Rostov Law School

The Rostov Law School in Taganrog was established in Taganrog by order of the People’s Commissariat of Justice of the RSFSR No. 33 of July 6, 1944 ^[2] . According to other sources, the Rostov Law School already existed in 1940 ^[3] . Also in the literature there is a mention of the Taganrog Law School that existed in Taganrog in 1930 ^[4] .

Such a strange decision to create a Rostov school in Taganrog was dictated, according to historians, by several factors ^[2] . On the one hand, Rostov-on-Don from 1941 to 1943 was subjected to tremendous destruction during the bombing and shelling, it was difficult to find the surviving building. In this regard, Taganrog was more fortunate, and finding a suitable room here was easier than in Rostov. On the other hand, at that moment in Taganrog there were enough qualified experienced lawyers to form a teaching staff ^[2] .

The school was located at Gogolevsky Lane, 25 , on the second and third floors of the former house of the merchant Ilchenko. The house has survived to the present time ^[2] . There are shops on the ground floor, and the upper ones are occupied by Zhakt apartments. According to other sources, the school was located in the building at 29 Gogolevsky Lane, where there was also a hostel for nonresident residents, and later, the Kolos Hotel ^[5] .

It was possible to enter the school only on the recommendation of party bodies ^[2] .

Education at the school was conducted according to a two-year program, which gave students specialized secondary education. Two departments worked, full-time and part-time. The school trained specialists for prosecutors, courts, lawyers and notaries and social security departments ^[2] . It is known that in 1945 at the school there were three-month courses for prosecutors ^[6] .

According to the recollections of the students, the living and learning conditions were “the most Spartan”: there was no electric light in the private apartments where the students lived - they lit the apartments at night with carbides (the carbide was flooded with water, and the gas produced by the reaction between the carbide and water was ignited through the tube ) ^[1] . There weren’t enough books on the specialty, sometimes when preparing for the seminars miraculously managed to get something in the city library, and then the line was set literally by the hour, including night time ^[1] . For one night the book could be in the hands of two, or even three students. Food standards were very scarce, students were constantly haunted by a feeling of hunger ^[1] . Students were paid a scholarship of 400 rubles per month (a loaf of bread in the market cost 50 rubles) ^[7] .

The school was closed by a special decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 8462 of August 4, 1954 . The last graduation of the school took place in July 1955 ^[2] .

The first director of the school was appointed Yakov Izrailevech Belenky ^[2] . His wife, Elena Markovna Belenkaya, taught Russian language and literature there. After the Belenkys left the city, Zoya Fedorovna Parfyonova, the wife of the city prosecutor I.I. Parfyonov, headed the law school ^[2] . At the beginning of 1953, Vladimir Kotlyarov, a front-line soldier and lecturer in the Criminal Procedure course, who had a rare legal education for that time, was appointed the school principal ^[2] .

Many well-known lawyers in Taganrog taught at the school: assistant to the Stalin district prosecutor Z. D. Yakubovich, lawyers I. P. Mints, V. S. Lagransky, Y. M. Potashnikov, Z. N. Kotlyarova. Otolaryngologist G. M. Livshits taught the course “ Forensic Medicine ” to students ^[2] .

• Brintseva, Antonina Petrovna ( 1912 - 1998 ) - Russian teacher, member of the Taganrog underground , participant in the Great Patriotic War , director of the Taganrog House of Pioneers ^[3] .
• Rekunkov, Alexander Mikhailovich ( 1920 - 1996 ) - Soviet lawyer, Prosecutor General of the USSR ^[6] .