Abstract: The research subject is the planning of higher vocational education specialists training. The overabundance of specialists causes socio-economic problems, such as unemployment in some sectors and personnel deficiency in others. The study of the historical experience of planning in the sphere of higher education personnel training is of great importance. The calculations are defined by the Methodology Guidelines to the development of government plans of economic and social development of the USSR endorsed by the decree of the State Planning Committee of the USSR of 31 March 1980 No 631. The research is based on a comparative analysis of higher education specialists training in the Soviet period and at the present day. The author studies the data in relation to the sectors of the economics, professions and regions, which had served as a basis for the formation of plan tasks for higher education institutions in personnel training. The author concludes that government tasks for personnel training had been formed and are still formed and endorsed in the form of admission quotas in higher education institutions. 

Abstract: The research subject is the system of administrative-legal provisions in the mechanism of legal ensuring of the activities of internal affairs bodies. The research object is social relations. The author considers the issues of juvenile delinquency prevention using the example of internal affairs bodies since the early 20th century. The theoretical importance of the considered problems consists in the specification of certain notions of administrative-legal science which helps to reveal the new elements of organization and legal provision of internal affairs bodies which haven’t been taken into account so far. The author defines the peculiarity of the police’s activities in the mechanism of juvenile delinquency prevention. The research methodology is based on the system, structural-functional and formal-logical methods. The author applies the logical-legal method. The novelty of the study lies in the author’s approach to the study of the means, forms, and limits of administrative-legal characteristic of the internal affairs bodies’ activity aimed at juvenile delinquency prevention. The author proposes a new conclusion about the character of legal prevention of juvenile delinquency by internal affairs bodies, and the impossibility to reduce it to a mere law enforcement meaning. 

Abstract: The artice is devoted to the activities of law-enforcement bodies, and the main divisions of police for identification and suppression of the offenses made by minors. Illegal acts of teenagers which became widespread now are considered. Circumstances about a tendency of growth and ways of activities of police for suppression of these acts are considered. The measures of administrative suppression realized by police officers in counteraction to offenses of minors are an independent kind of measures of administrative coercion and possess all signs of the last. The measures of administrative suppression realized by police officers in counteraction to offenses of minors are an independent kind of measures of administrative coercion and possess all signs of the last. The main conclusions in system of the administrative coercion applied by police officers to minors, measures of administrative suppression hold a specific place that is explained by duality of their target orientation: a) to stop the made illegal behavior, having protected the public relations protected by the law; b) not to allow illegal behavior to develop into penal act, having provided a possibility of realization of an arsenal educational and prophylactics for formation from the potential violator of socially useful personality.