Iona Timofeievich Nikitchenko (1895 to 1967) was a Soviet judge who served on the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union from 1938 to 1951 and represented the Soviet Union as a judge on the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg trials. He was one of three main drafters of the London Charter that established the rules for the trial, and he presided over the tribunal session held in Berlin. Before Nuremberg he had presided over Soviet show trials during the Great Purges, including the trial that sentenced Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev.
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He later served on the International Military Tribunal during the Nuremberg trials as a judge for the Soviet Union.
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Iona Timofeievich Nikitchenko was a Soviet judge who served on the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.
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Having never before written a dissenting opinion-these being unheard of in Soviet jurisprudence-and being unsure of the form of such an opinion, Nikitchenko was assisted in writing his dissents by his fellow judge Norman Birkett.
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Wikidata Q649719, P27 country of citizenship claim
P27 (country of citizenship): Russian Empire
Wikidata Q649719, P27 country of citizenship claim, additional value 47
citizenship (P27), additional value: Soviet
Wikidata Q649719, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1895
Wikidata Q649719, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1895-06-28
Wikidata Q649719, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1967
Wikidata Q649719, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1967-04-22
Wikidata Q649719, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Tuzlukov
Wikidata Q649719, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): Moscow
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