Lastochkina, M.S. History of Russian legislation in the light of criminal legal protection of means of individualization of the participants of the civil turnover and their products.

Abstract: Based on comparative study of the norms of the Code on Criminal and Correctional Punishments of 1845 (1885 with changes by Amendments of 1912, 1913, 1914), Criminal Code of 1903, the Criminal Code of RSFSR of 1922, 1926, 1960 and the existing Criminal Code of the Russian Federation of 1996, the author studies the evolution of the legislation of Russia in the sphere of criminal legal protection of trademarks, service marks, name of place of goods’ origin. Keywords: jurisprudence, intellectual property, trademark, means, individualization, brand, history, responsibility