NORMS-DEFINITIONS IN THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL LAW: CRITICAL VIEW Popov Artem Alekseevich, PhD at Law. <...> Place of employment: Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. <...> Department: Main Management of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption. <...> E-mail: Art777.26@mail.ru Zinchenko Igor Anatolevich, PhD at Law, Associate Professor. <...> Email: zinchenko3939@mail.ru Annotation: The authors analyze specific group of norms of Russian criminal procedural law, which set out the names and definitions of terms. <...> Is proposed a differentiated approach to the characterization of norm-definitions, conditioned by their content and value in the mechanism of legal regulation. <...> It is concluded that the inclusion of standards-definitions in the Code of Criminal Procedure is one of the tendencies of its development, which may be subject to adjustment in future domestic legislation. <...> Conclusions: The norm-definition in the criminal procedural law give rise to problems, get rid of that is seen in their exclusion from the legislation. <...> The main part of the standard definitions can be easily reformulated in regulatory and enforcement rules. <...> Делается вывод о том, что включение норм-определений в УПК РФ является одной из тенденций его развития, которая может быть подвергнута корректировке в будущем отечественном законодательстве! <...>