H. M. RUDYI – FAMOUS UKRAINIAN FORENSIC PRACTITIONER OF THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY (TO THE 155TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY AND THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH)

Abstract

The article describes the path of life and innovative official activities of the head of criminal investigation department of Kyiv City Police of the titular counsellor Heorhii Mykhailovych Rudyi (1863–1918). The author describes H. M. Rudyi as a talented criminal investigator, one of the pioneers of the use of scientific and technical means in the fight against crime in the Russian Empire, the father of domestic fingerprinting and service dog breeding, investigator's kit, ancestor of the police forensic service in Ukraine, as well as the author of the first in Russia document (instruction) on regulating the activities of criminal investigation department officers.
Key words: H. М. Rudyi; dactyloscopy; investigator's kit; tracking dogs; Instruction to the officers of Kyiv criminal investigation police; history of criminalistics.