Abstract: the article is devoted to the concept of public prosecution, to the question of the prosecutor`s legal status as a subject of state charge. <...> The author consideres that a state charge is an of cial requirement which is addressed to court about prosecution of a guilty person to criminal responsibility and award him a punishment; that only a prosecutor could be a subject of a state charge. <...> The article contains analysis of stages of a public prosecution and features of a prosecutor`s juris diction in order to make a state charge, to prepare a case for supporting it in court, for refusing it and to support it in a court. <...> Обосновывается мнение о том, что государственное обвинение - это адресованное суду официальное требование о привлечении виновного лица к уголовной ответственности и вынесении ему наказания, что субъектом государственного обвинения выступают прокурор и государственный обвинитель. <...>