Chernilovskiy, Zinovy ​​Mikhailovich

Born November 24, 1914 in the Pale of Settlement - a place called Shumyachi , Smolensk Province . His mother died in 1919, and in 1929 he moved to relatives in Moscow. In 1931, Z. M. Chernilovskiy graduated from trade school and went to work as a typesetter in the 1st Exemplary Printing House. In 1932 he went to serve in the army, and a year later, in 1933, he entered the Moscow Law Institute. In the third year, transferring to the correspondence department, he was sent to Omsk (1935-1937) to work as an investigator of the regional prosecutor's office in criminal matters.
In 1937, he resigned from the prosecutor's office and returned to Moscow in order to avoid arrest inevitable in those years and continue his studies at his native institute.
In 1941 he defended his thesis on the topic “The Lawyer of Stefan Dusan ”. A short time between the defense of a dissertation and sending it to the front, he taught the history of the state and law in the Institute of Higher Education .
The war began in 1941 in the communist battalion. He served as commander of a machine-gun company. He was awarded the medal "For Courage" . Was injured. In the army he joined the VKP (b) . In 1943 he was recalled from the army in the army to serve in his specialty - in the military prosecutor's office of the Kharkov Military District. In the period 1943-1944. engaged in teaching - in the evenings he lectured at the Kharkov Law Institute . In November 1945, he was commissioned for health reasons. Upon returning to Moscow, he worked as editor-in-chief of the Secretariat of the Ministry of Justice, and since 1947, as a senior researcher in the theory and history of the state of the law and the law of the SESU.
Since 1948, he combined his scientific work with teaching at the MUI. In 1951, after the publication of his monograph “The state system of the People’s Republic of China”, he received a devastating review in the newspaper “ Izvestia ”, was dismissed from everywhere and received a strict reprimand of the party, but was not expelled from the party, apparently due to party merit . After Stalin’s death , the reprimand was lifted. In September 1953, he was accepted to the VUZI as a senior lecturer in the course of history of state and law.
In 1964 he defended his doctoral thesis on the topic "The Origin of the Early Feudal State and Law among the Western Slavic Peoples". In 1965, he was elected by competition for the post of professor in the Department of History of State and Law.
Subsequently, in the late 1960s, while already working at WUZI, he created his famous one-volume textbook on the general history of state and law, reprinted many times with copyright revisions over several decades.
Since 1984, he headed the department of history of state and law of the WUZI-MUI-MSLA , where he worked until the end of his days.
He was a participant in the creation of a new Constitution of Russia, a member of the Moscow House of Scientists of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
He died on June 12, 1995 due to open myocardial infarction.

He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers. The sphere of his primary scientific interests is the history of the development of the legal thought of Slavic peoples. Among his works:

• Roman Private Law: Elementary Course / Chernilovsky Z. M. - M.: New Lawyer, 1997. - 224 p.
• Questions of the history of the state and law of Germany and Switzerland: a collection of scientific papers / ed. Z. M. Chernilovskiy - M.: VYUZI, 1985. - 117 p.
• The development of law and political and legal thought in the Moscow State [: collection of scientific papers / resp. ed. Z. M. Chernilovskiy - M.: VYUZI, 1985. - 153 p.
• From Marshall to Warren: Essays on the history of the Supreme Court of the United States / Chernilovsky Z. M. - M.: Yurid.lit., 1982. - 224 p.
• The state system of the People’s Republic of China [Text] / Chernilovsky Z. M. - M.: Gosyurizdat, 1951. - 95 p.
• General history of state and law: textbook / Chernilovskiy Z. M. - M.: VYUZI, 1970. - 639 p.
• The general history of state and law / Chernilovskiy Z. M. - M.: Yurist, 1995. - 576 p.
• The General History of State and Law (History of State and Law of Foreign Countries): a textbook / Chernilovsky Z. M. - 2nd ed., Revised and enlarged. - M.: Higher., 1983. - 656 p.
• Roman private law: (Elementary course) / Chernilovsky Z. M. - M.: [b. and.], 1989. - 287 p.
• Lectures on Roman private law / Z. M. Chernilovskiy. - M.: Jurid. lit., 1991. - 208 p.
• The emergence of the early feudal state of the Baltic Slavs / Chernilovsky Z. M. - M.: Vyuzi, 1959. - 128 p.
• The history of the slaveholding state and law: textbooks / Chernilovsky Z. M. - 2nd ed. - M.: VYUZI, 1960. - 291 p.
• The history of the feudal state and law: study guide. / Chernilovskiy Z. M. - M.: VYUZI, 1959. - 354 p.
• Reader on the general history of state and law / ed. Z. M. Chernilovskiy, comp. V.N. Sadikov. - M.: [b. and.], 1994. - 413 p.
• Reader on the history of the state and law of foreign countries: a tutorial / ed. Z. M. Chernilovskiy. - M.: Legal. Lit., 1984. - 472 p.
• Reader on the general history of state and law: a tutorial / ed. Z. M. Chernilovskiy, comp. V.N. Sadikov. - M.: VYUZI,

1973. - 495 s.

• History of the bourgeois state and law (1640-1917): studies. allowance / K. I. Batyr [et al.]; ed. Z. M. Chernilovskiy. - M.: Higher. school., 1964. - 495 p.
• Reader on the general history of state and law [Text]: textbook / ed. Z. M. Chernilovskiy, comp. V.N. Sadikov. - M.: "Gardarika", 1996. - 413 p.
• The general history of state and law / Chernilovskiy Z. M. - M.: Yurist, 1996. - 576 p.
• Roman private law: an elementary course / Chernilovsky Z. M. - M.: Yurist, 2000. - 212 p.

• (inaccessible link) Chernilovsky profile on Ugra Legal portal
• MSLA website
• Memoirs, memories of the war (1941—1944) Notes of the company commander / Chernilovsky Z. M.