Famous Lawyer Genrikh Padva Has Died

• 10.02.2026, 12:24

He defended Vysotsky, Sakharov, Galkin and Khodorkovsky.

Lawyer Genrikh Padva has died in his 95th year of life. This was reported late Monday night in social networks by lawyer Maxim Pashkov.

RBC notes that the information about Padva's death was confirmed by the Federal Chamber of Lawyers.

Henrik Padva was born in Moscow in 1931. He began his professional career in the Kalinin Regional Bar Association. Later he was vice-president of the Union of Lawyers of the USSR, and then of the International Union of Lawyers.

Padva's clients over the decades of work included major businessmen, public figures, various companies, and the media. He was, in particular, the lawyer of Boris Pasternak's girlfriend Olga Ivinskaya and her heirs (in the case of the fate of the writer's archive), bard and actor Vladimir Vysotsky, the family of academician Andrei Sakharov. Among those whose interests Padva defended were also former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, actor Vladislav Galkin, criminal mastermind Vyacheslav Ivankov (Yaponchik), Kommersant and Izvestia.

In 2017, Genrikh Padva defended businessman Alisher Usmanov in a case against Alexei Navalny. As a result, the court ordered him to remove the investigation "He is not your Dimon" from YouTube.

Padva was among the lawyers whose complaint in 1999 led to the introduction of a moratorium on the death penalty in Russia by the Constitutional Court.