On the legal status of police and public fire brigades in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th – 20th century

Occupation: Associate Professor of Department of theory and history of state and law of the Saint-Petersburg university of State fire service of EMERCOM of Russia
Affiliation: Saint-Petersburg university of State fire service of EMERCOM of Russia
Address: Russian Federation, St. Petersburg

Journal name

Gosudarstvo i pravo

Edition

Issue 3

Pages

176-185

Abstract

The relevance of the article is determined by the value of the legal policy of the Russian Empire on improving the fire safety management system. The purpose of the article is to identify contradictions in the legal regulation of the activities of police and public fire brigades in pre-revolutionary Russia. Based on the historical and legal analysis of monuments of law, evidence of contemporaries and archival materials, the author comes to the following conclusions. Reform of the fire department in Russia was conceived back in the era of the Great Reforms, but was never implemented in practice. According to the plan of the reformers with the ubiquitous establishment of public fire brigades, the efficiency of the fire brigade was to increase. However, the police were not ready for such changes and in every possible way prevented the reorganization of the police fire brigades, on the one hand, and insisted on maintaining their control over the public fire brigades, on the other hand.

Keywords

fire protection, fire reform, police fire brigade, public fire brigade, private fire brigade, Ministry of the Interior, local government, legal policy, fire laws, A.D. Sheremetev, Russian Empire

Received

15.10.2019

Publication date

31.03.2020

Number of characters

34496

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GOST	Smirnova A. On the legal status of police and public fire brigades in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th – 20th century // Gosudarstvo i pravo – 2020. – Issue 3 C. 176-185 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://gospravo-journal.ru/S013207690008694-5-1 (circulation date: 19.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013207690008694-5
MLA	Smirnova, Anna A "On the legal status of police and public fire brigades in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th – 20th century." Gosudarstvo i pravo 3 (2020):176-185. DOI: 10.31857/S013207690008694-5
APA	Smirnova A. (2020). On the legal status of police and public fire brigades in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th – 20th century. Gosudarstvo i pravo (3), pp.176-185 DOI: 10.31857/S013207690008694-5

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