Ivan Terentyevich Golyakov (July 6, 1888 (according to other sources: June 6),[1] – March 18, 1961)[2] was a figure in the Soviet prosecutor's office and court.

After the February Revolution, in April 1917, he entered the Army Council of Soldiers' Deputies.

In 1925, he graduated from the Legal Department of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the North Caucasus University with a degree in criminology.

In 1931, he received a certificate of the commander of the Red Army and at the same time completed advanced training courses for the highest commanding staff of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.

[3] In August 1948, by decision of the Political Bureau, the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union was dismissed for shortcomings in his work, in particular for "facts of malignant use of official position by some members of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union and employees of its apparatus".

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn notes that he "knew the work of Tolstoi, Korolenko, and Chekhov.

[7] He was a member of the secret commission of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the All–Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on court cases.