DEFINITIONS RULES OF TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF CRIMINAL CASE AS COMPETENT COURT GUARANTEE Musienko Tatyana Viktorovna, postgraduate student. <...> Place of study: Moscow state university named after M.V.Lomonosov. <...> E-mail: tatyana_musienko@mail.ru Annotation: The article is dedicated to questions of definition of territorial jurisdiction of criminal cases by regular courts. <...> Based on the analysis of the statutory provisions, the attention is paid on problematic issues of criminal cases distribution between the courts possessing equal competence, but located in various territorial formations of the Russian Federation. <...>