The article traces the origins and development of the country’s fire safety institute, and the formation of an organizational struc-ture for its improvement. The article covers the period from the functioning of peasant communities to the beginning of the 19th century, when the Ministry of Internal Affairs was formed in 1802, which noted the creation of a number of social institutions, including a structure for ensuring fire safety in the country, which, in the author’s opinion, can be considered basically estab-lished from this period. The contribution of people who ensured fire fighting, including heads of state, is noted. The validity and consistency of regulatory creativity in fire fighting, its continuity and transformation due to technological growth and new meth-ods of counteraction are analyzed. The solid experience of legal legitimizations laid down in the documents of Ancient Rus’ is emphasized: in the Russian Truth, the Truth of the Yaroslavichi, the Extended Truth, the Novgorod Judicial Charter, the Pskov Judi-cial Charter, and the continuity of rule-making in the area under consideration during the periods of formation of the centralized state and during the formation of the Russian Empire. It is indicated that the danger factor is associated with Russia’s possession of forest resources, among which coniferous forests prevail, which have increased flammability, and the preference for the con-struction of houses and structures from this flammable material. It is concluded that this is precisely what caused the special at-tention of our ancestors to the problem of fire safety. The following research methods are used: cognition: dialectical, herme-neutics, comparative-historical, logical, formal-legal, as well as the principles of historicism, objectivity and consistency.

fire fighting, legislative acts, structuring of fire protection

Chernykh Vladimir Vasilievich – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Social and Hu-manitarian Disciplines, East Siberian Institute Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (110, Lermontov st., Irkutsk, 664071, Russian Fed-eration), ORCID: 0000-0002-5607-2535, e-mail: tchernykhsa@mail.ru

Chernykh V. V. Institucionalizaciya i pravovaya reglamentaciya pozharnoj ohrany Rossii v XVI-XIX vv. [Institutionalization and legal regulation of fire protection in Russia in the 16th–19th centuries] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2024, no 3(106), pp. 10–16. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2024.3.10 (in Russian)

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