Editing Roman Rudenko (section)

{{short description|Soviet lawyer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}
{{Infobox Officeholder
| name                = Roman Rudenko
| image               = File:Главный обвинитель от СССР на Нюрнбергском процессе Р.А. Руденко (cropped).jpg
| caption             = Rudenko opens the Soviet prosecution at the [[Nuremberg trials|International Military Tribunal]]
| width               = 
| nationality         = [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]
| order               = 
| office              = [[Procurator General of the Soviet Union]]
| term_start          = 1 July 1953
| term_end            = 23 January 1981
| premier             = [[Georgy Malenkov]]<br>[[Nikolai Bulganin]]<br>[[Nikita Khrushchev]]<br>[[Alexei Kosygin]]<br>[[Nikolai Tikhonov]]
| predecessor         = [[Grigory Safonov]]
| successor           = [[Alexander Rekunkov]]
| birth_date          = {{OldStyleDate|7 August|1907|25 July}}
| birth_place         = [[Nosivka]], [[Nezhinsky Uyezd]], [[Chernihiv Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1981|1|23|1907|8|7|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| party               = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (1926–1981)
| profession          = [[Lawyer]], [[civil servant]]
| native_name_lang    = ru
| native_name         = {{nobold|Роман Руденко}}
}}
'''Roman Andreyevich Rudenko''' ({{langx|ru|Рома́н Андре́евич Руде́нко}}, {{Langx|uk|Роман Андрійович Руденко}}; {{OldStyleDate|7 August|1907|25 July}}<ref>[http://91.225.197.22/!_СПРАВИ%20(оцифровані%20ГТ%20Family%20search)/007768517/007768517_00802.jpg Метрическая книга Николаевской церкви м. Носовка. 1907]{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} // Государственный архив Черниговской области. Ф. 679. Оп. 10. Д. 1325. Л. 189об–190. ''(russian)''</ref><ref>A lot of sources give other dates of birth: {{OldStyleDate|July 30|1907|July 17}} or July 7, 1907.</ref> – 23 January 1981) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[lawyer]] and statesman. 

[[Procurator General of the Soviet Union |Procurator-General]] of the [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]] from 1944 to 1953, Rudenko became Procurator-General of the entire [[Soviet Union]] after 1953. He is well known internationally for acting as chief prosecutor for the USSR at the 1946 trial of the major [[List of Axis personnel indicted for war crimes|Nazi war criminals]] in [[Nuremberg trials|Nuremberg]]. He was also chief prosecutor at the "[[Trial of the Sixteen]]" (Polish Underground leaders) held in Moscow the year before. At the time he served at Nuremberg, Rudenko held the rank of Lieutenant-General within the USSR Procuracy.

In 1961 Rudenko was elected to the [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPSU Central Committee]]. In 1972 he was awarded the Soviet honorary title of [[Hero of Socialist Labour]].