Editing Roman Rudenko (section)

==Ukrainian SSR to 1953==
Rudenko was one of the chief commandants of [[NKVD special camp Nr. 7]], a former Nazi concentration camp, until its closure in 1950.<ref name="TNJ">{{cite book |last=Utley |first=Freda |url=http://www.fredautley.com/nuremberg.htm |title=The High Cost of Vengeance |chapter= 6. The Nuremberg Judgments |publisher=Henry Regnery Company |year=1949 <!--|accessdate=22 April 2009-->}}</ref> Of the 60,000 prisoners incarcerated there under his supervision, at least 12,000 died due to malnutrition and disease.<ref name="shiftung">{{cite web |url=http://www.stiftung-bg.de/gums/en/geschichte/speziallager/spezial01.htm |title=The Soviet special camp No.7 / No. 1 1945 – 1950 |accessdate=22 April 2009 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924110419/http://www.stiftung-bg.de/gums/en/geschichte/speziallager/spezial01.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In October 1951, as Procurator-General of the Ukrainian SSR, he personally led prosecution in the trial of [[Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists|OUN]] member Mykhailo Stakhur who in October 1949 killed the writer [[Yaroslav Halan]].