Oleg Krassov  Oleg Igorevich Krassov (; 26 November 1952 in Moscow – 24 August 2017) was a doctor of Juridical Science, Master of Laws and professor at Moscow State University. He entered Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of Law in 1970 and graduated in 1975. He studied full-time at the graduate school of the Institute of State and Law, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, from 1975 to 1979. He defended the candidate’s dissertation on the “Legal Regime of the State Forestry Fund Lands” (thesis supervisor – I.A. Ikonitskaya, Senior Researcher) on January 23, 1979. The defense took place at the Institute of State and Law, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He defended the doctoral thesis on the “Right to Forest Use in the USSR” in 1991. The defense took place at the Institute for State and Law, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Oleg Krassov was awarded the academic title of Doctor of Juridical Science on January 10, 1992 and academic rank of professor on December 22, 1993. Oleg Krassov worked at the Institute for State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences  in the position of senior research officer from 1978 to 1992. He was director of the Russian Federation Constitutional Court Department of Environmental and Land Law. He combined working at the Russian Federation Constitutional Court with teaching as he was employed in the position of professor in the Department Of Environmental and Agrarian Law of Moscow University of Law from 1992 to 1995. He has been working at the Faculty of Law since September 1, 1995. He gives lecture courses on “Land Law” and “Environmental Law” (including within a framework of the Faculty of Law International Legal Programme at the International Center of Lomonosov Moscow State University in Geneva, Switzerland). He gives a special course on “Topical Issues of the Natural Resources Law.” He is a member of Lomonosov Moscow State University Dissertation Council D 501.001.99 (Faculty of Law). He interned at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign College of Law  in 1990 and 1991, and holds the LLM degree. Professor Oleg Krassov, Doctor of Juridical Science worked as a lawyer for a long time, and he was a member of Inter-Republic Bar Association from 1995 to 1997, and a member of Iniurcolleguia, Attorneys-at-Law.