Dmitry Kursky

Dmitry Ivanovich Kursky (Дми́трий Ива́нович Ку́рский; 22 October 1874 – 20 December 1932) was a Soviet Ukrainian jurist and statesman.

Kursky joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904. He served as the chairman of the Drissa town Soviet. He was the People's Commissar for Justice of the RSFSR and the USSR from 1918–1928. He died on December 20 1932, aged 58.