The activities of the police and public organizations to prevent the spread of prostitution in the late XIX - early XX centuries in the Kazan province

Introduction: the author deals with the history and legal analysis of the social and state interaction in the fight against prostitution in the late XIX and early XX centuries, taking the Kazan province as an example. The relevance of this topic arises from the need to develop effective measures for the socialisation of women willing to leave prostitution.