The article examines the composition, staffing and working hours of the prosecutor’s office of the Irkutsk region during the Great Patriotic War, analyzes the legal basis for the activities of the prosecutor’s office, and explores the main areas of activity during this period (monitoring the implementation of laws by inquiry and investigation bodies, the participation of the prosecutor in civil and criminal process, supervision of compliance with the rule of law in prisons), as well as the results of this work. When considering the work of the prosecutor’s office to oversee the implementation of laws by the bodies of inquiry and investigation, attention is drawn to the fight against theft and the actions of prosecutors in the event of criminal losses. The prosecutor participated in the criminal trial as a party in the court of first instance, and appealed against the verdicts of the courts in cassation and supervisory review, but the peculiarity of this type of activity in war conditions was that the higher authorities aimed the prosecutors to timely protest the obviously soft and unreasonable acquittals sentences; supervision of the prompt and expeditious review of criminal cases by the courts. The prosecutor participated in the civil procedure as a party in the court of first instance, when his participation was mandatory or when he filed a lawsuit, and challenged the decision of the courts in cassation and supervisory review, with particular attention paid to the claim to recover fines and arrears for the supply of agricultural products and tax payments. Prosecutorial supervision of the observance of the rule of law in places of deprivation of liberty in wartime was carried out not only over the lawfulness of the detention of prisoners in places of detention, but also special oversight powers due to the situation in wartime.

soviet prosecutor’s office, World War II, prosecutor’s office of the Irkutsk region, supervision of the implementation of laws by bodies of inquiry and investigation, the participation of the prosecutor in civil and criminal proceedings, supervision of compliance with the law in prisons

Derevskova Valentina Mikhaylovna – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Chair of Theory andHistory of State and Law, Irkutsk Law Institute Affiliated to the University of Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation (1, Shevtsova st., Irkutsk, 664035, Russian Federation), e-mail: vderevskova@mail.ru.

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