Yury Chaika

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Yury Chaika
Юрий Чайка
Chaika in 2023
Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 January 2020
President	Vladimir Putin
Preceded by	Aleksandr Matovnikov
Prosecutor-General of Russia
In office 23 June 2006 – 22 January 2020
President	Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev Vladimir Putin
Preceded by	Vladimir Ustinov
Succeeded by	Igor Krasnov
In office 2 April – 29 July 1999 Acting
President	Boris Yeltsin
Preceded by	Yury Skuratov
Succeeded by	Vladimir Ustinov
Minister of Justice
In office 17 August 1999 – 23 June 2006
President	Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister	Vladimir Putin Mikhail Kasyanov Mikhail Fradkov
Preceded by	Pavel Krasheninnikov
Succeeded by	Vladimir Ustinov
Personal details
Born	(1951-05-21) 21 May 1951 (age 73) Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Ural State Law University
Occupation	Lawyer

Yury Yakovlevich Chaika (Russian: Юрий Яковлевич Чайка; born 21 May 1951) is a Russian lawyer and statesman who currently serves as the Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasian Federal District since 2020. He previously served as Prosecutor-General of Russia from 2006 to 2020 and Minister of Justice from 1999 to 2006.

He has the federal state civilian service ranks of State Councillor of Justice of the Russian Federation^[1] and 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation,^[2] and also the prosecutor's rank of Active State Councillor of Justitia.^[3]