The military and scientific path of a brilliant lawyer, Honored Worker of the Republic of Tatarstan, Professor Boris Volkov (1921–2004)
We continue to share the stories of front-line soldiers who created the Peoples’ Friendship University. On the eve of Victory Day, here is the story of a lawyer who was seriously wounded, worked for 30 years in his native Tatarstan, and dedicated his “silver” years to Peoples’ Friendship University.
Military way
In 1941, Boris Stepanovich Volkov was drafted into the Red Army. Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he participated in military operations on the Western Front and the Volokolamsk direction as part of the motor-tractor battalion of the 16th Army of the 58th Tank Division as a political instructor. On November 17, 1941 he was seriously wounded, became disabled and was demobilized.
Work at RUDN University and scientific contribution
From 1987 until 2004, Boris Stepanovich worked as a professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure of the RUDN University (now the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminology of the Law Institute).
Boris Stepanovich Volkov made a significant contribution to research into the socio-psychological aspect of crime and the personality of the criminal. In his works, the professor studied the relationship between motive and purpose of a crime, the role of motive in the study of various institutions of criminal law, and the importance of motive for crime prevention. It is the motive that is often called the “trigger” of a crime, what drives the criminal.
The problem of studying the motive of criminal behavior is “as old as the world”; today it attracts the attention of all specialists involved in combating crime. How and how can we explain the motives for certain types of terrorist crimes? What about the criminal behavior of parents who cold-bloodedly take the lives of their own children? The study of the motivation for criminal behavior in today’s criminal realities and the motives for individual crimes is of priority importance. A successful solution to this problem is unthinkable without using the works of Boris Stepanovich Volkov. But if the key to successful scientific research is an interdisciplinary approach, then studying the motivation of criminal behavior is impossible without the full participation of legal psychology.
Boris Stepanovich is the author of more than 100 scientific works on the socio-psychological aspect of crime and the personality of the criminal, criminogenic problems in the USSR, including 5 monographs, textbooks and teaching aids, as well as a series of brochures, articles and reviews. Trained 14 candidates of science and 3 doctors of law. He was distinguished by high scientific and pedagogical professionalism, demanding of himself and students. He was awarded diplomas of the University Council and a medal from RUDN University.
Awards
For military feats and peaceful work in the post-war period he was awarded:
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree,
- Medals “For Courage”
- Medal “For valiant work in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin”,
- a number of anniversary medals.
Path in science
- In 1949, Boris Stepanovich graduated from the Kazan Law Institute.
1952–1982 worked at the Law Institute of Kazan State University. First — as an assistant, then as an associate professor and professor.1967–1982 — first head of the department of criminal law.- 1955 — defended his PhD thesis on the topic: “Liability for intentional damage to property under Soviet criminal law” under the guidance of Professor A.N. Trainina.
- 1970 — defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: “Motives of crimes (criminal legal and socio-psychological research)”, awarded the academic title of professor.
- 1955 — graduate student at Moscow State University.
- 1979 — honorary title of Honored Worker of the Republic of Tatarstan.
1982–1987 — worked as a professor at the Department of Criminal Law, process, criminology of the special faculty of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR.1987–2004 — Professor of the Department of Criminal Law and Process of the RUDN University.
The material was published as part of the “Scientific Regiment” campaign from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia.
On the eve of Victory Day, we share the stories of front-line soldiers who, after the Great Patriotic War, participated in the creation of the Peoples' Friendship University and educated a new generation of students.
On the eve of Victory Day, we share the stories of front-line soldiers who, after the Great Patriotic War, participated in the creation of the Peoples' Friendship University and educated a new generation of students.
On February 16, the State Historical Museum hosted a presentation of the book by Boris Yakemenko, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of History of Russia at RUDN University.
On the eve of Victory Day, we share the stories of front-line soldiers who, after the Great Patriotic War, participated in the creation of the Peoples' Friendship University and educated a new generation of students.
On the eve of Victory Day, we share the stories of front-line soldiers who, after the Great Patriotic War, participated in the creation of the Peoples' Friendship University and educated a new generation of students.
On February 16, the State Historical Museum hosted a presentation of the book by Boris Yakemenko, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of History of Russia at RUDN University.