THE REMANDING A CRIMINAL CASE TO A PUBLIC PROSECUTOR ACCORDING TO THE ARTICLE 237 OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: EVOLUTION AND CURRENT STATUS OF THE INSTITUTE Shtekerov Konstantin Ivanovich. <...> Place of employment: UMVD of Russia across Murmansk. <...> E-mail: Shtekerovki@icloud.com Annotation Task - analysis of the formation of the legal institution in the sphere of legal regulation of returning criminal cases to the Prosecutor, the resolution of the individual issues of the relation of theory and practice of the studied law, reglamentarios use of the institution of returning criminal cases to Prosecutor in order, provided by article 237 of the Criminal procedure code of the Russian Federation. <...> Model - the use of General and specific methods of scientific cognition, the study of the experience of the internal Affairs bodies in the sphere of application of the provisions of this article, the analysis of the main reasons for making so many changes at the stage of formation and development of investigated the criminal procedure of the Institute. <...> Conclusions based on the analysis of legal norms, author points differences of the Institute of return of criminal proceedings to correct substantial criminal procedural violations and to change the charges to a more serious, in this regard, the proposals to reform this provision. <...> Research framework – possible to use the result of the specified operation for further investigation with the criminal procedure theory and practice in law, for the first time it is proposed to consider issues related to the application and implementation of existing legislation on the system of internal Affairs bodies of the Russian Federation. <...> Practical implications – in this study, the proposed measures, which, singly or in combination may contribute to a significant uniformity in the interpretation of these provisions, and enforcement. <...> Social implications – the scope of application of the studied Institute are very significant. <...> The practice of application of this norm is also quite controversial, due to these circumstances, the action of the court investigated the right precedent develops in such a way that the return of the criminal case is carried out not only by the court of first instance, but also at subsequent stages of criminal proceedings. <...> Originality/value – the article considers the institution of returning the criminal case to the Prosecutor according to article 237 code of criminal procedure, the analysis of the history of the development in the domestic criminal procedural law, Institute of return of criminal proceedings by the court to the Prosecutor, and modern problems of enforcement of article 237 code of criminal procedure. <...> Moreover, and for internal Affairs bodies, and for the court and for the prosecutors, and certainly <...>