Кадровый состав советского нотариата в довоенный период

Российский юридический журнал. 2026. № 2. С. 177–191.

Боголюбов Е. А.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the staff of the Soviet notary in the pre-war period (1917-1941) and the problem of continuity between prerevolutionary and Soviet notaries. Three key stages of the development of the Soviet notary are highlighted: the old-regime notary, the transitional notary and the proletarian notary. At the first stage personnel formation took place mainly at the expense of specialists with pre-revolutionary experience, who had a high level of legal education and extensive work experience. The Soviet government was forced to involve such notaries in order to ensure the functioning of the system. At the second stage there was a gradual displacement of pre-revolutionary specialists and their replacement by notaries from workers and peasants, active members of the Communist Party. During this period personnel «purges» aimed at eliminating «alien elements» intensified. The level of legal training of new notaries has noticeably decreased. The third stage is characterized by the establishment of the proletarian notary, where employees mostly did not have higher legal education and often received only short-term legal training. The notary's office loses its prestige during this period, there is a high staff turnover. It is concluded that there was a succession of personnel in the first years after the revolution, which then gave way to the proletarization of the notary profession and a decrease in the professional level.

Keywords: преемственность, legal profession, советский период, Soviet period, нотариус, notary, юридическая профессия, succession, STATE NOTARY, государственный нотариат