On the A.A. Gusev’s 100^th Anniversary – the Founder’s of the Forensic Portrait Examination in the System of the Russian Ministry of Justice

Abstract

The article is devoted to Alexander A. Gusev’s work as a scientist and practitioner in forensic portrait examination, whose 100th anniversary will be celebrated in November 2020.The author gives a brief description of A.A. Gusev’s Ph.D. thesis, the theme of which was physical identification of a person. He defended the thesis in 1955. An annotation is provided for a technique he devised for forensic examinations for the physical identification of a person in 1960. A brief description of A.A. Gusev’s subsequent activities on the development of methodological support for the production of forensic portrait examinations and their practical implementation is given.

Keywords

• a.a. gusev
• forensic portrait examination