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Aleksandr Gutsan

Aleksandr Gutsan
Александр Гуцан
Gutsan in 2025
7th Prosecutor General of Russia
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 September 2025
PresidentVladimir Putin
Preceded byIgor Krasnov
8th Presidential Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District
In office
7 November 2018 – 22 September 2025
PresidentVladimir Putin
Preceded byAlexander Beglov
Succeeded byIgor Rudenya
Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia
In office
13 April 2007 – 7 February 2018
Prosecutor GeneralYury Chaika
Deputy Director of the Federal Bailiff Service
In office
20 January 2005 – 13 April 2007
Chief BailiffNikolay Vinnichenko
Personal details
BornAleksandr Vladimirovich Gutsan
(1960-07-06) 6 July 1960 (age 65)
Siversky, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma materLeningrad State University
ProfessionLawyer
AwardsOrder of Friendship
Order of Honour
Honoured Lawyer of Russia
Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour
Certificate of Honor of the Government of the Russian Federation

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Gutsan (Russian: Александр Владимирович Гуцан; born 6 July 1960) is a Russian lawyer and statesman serving as Prosecutor General of Russia since September 24, 2025. Previously he served as Deputy Prosecutor General from April 2007 to November 2018 and Plenipotentiary Presidential Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District since from November 2018 to September 2025. He is also the member of the Security Council of Russia since 19 November 2018.[1]

Biography

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Gutsan was in the settlement of Siversky, Gatchinsky District, Leningrad Oblast. In his youth, he was actively involved in sports, training in a boxing section. After completing secondary school, he worked as a trainee and subsequently as a full-fledged precision metalworker. He performed his compulsory military service in the Soviet Armed Forces from 1978 to 1980.

In 1981, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at Leningrad State University (now Saint Petersburg State University), graduating in 1987. During his studies, he served as the head of his student group, which included Dmitry Medvedev, and as the Komsomol secretary for his year.

His professional career began within the prosecutorial system of Leningrad and then Saint Petersburg. From 1987 to 2000, he held several posts at the city prosecutor's office. From 2000 to 2005, he was assistant to the Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia on special assignments. In 2005, he was transferred to the Federal Bailiff Service, where he served as deputy to Chief Bailiff Nikolay Vinnichenko until 2007. In 2007, he returned to prosecutorial career, being appointed Deputy Prosecutor General under Prosecutor General Yury Chaika.

While serving in the Prosecutor General's Office, he represented the state in several high-profile cases. These included acting as a state prosecutor in the 1996 trial of retired Navy Captain Aleksandr Nikitin, who was acquitted of high treason and state secrets disclosure, and overseeing the investigation into the murder of Saint Petersburg Vice-Governor Mikhail Manevich. In 2016, while acting as Prosecutor General, he demanded the termination of the criminal prosecution of Dmitry Kamenshchik in the case concerning Sheremetyevo Airport and also discontinued the embezzlement case related to the construction of the Saint Petersburg ring road.

Since 2018, he has held the position of Plenipotentiary Presidential Envoy in the Northwestern Federal District. In 2025, he was appointed Prosecutor General of Russia.

Sanctions

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He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.[2]

In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 6 April 2022 the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury added Gutsan to its list of persons sanctioned pursuant to Executive Order 14024.[3]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ Биография; событий, Лента. "Лица ∙ Справочник ∙ Президент России". Президент России (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  2. ^ "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Federal Register :: Request Access". unblock.federalregister.gov. Retrieved 2023-04-30.


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