Gutsan was in the settlement of
Siversky,
Gatchinsky District,
Leningrad Oblast. In his youth, he was actively involved in sports, training in a
boxing section. After completing secondary school, he worked as a trainee and subsequently as a full-fledged precision metalworker. He performed his
compulsory military service in the
Soviet Armed Forces from 1978 to 1980. In 1981, he enrolled in the
Faculty of Law at Leningrad State University (now
Saint Petersburg State University), graduating in 1987. During his studies, he served as the head of his student group, which included
Dmitry Medvedev, and as the
Komsomol secretary for his year. His professional career began within the prosecutorial system of Leningrad and then
Saint Petersburg. From 1987 to 2000, he held several posts at the city prosecutor's office. From 2000 to 2005, he was assistant to the Deputy
Prosecutor General of Russia on special assignments. In 2005, he was transferred to the
Federal Bailiff Service, where he served as deputy to Chief Bailiff
Nikolay Vinnichenko until 2007. In 2007, he returned to prosecutorial career, being appointed Deputy Prosecutor General under Prosecutor General
Yury Chaika. While serving in the Prosecutor General's Office, he represented the state in several high-profile cases. These included acting as a state prosecutor in the 1996 trial of retired Navy Captain
Aleksandr Nikitin, who was acquitted of
high treason and state secrets disclosure, and overseeing the investigation into the murder of Saint Petersburg Vice-Governor
Mikhail Manevich. In 2016, while acting as Prosecutor General, he demanded the termination of the criminal prosecution of
Dmitry Kamenshchik in the case concerning
Sheremetyevo Airport and also discontinued the embezzlement case related to the construction of the Saint Petersburg
ring road. From 2018 to 2025, he has held the position of Plenipotentiary Presidential Envoy in the
Northwestern Federal District. In 2025, he was appointed Prosecutor General of Russia. == Awards ==