Konstantin Gorshenin

Konstantin Petrovich Gorshenin (Russian: Константин Петрович Горшенин; 10 June 1907 – 27 May 1978) was a Soviet statesman.

He fought for control over the justice authorities with Anatoly Volin, Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.

In 1943–1947, he was a member of the secret commission of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the All–Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on judicial matters.

[4] In February 1954, he prepared a certificate in the name of Nikita Khrushchev about those convicted by the Collegium of the United State Political Administration, the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, a Special Meeting, the Military Collegium, courts and military tribunals for counterrevolutionary crimes for the period from 1921 to February 1, 1954, which indicated the exact number those sentenced to capital punishment, exiled and serving sentences in camps and prisons; it also provided the geography of the prisoners' accommodation.

Gorshenin became one of the three initiators (along with Georgy Zhukov and Roman Rudenko) of the adoption of a joint resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union of June 29, 1956 "On Eliminating the Consequences of Gross Violations of the Law in Relation to Former Prisoners of War and Members of Their Families".