as an instructor of the Administrative Division of the Irkutsk Regional CPSU Committee, an East Siberian Transport Public Prosecutor.

In 1992, he became a Public Prosecutor of the Irkutsk Region.

In 1995, Yu.Chaika was appointed to the post of the First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.

From 1999 to 2006, he headed the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

On June 23, 2006, by Resolution of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Yu.Chaika was appointed to the post of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.

His class rank is a True State Counselor of Justice.

He has state awards including the “Order of Merit for Country of the IV Degree” and the “Order of Honour”.

Titles of honour: the “Honorary Lawyer of the Russian Federation”, the “Honorary Officer of the Prosecution Service of the Russian Federation”.

He is married and has two children.