FORMATION OF PRECONDITIONS OF CRIMINALIZATION OF DOMESTIC INSTITUTIONS ON COUNTERACTION TO ILLEGAL CIRCULATION OF DRUGS AND MEDICAL PRODUCTS IN THE PRE-REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD Ostapenko Olga Igorevna, postgraduate student. <...> E-mail: kizzzzz@yandex.ru Annotation The urgency of the problem and the purpose of the study. <...> The urgency of the problems posed in the title of the article, determined by the need for a permanent search for the best legislative solutions, in particular with regard to the institution of regulating the criminal liability for illegal circulation of drugs and medical devices. <...> Posing this question leads to the need to appeal to the historical process of formation of the institute of the relevant legislation, including to its pre-revolutionary period. <...> Despite the fact that the identified problems are reflected in the works of some scientists, the historical aspect of the formation of the prerequisites of the institute of criminal liability for illegal circulation of drugs and medical devices today remains poorly understood, due to the fact that relevant issues are studied by scientists surface, moving on second plan. <...> This article attempts to analyze the emergence and development process in the pre-revolutionary period the preconditions of formation of the institute of criminal law governing the liability for illegal circulation of drugs and medical devices. <...> The methodological basis for the study include: principles of dialectical cognition of social reality; the provisions of a systematic approach to the analysis of socio-legal phenomena; chastnonauchnogo methods of criminal law investigations (historical and legal, comparative legal, formal-logical method of research documents, etc.). <...> Crime in the area of illicit trafficking of drugs and medical devices has evolved over quite a long time, almost since the emergence of the rudiments of pharmaceutical science, however, it appears, because of insufficient degree of development of criminal law, is not isolated on the object encroachment and punished on a general basis. <...> Scientific and practical significance of the work lies in the fact that the findings contained therein, may be used to: 165 5'2016 - Improving the law-making and law-enforcement activities in the implementation of criminal law institution responsible for regulating the trafficking of drugs and medical devices; - Teaching courses in criminal law, law of higher and secondary educational institutions, as well as in-service training system; - In research work in the further development of the provisions related to the study of the Institute, responsible for regulating the trafficking of drugs and medical devices. <...> This article is intended for students, graduate students, professors of law schools and law departments, law enforcement <...>