TO THE QUESTION OF DEMOGRAPHIC FUNCTION OF THE STATE: HISTORICAL AND LEGAL ASPECT Belyaev Valery Petrovich, Dr of law, professor. <...> Department: Theory and history of state and law chair. <...> Place of employment: Interdistrict department of private security in Kolpinskiy district of St. <...> E-mail: julia_inbel@list.ru Annotation: In article questions of demographic processes in Russia and a number of foreign countries are analyzed. <...> The acts and organizational measures and evolution of demographic function of the state are investigated, historical examples are given. <...> Authors come to a conclusion that with development of the state also its demographic function evolves, the state applies legal means to regulation of demographic processes. <...> Делается вывод о том. что с развитием государства эволюционирует и его демографическая функция, государство применяет правовые средства для регулирования демографических процессов! <...>