Background
GOLYAKOV, Ivan was born in 1888 in village Peshkovo, Moscow Province.
GOLYAKOV, Ivan was born in 1888 in village Peshkovo, Moscow Province.
1910-1917 soldier in Russian army. 1917-1919 member, regt and army comts. Later secretary, member and cbm, volost comt.
1919-1920 in Red Army. Instructor, Polit Department, 9th Army on Southeastern Front. Political comissar, infantry regt, 23rd Division.
Chairman, Revol-Military Tribunal, 14th Infantry Division. 1920-1933 with Red Army military tribunals. 1933-1936 member. Military Collegium, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Court.
1936-1938 holding the rank of divisional military lawyer, court reserve member, Military Collegium, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Court at show trial of ’’Trotsky and Zinov’yevite terrorist center”. 1938-1949 chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Court. Headed show trial of the ’’joint Trotsky and Zinov’yevitc terrrorist center” (L. Kamenev, I. Smirnov, G. Yevdokimov, etc).
1938-1958 professor, Law Faculty, Moscow State University. Moscow Institute of Law and other higher educational institutions. 1938-1956 director, All-Union Institute of Law and chairman, Experts’ Commission on Law, Higher Certifying Commission and member, plenum of this commission.
1936-1938 assisted in Red Army purge. 1941-1945 headed work of military tribunals and rear area military courts in the compaign against military and labor deserters. 1947-1958 member, editorial board, periodicals Sovetskoye gosudarstvo ipravo and Sotsialisticheskaya zakonnost'.
Deputy, and chairman, Draft Bills Commission, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet of 1938 convocation. Deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 1946 convocation and member, Editor Commission for Amendments and Additions to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Constitution. Also helped to codify various branches of Soviet legislation, including drafting new Criminal Code of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Wrote numerous articles on criminal law, judicial system, state law, organisation of higher legal training, et cetera
Communist Party member from 1918.