Ivan Michyevich Zaryanov

Ivan Michyevich Zaryanov (Russian: Иван Михеевич Зарянов; 26 November 1894 – 1975) was a Red Army Major General of Justice and a member of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR.

He served as the Judge of the Soviet Union on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

Zaryanov was born on 26 November 1894 in the village of Rodinskaya, Slobodskoy Uyezd, Vyatka Governorate,[1] today part of Kirov Oblast.

[2][4] In 1946, he was appointed as the Justice of the Soviet Union on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

[4][5] Zaryanov did not speak English nor Japanese, the two official languages of the trial,[6] and he was allowed to bring his 60-year old interpreter Mrs.