Vatman David Petrovich (1923-1994)

Vatman (Watmann) David Petrovich (1923, Kharkov – 1994, Moscow) – jurist.

David Vatman served in the army from 1941 to 1945. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Kharkov University in 1948 and the All-Union Law Correspondence Institute in 1947. From 1950 to 1956, he lived in Riga, where he worked as a legal adviser in various institutions and taught political economy at the Latvian Training Centre of the Central Statistical Administration of the USSR and at the Riga branch of the All-Union Correspondence Institute of Soviet Trade.

From 1957 to 1961, he was a legal adviser in Moscow institutions. In 1961, he was admitted to the Moscow City Bar Association (MGKA). Vatman gained recognition as a civil law advocate specialising in housing law. He headed the civil law sector at the Research Institute for Judicial Protection and was a member of the civil law section bureau under the Presidium of the MGKA.

Author of books and articles on civil law and procedure, including: Адвокат в гражд. Процессе (The Advocate in Civil Proceedings) (1969), Адвокат в CCCP (The Advocate in the USSR) (1971), Право на защиту (The Right to Defence) (1973), Рассмотрение дел о выселении (Consideration of Eviction Cases) (1974), and Судебная защита при спорах в ЖСК (Judicial Protection in Housing Co-operative Disputes) (1978).